Watch Dogs 2 is enjoying a major resurgence on Steam this week, driven by one of the deepest discounts the nearly nine-year-old Ubisoft title has ever seen. The base game is currently priced at $2.50, a markdown of 95% off its usual $50 sticker price, running through Thursday, July 9. The sale extends to the game's expanded editions as well, with the Deluxe Edition available for $3 and the Gold Edition for $4, both bundling in extra content on top of the core campaign.
A steep discount across every edition
The standard price cut brings Watch Dogs 2 down to a fraction of its original cost, but players looking for more content have options too. The Deluxe Edition, priced at $3, and the Gold Edition, at $4, add extras such as additional vehicles, cooperative missions, cosmetic outfits, weapons, and supplementary world missions on top of the base campaign.
Player counts climbing toward a record
The discount appears to be pulling a wave of new and returning players into the game. Tracking site SteamDB shows more than 10,000 concurrent players active at the time of reporting, with a 24-hour peak surpassing 16,000. Those figures are closing in on the game's all-time concurrent player record of 18,138, a notable benchmark for a title that originally launched back in November 2016.
What the game is about
Watch Dogs 2 puts players in the role of Marcus Holloway, an up-and-coming hacker in Ubisoft's rendition of the San Francisco Bay Area who is racially profiled and wrongfully accused of a high-tech robbery. That incident pulls him into DedSec, a hacking collective set on dismantling the technocracy that rules the game's version of the city through technology and surveillance systems. The narrative follows Marcus and DedSec as they confront the powerful interests and technology reshaping life across the region, in missions built around hacking, stealth, and action.
Critical reception
GameSpot's original review of Watch Dogs 2 awarded the game an 8 out of 10, praising its blend of stealth and action-driven gameplay alongside a cast the review described as fun and likeable. With the discount set to run only through July 9, the current window offers one of the most affordable ways yet to pick up the game and its add-on content, and the rising player counts suggest plenty of others are taking notice.
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