Puzzle Agent 2
Worth it · Action · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 3.2h
- Value
- $1.56/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, ATI or NVidia card w/ 256 MB RAM (Rec: ATI or NVidia card w/ 512 MB RAM), 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Agent Nelson Tethers just solved his biggest case yet. So why isn't he satisfied? Venture back to eerie Scoggins, Minnesota to solve the mystery of "the Hidden People" once and for all!
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The value story
November 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $0.49. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 75 in the 14 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 91 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Puzzle Agent ($4.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats The Darkside Detective ($14.99, scores 67).
Critics scored it 63. Players sit 24 points higher at 87 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 280 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
86% start to 31% 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
What players say
More of the first game really with a rushed story to wrap things up. The original plan was for this game to have 6 total installments but, was ultimately cut short. That being said there is still a lot to love about the second game especially if you enjoyed the first! Very good and challenging puzzles as well as a "somewhat" satisfying conclusion on the happenings around Scoggins. Leaves us on a tough cliffhanger...
+ Professor Layton rencontre Twin Peaks + Personnages quirky + Juste assez court - Plusieurs variations sur les mêmes puzzles - Difficulté des puzzles mal dosé 7/10 You got that one Coop!
I really enjoyed the first Puzzle Agent game, which I played with my partner, and we wanted to like this one just as much. Unfortunately I can't recommend it, for the following reasons: - There are about 5 different kinds of puzzle in this game, repeated over and over. By the end I found myself going "Not ANOTHER one of these!" - Some of the puzzles rely on you having weirdly specific knowledge in order to solve...
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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Puzzle Agent 2 scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/94590/puzzle-agent-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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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