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Path of Exile 2

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.

Developer
Grinding Gear Games
Publisher
Grinding Gear Games
Franchise
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Release date
Dec 6, 2024
Store page updated
Aug 25, 2026
Price
$29.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

58.6/ 100

Based on 386 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🙂 Mostly Positive 79% of 1,594
All time 🙂 Mostly Positive 75% of 226,252
“addictive, ruined sleep schedule, 10/10 rating indicates genuine enjoyment”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
-0.22
Progression -0.64
“respec costs are prohibitively expensive” (28)

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Story & World
+2.34
World +2.92

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Content Volume
-0.60
Volume +2.07

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Visuals & Sound
+3.03
Visuals +3.18
“graphical fidelity is great, handles well” (32)

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Multiplayer
+1.08

Not enough data — only 7% of reviews mention this.

Playing together +1.76

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Fairness
-3.32
Balance -3.27
“inconsistent difficulty, random one-shots, unbalanced modifiers” (29)

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Tech & Ops
-2.97
Developer support -1.83
“support met with silence after legitimate Steam refund” (24)

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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 week · major update
20%40%60%80%100%
Dec 6, 2024Sep 11, 2026
Reviews
per day · 1,574 reviews, peak 151/day
0100200
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by week. 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 week before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 381 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English43%
  • Russian16%
  • Portuguese12%
  • Japanese7%
  • Turkish5%
  • French4%
  • Other13%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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