Dead Island 2
Skip · Multiplayer · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $49.99.
- Length
- 16.2h
- Value
- $3.09/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in December 2025. It has been discounted 23 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 16 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 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 46).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 19 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 2,213 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 10 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.
The drop-off
85% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
1,023 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Couldn't stop playing this game, the gameplay was entertaining and loved the graphics.
A Very Strong First Impression How do I even start... I guess by saying that the beginning of this game is genuinely promising. The prologue was incredibly smooth, and the way you can destroy zombies' limbs and mess up their faces is honestly some of the best gore I've ever seen in a zombie game. The combat feels great and is easily one of the strongest parts of the game. I also really appreciate the use of...
not good absolutely horrible zombie experience if you die you restart at the cut scene so you have to rewatch it over and over again every time you die the combat is crap zombie spawn right beside you. They even spawn out of the ground in malls. It's so fake sometimes trying to kill a zombie and the game register it as having full riot gear on when it doesn't won't allow basic damage so areas are so ridiculous that...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Dead Island 2 scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/934700/dead-island-2The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 18, price as of Sep 24.
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