Summary
Dragon’s Dogma 2was released on June 11, 2025, to an predominantly negative response on Steam, as players are review bombing the game in protest of the game’s major problems. Though the excitement forDragon’s Dogma 2was high when it launched its character creator, first impressions of the full game spoke of performance issues across all three platforms, with frame rates dramatically dropping in cities due to the large number of NPCs putting a strain on CPUs.
However, thefull release ofDragon’s Dogma 2revealed that the game had a fair few features (and lack thereof) that players were hoping Capcom would avoid in its latest title. Namely, despite being a premium single-player game,Dragon’s Dogma 2has launched with microtransactions and currency packs that many of its fans are none too happy about.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 Has a Mixed Rating on Steam
Though the game launched with an overwhelmingly negative rating on Steam, thereview score forDragon’s Dogma 2has steadily risen towards being mixed. There are three key factors to explain why people are leaving negative reviews for the game on Steam: poor performance, microtransactions, and the lack of a proper save system. Not only are players restricted to having onesave game perDragon’s Dogma 2character, they are also limited to having just one character – with no convenient way to delete it.
Dragon’s Dogma 2currently has over 150,000 concurrent players on Steam, and based on the rising review scores, it would seem that the community is more positive about the core gameplay experience. The microtransactions offer currency that can be earned in-game with ease and offer services that players can obtain as quest rewards. In order to start a new character inDragon’s Dogma 2, players need to manually delete their physical and cloud saves, temporarily disable their internet connection, and then create a new save. However, there is no way to get pastDragon’s Dogma 2’s poor performanceas yet.
Though some players have consideredmurdering NPCs inDragon’s Dogma 2for the sake of improving their frame rate, it’s clear that Capcom should prioritize performance fixes for its post-launch support, as even high-end hardware struggles to meet CPU demands in more populated areas. There are plenty of ways forDragon’s Dogma 2to improve and grow in the coming years, especially with its Vocations feature, but the review bombing from players implies that the game has issues that it needs to address first.
