 | Digital Release | PC January 16, 2008 – Online May 06, 2008 – Steam January 12, 2012 – Desura |
| Delisting | October 10, 2013 – Steam September 2016 – Desura October 2018 – Online |
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| Developer | S2 Games | |
| Publisher | S2 Games | |
| Available On | Digital None (See Below) Retail (unplayable) PC |
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| Links | Savage2.com homepage [Archive] SteamDB page Tales of Newerth homepage |
Delisting
Savage 2: A Tortured Soul was first removed from Steam on or close to October 10th, 2013. The game’s absence was first publicly noted on January 18th, 2014 and addressed shortly thereafter by Stony, a known relation to S2 Games. According to Stony, Valve would not approve of the game changing to free-to-play without DLC or micro-transactions to support it and instead removed it from the store.
Savage 2 remained available on Desura until the service was shut down in September of 2016. One of the last public efforts to rally players to the game on Desura came much earlier in April of 2014. If the game was not already inaccessible by the end of 2016, it definitely became unplayable by October of 2018 when S2 Games silently ceased operations and shut down support for their other titles.
Like Savage before it, a community-based team named Tales of Newerth began to run servers of their own and provide access to the game beginning no later than the Fall of 2018. Similarly, most of the remaining players have moved to a dedicated Discord server to coordinate their playtime.
About the Game
Journey back to the fantasy realm of Newerth to continue the epic battle between humans and beasts. Savage 2 combines real-time strategy and first person action in a dynamic multiplayer environment. Choose your side, human or beast, and select one of seven different class types to take to the battlefield in intense first person combat. Feel like taking the reins? Choose to be a commander to play an in-depth RTS game that lets you lead your troops into battle as you build structures to unlock offensive and defensive capabilities. It’s all waiting for you in Savage 2.
Having a Prime Account gets you the following features:
- Access to your life time recorded stats
- Two extra inventory slots
- Replay of nearly all matches played in official servers
- Unlimited access to Hellbourne units