Distant Worlds 2 — Who recommends this game?

Lifetime gross spend

$4.11Mest

grossAtFullPrice $4.11M · promo blend

Net to developer

$2.65Mest

after Valve / VAT / refunds

Lifetime units

82,215▼ 100.0%

853 / day median · launch

Launch window · 30d

$921K22% of LTD

26K units · $35.99 ASP

Confidence

high±18%

Based on 2,610 reviews collected over 4.2 years; English-dominant audience; non-Early-Access.

01 Revenue · monthly

Gross consumer spend USD

Gross

02 Lifetime breakdown

Launch window vs tail · units & spend

30 days launch window

Launch · units

26K

25,57831.1%

Tail · units

57K

56,63768.9%

Launch · gross

$921K

$921K22.4%

Tail · gross

$3.19M

$3.19M77.6%

Net to dev

$2.65M

$2.65M64.4%

01 Like Score

qualityScore = Σ inbound · log₁₀(reviews+1) · positive% · rank-bonus

Tier D · ▼ 1 7d

D ●CBAS

Inbound

Σ log₁₀(R+1)

Avg pos%

50%

→ 16

Score history · 30d retention

9 (14d ago)16 (now)

02 Top inbound contributors

Games whose “More Like This” lists rank Distant Worlds 2 · 14 inbound · top 10 shown

qualityScore 16

Master of Orion7.3K reviews · 76% pos · NGD Studios · 2016

+2.9

Distant Worlds: Universe1.4K reviews · 71% pos · Code Force · 2014

+2.2

The Last Federation374 reviews · 72% pos · Arcen Games · 2014

+1.9

Polaris Sector414 reviews · 70% pos · SoftWarWare · 2016

+1.8

Stellar Reach33 reviews · 78% pos · Stelleas · 2025

+1.2

Dawn of Andromeda187 reviews · 42% pos · Grey Wolf Entertainment · 2017

+1.0

Galactic Ruler Enlightenment19 reviews · 63% pos · BattleGoat Studios · 2024

+0.8

Galactic Inheritors46 reviews · 36% pos · Crispon Games · 2015

+0.6

Galaxy Union17 reviews · 47% pos · cybercritics · 2015

+0.6

Galactic Dominion15 reviews · 46% pos · Forever Years · 2018

+0.6

+ 4 more inbound gamesLong tail · ranks across catalog

+0.5

03 Distant Worlds 2’s “More like this”

Outbound MLT · 30 games

#3Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era

#6Europa Universalis V

71%23K

#7Europa Universalis IV

87%93K

#8Nova Roma

94%1.5K

Review score

6/ 9

Mostly Positive

% positive

69.9%cohort 71%

1,886 pos · 814 neg

Total reviews

2.7Ktracked

2,700 crawled

Velocity · 30d

1 / dayest

15 this month

Steam-purchase rate

72.1%flat

27.9% free / EA / key

01 Language distribution

Reviewer interface language · count, share of total, share positive

26 languages · top 12 shown

ENEnglish

74.5%2,01270%

ZHSimplified Chinese

6.3%17058%

DEGerman

5.8%15665%

FRFrench

3.5%9471%

RURussian

2.5%6878%

PLPolish

1.3%3485%

ESSpanish

1.2%3382%

PTBrazilian Portuguese

1.0%2770%

ITItalian

1.0%2681%

DUDutch

0.4%1275%

CZCzech

0.3%978%

TRTurkish

0.3%888%

02 Reviews by playtime

Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket

0-1h 104

34%positive

3.9% of reviewsrefund window

1-10h 531

64%positive

19.7% of reviews

10-100h 1,537

71%positive

56.9% of reviews

100h+ 528

81%positive

19.6% of reviews

03 Monthly timeline

Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch

Positive 1,886Negative 814

7025273511760

22·0322·1023·0523·1224·0725·0225·0926·04

04 Breakdowns

Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive

2,700 reviews

Free product

20/ 2,700

0.7% of total75% positive

Early access

0/ 2,700

0.0% of total— no data

Key activation

732/ 2,700

27.1% of total67% positive

Steam Deck

0/ 2,700

0.0% of total— no data

Steam purchase

1,948/ 2,700

72.1% of total70% positive

Recommended

1,886/ 2,700

69.9% of total— votedUp

Not recommended

814/ 2,700

30.1% of total— votedDown

Reviews crawled

2,700/ 2,700

100.0% of total70% positive

2,610 reviews · 71% positive

Detailed reviewer overlap is being computed. Check back soon.