Path of Exile 2 is a next generation Action RPG created by Grinding Gear Games. 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 a free-to-play online multiplayer game.
351 482 Players in Game
578 569 All-Time Peak
69,58 Rating
Steam Charts
351 482 Players in Game
578 569 All-Time Peak
69,58 Rating
At the moment, Path of Exile 2 has 351 482 players actively in-game. This is 64.08% lower than its all-time peak of 511 573.
Path of Exile 2 Player Count
Path of Exile 2 monthly active players. This table represents the average number of players engaging with the game each month, providing insights into its ongoing popularity and player activity trends.
Month |
Average Players |
Change |
2025-09 |
207289 |
+777.59% |
2025-08 |
23620 |
+194.17% |
2025-07 |
8029 |
-49.32% |
2025-06 |
15842 |
-53.87% |
2025-05 |
34346 |
-64.88% |
2025-04 |
97799 |
+167.11% |
2025-03 |
36614 |
-65.96% |
2025-02 |
107563 |
-53.52% |
2025-01 |
231399 |
-39.93% |
2024-12 |
385203 |
0% |
169 021 Total Reviews
118 511 Positive Reviews
50 510 Negative Reviews
Score
Path of Exile 2 has garnered a total of 169 021 reviews, with 118 511 positive reviews and 50 510 negative reviews, resulting in a ‘’ overall score.
Reviews Chart
Chart above illustrates the trend of feedback for Path of Exile 2 over time, showcasing the dynamic changes in player opinions as new updates and features have been introduced. This visual representation helps to understand the game's reception and how it has evolved.
Recent Steam Reviews
This section displays the 10 most recent Steam reviews for the game, showcasing a mix of player experiences and sentiments. Each review summary includes the total playtime along with the number of thumbs-up and thumbs-down reactions, clearly indicating the community's feedback
Playtime:
41998 minutes
POE2 was a great game at release, now its pure TRASH. Do not spend any $ on this until devs fix the crashing/freezing issues, besides all the pointless farming to get same items and builds as others just so you get to late game. Trying a new cool build you thought yourself? Not in this game, here they value bots repeating patterns :)
Just playing for 20min causes freezing and eventually the whole game bugs, making you need to force shut it. When you enter again, guess what? You just lost the map you fought and invested hours to be able to farm. All the building you did for the late game is worthless, since the game will keep freezing and shutting mid-runs and once you're back, you get nothing, just lost your resources and they expect you to keep trying like an idiot.
Before someone comments, my PC is rolling recent AAA games in Ultra, so it's nothing related to the computer, ram or whatsoever. It's purely POE2 being a trash game and the devs being too busy with something else to address the main problem in this game. It's unbearable to lose 30 juicy maps because of this game freezing and bugging and after MONTHS see that nothing was done about it.
Thank you GGG but poe1 was a way better adventure and story, poe2 just came out to prove that even heroes can turn to pathetically badly written villains. Perhaps one day it'll be fixed and I'll remove this comment, until then, DO NOT SPEND ANYTHING IN THIS BUGGY C**P that they call a game. NOT WORTH IT
👍 : 11 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
30173 minutes
Microtransactions and microtransactions. Hey, did you know that this game has microtransactions? Did you know this pre alpha game got a microtansactions patch? Loot drop is horrible but there are microtransactions.
👍 : 33 |
😃 : 3
Negative
Playtime:
6749 minutes
this is such an extremly difficult review to make, as the game itself is very fun, has great replayability, tons of character and skill variation plus an actually fleshed out endgame for the most part. but theres a few things that turn me off so much that id rather just stick to poe1 and last epoch for the time being.
GGG does not seem to be able to fullfill the promises they made before the game launched into early access, they said that within a year, the end of 2025, we would have the full launch of the game and this would mean that we get 3 more chapters, 6 more characters and 24 more ascendancies. its now been 8 months, we have 1 new character, 2 or 3 more ascendancies and no new chapters. the game has barely changed from launch other than maybe balance changes. also, the campaign takes so unbelievably long. if you want to start a new build, or try out a different class, have fun putting in 40ish hours just to get to endgame maps, its really not fun. they also made the game to be as vissualy displeassing as possible, no big loot drops, no big damage numbers and slow, clunky movement, this really feels more like a soulslike than it does resemble any kind of big and popular arpg. and unless you really dive deep into the game, despite what elitists love to say, they still havent adressed the build guide issue of poe1. you NEED a build guide as a noob, you will really struggle to try and mess around with your own build because bosses will suddenly take 5 minutes to beat and you die within 2 or 3 hits. this game has incredible potential, but at the rate its going it will take at least 5 more years for the game to even launch at all.
👍 : 10 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
23244 minutes
I have a love / hate relationship with this game.
The thing i can compare it with is toxic relationships.
It all starts out great, up until mapping (~ level 65) it's probably the best ARPG out there.
It has some cryptic systems and can be impenetrable, but it is generally fun and is playable as an action game.
But after level 65 the game think you two are married now, and it's not easy for you to get out. So the abuse and toxicity starts.
The game now demands that you understand it, without properly ever explaining itself. You need to consult outside sources to try and understand it. And while you are doing so - it will punish you with experience loss every time you die. It will tell you "You are not good enough!" at every opportunity.
And judging by the developer insistence on this mechanic - it seems that is the core of their idea of "achievement".
I had the same problem with the first game. For this one i hoped they would create something that does not devolve into "I press one button and whole screen dies" and can be played like an action game where my moment to moment inputs matter. They even implemented dodge roll to fool me.
Well, silly me for hoping. What sane person would recommend toxic relationships to anyone, right?
👍 : 10 |
😃 : 1
Negative
Playtime:
24796 minutes
Game is a great game but unfortunately it seems that the developers are just totally okay with leaving this game in a mostly unplayable state.
I log in for the first time since before any content updates to the game, made sure I had logged into the correct server region (40 ping), I created a new character and was immediately plagued by insanely high amounts of latency that's all server side.
This is just unacceptable.
👍 : 10 |
😃 : 1
Negative
Playtime:
183945 minutes
BUT please dont upgrade the quality of something that isnt necessary, i dont need high end quality graphic i just need to play with stable gameplay. when i bought this game i can play it smoothly but now spike every single time something happen, unstable connection and many more problems. please just make an option that we can choose the graphic quality what we want
👍 : 17 |
😃 : 3
Positive
Playtime:
5878 minutes
PoE2 is everything I've been looking for in an ARPG since Diablo 2. Diablo 3 or 4 never lived up to their predecessor - this game does. My 3 friends (who have never touched an ARPG) started this game with me with low expectations, especially seeing the mixed reviews - 1 hour in and we were hooked. Myself knowing nothing about this game or PoE1, and sourcing most my knowledge from D2, I was surprisingly able to guide my friends through a lot of content and offer advice on gameplay mechanics in this game. This games IS a worthy successor to D2, and is definitely the game you should be playing with your friends, especially if they don't feel like jumping into a 25 year old game.
The thrill of seeing a rare drop, the eye-candy upon seeing your spells rip through enemies, the bass you hear as the warrior in your party destroys a wave of minions with the slam of his sledgehammer, the chaos and adrenaline rush as everyone in your party is dancing around the boss trying to dodge its lethal attacks, gambling all your money away on random rings at the merchant, the atmosphere. This game does it all right.
Also, to the people complaining in the reviews about micro-transactions in an early access game, by your negative reviews you're hurting the development of what could evolve into the best ARPG of all time, just because cosmetics in a instance-based game annoy you...
👍 : 31 |
😃 : 8
Positive
Playtime:
3917 minutes
It is clear Wilson was carrying path of exile. Idk who is the lead for this game but they hate fun.
-Combat is slower, why?
-Movement is slower, why?
-You want projectiles to to ricochet or chain? Sure but 20% damage nerf...WHY?
-You want to have more projectiles? 20% nerf on damage and attack speed.....why?
You want more damage and stun buildup in this passive node? Sure, 5% slower attack speed. Why?
Every single aspect of this game makes sure you dont have too much fun and there is always some downside to it.
You want to level up ascendancy? You have to now worry about not only being killed, but also not being hit because of fkin honor. Again, why? What is this stupid mentality?
But suuuuuure. They have a plethora of cosmetics available for sale :)
👍 : 101 |
😃 : 5
Negative
Playtime:
6447 minutes
The game has the best bones on a game I've ever seen. Mechanically it's probably one of the best games I've ever played, and it really has the potential to be an amazing game, 9 out of 10 bosses are also absolutely immaculate and feel great to learn and fight.
Unfortunately, for the other 95% of the game, it's not very good. The devs don't really seem to understand that we made games after Diablo 2 for a reason, and that it doesn't hold up as well as they think it does. They don't even seem to really understand what made Diablo 2 fun either, which is extra annoying.
Being too slow to actually engage in any combat while being told they slowed you down to make the combat more meaningful is the most frustrating feeling in the world. All it's really lead to so far is a hard power gap where most builds are spam rolling backwards and slowly whittling down small groups of enemies in the most tedious and unfun way possible, and the rest are one-shotting full screen destroying power houses that ignore all the meaningful combat anyways, which was exactly what they made an entirely new game to avoid.
Overall I think this game has really good potential and the makings of something great, but the devs don't know how to deliver the meaningful combat the entire game is designed around.
👍 : 93 |
😃 : 3
Negative
Playtime:
21245 minutes
If they designed this game around the offline 'SSF' experience it would probably be my favourite game in any genre ever.
And yet as it is, I genuinely hate it. Why?
Because I hate the concept of seasonal content. I hate server issues. I hate trading with other players. I hate classes that are fun getting nerfed to protect 'the economy'. I hate the concept of an in-game economy. I hate that their in-game economy is inherently capitalistic. I hate server issues. I hate essentially being forced to redo the whole campaign again every season. I hate drop rates on necessary crafting items being pitifully low just so trading no-lifers can feel wealthy. I hate server issues.
I'd very happily pay for an offline, stand-alone version of the game at full release for the price of a full game. Because the actual game underneath all the bullshit is brilliant.
Fuck the 'micro'transaction model of monetisation. It kills fun.
👍 : 653 |
😃 : 38
Negative
Path of Exile 2 Minimum PC System Requirements
Minimum:- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: 4 core 2.8GHz x64-compatible
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960 or ATI Radeon™ RX 470
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 100 GB available space
Path of Exile 2 Recommended PC System Requirements
Recommended:- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: 8 core 3.6GHz x64-compatible
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2060 or ATI Radeon™ RX 5600XT
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 100 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Solid state storage is recommended
Path of Exile 2 Minimum MAC System Requirements
Minimum:- OS: macOS 10.13
- Processor: 2.6GHz quad-core Intel Core i7
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Radeon Pro 450
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
Path of Exile 2 Recommended MAC System Requirements
Recommended:- OS: macOS 10.13
- Processor: 2.6GHz hex-core Intel Core i7
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: Radeon Pro 555X
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Additional Notes: Solid state storage is recommended
Path of Exile 2 has specific system requirements to ensure smooth gameplay. The minimum settings provide basic performance, while the recommended settings are designed to deliver the best gaming experience. Check the detailed requirements to ensure your system is compatible before making a purchase.
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Path of Exile 2 Latest News & Patches
This game has received a total of 2 updates to date, ensuring continuous improvements and added features to enhance player experience. These updates address a range of issues from bug fixes and gameplay enhancements to new content additions, demonstrating the developer's commitment to the game's longevity and player satisfaction.
Path of Exile 2 Launches in Early Access Soon - What You Need to Know
Date: 2024-12-06 04:08:29
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👎 : 321
0.1.0d Patch Notes
Date: 2024-12-12 02:47:36
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👎 : 895