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I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar cover art

I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar

Schell Games · 2021-08-24

SteamPlayStation Store

Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Virtual Reality

Releases: Aug 24, 2021 (PlayStation VR), Aug 24, 2021 (Oculus Quest), Aug 24, 2021 (Oculus Rift), Aug 24, 2021 (SteamVR), Aug 24, 2021 (Meta Quest 2)

Become an elite super spy ready for espionage, explosives, and gadgets galore. This popular escape-the-room VR franchise is back with more ingenious puzzles, cunning villains, and dangerous locales.

I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar is an Adventure game released in 2021, priced at $24.99, with an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (96% of 1305 reviews) and an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners.

3
playing now
96%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
4.69★
PlayStation Store rating (197 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$24.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

I Expect You to Die 2: The Spy And The Liar is a virtual reality action puzzle video game developed and published by Schell Games. The game is a sequel to the original I Expect You to Die (2016), and follows the same protagonist, an agent that must use items within a limited environment to solve puzzles to progress through the game. The plot revolves around the player going through various hurdles as to stop Zoraxis, a megacorporation, from taking over the world. The game was released in 2021 to generally positive reviews from critics. The theme song is performed by Michael Geier aka Puddles Pity Party.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 47 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~6/week).
  • · Review velocity up 4% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (236 reviews).
  • · Top 12% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 26k–59k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,305 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $12.49 at Fanatical (2025-06-20) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 23 of 45 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
23023020212026Week of 2021-08-01: 230 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1202026-09-15 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 3 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 5 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 3 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 4 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 6 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 2 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 4 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 10 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 4 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 3 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 8 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 3 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 6 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 7 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 7 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 4 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$12.492021-08-242026-08-212021-08-24 — best price $24.992022-01-05 — best price $24.992022-07-07 — best price $24.992022-11-29 — best price $24.992023-03-23 — best price $24.992023-07-13 — best price $24.992023-10-30 — best price $16.992023-11-28 — best price $24.992024-01-18 — best price $16.992024-02-19 — best price $24.992024-03-14 — best price $15.992024-04-25 — best price $15.992024-05-21 — best price $24.992024-06-27 — best price $15.992024-07-25 — best price $24.992024-09-07 — best price $24.992024-11-04 — best price $24.992024-12-04 — best price $24.992025-01-02 — best price $24.992025-02-15 — best price $14.992025-03-20 — best price $24.992025-05-09 — best price $14.992025-06-20 — best price $12.492025-07-17 — best price $24.992025-08-22 — best price $24.992025-09-18 — best price $12.492025-10-06 — best price $24.992025-11-02 — best price $24.992025-11-21 — best price $12.492025-12-16 — best price $24.992026-01-19 — best price $12.492026-02-02 — best price $24.992026-03-17 — best price $24.992026-04-16 — best price $12.492026-05-18 — best price $12.492026-06-13 — best price $24.992026-07-09 — best price $24.992026-08-13 — best price $12.492026-08-21 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

5142026-05-30 — 7 pageviews2026-06-03 — 10 pageviews2026-06-07 — 14 pageviews2026-06-11 — 14 pageviews2026-06-15 — 14 pageviews2026-06-19 — 6 pageviews2026-06-23 — 8 pageviews2026-06-27 — 9 pageviews2026-07-01 — 9 pageviews2026-07-05 — 12 pageviews2026-07-09 — 12 pageviews2026-07-13 — 20 pageviews2026-07-17 — 10 pageviews2026-07-21 — 8 pageviews2026-07-25 — 11 pageviews2026-07-29 — 7 pageviews2026-08-02 — 18 pageviews2026-08-06 — 18 pageviews2026-08-10 — 8 pageviews2026-08-14 — 15 pageviews2026-08-18 — 6 pageviews2026-08-22 — 6 pageviews2026-08-26 — 21 pageviews2026-08-30 — 6 pageviews2026-09-03 — 8 pageviews2026-09-07 — 11 pageviews2026-09-11 — 9 pageviews2026-09-15 — 19 pageviews2026-09-19 — 10 pageviews2026-09-23 — 21 pageviews2026-09-27 — 11 pageviews2026-10-01 — 17 pageviews2026-10-05 — 10 pageviews2026-10-08 — 13 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

19
achievements tracked
81.6%
earned " The World is a Stage"
6.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsTracked Controller SupportVR OnlyColor AlternativesCustom Volume ControlsPlayable without Timed InputSave AnytimeSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-09-01 (Steam store data)

Player tags

VRRetroComedyPuzzleMysteryCold WarStylizedAdventureSoundtrackEscape Room

Census log

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

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