Dead Island 2
Skip · Multiplayer · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 48, under the fair line, at $49.99.
- Cost per hour
- $3.09/hr
- Reviews▼
- 77% of 30,244
- Genre rank
- Top 21% Multiplayer
Holding it back: DRM, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 16.2h
- To 100%
- 40h 2.5x the story
- Achievements
- 59
Price and sales
- Sales
- 25 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $4.99 December 2025
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 835 now
- Recent reviews
- 77% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 73% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
85% start to 2% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 25 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 21 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition ($11.99, scores 56) beats it on value, while it beats After the Fall® ($19.99, scores 45).
More about Dead Island 2
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 16 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 2,229 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 16.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 40, 2.5 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 5 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
loved the first game as a kid, but unfortunately it feels really grindy and unrewarding to me. unsure if it's because i outgrew the genre. i think if you're a person who never plays sidequests, you could do just fine. also, the humour is sometimes just boomer rants about gen-z under a thin veneer of 'how do you do fellow kids'. can be slightly painful lol.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
the game has fun combat, but I want you to look at each character in the game and how they portray themselves. who are the a-hole's? the nice ones, the cowards, etc. you may notice a pattern. sadly I noticed, so its gonna be a negative review from me. dont spend more than $10 on this game.
an okay game that has well made visuals and fun gameplay, weighed down massively by dated writing, shallow characters, and an incredibly rushed story that struggles to hold itself together.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
A deadly virus is spreading across Los Angeles, turning its inhabitants into zombies. Bitten, infected, but more than just immune, uncover the truth behind the outbreak and discover who - or what - you are. Survive, evolve and become the ultimate Zombie Slayer.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 10 GB of memory, Radeon R9 390X (8192 VRAM) / GeForce GTX 1060 (6144 VRAM), 70 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dead Island 2 scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/934700/dead-island-2Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 15, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.