Steam app 2118120 · updated 12 Sep 2026, 23:39 UTC
A game about being kind to real people. Send nice letters from your cozy room, go outside and say hi to your neighbors, swap recommendations, dress up for the poetry slam and add your dreams to a sky full of wishes. Join a community of real people with their hearts on their sleeves.
275 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
24 months, October 2024 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, 162 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, 113 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.
Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop) was released on 7 Oct, 2024.
Kind Words players discuss a wide range of topics. While the core game itself does not contain any mature content, players are free to discuss mature topics as long as conversations are conducted in sensitive, positive contexts with an emphasis on kindness, care and seeking help.
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30 developer announcements, Feb 2024 to Feb 2026 · times in UTC
Short version:New screen savers with playlist! Significant optimizations! Free KW2 demo!Less-short version:You keep putting so much creative, joyful and sincere stuff in Kind Words 1 & 2 that we just had to celebrate it with new…
PopcannibalThe last update prevented some windows computers with graphics card drivers older than 5 years or so from starting the game. Sorry about that! As always, please let me know if you find new problems! Now back to working on a much more fun…
Patch notesSo there's this big wacky bug affecting almost every game ever published with Unity (CVE-2025-59489). That's why you may have noticed everybody scrambling to do updates. Me included!But I figured since upgrading to a new version of Unity…
Patch notesHello Kind Friends!Luigi just drew a lovely new campfire sticker for Kind Words and I mashed the right keyboard buttons to make it go in to circulation! We did it to celebrate the launch of Fireside Feelings, a game that I am personally…
PopcannibalNew invitation for players to customize their character during the initial tutorial. Rebalanced distribution of opportunities to start new conversations. Fixed a bug that would show the wrong menu if you opened the journal and the closed it…
Patch notesKind Words 2 has been nominated for a BAFTA in the Games Beyond Entertainment category! I won't speak for the rest of our team, but I am absolutely not above the need for external validation. The loving responses from players and now the…
PopcannibalThe music mood override button's override choice was being overridden, so I overwrote it. (He said in an over wrought sentence). Thanks to discord user Beno988 for the heads up. Also, Kind Words 2 just got nominated for a BAFTA! Which is…
Patch notesDid you know that every song in Kind Words 2 has four moods? As you move from home to city, to café to mountain top, each song changes with the feel of the location. Drums morph, timbres shift, vibes slide. Did you notice that even the menu…
ZibaReworked outdoor conversation distribution. There are now color coded badges that indicate whether you are continuing a conversation you started (purple), continuing a conversation someone else started (red), or starting a new conversation…
Patch notesKind Words 2 is great for sharing your thoughts with caring strangers, but sometimes you just need to talk to yourself. Now Kind Words 2 has a private journal. A journal is a great way put your day or your life in to perspective. Forming…
PopcannibalShakespeare died in 1616. But before he did, he wrote several plays that people enjoyed. However, he did not leave behind very many cute stickers. I won't lie: it impressed me a little bit that he could just give up like that. Like he…
PopcannibalTiny update today: I've added a divider line that shows when you've viewed a whole chain in the chain forest and it's starting over. Just a little quality of life improvement to throw out while we're working on bigger stuff. Other work this…
Patch notesElla was embarrassed to realize she had not been thanking people when they reported requests in their inbox and has renewed her efforts to be a great hostess. She's also going to be a lot clearer in explaining that the "Lifetime train pass…
Patch notesI'm delighted to let you know the soundtrack to Kind Words 2 is now available for purchase as DLC on Steam! To celebrate, I've created a new Steam bundle that includes both Kind Words games and both Kind Words soundtracks at a discount. I'm…
PopcannibalNew: FPS Limiter in Settings->Display. Options: none, 30 ,60. New: Escape or Gamepad B will close the map menu. Better: Optimized some game assets to be 60MB smaller on disk and use a bit less ram. Fixed: Removed multiple cases where button…
Patch notesToday's challenge has been tracking down the cause of the reports I'm getting that sometimes the game gets stuck when transitioning between spaces. The tricky part is that it never happens to me! So today I rewrote a good deal of the code…
Patch notesViewing subscribed poems no longer cuts off longer poems (and media recommendations) Fixed multiple ui bugs related to reporting and deleting messages Reporting a letter you have received will now give you an option to delete that letter…
Patch notesThank you all so much for making the launch of Kind Words 2 wonderful! For years Luigi and I have been wandering around this city by ourselves. Like kids who snuck in to an amusement park when none of the rides are running. We've spent so…
PopcannibalNew: You can delete messages you receive in your inboxes. Fixed: Multiple issues viewing inboxes while offline. Fixed: The favorites button getting stuck down while viewing wishes Trap: Several better debugging tools to help me figure out…
Patch notesSorry, some funny business was getting people stuck on the title screen. Not really that funny if you can't start the game you just bought. Thanks for sticking with us. Fixed multiple causes of title soft locks. Fixed paper airplanes…
Patch notesThanks for all the reports everyone! Keep 'em coming. We'll get all the little bumps sorted out! Greatly clarified the name entry process in the tutorial Fixed chain help menu appearing behind chain topic Fixed favorites button getting…
Patch notesBut what is Kind Words 2? It's a game about being nice to people! All real people. Anonymous and asynchronous. Share your worries, joys, dreams, wishes, jokes and more. Then read everybody else's messages and respond where you feel…
PopcannibalThis week marks the 5 year anniversary of launching Kind Words on Steam. A lot has changed in 5 years, hasn't it? Not just for the world, but for you personally, I'll bet. One of my biggest changes was having Kind Words in my life. It's…
PopcannibalThank you! You all did so much for Kind Words! The playtest and the demo are over. We are definitely sad to kick everybody out of Kind Words 2 for a bit. But the life you all breathed in to it is just what we needed to guide our final…
PopcannibalPlay Kind Words 2 for free right now! We are opening up playtesting to everyone by putting out a demo for 1 week only starting now. Kind Words 2 is almost done and we're joining the Wholesome Games Steam Celebration by inviting you to try…
PopcannibalLuigi sent me 22 new stickers to put in to Kind Words 2 this week. They're really cute and I think you're gonna like them. I hate to do this to you, but I'm not going to show any of them right now. Nope. Just gonna tease you with some…
PopcannibalOne focus of our work right now is to balance vibes across the multiple spaces and activities. The mountain top area is our outdoor quiet space. A spot for calm and grand reflection. Here you will find the hot springs. While soaking their…
PopcannibalWe've been doing development updates in our discord for a while and thought folks over in Steam might like to see them too. Yeah? Here goes! Kind Words 2 is all about communicating with real people in different forms, and poetry is a fun…
PopcannibalValve said we get to schedule two cool stream events during next fest to hang out with our players, so here's our second cool stream event to hang out with our players. I mean, you can hang out with me anytime in the popcannibal discord…
PopcannibalHow do you make a sequel to a beloved little game about writing letters to strangers? Join the developers as we play the next fest demo of Kind Words 2! Why did we put it in a city? Why does the sequel include the whole original game? What…
ZibaEverything 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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| Kind Words 2 Soundtrack | WindowsmacOSLinux | 18 Oct 2024 |
What Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
| Description | Executable | Arguments | Platform | |
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| Launch | Kind Words 2.exe | windows 64 | ||
| Launch | Kind Words 2.app/Contents/MacOS/Kind Words 2 | macos | ||
| Launch | Kind Words 2.x86_64 | linux 64 |
It runs on public data and somebody's spare time.
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