The Surge 2 on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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In a bid to survive, explore the sprawling, devastated Jericho City. Fight ferocious threats in brutal, unforgiving combat, slashing and tearing the limbs off your opponents to steal their equipment.
The Surge 2 is a souls-like, rpg and action game
developed by Deck13
and published by Focus Entertainment.
Released on September 23rd 2019 is available only on Windows
in 13 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Traditional Chinese and Czech.
It has received 8,528 reviews of which 6,523 were positive and 2,005 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.5 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 2.57€ on Gamivo.
The Steam community has classified The Surge 2 into these genres:
System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit)
- Processor: AMD FX-8320 (3.5 GHz) / Intel i5-4690K (3.5 GHz)
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: 2 GB, AMD Radeon R9 280 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 20 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Requires a graphics card compatible with Vulkan, requires Internet connection for online features.
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Eh, it's alright. Okay jokes aside. It's good, Just need to get your head out of the mindset to play like a Souls game. It's not. Combat is pretty deep and some parts of the game are more enhanced than the Surge 1. I've spent dozens of hours creating builds after builds in this game. The only issues I have with this game are One; the lighting in this game is worse than The Surge 1 because some parts are too dark or it's heavily filtered with a color tint (I'm talking about you Gideon Rock), and Two; the camera when you're fighting some enemies is too low to see what they're doing. It's distracting, especially fighting those who can just one-shot you into oblivion. Finally, the bosses are not really an improvement nor a downgrade. It's different. Dare I say the bosses in The Surge 1 are much more memorable despite that game having less boss fights in comparison to The Surge 2. I think some boss fights are fun, but the rest of them are just alright. If you don't like the Surge 1, chances are you might not like The Surge 2. If you only care about the combat, you'll enjoy this a lot. Two tips; 1; Attack cancels is you friend and 2; Learn how to do directional block / deflect and you'll have an easier time fighting enemies and bosses. For those who have played Dark Souls 1, the deflect timings of the Surge 2 are somewhat similar to it. Alright, why are you reading this? Go and play it and have fun!
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Surge 2 is a good game, no doubt about it, just not so good as the first one. I like new parry system, weapon and enemy variety, world building and how city changes through the story. I don't like story at all, some basic garbage about saving a girl and you play as a big nobody who don't have any personality. NPCs are awfully stupid, just talking puppets, the only one interesting character is Warren from first game. First half of the game was too boring, level design and city layout are very confusing but when you got all tools/shortcuts to traverse the locations it's becoming alright. Combat kinda lost a little bit of weight but became very aggressive and fast. Bosses are serious lacklaster, there are some decent encounters but others are reskins of basic enemy types. Overall it was a very fun experience, just with some bad game design decisions.
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A fine souls-like. Definitely not as challenging as any of the from soft games, but can still pose a fun challenge. Devs did improve on the formula of the original game, like remove the bullsh*t weapon proficiency stat, introduce new weapon types. But what was a definite downgrade for me, its the main character him self. In the first game Warren (your character) had a personality, a voice, something you can connect to. In this game you get none of that but what you can do is to customize the appearance of you character, something i could not care less about. By the end of the game i have completely forgotten how my character looks underneath all that armor. Overall a great game, would recommend for any souls-like enjoyer.
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barely worth recommending, 5-6/10 good: - regular combat - some of the weapons- especially fast ones - map design, little shortcuts you can explore mid: - bosses- most of the time its just a guy with weird attack patterns, there is only 1 boss i would consider to be really good (and hard) and its in mid game, late game bosses (including last boss) are a joke - implant system- cool idea, at first it made some sense to me, but not for long - more below - parring- cool idea, but imo its garbage, you can evade/roll really fast and far in this game, parring requires more skill and all you get for that is a stagger sometimes - story was kinda ok for most of the game, but after "point of no return" it all went downhill - upgrade system- didn't read any tutorials, after 12h of the game i figured out you have to do finishers to get upgrade parts, its my bad i didn't care but i don't like upgradable armor like in dark souls 2 - leveling system- why even bother with these 3 stats, when you need stamina no matter your build, and HP i always good, energy only worth another battery - some areas are used multiple times, with very little changes in between, me not likey - drone system, honestly couldn't care less about it, for most of the game used only EMP one, on the hardest boss in the game used grenades and other s-hit just to get it done bad: - implants continuation- late in story game just drops better implants, and not like "might be better for this or that playstyle" - just better ones, passives that you can always use, for example: after 5 hits in quick succession you get 10% heal- and im not even gonna start on "prevents death" implants :/ - slow weapons- in this game imo they are worthless, maybe you can slowly get some damage in, but why would you even try if you can just get fast weapon - weapon drops- for some reason game drops you weapons regularly, most of the time the new weapon is better AND upgraded to suit your current location enemies, i played 3/4 of the game just equipping new weapons every time i got one - weapon upgrades- this isn't like in dark souls- there are BETTER and WORSE weapons, i tried upgrading starting punching gloves type weapon to +9 and it was garbage compared to gloves i got late in the game- why even bother with so many weapons if most of them are dogs-hit - game difficulty - the game is at it's hardest in the 4-12 hours mark, not even in the middle- after that it's smooth sailing, you've seen and survived all extremely fast patters on some bosses and regular enemies, it won't get any faster - game performance - oh boy it was the first time i had to use resolution scaling on steam deck, for some reason this 5 year old game on minimal settings STILL couldn't manage 60 fps, its worse than elden ring (while looking OK at best) - the map game displays you each time you load new area, you can also see it in game (also affected by resolution scaling, i couldn't see s-hit :) ) - hard to read, doesn't show you how big locations are (maybe on purpose, but come one) - "fast travel" they put in last few hours of the game- wow you can teleport to a few locations (that you need to find, explore once again locations you explored at least 2 times before) - enemies launching whole map to get you, in their >1 tonne exo suit, just have to learn their patters - reuse of enemies, after ~14h you've seen all game has to offer, lots of enemies reuse, with a slight twist
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This game is like a love letter to bloodborne. It ditches the more defensive playstyle of Dark souls / Elden Ring for a much more aggressive trading blows approach to combat. And for someone like me who didnt really click with Elden Ring this game gets combat right. Hits are punchy, with a lot of weight and impact (more or less depending on your chosen weapon) It also utilizes a directional parry system which seems odd at first (imagine for honor) but is absolutely addicting once you get the hang of it. Exploration is very well done in this game at first you might think the map to be rather small but theres so many layers, little corners and a lot of verticality that you can easily spend up to 7 hours before doing anything main quest relevant while also frequently providing the satisfaction of a new shortcut, a side quest or similar. The way you gain new armor is also a very big factor that kept me from always looking forward to seeing more, as someone whos only in it for the fashion the armor system can be a bit frustrating because everything is based around building "sets" for thier respective 3 piece and 6 piece set bonusses. Although i ended up just rocking a set of armor which i just picked for looks for a good portion of my playthrough i was very happy that towards the end i ended up mixing 2 3 set bonusses together for a fun electricity based build. The finishers where still fun and i only saw a tiny amount of them (theres 1 for each targeted limb, for each weapon type so its a lot) All in all without rambling on too much i hope someone reading this can tell is that i thoroughly enjoyed my time with the game and i dont wanna spend too much time gloating about all the aspects i like about it. If youre a fan of a quick semi gritty action rpg with meaty combat give this one a go. i did 54 times in my roughly 41 hours with the game with only one boss requiring more than 1 to 2 tries so dont worry too much about the difficulty ( i didnt even put a lot of points into HP and ony started to get two shotted by 1 enemy with a very specific attack towards the end ) If youre looking for punishment like Nioh this isnt for you but if you just wanna vibe, have a good time while playing some bloodborne light, have at it. Its definetely worth a good 20 bucks (imo everything up to 35 would be a good bargain still) Dont bother with the Dlcs though, apparently they are either completely unnecesarry cash grabs or not that great (the story dlc from what i read)
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The Surge 2 is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.
The Surge 2 is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 29.99€ on Steam.
The Surge 2 received 6,523 positive votes out of a total of 8,528 achieving a rating of 7.48.
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The Surge 2 was developed by Deck13 and published by Focus Entertainment.
The Surge 2 is playable and fully supported on Windows.
The Surge 2 is not playable on MacOS.
The Surge 2 is not playable on Linux.
The Surge 2 is a single-player game.
There are 7 DLCs available for The Surge 2. Explore additional content available for The Surge 2 on Steam.
The Surge 2 does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
The Surge 2 supports Remote Play on Phone, Remote Play on Tablet and Remote Play on TV. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
The Surge 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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Game modes
Features
Online players
63
Developer
Deck13
Publisher
Focus Entertainment
Release
23 Sep 2019
Platforms
Remote Play
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