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{{Availability/row| Humble | distant-worlds-2 | Steam | | | Windows }}
 
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{{Availability/row| Steam | 1531540 | Steam | | | Windows }}
 
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{{Availability/row| Epic Games Store | distant-worlds-2 | unknown | Coming soon. | | Windows | unavailable }}
 
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===Save game data location===
 
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Distant Worlds 2 General Settings.png|General settings.
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Distant Worlds 2 Display Settings.png|Display settings.
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Distant Worlds 2 Galaxy Map Settings.png|Galaxy map settings.
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</gallery>
  
 
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==Input==
 
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==Audio==
 
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===API===
 
===API===
 
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|recother = 1920x1080 resolution<br/>Mouse with a scroll wheel
 
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|notes    = {{ii}} A 64-bit operating system is required.
 
|notes    = {{ii}} A 64-bit operating system is required.
{{ii}} This game runs on Windows 7, but it is unsupported.
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{{ii}} This game runs on Windows 7 and 8, but are unsupported.
 
}}
 
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{{References}}
 
{{References}}
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{{GOG.com Enhancement Project}}

Latest revision as of 01:16, 29 June 2023

Distant Worlds 2
Distant Worlds 2 cover
Developers
Code Force
Publishers
Slitherine
Engines
Stride
Release dates
Windows March 10, 2022
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Continuous turn-based
Genres 4X, Strategy
Themes Sci-fi, Space
Series Distant Worlds
Distant Worlds 2 on IGDB
Distant Worlds 2 on MobyGames
Distant Worlds
Distant Worlds: Universe 2014
Distant Worlds 2 2022

Distant Worlds 2 is a singleplayer 4X and strategy game in the Distant Worlds series.

General information

Official forums
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Publisher website
DRM details are not known
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Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
Gamesplanet logo.svg
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
Epic Games Store (unavailable)
DRM details are not known
Coming soon.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1531540/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\data\SavedGames[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1531540/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Capped at 240 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Enabled by selecting High dynamic range from the Rendering Format option.[1][dubious – discuss]

Input

Audio

Sound settings.
Sound settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, general effects, user interface effects, nebula storm effects.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Vulkan 1.1 DXVK integration
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10
Processor (CPU) 2.5 GHz Quad Core
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 20 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 760
2 GB of VRAM
DirectX 11 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 11 compatible
Other 1024x768 resolution
A 64-bit operating system is required.
This game runs on Windows 7 and 8, but are unsupported.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
  2. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

  1. Verified by User:Macgovern on 2023-06-28