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GUILTY GEAR 2 -OVERTURE- cover art

GUILTY GEAR 2 -OVERTURE-

Arc System Works · 2016-03-31

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Action

Franchise: Guilty Gear · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Nov 29, 2007 (Xbox 360), Mar 31, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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GUILTY GEAR 2 -OVERTURE- is an Action game released in 2016, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (75% of 535 reviews).

1
playing now
75%
positive of 535 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
72/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
75/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Guilty Gear 2: Overture is a video game in the Guilty Gear series made by Arc System Works for the Xbox 360; unlike the previous games, however, Overture is not a fighting game. The fourth main installment in the series, Guilty Gear 2 makes use of 3D graphics, unlike its predecessors. A playable demo of Guilty Gear 2 featuring three modes of gameplay was released in Japan via Xbox Live on 30 October 2007. The demo describes the game as, "a mix between the action and real-time strategy genre." A North American version was released on October 7, 2008 released by Aksys Games. A port for Microsoft Windows was released on March 31, 2016 worldwide by Arc System Works.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 52 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~7/week).
  • · Review velocity up 37% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 20% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 13k–32k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 535 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.73 at GameBillet (2021-02-11) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 39 of 51 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
111120172026Week of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

802026-09-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 3 players2026-09-23 01:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 16:00 — 4 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 07:00 — 2 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 6 players2026-09-30 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 13:00 — 5 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 4 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 3 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 5 players2026-10-14 02:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$21.79$1.992016-03-312026-08-172016-03-31 — best price $11.992016-10-28 — best price $8.992017-05-11 — best price $9.992017-11-22 — best price $9.992018-07-06 — best price $19.992019-01-04 — best price $18.992019-06-02 — best price $19.992019-09-12 — best price $19.992019-12-11 — best price $3.992020-03-17 — best price $19.592020-06-04 — best price $16.682020-07-15 — best price $3.992020-09-18 — best price $3.542020-10-16 — best price $17.882020-11-25 — best price $3.992021-01-05 — best price $19.592021-02-16 — best price $17.392021-03-25 — best price $3.992021-05-06 — best price $19.992021-07-10 — best price $19.992021-10-28 — best price $3.992022-01-06 — best price $16.882022-06-04 — best price $19.992022-09-20 — best price $19.992022-12-08 — best price $16.592023-03-24 — best price $15.892023-07-14 — best price $14.692023-11-21 — best price $3.792024-01-24 — best price $3.802024-05-30 — best price $14.692024-07-31 — best price $19.992024-11-02 — best price $19.992025-02-12 — best price $13.492025-05-07 — best price $13.492025-11-21 — best price $3.412026-03-19 — best price $3.792026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-08-17 — best price $14.97
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

109252026-05-29 — 41 pageviews2026-06-02 — 57 pageviews2026-06-06 — 43 pageviews2026-06-10 — 41 pageviews2026-06-14 — 49 pageviews2026-06-18 — 50 pageviews2026-06-22 — 35 pageviews2026-06-26 — 62 pageviews2026-06-30 — 89 pageviews2026-07-04 — 71 pageviews2026-07-08 — 58 pageviews2026-07-12 — 51 pageviews2026-07-16 — 56 pageviews2026-07-20 — 57 pageviews2026-07-24 — 67 pageviews2026-07-28 — 60 pageviews2026-08-01 — 51 pageviews2026-08-05 — 55 pageviews2026-08-09 — 57 pageviews2026-08-13 — 68 pageviews2026-08-17 — 46 pageviews2026-08-21 — 64 pageviews2026-08-25 — 56 pageviews2026-08-29 — 38 pageviews2026-09-02 — 39 pageviews2026-09-06 — 33 pageviews2026-09-10 — 25 pageviews2026-09-14 — 49 pageviews2026-09-18 — 33 pageviews2026-09-22 — 25 pageviews2026-09-26 — 46 pageviews2026-09-30 — 28 pageviews2026-10-04 — 61 pageviews2026-10-07 — 50 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

42
achievements tracked
48.1%
earned "Hello World!"
1.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam Cloud

9 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,2041%42

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RTSMOBAAnimeActionHentaiFightingStrategyDifficultAction RTSController

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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