BioShock™ 2 Remastered

Buy72%

Mostly Positive · 30k player reviews · High confidence

Worth it for the right player.

Steam Deck Playable
  • Windows
  • macOS

2K Marin · FPS · Sep 15, 2016

Player review score
72%
Mostly Positive
Price
$19.99
Playing right now
All-time peak
Not charted

Steam only charts its most-played games, and this one isn’t among them.

Achievements
53
total to unlock
Steam does not publish achievement rarity.
Languages
7
Full audio5 of 7
Subtitles7 of 7

Should I buy BioShock™ 2 Remastered?

Buy it if you like
  • Story: 150 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Gameplay: 119 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Combat: 80 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Crashes: 177 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Multiplayer: 10 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Bugs: 8 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 30k player reviews · updated

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
75% of themes are praise300 helpful reviews25% are complaints
Story
Players who bring up Story mostly praise it.
150 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Now when it comes to the DLC Minervas Den is awesome, the story features a twist that in hindsight is very well telegraphed and foreshadowed and it aged really well given its based around AI.
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
119 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Solid gameplay and the Minerva's Den DLC is fantastic, but it never quite reaches the heights of the first game.
Combat
Players who bring up Combat mostly praise it.
80 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Bioshock 2 is a great sequel to Bioshock 1, it improves on a bunch of things most notably the combat and the setting of Rapture is as great as it was before however it feels a bit tacked on, the character of Sofia Lamb and others being pretty prominent in the story of Rapture but not even being mentioned (as far as I know) in the first game.
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
31 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics and sound are done just as well as in the original game and hold up well, with noticeable improvements having been made to the game’s menus and general interaction flow.
Difficulty
Players who bring up Difficulty mostly praise it.
14 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
I played BioShock 1 on Hard and found the difficulty challenging but fair.
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
13 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The voice acting is solid and the ambiental sound is serviceable, but the most important sounds (footsteps, weapons firing, explosives) are so muffled you can barely hear them.

+3 more players loved

Theme by theme

Scored on what reviews say about each topic, not the thumbs.

Players love
Story150 reviews
Gameplay119 reviews
Combat80 reviews
Graphics31 reviews
Difficulty14 reviews
Audio13 reviews
Performance7 reviews
Steam Deck6 reviews
Linux compatibility5 reviews
Divided opinion

No themes split opinion in this sample.

Players complain
Crashes
70% still recommend
Multiplayer
100% still recommend
Bugs
38% still recommend

What you get

Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.

Play modes

  • Single-player

Controller

  • Full controller support

Store features

  • Family Sharing
  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Cloud
  • Steam Trading Cards

Platforms

  • Windows
  • macOS

Valve device support

Steam DeckPlayable
SteamOSPlayable
Steam MachinePlayable

Should I buy it now?

Based on Steam price history.

Prices have been lower
$19.99

The lowest we've tracked is $2.99.

7 points recordedtoday · $19.99

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