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BioShock™ 2 Remastered
As a Big Daddy, you explore Rapture in a single-player shooter, chasing an unseen foe and trying to survive. Protector Trials add separate combat challenges where you guard a Little Sister as she gathers ADAM. BioShock™ 2 Remastered costs $2.59 at 
Fanatical; its confirmed tracked low makes this a timely opportunity if that blend of story-led shooting and challenge missions suits your plans. At Fanatical, BioShock™ 2 Remastered costs $19.99, bringing its Rapture campaign and Protector Trials together at this buying opportunity.
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Past 36 months · Updated dailyHistorical Low~ $2.592026-08Current Low Across Stores~ $2.59FanaticalAt its historical low now
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01About BioShock™ 2 Remastered
As a Big Daddy, explore the decayed underwater city of Rapture, pursue an unseen foe and fight to survive in BioShock™ 2 Remastered. First-person shooter combat meets a story shaped by the city’s troubled past. The Steam PC version is single-player and offers full controller support. The remaster features high-resolution textures, models and interface art, plus 4K resolution support. Protector Trials add combat challenges in which you protect a Little Sister while she gathers ADAM. Steam players: 72%% positive from 24,476 reviews.
Credits
Developer
2K Marin · 2K China · Digital Extremes · 2K Australia
Publisher
2K · Feral Interactive (Mac)
Lowest recorded in 36 months
$2.592026-08-03 · FanaticalBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.Language support
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| French | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-19
02Before you buy
How you play
The Steam PC version has full controller support and single-player gameplay.
Remaster features
The description specifies high-resolution textures, models and interface art, plus 4K resolution support.
Protector Trials
Protector Trials are combat challenges where you protect a Little Sister as she gathers ADAM. Trials offer three weapon and Plasmid loadouts, with a fourth bonus loadout after completing the others.
03Frequently asked questions
What is BioShock™ 2 Remastered about?
You play as a Big Daddy exploring the decayed underwater city of Rapture, pursuing an unseen foe and fighting to survive.
What are the Protector Trials?
They are combat challenges centered on keeping a Little Sister safe while she gathers ADAM from a corpse.
How do the trials vary?
Each trial has three distinct weapon and Plasmid loadouts. Completing those unlocks a fourth bonus loadout.
Popular Steam reviews
Native-language selection · 10 reviewsSelected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.
RecommendedSteam player
They finally got it working! With the December updates they finally worked out the kinks with DX11 related crashes. I read somewhere that audio reverb causes crashes so with that feature disabled I ran through the entire game as well as Minerva's Den without a single crash or problem. The mouse lag is present but people aren't realizing that this isn't so much a game development problem as it is Microsoft Windows. I can't get into the detailed explanation but some games have a strange lag or hitchyness to it despite a solid 60 FPS with v-sync enabled. Many people wonder why and attribute it to poor game code. This actually has something to do with Windows handling the fullscreen display rather than letting the game handle the fullscreen display. I know that doesn't make much sense but trust me...turn OFF v-sync in game and then go into your GPU's control panel and enable FAST v-sync there as well as triple buffering. The game will run as smooth as glass. I know this title caught a lot of flak when it released but people need to realize that what they did was done for a reason. They updated the game to DirectX11, worked out the audio issues and the strange physics issues and got it marketed to a whole new generation of consoles. This means that kids that never got to play it or never even heard of it can now play the same classics we enjoyed! They then went as far as to give this remaster out for frickin FREE to all owners of the original games...and people had the audacity to complain about it when it didn't work properly! Sure enough they came back and patched it multiple times and got it working (at least for some of us) when they didn't have to do any of that for us. For a review of the game itself, see my other review on the original title which is actually more unstable for me than the remaster.Show moreShow less
16.4 hours at review698 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Update added 2K launcher.Show moreShow less
2.6 hours at review334 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Excellent game that improves and expands on what made Bioshock 1 great. A common crash is caused by the game not having enough VRAM allocated to it. This can be easily resolved by going to ...\AppData\Roaming\BioshockHD\Bioshock2 and increasing the value of TextureStreamingMemoryLimit in Bioshock2SP.ini. I set it to 2048 and haven't crashed since. Also make sure never to save on exit; always do so manually to avoid corrupting saves.Show moreShow less
26.7 hours at review185 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
So let's get this out the way and say that both Bioshock 1 as well as it's sequel are incredible games, in my opinion they are maybe a few of the best games ever made, this review it's now about the games as much as it is about the "remastered status" of this games. For starters both of this remasters have very few options, even less options than the original pc releases, there isn't a way to configure the fov of Bioshock 2 remastered, as of now, i've tried using the console (which you can open with tab) i've tried using "Flawless Widescreen" and i've tried to search for an option in pretty much every menu that the game offers, including the "gameplay options". That being said the menu was locked to only using my gamepad when i started it, i had to navigate the menu using the arrows on my keyboard in order to disable the gamepad on the controller options and then configure a couple of the key bindings in order to actually get to play the game, after that i also had to recheck to have mouse acceleration disabled on the controller options given the fact that there's apparently a bug, or something strange happening with the mouse when it comes to the menus of the game, it feels as if my "dpi" or the sensitivity is separate from the in-game sensitivity, i've tried changing the sensitivity without luck. The graphics while being good, are also not insanely improved, i'd expected to see more enhancements when it came to the textures and the lighting, but so far it's clear that they are pretty much just games with minor graphical enhancements. This remastered, it's sadly the best option that you have to revisit this games, it's frankly a shame that they release this in this state, the whole point of remastering a game it's to make it better, the graphics, the menus, the bugs, fix things that affected the game in a negative way, this sadly doesn't do any of this, instead it just gives the game functionallity without going to hoops in getting the original ones started, something that should've been fixed since a very long time, something that's been bad enough that you have the first stickied post on the forums of Bioshock being how to get that game to run on windows 7/8. This is simply a review to inform people as to what they're getting for Bioshock 2 Remastered, it's frankly a very good game, but not that much of a re-release, i wish steam had a "mixed" option so i could give the game the score or the recommendation that i think it deserves, it's not bad, it's not terrible, it just could have/should have, been better.Show moreShow less
1.4 hours at review334 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
The crashing can be fixed! Great game, great story. This remaster is known for crashing constantly due to lack of VRAM, which I was able to fix by doing this: Go to C:\Users\user here\AppData\Roaming\BioshockHD\Bioshock2. (This folder will only show up after the game has been launched at least once.) Open the file Bioshock2SP.ini with a text editor, search for "TextureStreamingMemoryLimit" and change the value from 256 to something like 2048 (or higher, depending on how much VRAM your graphics card has, but 2048 worked fine for me). This is the number of MB allotted for the game on your graphics card. Hopefully 2K will make this an automatic fix in the future!Show moreShow less
8.4 hours at review179 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
There are literally no settings for graphics besides resolution, vsync, and anti-aliasing. I see why this is free for people already owning the games on steam since this essentially indistinguishable from the orignial version with the biggest difference being the removal of configurable settings. Not even close to being worth $20. The pc version was clearly an after thought.Show moreShow less
1.1 hours at review210 people found this helpful
Received for free
RecommendedSteam player
Since no one will see this i just wanna say that my dad is a cool guy :)!!!!Show moreShow less
2.1 hours at review130 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
This version is known to have tons of issues; one being crashes on most of the systems (not just a few). It is widely known and there are tons of documented reports on where it happens. With such amount of detailed reports, instead of fixing that, the developers decided to add a third-party launcher that no one ever has asked for.Show moreShow less
6.6 hours at review198 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
1. In your library right click on Bioshock 2 Remastered 2. Go to properties 3. General Tab 4. Launch Options 5. Paste the following: "Bioshock2HD" -run %command% These simple steps will not only remove an annoying 2nd launcher. It ALSO fixes most if not close to all problems in the game. I didn't crash, or run into any bugs ONCE playing it after having done the steps above. Also while you're at it, in your control panel set the games max frames to your monitors refresh rate or lower. This game tries to output crazy high fps which puts unnecessary strain/heat on your PC. Beyond all that, it's a lovely game, brings back a lot of childhood memories. Very refreshing as I didn't remember most of the game this many years later so it was like playing it as if it were new all over again.Show moreShow less
15.1 hours at review128 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
This game is even worse than the Bioshock Remastered. It will crash every single time when starting a new game without a specific fix; the fact that I learned this fix from an unofficial Steam discussion thread, or that the fix doesn't do anything to the random crashes didn't help. Stay away from this abomination and play the original, would you kindly.Show moreShow less
6.1 hours at review160 people found this helpful
Source: original Steam user reviews. Helpful votes are an archived snapshot, not live data. Last collected: 08/15/2026.