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Head back to the Mexiverse in this long-awaited sequel to the smash hit Guacamelee! Uppercut your way to victory across stunning new hand-crafted levels. Featuring a dense and colorful world, new luchador moves, sassy new bosses, twice the enemies, and 300% more chickens!

Guacamelee! 2 is a metroidvania, platformer and cartoony game developed by and published by DrinkBox Studios and Kepler Ghost.
Released on August 21st 2018 is available only on Windows in 9 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Spanish - Latin America.

It has received 3,145 reviews of which 2,863 were positive and 282 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.87€ on Steam with a 75% discount, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Guacamelee! 2 into these genres:

Metroidvania Platformer Cartoony Local Co-Op Action 2D Co-op Difficult Beat 'em up Adventure Singleplayer Colorful Funny 4 Player Local Side Scroller Action-Adventure Atmospheric Wrestling Exploration 2D Platformer

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows 10, 8, 7
Processor: 2 Ghz+
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: Shader Model 5.0 (DX11 support required), 2 GB available graphics memory
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 2 GB available space
Additional Notes: Supports Xbox 360 Controller and other XInput-compatible controllers

User reviews & Ratings

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Dec. 2025

The game greatly improved the best ability in any metroidvania: turning into a chicken. Enough said.

Dec. 2025

Now played both back to back - to completion. 28 / 100 have done so. Pitiful.. This game is superb. You get lost in the combat, the writing, the platforming. Music is STELLAR! Deserves all the praise that heaped upon it. I hope they made ALL THE MONEYS.

Sept. 2025

As someone who 100-percented the map on a single normal playthrough, I guess I have to mark this game as "recommended" but with some serious caveats. If you liked the first one, this is just more of the exact same. Like barely any new abilities, hardly any changes to the formula at all, recycled jokes where they ramped up the cheesiness but not necessarily the actual level of humor. I guess that can be good or bad depending on how you see it. This game is also NOT a Metroidvania in the traditional sense. All of the progression is tightly locked behind "break a colored brick that is blocking your path." There's no sense of wonder or discovery when you get new powers. The "locked" areas are marked on your map, so you never have to figure out where to go, it just becomes a checklist of going back to those places that are CLEARLY marked on your map. It definitely has elements of Metroidvania's map style, but the progression just doesn't feel the same. A lot of the screens are just filler with mindless platforming to burn time and make you feel like you are doing something, when in reality it is just artificial gating to slow you down. There are also a bunch of screens with ambiguous ways to exit where you can technically go off the top or side of the screen, but it just "kills" you and puts you back at the start of the screen. They don't even damage you or punish you in any way, almost like the devs just throwing in the towel and saying "yeah, we know it looks like there's more to explore, but we didn't actually design anything to put there. I would say that the harder platforming sections are the best part of this game, especially some of the optional challenges. Figuring out the patterns to get through some of the screens are really the most satisfying part that kept me playing. One annoying quirk is that there isn't a uniform scale/zoom for the camera. Some screens zoom WAY in on you and put you in a cramped little space. Other screens it zooms WAY out to show you the overall picture of a bigger screen. Maybe some people won't mind it, but I found it jarring. The zoomed-in screens are mostly just filler to make you run further when going between two locations. Content, sure, but not good or interesting content. In some ways, I finished the game out of spite. I paid for it, so I'm gonna finish it type of situation. The game frequently just EATS your inputs if you don't get thumbstick angles absolutely PERFECT. The controls are not forgiving and will make you angry just as often as they do what you expect. The combat is repetitive, and there's very little room for your own creativity or skill due to the way the shield system works. The designers pretty much telegraph what moves you have to use against which enemy, and from there it's mostly just a button-mash till things die. There's very little real challenge to the combat sans maybe 1 optional area of the game. But they shoe-horn in SO MUCH forced combat that it starts to becoming annoying by the end. The number of bosses is staggeringly low, so hopefully you like beating up the same regular enemies over and over. The progression system is.....(sighhhh) fine. It does make you more powerful, but by the time I finished I had enough gold to unlock everything in the progression system a full 2nd time. And there's nothing else to spend your money on, so you just rack up stack on stacks on stacks of absolutely useless currency. The economy they designed is basically imbalanced in your favor, they just hand you every possible thing by the end, there's no real choice or variety, you'll earn it all before you even get to the end and then there's nothing else to work towards. If you liked the first one, you will probably like this one (I was lukewarm on the first one too, but got this one for dirt cheap on a Steam sale.) If you like challenging platforming, you might like this one. If you're looking for a deep and rewarding combat system and true Metroidvania style exploration, this probably isn't the game for you.

Aug. 2025

Great game. Very fun combat and puzzles. F**k jade temple egg challange tho.

March 2025

I played the first guac when it first arrived on steam but didn't actually get around to finishing it until 2025 and then found this on sale for under $10. Whilst it's very similar, the writing is pretty good. Please, save the Mexiverse.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Guacamelee! 2 is currently priced at 4.87€ on Steam.

Guacamelee! 2 is currently available at a 75% discount. You can purchase it for 4.87€ on Steam.

Guacamelee! 2 received 2,863 positive votes out of a total of 3,145 achieving a rating of 8.74.

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Guacamelee! 2 was published by DrinkBox Studios and Kepler Ghost.

Guacamelee! 2 is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Guacamelee! 2 is not playable on MacOS.

Guacamelee! 2 is not playable on Linux.

Guacamelee! 2 offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Guacamelee! 2 includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.

There are 3 DLCs available for Guacamelee! 2. Explore additional content available for Guacamelee! 2 on Steam.

Guacamelee! 2 does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Guacamelee! 2 supports Remote Play on Phone, Remote Play on Tablet, Remote Play on TV and Remote Play Together. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.

Guacamelee! 2 is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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