Distant Worlds 2
Skip · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 19, under the fair line, at $49.99.
- Reviews
- 71% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVidia GTX 760-equivalent or better, 2+Gb VRAM, DirectX 11 compliant, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
July 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $17.49. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 36 in the 5 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 62 percent. On the same math NEBULOUS: Fleet Command ($29.99, scores 35) and Stellaris ($14.99, scores 59) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
7 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 253 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Players
105 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 14:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Distant Worlds 2 scores 19/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1531540/distant-worlds-2Reviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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