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Distant Worlds: Universe

Code Force · Slitherine Ltd. · 2014-05-23

SteamGOG

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 05, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.  

7
playing now
75%
positive of 1.9k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
89/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)

7 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Distant Worlds is a real-time grand strategy wargame developed by Code Force and published by Matrix Games.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 23% of 6,674 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 46k–111k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,855 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$2.99-90%
GOG$2.99-90%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.99-90%
Humble Store$5.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.28 at GamesPlanet FR (2024-12-31) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 95 of 151 observed days · $0.71 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

1322026-08-11 17:00 — 10 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 7 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 12 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 7 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 4 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 9 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 13 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 5 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 5 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 6 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 6 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 12 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 6 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 13 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 9 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 4 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 13 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 7 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 8 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 4 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 10 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 6 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 7 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$63.81$2.082015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $59.992016-06-20 — best price $59.992017-05-29 — best price $59.992018-02-17 — best price $59.992018-10-25 — best price $19.792019-02-22 — best price $59.992019-07-18 — best price $14.992019-12-06 — best price $14.992020-04-04 — best price $59.992020-08-25 — best price $59.992021-01-05 — best price $59.992021-04-26 — best price $53.992021-09-16 — best price $63.812022-01-20 — best price $4.792022-04-22 — best price $2.702022-08-06 — best price $5.082022-11-24 — best price $5.992023-03-06 — best price $5.092023-05-16 — best price $29.992023-07-26 — best price $5.092023-11-02 — best price $29.992024-01-31 — best price $26.962024-04-29 — best price $21.412024-07-24 — best price $29.992024-09-28 — best price $25.192024-12-05 — best price $25.192025-02-03 — best price $26.092025-04-08 — best price $3.002025-06-20 — best price $2.392025-09-12 — best price $2.992025-11-21 — best price $2.392026-01-29 — best price $2.992026-04-03 — best price $29.992026-06-02 — best price $29.992026-08-03 — best price $3.002026-08-30 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

5332026-05-31 — 11 pageviews2026-06-03 — 8 pageviews2026-06-06 — 14 pageviews2026-06-09 — 13 pageviews2026-06-12 — 11 pageviews2026-06-15 — 6 pageviews2026-06-18 — 7 pageviews2026-06-21 — 7 pageviews2026-06-24 — 16 pageviews2026-06-27 — 13 pageviews2026-06-30 — 14 pageviews2026-07-03 — 12 pageviews2026-07-06 — 14 pageviews2026-07-09 — 4 pageviews2026-07-12 — 3 pageviews2026-07-15 — 16 pageviews2026-07-18 — 11 pageviews2026-07-21 — 9 pageviews2026-07-24 — 14 pageviews2026-07-27 — 5 pageviews2026-07-30 — 10 pageviews2026-08-02 — 5 pageviews2026-08-05 — 9 pageviews2026-08-08 — 7 pageviews2026-08-11 — 7 pageviews2026-08-14 — 9 pageviews2026-08-17 — 7 pageviews2026-08-20 — 7 pageviews2026-08-23 — 9 pageviews2026-08-26 — 8 pageviews2026-08-28 — 15 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

54
achievements tracked
40.8%
earned "Peace through Peace"
5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,5280%54

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2D4XRTSIndieSpaceSci-fiSandboxModdableStrategyAdventure

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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