Distant Worlds 2

Distant Worlds 2

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Adding your own OST to the game
By Clux
In this simply guide I will teach you how to remove/add your own songs to the game, plus I'll leave my own custom folder :)

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How to Add or Remove Songs
Sadly the score of the game isn't at par with the gameplay, so I had to customize the music folder by removing most of the OG music and adding my own.

You can add whatever song you want as long as its on .mp3 format, bear in mind than songs in game sometimes start at the middle of it or near the end of it.

1.- Go to your Distant Worlds 2 music folder (In steam its located at "Steam\steamapps\common\Distant Worlds 2\data\music").
2.- Add or remove songs of the following folders:
  • Action (I suggest adding the same songs to the 3 folders, High/Medium/low)
  • Exploration
  • Industry
  • Peaceful
  • Research
  • ShipDesign

AFAIK Exploration sounds when you zoom out in the galaxy view, while Peaceful generally plays when you're in the system view mode. I don't know the differences in the action subfolder, some suggest than it depends on the fleet strength or size. I think than Industry reproduces when you zoom into your planet, or you have focused a space ship/building being constructed. Research and ship design are self explanatory.

3.- Enjoy, add or remove more songs as needed.

PS: There are other folders, one of them reproduces a song when discovering or exploring a ruin, and the other one its the main menu theme (The only one good in my opinion)
Add my own Custom Music folder into your game
I've decided to add the following OST into the game, I've also removed most of the OG DW 2 scores.

  • Endless Legend
  • Endless Space 2
  • Space Orion 2
  • Heroic Age
  • Zipang
  • Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
  • Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
  • Everspace
  • Stellaris

These songs affect all the folders previously mentioned in the previous section.

The download its of about 1.1~ gbs. Download link available at OneDrive[1drv.ms]

Instructions:

1.- Go to your Distant Worlds 2 data folder (In steam its located at Steam\steamapps\common\Distant Worlds 2\data).
2.- Delete the "music" folder
3.- Unzip the file than you've downloaded
4.- Play the game and add or remove more songs as desired
8 Comments
Elijah Baley 18 Sep, 2023 @ 6:07pm 
Great songs, thanks for organising this collection.
Clux  [author] 7 Nov, 2022 @ 8:02pm 
I know what sound do you refer to, but I wasn't able to find it in the game files, you should ask the devs in the forums
stipe615 7 Nov, 2022 @ 2:14pm 
Do you happen to know where the sound file for the annoying echoey / reverberated notifications sound in the game is located? I would like to delete it. The shit music I simply turn down to zero.
-_- 11 Oct, 2022 @ 10:11am 
Bro just turn the music to 0 and play whatever tf you want ha
Helldriver o7 13 May, 2022 @ 7:46pm 
Thank you very much for your fix. What a pleasure to be able to listen to those old OST again!
Joejoemyo 23 Mar, 2022 @ 9:39am 
Honestly if the game had the same music as DW1 at launch I would've been happier
James Sheridan 22 Mar, 2022 @ 2:41pm 
Can't thank you enough for this.
zombiewarrior07 14 Mar, 2022 @ 6:55pm 
Thank you for this!