
A well-crafted action experience, Orcs Must Die! 2 is well worth your time.
89
Verdict
92%
Steam
82
IGDB
Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Very Positive on Steam (92% positive from 19K reviews)
Critically acclaimed (82/100 critic average)
Engaging multiplayer/co-op experience
Outstanding soundtrack
No significant drawbacks reported
Orcs Must Die! 2 is a trap based action-tower defense video game developed by Robot Entertainment as the follow-up to the original Orcs Must Die!, with Microsoft Game Studios publishing the sequel for Microsoft Windows on July 30, 2012 in the United States. The game has emphasis on co-operative gameplay as the principal addition over the original.

Runs well on modern hardware.
Updated 3h ago
So, first thing is first, never played multiplayer. I ain't got no friends to play games with. Not but a few good eggs who will jump into the occasional TF2 game, like Negative Xero. No, I play solo. Game is pretty decent, a solid step up from the first Orcs Must Die! Mechanically it is fundamentally the same, but there are more trap options to play with. And that is where this game's strengths are, finding fun combos you can put together with traps. Bounce a guy back, maybe two or three times by spacing traps out far enough while other traps are slowly ticking his health down, then when he finally hits the end teleport him to the beginning to do it all over. You have unlockables, differing game modes, difficulty tweaks... And I suppose if you have the friends the potential for multiplayer. The biggest problems I had in the game were that some levels really feel designed to require a second player, with little consideration as to what a lone player may be put through. And, I really think the game needed a little more variety in enemies. I enjoyed it, though I never actually finished every map available.
sad that this is not getting the fixes for win11
It’s actually a really fun game, but at a certain point in co-op, it keeps crashing. It’s extremely frustrating. We tried all the tips and fixes suggested by the online community, but unfortunately, none of them solved the problem. Judging by the more recent negative reviews, this seems to be a known issue. Maybe the game runs without crashes in single-player, but if you’re interested in co-op, I’d recommend staying away from it.
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