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Populous™ II: Trials of the Olympian Gods cover art

Populous™ II: Trials of the Olympian Gods

Bullfrog Productions · Electronic Arts · 2024-03-07

SteamGOGEpic Games StoreMicrosoft StoreGame Pass

RPGStrategy

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

Releases: 1991 (Amiga), TBD (DOS), TBD (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis), Jan 22, 1993 (Super Famicom), 1993 (Super Nintendo Entertainment System)

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Populous™ II: Trials of the Olympian Gods is a 2024 RPG and Strategy game priced at $4.99, with a Mostly Positive sentiment (76% of 37 reviews) and an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000.

0
playing now
76%
positive of 37 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
76/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-17 00:00 UTC (census sample)

Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods is a strategy video game and the sequel to the 1990 game Populous. It was developed by Bullfrog Productions for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS and published by Electronic Arts in 1991. A Mega Drive version, converted by PanelComp, was published as Two Tribes: Populous II in 1993 by Virgin Interactive Entertainment.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 66% of 14,571 RPG games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$0.00
GOG$2.39-60%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.89 at GOG (2018-06-04)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 86 of 101 observed days · $1.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720242026Week of 2024-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-17 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 12:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-17 00:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$5.99$0.002015-01-012026-10-172015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-06-22 — best price $4.992015-12-12 — best price $5.992017-03-13 — best price $5.992018-01-16 — best price $5.992018-09-25 — best price $5.992019-06-18 — best price $5.992020-01-02 — best price $5.992020-11-10 — best price $4.992021-04-05 — best price $5.992021-11-29 — best price $5.992022-04-04 — best price $5.992022-10-09 — best price $1.492023-04-28 — best price $1.492024-01-04 — best price $4.992024-04-04 — best price $5.992024-09-10 — best price $5.992024-12-04 — best price $4.992025-02-10 — best price $1.992025-04-24 — best price $4.992025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-09-25 — best price $1.492025-11-25 — best price $2.392026-01-23 — best price $2.392026-03-11 — best price $2.492026-05-08 — best price $1.792026-06-20 — best price $0.992026-09-02 — best price $2.392026-09-12 — best price $2.392026-09-22 — best price $0.002026-10-02 — best price $2.392026-10-12 — best price $2.392026-10-17 — best price $2.39
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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Player tags

RPGStrategyIsometricStrategy RPGTurn-Based Tactics

Census log

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

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