The Surge 2
The Surge 2 keeps what fans and critics loved about the original while also expanding greatly upon the formula. The Surge 2 takes place in a brand new environment: a sprawling, devastated city with larger…
The Surge 2 is an adventure developed by Deck13 Interactive, released 23 September 2019 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $2.99 at Humble Store. The main story takes about 25 hrs to finish.
What The Surge 2 is
The Surge 2 is an adventure game developed by Deck13 Interactive and released in 2019. It was published by Focus Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on FLEDGE Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
On the way to Jericho City, your plane is shot down by a mysterious storm and crash-lands in the outskirts. You wake up weeks later in a derelict detention facility inside the city. Armor-clad soldiers enforce Martial Law, robots are on a rampage, and a dark, expanding nanostorm looms over the cityscape...
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 57 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Surge 2 holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 5 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 74, across 59 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 25 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 40 hrs, roughly 1.6 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $2.99, that works out to about $0.12 per hour of the main story, or $0.07 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD FX-8320 (3.5 GHz) / Intel i5-4690K (3.5 GHz), 8 GB RAM and 2 GB, AMD Radeon R9 280 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 20GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $2.99 at Humble Store, 90% below its usual price.
What it launched against
The Surge 2 launched on 23 September 2019, within three weeks of Borderlands 3, GreedFall, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019) and Gears 5. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Borderlands 3, GreedFall, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019), Gears 5.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Surge 2 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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