Steam app 1531540 · updated 12 Sep 2026, 19:25 UTC
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
719 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
55 months, March 2022 to September 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.
The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.
31 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
31 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 437 hourly samples from 13 Aug, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.
12 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 282 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.
Distant Worlds 2 was released on 10 Mar, 2022.
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Official Trailer
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Tutorial 3 - War and Conflicts
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Tutorial 2 - Diplomacy
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Tutorial 1 - Economy
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Mortalens Trailer
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Ackdarian Trailer
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sofia.cWelcome back, today we're happy to announce that the Anniversary Update is now available.Below you will find the latest and greatest information on Distant Worlds 2TM. Information in this document supersedes that in the official game…
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sofia.c{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39688059/a1eeccd18d7f7f4d7b63732c6eb3b9807a802478.jpg Hello everyone. This is the second of two Developer Blogs covering strategy after the release of Distant Worlds 2: Return of the Shakturi. As most Distant Worlds…
sofia.cWelcome back explorers, the Maintenance Update, the latest major update for Distant Worlds 2, is out now and ready for you to discover. This major update is mainly focused on fixing issues that have been reported since the release of the…
sofia.c{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39688059/16a8748f30f70fba476fcded627c5b5dfd28345e.png Hello everyone. Don't miss today's livestream at 15:00 CET, where an intrestisting preview of the upcoming Maintenance Update, set to release on December 5th. Tune in…
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CherryHello everyone and thank you for your interest in Distant Worlds 2! One of the points of feedback we heard from the base game release was that even though the factions had more to differentiate themselves from each other than in the…
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FremboT3Everything Steam lists as add-on content for this game, newest first. Prices are left out on purpose: the store answers this page in one currency and it is not the reader's.
| Name | Platforms | Released |
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| Distant Worlds 2: Shadows Rising | Windows | 07 Oct 2026 |
| Distant Worlds 2: Factions - Atuuk and Wekkarus | Windows | 03 Apr 2025 |
| Distant Worlds 2: Return of the Shakturi | Windows | 24 Oct 2024 |
| Distant Worlds 2: Factions - Quameno and Gizureans | Windows | 07 Sep 2023 |
| Distant Worlds 2: Factions - Ikkuro and Dhayut | Windows | 16 Mar 2023 |
What Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
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| Launch | DistantWorlds2.exe | any |
The folders Steam Cloud syncs. The root is a token Steam uses for a location on your own machine, not a path this page can know.
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gameinstall | data/SavedGames | *.DWGame |
It runs on public data and somebody's spare time.
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