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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

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

The ultimate melee action [GUILTY GEAR 2 -OVERTURE-] is now on Steam!! Pushing [Gameplay] and [Entertainment] to the extremes, with a splash of [Competitiveness] -- That's GUILTY GEAR 2 for you.

3
playing now
75%
positive of 535 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
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)
$19.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 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

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 44% of 10,903 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 13k–32k copies

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

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$14.97-25%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

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

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 40 of 52 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

702026-08-11 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 5 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 01:00 — 4 players2026-08-25 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 7 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 3 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

109292026-05-29 — 41 pageviews2026-06-01 — 39 pageviews2026-06-04 — 53 pageviews2026-06-07 — 48 pageviews2026-06-10 — 41 pageviews2026-06-13 — 50 pageviews2026-06-16 — 55 pageviews2026-06-19 — 29 pageviews2026-06-22 — 35 pageviews2026-06-25 — 74 pageviews2026-06-28 — 109 pageviews2026-07-01 — 66 pageviews2026-07-04 — 71 pageviews2026-07-07 — 76 pageviews2026-07-10 — 63 pageviews2026-07-13 — 68 pageviews2026-07-16 — 56 pageviews2026-07-19 — 44 pageviews2026-07-22 — 61 pageviews2026-07-25 — 45 pageviews2026-07-28 — 60 pageviews2026-07-31 — 38 pageviews2026-08-03 — 75 pageviews2026-08-06 — 57 pageviews2026-08-09 — 57 pageviews2026-08-12 — 52 pageviews2026-08-15 — 62 pageviews2026-08-18 — 55 pageviews2026-08-21 — 64 pageviews2026-08-24 — 70 pageviews2026-08-25 — 56 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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