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Independence War® 2: Edge of Chaos cover art

Independence War® 2: Edge of Chaos

Particle Systems Ltd. · Atari · 2015-05-07

SteamGOG

ActionSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jun 29, 2001 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Command four space vessels and a band of revolutionary pirates into an all-consuming battle against impossible odds, because there just isn't enough Space for everyone!

77%
positive of 99 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
71/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$5.99
steam price (US)
Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos, released as Edge of Chaos: Independence War 2 in Europe, is a sequel to the space combat simulator video game Independence War. Developed by Particle Systems - the developers of the first game - and published by Infogrames, the game was released in 2001. It was nominated for an interactive BAFTA award for its soundtrack which was composed by Christopher Mann.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 40% of 25,636 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.5k–5.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 99 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$0.89-85%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.89-85%
GamersGate$0.90-85%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.89 at GamersGate (2023-07-03)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 48 of 73 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320152026Week of 2015-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$11.13$0.892015-01-012026-10-092015-01-01 — best price $1.502015-07-27 — best price $5.992016-03-22 — best price $1.242016-08-05 — best price $5.572017-01-15 — best price $5.992017-09-14 — best price $5.992018-02-08 — best price $1.502018-10-30 — best price $5.092019-07-08 — best price $5.992019-12-03 — best price $5.992020-02-16 — best price $5.922020-05-29 — best price $4.402020-07-19 — best price $5.992020-08-31 — best price $5.992020-10-01 — best price $5.282020-10-31 — best price $5.992020-12-08 — best price $5.992021-01-23 — best price $5.992021-02-24 — best price $4.992021-04-17 — best price $5.992021-05-30 — best price $5.992021-11-24 — best price $2.032022-03-01 — best price $5.772022-07-01 — best price $4.402023-02-08 — best price $5.992023-07-25 — best price $1.492024-02-11 — best price $4.312024-10-28 — best price $5.992025-05-14 — best price $5.992025-12-05 — best price $4.752026-05-22 — best price $5.992026-09-02 — best price $0.902026-10-03 — best price $0.892026-10-09 — best price $0.89
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3152026-07-11 — 11 pageviews2026-07-14 — 31 pageviews2026-07-17 — 13 pageviews2026-07-20 — 20 pageviews2026-07-23 — 15 pageviews2026-07-26 — 7 pageviews2026-07-29 — 16 pageviews2026-08-01 — 6 pageviews2026-08-04 — 8 pageviews2026-08-07 — 8 pageviews2026-08-10 — 8 pageviews2026-08-13 — 11 pageviews2026-08-16 — 9 pageviews2026-08-19 — 10 pageviews2026-08-22 — 20 pageviews2026-08-25 — 19 pageviews2026-08-28 — 7 pageviews2026-08-31 — 8 pageviews2026-09-03 — 9 pageviews2026-09-06 — 14 pageviews2026-09-09 — 11 pageviews2026-09-12 — 17 pageviews2026-09-15 — 7 pageviews2026-09-18 — 10 pageviews2026-09-21 — 18 pageviews2026-09-24 — 14 pageviews2026-09-27 — 15 pageviews2026-09-30 — 8 pageviews2026-10-03 — 18 pageviews2026-10-06 — 18 pageviews2026-10-08 — 10 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

SpaceActionSpace SimSimulation

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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