ActionMassively MultiplayerFree To PlayFPSShooterOpen WorldMultiplayerTeam-Based
PlanetSide 2
PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.
“one of my favorite first person shooters of all time”
How it holds up
−50+5
Gameplay
+0.21
Onboarding-2.17
“tutorial insufficient; requires external guides for progression” (23)
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Story & World
+0.82
Not enough data — only 9% of reviews mention this.
World+3.15
“incredible large-scale battlefield atmosphere with night firefights” (9)
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Content Volume
+2.64
Volume+1.92
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Visuals & Sound
+0.85
Visuals+0.33
“still relatively good graphics, unique shooter with large worlds” (13)
(Spielzeit außerhalb STEAM - ca. 2.500 / 3.000 h) PS2 war einmal ein guter, Taktik MMO-Shooter, aktuell ist es leider eher ein Quake ähnliches Geballere geworden, da tunlichst jegliches Taktikches Vorgehen eliminiert wurde und auch gerne von Outfits angeprangert wird. Nachdem es nur noch um die Anzahl an Kills in erster Linie geht, hat das Spiel leider viel seiner Tiefe verloren. Die nun aufgepatchten Über-Sunder und das Missverhältniss zwischen Antitankwaffen und den Einsatz von C4 tun, neben dem bereits früheren Downgraden der Verteidigungsfähigkeiten vieler Basen Ihr übriges dazu, Das Einfü
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Multiplayer
+0.62
Playing together+3.09
“large-scale coordinated battles with tanks and platoons are unmatched” (54)
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Fairness
-2.72
Balance-2.74
“gutting one of few standout classes instead of fixing myriad problems” (36)
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Tech & Ops
-2.55
Developer support-2.40
“deleted my account after 1000 hrs and $300 invested with no reason” (21)
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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.
Steam review activity
% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update DLC
Nov 2012Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 129 reviews, peak 12/day
Aug 19Sep 16
per month · 376 reviews, peak 138/month
Jun 2026Aug 2026
per month · 746 reviews, peak 155/month
Mar 2026Aug 2026
per month · 1,538 reviews, peak 178/month
Sep 2025Aug 2026
Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.
Review languages
Languages of the 383 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.
English69%
Russian11%
Spanish6%
French5%
Chinese4%
German3%
Other2%
🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.
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