Engaging story and characters
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“The ending genuinely had me tearing up with joy”
Steam review · 24.2 h played ↗
BioShock™ 2 Remastered
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Mostly Positive · 72%Mostly Positive · 72%2K Marin, 2K China, Digital Extremes, 2K Australia, Blind Squirrel, Feral Interactive (Mac)2016FPS · Horror · Action
The verdict
A refined, fun sequel with great atmosphere and combat, but the PC remaster crashes constantly and has little autosave. Skip it if you can't tolerate crashes; consider the original version.
Great for
Fans of the first BioShock who want smoother combat as a Big Daddy and will save often or use a crash-fix mod
Main risk
Frequent random crashes with sparse autosaves can cost hours of progress
What changed in the last 30 days
99 recent reviews
Recent positive reviewers praise gameplay and story and often cite the Nexus crash-fix mod or frequent saving as workarounds. Crashes still dominate recent negatives, so the improvement looks like players coping rather than an official fix.
99 recent reviews
What players love
Improved, smoother combat
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“They fixed my biggest issue with the first game- that you couldn't use your guns and plasmids at once”
Steam review · 32.8 h played ↗
Atmospheric Rapture and art style
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“Rapture is still an amazing setting, with incredible atmosphere, lots of detail, and a great soundtrack.”
Steam review · 11 h played ↗
Playing as a Big Daddy with the drill
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“whoever came up with the idea of a playable big daddy in the sequel is the goat”
Steam review · 11 h played ↗
Minerva's Den DLC is excellent
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews
“Minerva's Den is also a fantastic DLC. Despite its relatively short length, it delivers a surprisingly impactful story”
Steam review · 16.1 h played ↗
Streamlined hacking and tonic system
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 positive reviews
“The remove of the tedious pipe puzzle is definitely a great point to me.”
Steam review · 16.2 h played ↗
What players complain about
Constant random crashes
Mentioned in ~4 in 5 negative reviews
“Crashes a lot. In fact, I can't even finish the game, because the last part consistently crashes in the ONE part of the game you can't quicksave.”
Steam review · 45 h played ↗
Poor autosave, lost progress
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“for some reason this remaster doesn't have auto save. I lost 2 hours of time because of it.”
Steam review · 12.7 h played ↗
Lazy remaster, worse than original
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“This remaster also does the bare minimum. No modern auto-saving and it sometimes has glitchly text.”
Steam review · 19.1 h played ↗
Weaker, repetitive story and design than the first
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“The game is too alike to the first game. The enemies are reused. The areas are the same.”
Steam review · 12.2 h played ↗
Save corruption and deletion
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews
“if you happen to be saving when it has a random seizure and crashes, it will delete your save file”
Steam review · 15.1 h played ↗
Resource scarcity and balance frustrations
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 negative reviews
“Intentionally choking player's resources is just bad design choice.”
Steam review · 21.1 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: PlayableController support25 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 7 Service Pack 1 64-bit. Platform Update for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
ProcessorIntel E6750 Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz / AMD Athlon X2 2.7 GHZ
Memory4 GB RAM
Graphics2GB AMD Radeon HD 7770 / 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670
Storage25 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 7 Service Pack 1 64-bit. Platform Update for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
Processor3GHz Quad-Core
Memory8 GB RAM
Graphics2GB ATI Radeon HD 7970, 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 or better
Storage25 GB available space
OSWindows 7 Service Pack 1 64-bit. Platform Update for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
ProcessorIntel E6750 Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz / AMD Athlon X2 2.7 GHZ
Memory4 GB RAM
Graphics2GB AMD Radeon HD 7770 / 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670
Storage25 GB available space
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