one of the most intense zombie games I ever played!
~ awesome graphics
~strong community
~huge variety of weapons

Just buy it!!!!

I'd recommend Killing Floor 2, but with reservations. It's a very smooth, blasty horde shooter that complements, but doesn't outright replace, the original game. It's shinier, eschewing the gritty grindhouse aesthetic of Killing Floor 1 for a more sci-fi feel and higher production values. Every character has a unique voice actor now, and while its faster-paced gameplay is perhaps not quite as methodical as KF1, it can still be fun. At its best, it does keep true to the Killing Floor spirit. Homing medic darts and the ability to vote to pause the game during trader time are also welcome accessibility features.

However, there are some problems that cropped up over time, the biggest one first:

* The game stagnated in maintenance mode since late 2019 when Tripwire Interactive outsourced development to Saber Interactive, with their only real activity being four seasonal updates a year until late 2023 where most of the effort went into new paid DLC weapons. These weapons shipped alongside a couple free HRG guns, some new cosmetic skins (usually community-made) and a community-made map with some (usually bad) edits made to it. Tripwire decided to focus their attention on Killing Floor 3 so I can't entirely fault them for that, but the perception among many players is that Saber just phoned it in.

* People kvetched about cosmetic items and crates when they were first introduced, but I didn't find them much of a problem. I do however think $10 for one DLC weapon is too steep of a price, and most of the community agrees. At least people who own the DLC weapons share them automatically with other players. Fortunately, there are now Armory packs on the Steam store that let you buy the weapons for a cheaper price per weapon, so this isn't as bad of an issue as it used to be.

* With the later Saber updates, animation quality of the paid DLC weapons has gone downhill, with the G36c being particularly bad. In a game where high-quality, high-fidelity weapon animations are a selling point, this is a problem.

* The free 'HRG' weapons are basically neon reskins of existing guns that were meant to be a consolation for players who don't buy the paid DLC weapons. The problem is that they blur the boundaries between perks and dilute their roles to the point of making perk distinctions more and more meaningless. While there are some I like, such as the shotgun revolver or the explosive double barrel shotgun, some of them are rather bizarre choices: the Field Medic didn't need a railgun, nor does the Berserker need a microwave gun, etc.

* The matchmaking feature is bugged and usually just puts you in empty servers.

* The Abomination boss is comparatively trivial to fight compared to the other bosses. Ideally it would have been reworked or simply limited to the one map it was introduced as a unique boss for.

* Sharpshooter was already harder to play due to the faster and more erratic movement of enemies, but the continual addition of weapons for "chaos" perks like Firebug that make enemies stumble erratically made it even more difficult.

* Turning Rachel from the first game, an ally of the player working to stop her father who made the zeds to begin with, into an antagonist who fights the players as a mutated boss (just like her father) was a disappointing waste of her character. Not that Killing Floor has a strong story to begin with, but still.

Some admittedly minor issues that are more personal nitpicks: while the gun animations are very nice and smooth, the gun sounds are quiet compared to the first game, where they were more visceral and satisfying. Assets are reused on multiple maps, which would be fine if the game wasn't aiming to be so detailed, because said assets don't fit every map they're in. Italian warning signs in a Texan embassy, Danish banners pleading for help in the middle of Paris, that sort of thing. They also replaced the original menu music, which hearkened back to KF1's menu music, with a track that's worse IMO.


Ultimately, Killing Floor 2 wasn't and isn't an outright bad game - it just needed more love. It's worth it on sale if you and your friends want a co-op shooter to kill time with, but I'd also say the same about the first game, which I personally prefer.

Just as a friend told me when we first played this game together. ''OMG this game is like L4D2 but on steroids''!!!!

I wake up every morning in a bed that’s too small, drive my daughter to a school that’s too expensive then I drive to a job which I get paid too little but when I get to play Killing Floor 2?

Well.... I like Killing Floor 2.

it breaks my heart to not recommend this game after these many hours of fun, but the devs have decided to put more than just skins behind outrageous paywalls and i'm tired of it. at the time of this review, owning all dlc weapons cost 100$ for NINE weapons, which is absolutely ridiculous.

i can't encourage this kind of business practice

Extremely fun and addictive game!
As of right now there hasn't been any problems with this game.

People complaining about the microtransactions, But don't realize that Tripwire has always been money hungry.... Look at Kiling Floor 1, All the DLC's you need to buy.........

And just becuase they add a stupid microtransaction that you can ignore, You're giving it a bad rating???

This game deserves a good rating because it's FUN. Just ignore all the microtransactions and enjoy the game.

Normally I’m not that type of guy who makes reviews about games, but with Killing Floor 2 I’m glad to make an exception.

I bought Killing Floor 2 when it was just released on steam as an early access title, about three years ago. I played the original Killing Floor and always enjoyed that, so I didn’t had to think twice when I saw the release Killing Floor 2. Back at that point there were 4 perks to choose from, 3 official maps to play, around 25 weapons to use and 7 playable characters to choose from.

To give you a clear image on how this game has developed over time: 6 new perks were added, the amount of weapons and playable characters have at least doubled, 17 new official maps were introduced, 3 new game modes (Holdout, PvP and Endless mod), several new zeds and bosses made their way into the game, every now and then there are events (with unique rewards) and is there the integration of the steam market, making it possible to get weapon skins and/or character customizations. And then I haven’t even mentioned the custom, community created, content that is available.

Long story short: Tripwire Interactive absolutely nailed the Early Access concept, something many other developers could learn from. Even after the full release of the game they keep developing new (and free!) content. Big compliment to the people at Tripwire Interactive for creating this masterpiece!

this purchase is dedicated to my awesome friend (Gerald John Santos) who passed away last april of 2018 . me and gerald go way back since high school . sadly he was not able to play this game . we were planning to buy KF2 as soon as he leaves the hospital but he never did we had a lot of memories on the first game while it pains me to say it but we pirated KF1 because we were broke . he said to me since we had a lot of fun lets purchase it on steam to help the developers . this is my second purchase on steam (bought KF1) . RIP Gerald

This one is hard, I absolutely adore the original Killing Floor, and as my hours might suggest, KF2 had me very excited as well.

But with the direction the game and TripWire itself is going in, I honestly cannot recommend this game anymore, it brings me no joy to say this at all as I'm very passionate about this franchise, but I feel like it's being done a disservice at this point in time.

I'll try to coherently describe what slowly drove me away from the game entirely, KF1 had both cosmetics and DLC which were added later in it's lifespan, I happily supported both those forms of content as we got free updates with fresh new things in return.

KF2 had a great start, one of the devs even gave me a beta key since I sank so many hours in the original, that was a very special moment I will never forget and the months following the start of early access were great, new weapons and perks and highly detailed maps to keep the experience fresh.

Then sometime later the zedconomy arrived, crates, keys, random cosmetics and artificial rarity, I prefer to pay straight up for content I want like in KF1 so I wasn't a fan but I was willing to look past this as updates need to be funded somehow.

But here's my real problem and ultimately where my thumbs down comes from; after a while it wasn't just the cosmetics you paid for as paid weapons were introduced, these were in KF1 as well at the price of 4 weapons for roughly 8 euros, but in KF2 you get one weapon for 10 euros, just one.
This really rubs me the wrong way as every map added in the past year or so has been pulled straight from the workshop, no new assets or anything, just community made maps, then the cosmetics which you pay premium price for or gamble for through crates are also community made..

What I'm getting at is that you're really being squeezed dry, pay for the game, pay to open your cosmetic crates, pay for new weapons and get very shallow content drops in return.

Killing Floor 2 is not a bad game, but I disagree with the way it's treated nowadays, I would recommend making up your own mind with different sources and reviews, but for me it's not worth it anymore.

As a fan of the original Killing Floor mod and stand alone game-this feels like a pure upgrade.
Let me just put the pros and cons up for people who might wanna buy it.
Lets kick it off with PROS:
-Some of the best feeling guns ive used in a while.The sound is perfect, the looks are just sexy and the pure carnage they spit out is amazing.
-Enviorment is as good as it gets. Nothing better than walking into a dark room and wondering if youre going to get murdered or not.
-Ranking up actually matters now. You can recieve perks which make you a killing machine.
- The visual overhaul of all the enemies brings a breath of fresh air to every single enemy we face.
- The zeds actually evolve as the difficulty goes up. They become a pleasure to watch as they move...from the moment they spawn, right to the moment when you blow their limbs off.
- The G.O.R.E. system. A.K.A. the "blow every piece of the zeds body off" system. A true masterpiece.
- General update to KF1.
- I am sure ive missed a ♥♥♥♥-ton of things but you get my flow.
And now sadly-CONS:
- Class balance isn't that great at the moment. A support character can easily mow down tons of enemies with the AA12, while most other classes don't have that ability...YET.
- Sprinting could be faster than it currently is. It gets the job done, but if i was running from something with a chainsaw for an arm...I'd be running faster. And probably s*****g my pants a little as well.
- I am out of cons. ♥♥♥♥.
Friendly reminders:
-The game is still in EARLY ACCESS, so a very little part of its content is live at the moment.
- Its better to have 20 weapons that funcion well and aren't glitching out, than 100 weapons that are literally as broken as they get. Same goes for maps.
- Don't whine about the slow updates. None of the people who whine know how tough programming is.
Definately recomment buying the game.