Saints Row 2
Skip · Shooter · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 47, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.50/hr
- Reviews▼
- 76% of 21,944
- Critics
- 72 players 4 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 43% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 19.9h
- To 100%
- 50.8h 2.6x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 97 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 September 2025
- Sale every
- 40d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 162 now
- Recent reviews
- 78% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 44% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 97 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 43 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Saints Row: The Third ($9.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Saints Row ($29.99, scores 2).
More about Saints Row 2
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 17 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 2,195 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
19.9 hours to finish it, 51 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.6 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 24 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
very poorly designed PC port, but Juiced and Clean Gentlemen Of The Row more than make up for it. Don't buy this game unless you're willing to find and install those packs/fixes. R.I.P IdolNinja
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
awesome game , so much fun like old times but need at least juiced patch to make it work .
My thoughts: Everyone should leave a negative review on this game in protest. The Steam version is shipped with broken content, filled with crashes, major FPS drops regardless of your hardware, and other really odd bugs. Using a patch (either Gentlemen of the Row or Juiced) you can fix this, but it's even still not recommended to use the steam executable, which is broken. I had to buy the game on GoG (luckily it's...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Saints Row 2 brings true freedom to open-world gaming. Players can play as who they want, how they want, and with whomever they want in this sequel to the much acclaimed and tremendously successful Saints Row.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 15 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Saints Row 2 scores 47/100 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/9480/saints-row-2Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.