Distant Worlds 2

It's a great game and I have very high hopes for its future development, based on the team's past work with the original. There's something magical about it that its competitors just don't have. Now for my gripes: Still missing some cool stuff from DW1, I don't like the Stellaris-inspired humans with the gray bouffants (I feel targeted.. and I play this to get away from Stellaris lol), I don't like how the insect races have been updated to be cartoonishly eeeeevil with cannibalism events (RIP my liberal humanitarian Boskara runs) .. but all that is potentially moddable. My MAIN gripe is a couple UI issues. Namely, you can't set the middle-mouse button (AKA mouse button 3) to click-drag the map. Before anyone says "what? no way, you must be able to do that." No, you don't know what you're talking about. You literally can not. I've been groaning about this since release. For some reason all keys are remappable except for click-drag, which only has 2 options, neither of which are the industry standard for 4x/gsg games (middle mouse btn). Really annoying when you play other 4x/grand strategy games that all use middle mouse to click drag the map, but this one doesn't let you do that for some weird reason. It would be forgivable on an older game like DW1 but this is supposed to be the new new. Oh well. Really hope they fix that. Great game otherwise.

不推荐，都2024年了，你应该不会喜欢玩一半就突然闪退的游戏了，更别提中后期的卡顿。（14600kf，32GB都扛不住） 依旧依托，制作组好像不知道自己在干什么？

I really wanted to like Distant Worlds 2. The scale, the systems, the promise of a deep 4X space strategy game—it’s all there. But without an in-game tutorial or guided onboarding, it’s nearly impossible to break into this game unless you're ready to spend several hours watching YouTube videos or reading community guides. There’s just too much going on with too little direction. I don’t mind complexity, but complexity without accessible learning tools isn’t depth—it’s a wall. Unless you’re already familiar with the series or willing to treat learning the game as a part-time job, this might not be worth the effort.

Far too many bugs after all this time.

Again another game i've played more on the forum / site version than on steam, would recommend to anyone who loves war games

Distant Worlds 2 isn't a game, it’s a performance art piece about the futility of control like a Franz Kafka in space. It’s a metaphor for bureaucratic hell, rendered in stars and broken tool tips.

I really don't understand why this game has so many positive reviews... It's supposed to let you automate the details, but the AI is awful. It suggests bad decisions (we're in the middle of a massive war - let's build 1 frigate ! Let's give ALL our money to a minor civilization so they'll like us a tiny little bit more !), bad decisions that it cannot even implement properly when you approve them (attack fleets go on suicide attacks; defense fleets don't really defend anything; etc.). Things are often hard to find: For example, many times, you get notified that you can buy information about a star system from another civilization, but there's no way to know where that star system is on the map (there's no button to see where it is...). Even the tiniest galaxy is huge, and you have to zoom out and zoom in all the time and very precisely to find hundreds of tiny things. Finding where combat is taking place is tedious because ships are very small compared to planets. The star system view looks good, but you quickly end up spending most of your time in the galaxy view, which doesn't. Overall, this game is extremely boring. Other space 4X games I've played are way more fun (Stellaris, Endless Space 2, Master of Orion).

If I had to choose one game to be marooned on a desert isle, this would be the one.