Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

Steam Deck Playable

Saber Interactive · Co-op · Sep 9, 2024

Yes, worth buying.

At $59.99. It has been as low as $17.99.

84%
Very Positive
221k player reviews
High confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 142 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 57 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Co-op: 46 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Combat: 117 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Difficulty: 43 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Crashes: 40 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 221k player reviews · updated 6 days ago

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
33% of themes are praise17% are divided50% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
Space Marine 2 is a enjoyable game for the first 50 hours of the game, the main content of the game is focused around the campaign initially and shifts it’s focus to Cooperative Operations, I don’t see anyone playing much of PvP but it’s there if you care about being competitive(I don’t really care for it) in a PvE centered game.
142 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
-Beautiful visuals and animations (the executions, especially the newer ones with the Power Axe and against Chaos Spawns, make you feel like a real warrior.
57 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Co-op
Players who bring up Co-op mostly praise it.
A solid solo or coop experience, a little short (six hours I think) looks good and is very (modern) Warhammer 40k - However the meat of the game isn't here....
46 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Optimization
Players who bring up Optimization mostly praise it.
And remember that the prices for Season 1 or 2, which can be expensive if you want them, over 150$+ at regular price or 80$ when on sale is ONLY FOR COSMETIC AND NOTHING ELSE while helldivers 2 has TWENTY-ONE WARBONDS, which takes between 4 to 30 hours of gameplay per warbond to fully clear and each of them cost 13.49$+tx except two of them I think at 20$ which means to have access to content that IMPACTS THE GAME you need to spend either 280$CAD to 300$CAD and unlock all of them with 84 hours to 630 hours of gameplay, OR grinding in game super credits which would take from 26 to 62 hours of tedious boring repetitive running around at difficulty 1 doing Optimized speed-running farming or spending from 360 to 570 hours of mission time ( not logged in the game but actual missions) to earn all these super creds IF YOU ARE LUCKY ( I have 981 Hours in helldivers, about 571 actually playing missions, I am missing one legendary warbond at 1500SC and the 3 most recent, which means I need 4500 SC to get these ones, yet they will keep releasing more) .
31 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love4 themes
Story and characters142 reviews
Graphics57 reviews
Co-op46 reviews
Optimization31 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Gameplay93 reviews
67%
Multiplayer88 reviews
67%
Players complain% still recommend
Combat117 reviews
65%
Difficulty43 reviews
56%
Crashes40 reviews
28%
Performance37 reviews
38%
Servers and matchmaking24 reviews
63%
Interface20 reviews
30%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

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Currently $59.99. The lowest we've tracked is $17.99.

5 points recordedtoday · $59.99

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Player review score
84%
Very Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
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