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Ground Control II: Operation Exodus

Massive Entertainment · Rebellion · 2015-07-08

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jun 18, 2004 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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Ground Control II: Operation Exodus is a Strategy game released in 2015, estimated to have 20,000 .. 50,000 owners, priced at $4.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (90% of 330 reviews).

1
playing now
90%
positive of 330 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
76/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
74/100
IGDB user rating (14 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$4.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 22:00 UTC (census sample)

Ground Control II: Operation Exodus is a 2004 real-time tactics video game developed by Massive Entertainment. It is a sequel to Ground Control, the award-winning game of the same genre. Much like its predecessor, it features 3D graphics and a fully rotational camera system.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 17 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 19% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 25% of 14,201 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 8.3k–20k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 330 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Fanatical$0.52-90%
Steam$0.79-84%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.37 at GamersGate (2023-10-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 35 of 47 observed days · $0.15 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720172026Week of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

702026-09-15 07:00 — 2 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 5 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 3 players2026-09-27 04:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 2 players2026-09-29 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 3 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 3 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 3 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 4 players2026-10-12 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 22:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
81Jul 2015Jul 2026Jul 2015 — avg 1 · peak 7Nov 2015 — avg 1 · peak 8Mar 2016 — avg 2 · peak 8Jul 2016 — avg 2 · peak 10Nov 2016 — avg 2 · peak 6Mar 2017 — avg 2 · peak 9Jul 2017 — avg 2 · peak 8Nov 2017 — avg 2 · peak 8Mar 2018 — avg 3 · peak 11Jul 2018 — avg 2 · peak 8Nov 2018 — avg 2 · peak 8Mar 2019 — avg 2 · peak 9Jul 2019 — avg 2 · peak 7Nov 2019 — avg 2 · peak 9Mar 2020 — avg 3 · peak 9Jul 2020 — avg 3 · peak 9Nov 2020 — avg 3 · peak 11Mar 2021 — avg 2 · peak 8Jul 2021 — avg 2 · peak 8Nov 2021 — avg 2 · peak 10Mar 2022 — avg 2 · peak 10Jul 2022 — avg 2 · peak 7Nov 2022 — avg 3 · peak 9Mar 2023 — avg 3 · peak 7Jul 2023 — avg 3 · peak 8Nov 2023 — avg 3 · peak 9Mar 2024 — avg 3 · peak 11Aug 2024 — avg 2 · peak 8Dec 2024 — avg 3 · peak 8Apr 2025 — avg 3 · peak 7Oct 2025 — avg 2 · peak 8Jun 2026 — avg 6 · peak 37Jul 2026 — avg 3 · peak 9
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$5.99$0.382015-01-012026-10-122015-01-01 — best price $5.992015-12-22 — best price $2.492016-07-04 — best price $4.992018-02-22 — best price $1.692019-04-11 — best price $1.692019-11-21 — best price $1.272020-02-26 — best price $4.492020-06-03 — best price $4.992020-07-08 — best price $4.992020-07-30 — best price $4.492020-08-22 — best price $4.992020-09-13 — best price $4.492020-10-09 — best price $4.992020-11-01 — best price $4.492020-11-24 — best price $4.992021-01-06 — best price $4.492021-01-29 — best price $4.992021-02-24 — best price $4.992021-03-28 — best price $4.492021-04-22 — best price $4.992021-05-14 — best price $4.492021-06-06 — best price $4.992021-11-17 — best price $4.492022-03-23 — best price $4.992022-08-07 — best price $4.992023-07-06 — best price $4.992023-12-11 — best price $1.242024-06-10 — best price $0.532025-05-20 — best price $0.542025-12-01 — best price $0.632026-04-13 — best price $0.542026-09-15 — best price $0.542026-10-12 — best price $0.52
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3292026-06-01 — 16 pageviews2026-06-05 — 14 pageviews2026-06-09 — 19 pageviews2026-06-13 — 12 pageviews2026-06-17 — 24 pageviews2026-06-21 — 16 pageviews2026-06-25 — 16 pageviews2026-06-29 — 17 pageviews2026-07-03 — 16 pageviews2026-07-07 — 29 pageviews2026-07-11 — 16 pageviews2026-07-15 — 16 pageviews2026-07-19 — 12 pageviews2026-07-23 — 20 pageviews2026-07-27 — 16 pageviews2026-07-31 — 19 pageviews2026-08-04 — 18 pageviews2026-08-08 — 16 pageviews2026-08-12 — 22 pageviews2026-08-16 — 21 pageviews2026-08-20 — 16 pageviews2026-08-24 — 17 pageviews2026-08-28 — 14 pageviews2026-09-01 — 10 pageviews2026-09-05 — 17 pageviews2026-09-09 — 17 pageviews2026-09-13 — 13 pageviews2026-09-17 — 11 pageviews2026-09-21 — 25 pageviews2026-09-25 — 31 pageviews2026-09-29 — 20 pageviews2026-10-03 — 27 pageviews2026-10-07 — 15 pageviews2026-10-10 — 9 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opFamily Sharing

Player tags

RTSSci-fiClassicStrategyReal Time Tactics

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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