How to Survive 2

How to Survive 2

Eko Software · September 8, 2016 · Survival, Zombies, Multiplayer, Open World Survival Craft, Open World

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How to Survive 2 price by region

How to Survive 2 costs £1.80 in the United Kingdom, €2.06 in Europe (EUR), $2.32 in the United States, $2.32 in Georgia (USD), CA$3.99 in Canada, zł9.91 in Poland, R$14.03 in Brazil, A$17.67 in Australia and NZ$17.99 in New Zealand right now.

Cheapest How to Survive 2 offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £1.80 −78% £8.28 £1.80 19
Europe (EUR) €2.06 −81% €10.85 €2.06 21
United Statesyour region $2.32 −81% $11.99 $2.32 23
Georgia (USD) $2.32 −77% $9.99 $2.32 22
Canada CA$3.99 −74% CA$15.29 CA$3.99 20
Poland zł9.91 −79% zł47.86 zł9.91 17
Brazil R$14.03 −39% R$23.15 R$14.03 14
Australia A$17.67 −20% A$17.67 A$21.36 17
New Zealand NZ$17.99 −20% NZ$17.99 NZ$26.20 15

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About How to Survive 2

✦ AI summary

Survive a zombie-infested Louisiana by scavenging resources, building and defending your camp, and mastering deep crafting systems alongside up to 16 players online. Team up with friends to tackle randomized bayous and cities, specialize your character through leveling, and face increasingly brutal challenges that test your survival skills in real time.

Several years have passed since the original How to Survive events on Los Riscos’ archipelago. Now the local infection has turned into a worldwide pandemic. Everyone around the world, groups of people or lone wolves, try to survive one more day among the infected, attempting to recover a semblance of normal life. You find yourself in Louisiana and your survival chance starts by building a safe camp and becoming a skilled survivalist.
Find water, food and shelter and talk to the unconventional locals to make your way around.

An eccentric masked stranger offers you help? Sure, sounds way better than zombies!

• Multiplayer is here! You can invite up to 16 players to access your camp and 4 of you can play simultaneously online

- Local coop : up to 4 player simultaneously on the same PC

- Players in local Coop can join an online game (i.e. 16 players can play simultaneously)

• Teamwork: all players can contribute to a bigger, better camp and can perform co-op actions and strategies.

• New improved camera follows your character, allowing you to zoom in and out on the fly!

• New randomized environments: from the unforgiving Mississippi Delta bayous to the abandoned streets of New Orleans’ French Quarter.

• Create your own character: learn new and different skills to specialize as you level up and equip with scavenged and handcrafted armor, tools and weapons.

• A new deeper crafting system will allow you to use items and materials to create hundreds of items, tools and weapons to upgrade your character and your base camp.

• You are an expert in survival ? You want real challenges ? Elite quests are made for you !
In this special quest type, you have only one try to reach your objective. If you die, you will directly be sent back to camp and you’ll have to deal with the judgemental look of your friends...

• Set-up, upgrade and protect your camp as you want: choose from a wide upgradeable variety of traps, barricades, obstacle and workshops that will provide you new recipes and allow you to create more materials and items.

• Protect your camp and survive, alone or with your friends, to the Kovac’s Challenges ! Place your traps in a strategic way and prepare to fight hordes of powerful zombies.

• Night & day cycle and weather conditions.

• Be careful when you got out by night, some nocturnal zombies are hiding in the darkness, ready to attack you.

• Meet new survivors by creating a public camp and use your special private chest to keep safe your precious objects.

• You can now kill zombies in a cooler way thanks to the finish moves and gory effects !

• Watch your hunger and your thirst if you want to be capable of fighting zombies.

• Watch the weight of your inventory. You don’t want to be slowed down while a horde is chasing you.

• Kovac’s more diligent students will be happy to find his precious advice in a new video format ! Paper is for losers...

How to Survive 2 — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player, Online PvP, Online co-op, Split screen
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

DLC & expansions

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Base game + 5 of 9 DLC at today's best prices (some DLC unpriced).

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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Sep 3, 2026
How to Survive 2 takes the basic formula and adds more crafting, base building and missions, but I found it considerably more tedious. The missions get repetitive very quickly, there's a lot more grinding, and it loses some of the survival feel of the first game. It's not terrible, especially in co-op, but I'd much rather play the original.
5 found this helpful
Not recommended Aug 21, 2026
Pretty bad so far started with it loading in to a small window seems you have to go in to the files to run something to set the right size window as there no in game settings, there is quests in the game which you must have a skill for but the game won't tell you before you stated the quest only finding out when you need it, the game been pretty mid so far.
3 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 12, 2026
A good little zombie survival game combining base management, crafting and exploring. The progression feels rewarding, although the amount of grinding for materials can becomes repetitive, especially when playing solo. I would recommend mainly for co-op. 100% steam achievements Time : 92.7H Completion Difficulty : 5/10 Playthroughs : 1 Missables : None Notable requirements : reach the maximun character level, craft all recipes, complete all side quest and various survival challenges.
2 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 23, 2026
teaches you how to survive would recommend 10/10
Recommended Sep 18, 2026
Quite a fun game to play with your friends, I personally loved it
Recommended Sep 3, 2026
man idk what people are talking about, how to survive 2 is far better than how to survive 1. i havent even played that much rn and i love it so much

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