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Path of Exile 2

Grinding Gear Games · 2024-12-06

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ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerRPGEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Dec 06, 2024 (Mac), Dec 06, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S), Dec 06, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 06, 2024 (PlayStation 5)

Path of Exile 2 is a next generation Action RPG from Grinding Gear Games, featuring co-op for up to six players. Set years after the original Path of Exile, you will return to the dark world of Wraeclast and seek to end the corruption that is spreading.

Path of Exile 2 is an Action, Adventure, Massively Multiplayer, RPG game released in 2024, priced at $29.99, with an estimated 20,000,000 .. 50,000,000 owners and a Mostly Positive (75% of 224218 reviews) sentiment.

14,070
playing now
75%
positive of 227k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000,000–50,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1,330
twitch viewers (latest)
14.6
viewers/channel (concentration)
88/100
IGDB user rating (208 ratings)
10
Nexus mods (18k downloads)
4.13★
PlayStation Store rating (8,107 ratings)
88/100
opencritic · mighty · 100% recommend · from 19 critics
49h
to beat · rushed 4h · completionist 8h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$29.99
steam price (US)

14,070 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Path of Exile 2 is an upcoming action role-playing video game developed and published by Grinding Gear Games. A sequel to Path of Exile (2013), the game was released as a paid early access title for Windows, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S on December 6, 2024, and is set to be released in full in 2026.

Trailer

Path of Exile 2 trailer thumbnail

Path of Exile 2 - Full 1.0 Release Date Reveal Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Cooling
  • · 14,070 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 2,593 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~324/week).
  • · Review velocity down 49% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (45,174 reviews).
  • · Top 1% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-10-11

Tier history: thriving→cooling (Oct 11), cooling→thriving (Sep 17), thriving→cooling (Sep 16), healthy→thriving (Aug 28)

Estimated sales: 4.5M–10M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 227,284 total reviews — how this is computed.

Featured in Valve's Top Releases of December 2024 (#7)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
37k37k20242026Week of 2024-12-06: 37,030 positiveWeek of 2024-12-06: 8,144 negativeWeek of 2024-12-13: 12,959 positiveWeek of 2024-12-13: 3,311 negativeWeek of 2024-12-20: 7,699 positiveWeek of 2024-12-20: 2,358 negativeWeek of 2024-12-27: 5,752 positiveWeek of 2024-12-27: 1,803 negativeWeek of 2025-01-03: 5,263 positiveWeek of 2025-01-03: 1,385 negativeWeek of 2025-01-10: 4,265 positiveWeek of 2025-01-10: 1,059 negativeWeek of 2025-01-17: 3,597 positiveWeek of 2025-01-17: 974 negativeWeek of 2025-01-24: 2,463 positiveWeek of 2025-01-24: 903 negativeWeek of 2025-01-31: 1,987 positiveWeek of 2025-01-31: 750 negativeWeek of 2025-02-07: 1,152 positiveWeek of 2025-02-07: 425 negativeWeek of 2025-02-14: 1,331 positiveWeek of 2025-02-14: 365 negativeWeek of 2025-02-21: 981 positiveWeek of 2025-02-21: 291 negativeWeek of 2025-02-28: 783 positiveWeek of 2025-02-28: 258 negativeWeek of 2025-03-07: 517 positiveWeek of 2025-03-07: 203 negativeWeek of 2025-03-14: 537 positiveWeek of 2025-03-14: 181 negativeWeek of 2025-03-21: 482 positiveWeek of 2025-03-21: 150 negativeWeek of 2025-03-28: 764 positiveWeek of 2025-03-28: 283 negativeWeek of 2025-04-04: 2,728 positiveWeek of 2025-04-04: 6,656 negativeWeek of 2025-04-11: 1,646 positiveWeek of 2025-04-11: 2,650 negativeWeek of 2025-04-18: 844 positiveWeek of 2025-04-18: 1,800 negativeWeek of 2025-04-25: 579 positiveWeek of 2025-04-25: 699 negativeWeek of 2025-05-02: 439 positiveWeek of 2025-05-02: 561 negativeWeek of 2025-05-09: 353 positiveWeek of 2025-05-09: 279 negativeWeek of 2025-05-16: 268 positiveWeek of 2025-05-16: 239 negativeWeek of 2025-05-23: 209 positiveWeek of 2025-05-23: 190 negativeWeek of 2025-05-30: 210 positiveWeek of 2025-05-30: 183 negativeWeek of 2025-06-06: 269 positiveWeek of 2025-06-06: 174 negativeWeek of 2025-06-13: 190 positiveWeek of 2025-06-13: 309 negativeWeek of 2025-06-20: 131 positiveWeek of 2025-06-20: 113 negativeWeek of 2025-06-27: 131 positiveWeek of 2025-06-27: 111 negativeWeek of 2025-07-04: 134 positiveWeek of 2025-07-04: 81 negativeWeek of 2025-07-11: 169 positiveWeek of 2025-07-11: 105 negativeWeek of 2025-07-18: 126 positiveWeek of 2025-07-18: 83 negativeWeek of 2025-07-25: 129 positiveWeek of 2025-07-25: 84 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 171 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 91 negativeWeek of 2025-08-08: 133 positiveWeek of 2025-08-08: 76 negativeWeek of 2025-08-15: 267 positiveWeek of 2025-08-15: 105 negativeWeek of 2025-08-22: 470 positiveWeek of 2025-08-22: 95 negativeWeek of 2025-08-29: 2,022 positiveWeek of 2025-08-29: 995 negativeWeek of 2025-09-05: 1,247 positiveWeek of 2025-09-05: 607 negativeWeek of 2025-09-12: 880 positiveWeek of 2025-09-12: 379 negativeWeek of 2025-09-19: 664 positiveWeek of 2025-09-19: 234 negativeWeek of 2025-09-26: 701 positiveWeek of 2025-09-26: 205 negativeWeek of 2025-10-03: 550 positiveWeek of 2025-10-03: 184 negativeWeek of 2025-10-10: 415 positiveWeek of 2025-10-10: 116 negativeWeek of 2025-10-17: 455 positiveWeek of 2025-10-17: 87 negativeWeek of 2025-10-24: 363 positiveWeek of 2025-10-24: 99 negativeWeek of 2025-10-31: 278 positiveWeek of 2025-10-31: 79 negativeWeek of 2025-11-07: 169 positiveWeek of 2025-11-07: 61 negativeWeek of 2025-11-14: 165 positiveWeek of 2025-11-14: 53 negativeWeek of 2025-11-21: 2,645 positiveWeek of 2025-11-21: 139 negativeWeek of 2025-11-28: 1,575 positiveWeek of 2025-11-28: 76 negativeWeek of 2025-12-05: 428 positiveWeek of 2025-12-05: 92 negativeWeek of 2025-12-12: 1,352 positiveWeek of 2025-12-12: 527 negativeWeek of 2025-12-19: 709 positiveWeek of 2025-12-19: 337 negativeWeek of 2025-12-26: 594 positiveWeek of 2025-12-26: 289 negativeWeek of 2026-01-02: 565 positiveWeek of 2026-01-02: 736 negativeWeek of 2026-01-09: 455 positiveWeek of 2026-01-09: 191 negativeWeek of 2026-01-16: 303 positiveWeek of 2026-01-16: 116 negativeWeek of 2026-01-23: 294 positiveWeek of 2026-01-23: 134 negativeWeek of 2026-01-30: 245 positiveWeek of 2026-01-30: 116 negativeWeek of 2026-02-06: 282 positiveWeek of 2026-02-06: 81 negativeWeek of 2026-02-13: 190 positiveWeek of 2026-02-13: 80 negativeWeek of 2026-02-20: 242 positiveWeek of 2026-02-20: 78 negativeWeek of 2026-02-27: 170 positiveWeek of 2026-02-27: 69 negativeWeek of 2026-03-06: 232 positiveWeek of 2026-03-06: 84 negativeWeek of 2026-03-13: 149 positiveWeek of 2026-03-13: 55 negativeWeek of 2026-03-20: 148 positiveWeek of 2026-03-20: 54 negativeWeek of 2026-03-27: 121 positiveWeek of 2026-03-27: 33 negativeWeek of 2026-04-03: 140 positiveWeek of 2026-04-03: 63 negativeWeek of 2026-04-10: 142 positiveWeek of 2026-04-10: 48 negativeWeek of 2026-04-17: 150 positiveWeek of 2026-04-17: 48 negativeWeek of 2026-04-24: 123 positiveWeek of 2026-04-24: 25 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2026-05-08: 325 positiveWeek of 2026-05-08: 87 negativeWeek of 2026-05-15: 289 positiveWeek of 2026-05-15: 65 negativeWeek of 2026-05-22: 485 positiveWeek of 2026-05-22: 92 negativeWeek of 2026-05-29: 2,344 positiveWeek of 2026-05-29: 868 negativeWeek of 2026-06-05: 1,731 positiveWeek of 2026-06-05: 626 negativeWeek of 2026-06-12: 1,351 positiveWeek of 2026-06-12: 451 negativeWeek of 2026-06-19: 900 positiveWeek of 2026-06-19: 382 negativeWeek of 2026-06-26: 629 positiveWeek of 2026-06-26: 234 negativeWeek of 2026-07-03: 537 positiveWeek of 2026-07-03: 158 negativeWeek of 2026-07-10: 559 positiveWeek of 2026-07-10: 118 negativeWeek of 2026-07-17: 366 positiveWeek of 2026-07-17: 108 negativeWeek of 2026-07-24: 395 positiveWeek of 2026-07-24: 84 negativeWeek of 2026-07-31: 290 positiveWeek of 2026-07-31: 55 negativeWeek of 2026-08-07: 206 positiveWeek of 2026-08-07: 43 negativeWeek of 2026-08-14: 183 positiveWeek of 2026-08-14: 47 negativeWeek of 2026-08-21: 215 positiveWeek of 2026-08-21: 58 negativeWeek of 2026-08-28: 257 positiveWeek of 2026-08-28: 51 negativeWeek of 2026-09-04: 458 positiveWeek of 2026-09-04: 121 negativeWeek of 2026-09-11: 314 positiveWeek of 2026-09-11: 92 negativeWeek of 2026-09-18: 228 positiveWeek of 2026-09-18: 58 negativeWeek of 2026-09-25: 230 positiveWeek of 2026-09-25: 71 negativeWeek of 2026-10-02: 161 positiveWeek of 2026-10-02: 49 negativeWeek of 2026-10-09: 73 positiveWeek of 2026-10-09: 17 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

68k13k2026-09-14 21:00 — 63,245 players2026-09-15 15:00 — 67,600 players2026-09-16 22:00 — 47,749 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 59,342 players2026-09-18 11:00 — 40,387 players2026-09-19 05:00 — 35,744 players2026-09-19 23:00 — 45,076 players2026-09-20 17:00 — 64,911 players2026-09-21 11:00 — 36,880 players2026-09-22 05:00 — 26,127 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 23,356 players2026-09-23 17:00 — 47,108 players2026-09-24 11:00 — 31,711 players2026-09-25 05:00 — 22,821 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 33,015 players2026-09-26 17:00 — 49,819 players2026-09-27 11:00 — 41,753 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 20,388 players2026-09-28 23:00 — 27,059 players2026-09-29 17:00 — 38,643 players2026-09-30 11:00 — 24,856 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 17,872 players2026-10-01 23:00 — 22,234 players2026-10-02 17:00 — 33,325 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 29,019 players2026-10-04 05:00 — 21,366 players2026-10-04 23:00 — 22,971 players2026-10-05 17:00 — 29,508 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 18,964 players2026-10-07 05:00 — 13,891 players2026-10-07 23:00 — 17,489 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 25,311 players2026-10-09 11:00 — 17,856 players2026-10-10 05:00 — 16,233 players2026-10-10 23:00 — 20,542 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 14,070 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
304k6.9kDec 2024Aug 2026Dec 2024 — avg 304,199 · peak 578,562Jan 2025 — avg 190,494 · peak 353,966Feb 2025 — avg 88,935 · peak 180,400Mar 2025 — avg 29,923 · peak 72,573Apr 2025 — avg 92,367 · peak 245,870May 2025 — avg 33,895 · peak 75,273Jun 2025 — avg 15,524 · peak 30,938Jul 2025 — avg 7,866 · peak 13,635Aug 2025 — avg 25,261 · peak 352,104Sep 2025 — avg 121,310 · peak 333,360Oct 2025 — avg 36,444 · peak 85,839Nov 2025 — avg 12,281 · peak 25,692Dec 2025 — avg 79,436 · peak 290,305Jan 2026 — avg 56,873 · peak 124,660Feb 2026 — avg 19,839 · peak 43,993Mar 2026 — avg 9,087 · peak 21,459Apr 2026 — avg 6,885 · peak 11,791May 2026 — avg 34,052 · peak 420,409Jun 2026 — avg 173,022 · peak 351,173Jul 2026 — avg 52,968 · peak 125,475Aug 2026 — avg 19,065 · peak 36,995
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

#36#1002026-09-142026-10-112026-09-14 — #422026-09-15 — #362026-09-16 — #362026-09-17 — #362026-09-18 — #412026-09-19 — #472026-09-20 — #532026-09-21 — #532026-09-22 — #532026-09-23 — #532026-09-24 — #542026-09-25 — #552026-09-26 — #612026-09-27 — #612026-09-28 — #622026-09-29 — #622026-09-30 — #622026-10-01 — #682026-10-02 — #722026-10-03 — #762026-10-04 — #832026-10-05 — #852026-10-06 — #862026-10-07 — #862026-10-08 — #902026-10-09 — #932026-10-10 — #962026-10-11 — #100
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
59592026-09-162026-10-112026-09-16: 33 new positive2026-09-16: 11 new negative2026-09-20: 55 new positive2026-09-20: 3 new negative2026-09-21: 41 new positive2026-09-21: 3 new negative2026-09-23: 30 new positive2026-09-23: 8 new negative2026-09-27: 29 new positive2026-09-27: 8 new negative2026-10-02: 26 new positive2026-10-03: 25 new positive2026-10-03: 6 new negative2026-10-04: 29 new positive2026-10-04: 1 new negative2026-10-05: 59 new positive2026-10-05: 5 new negative2026-10-07: 24 new positive2026-10-07: 5 new negative2026-10-08: 21 new positive2026-10-08: 3 new negative2026-10-11: 26 new positive2026-10-11: 6 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

1.7k2732026-05-13 — 502 pageviews2026-05-17 — 360 pageviews2026-05-21 — 390 pageviews2026-05-25 — 576 pageviews2026-05-29 — 1,506 pageviews2026-06-02 — 1,390 pageviews2026-06-06 — 982 pageviews2026-06-10 — 939 pageviews2026-06-14 — 683 pageviews2026-06-18 — 541 pageviews2026-06-22 — 508 pageviews2026-06-26 — 407 pageviews2026-06-30 — 418 pageviews2026-07-04 — 527 pageviews2026-07-08 — 396 pageviews2026-07-12 — 446 pageviews2026-07-16 — 360 pageviews2026-07-20 — 306 pageviews2026-07-24 — 440 pageviews2026-07-28 — 333 pageviews2026-08-01 — 382 pageviews2026-08-05 — 312 pageviews2026-08-09 — 342 pageviews2026-08-13 — 273 pageviews2026-08-17 — 278 pageviews2026-08-21 — 278 pageviews2026-08-25 — 866 pageviews2026-08-29 — 564 pageviews2026-09-02 — 340 pageviews2026-09-06 — 390 pageviews2026-09-10 — 350 pageviews2026-09-14 — 597 pageviews2026-09-18 — 333 pageviews2026-09-22 — 317 pageviews2026-09-26 — 373 pageviews2026-09-30 — 454 pageviews2026-10-04 — 396 pageviews2026-10-08 — 381 pageviews2026-10-12 — 344 pageviews2026-10-13 — 378 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

2.9k5412026-09-30 21:34 — 2,574 viewers2026-10-01 06:34 — 1,150 viewers2026-10-01 15:34 — 2,863 viewers2026-10-02 00:34 — 1,352 viewers2026-10-02 09:34 — 1,205 viewers2026-10-02 18:34 — 2,252 viewers2026-10-03 03:34 — 1,071 viewers2026-10-03 12:34 — 1,752 viewers2026-10-03 21:34 — 2,792 viewers2026-10-04 06:34 — 1,014 viewers2026-10-04 15:34 — 1,981 viewers2026-10-05 00:34 — 1,803 viewers2026-10-05 09:34 — 887 viewers2026-10-05 18:34 — 1,346 viewers2026-10-06 03:34 — 937 viewers2026-10-06 12:34 — 1,227 viewers2026-10-06 21:34 — 1,069 viewers2026-10-07 06:34 — 886 viewers2026-10-07 15:34 — 1,437 viewers2026-10-08 00:34 — 1,987 viewers2026-10-08 09:34 — 853 viewers2026-10-08 18:34 — 1,659 viewers2026-10-09 03:34 — 824 viewers2026-10-09 12:34 — 952 viewers2026-10-09 21:34 — 1,706 viewers2026-10-10 06:34 — 541 viewers2026-10-10 15:34 — 1,318 viewers2026-10-11 00:34 — 1,386 viewers2026-10-11 09:34 — 791 viewers2026-10-11 18:34 — 1,580 viewers2026-10-12 03:34 — 1,014 viewers2026-10-12 12:34 — 1,100 viewers2026-10-12 21:34 — 1,165 viewers2026-10-13 06:34 — 576 viewers2026-10-13 15:34 — 1,025 viewers2026-10-14 00:34 — 1,077 viewers2026-10-14 09:34 — 834 viewers2026-10-14 18:34 — 1,244 viewers2026-10-14 20:34 — 1,330 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerMMOCo-opOnline Co-opFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller Support9 DLC

8 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

Post-launch support: 9 DLC released, first 2024-11-22, latest 2026-05-07 (Steam store data)

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

RPGLootActionMMORPGAdventureIsometricAction RPGSouls-likeMultiplayerDark Fantasy

Census log

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

Recent updates

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