Released Oct 22, 2008 $9.99 Mostly Positive Counts toward your Steam games

Far Cry® 2

By Ubisoft Montreal · published by Ubisoft

Open World FPS Action Shooter Singleplayer First-Person Multiplayer Adventure RealisticAtmosphericSandboxStealth

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Reviews 17,524 Mostly Positive

Players yesterday 77 at the busiest moment

Owners 1M–2M estimated

Far Cry® 2 is a game tagged Open World, FPS and Action by Ubisoft Montreal, released Oct 22, 2008. It has 17,524 Steam reviews (Mostly Positive). It has an estimated 1M–2M owners on Steam. The Steam games most like it include Far Cry® 4, Far Cry 3 and Far Cry®.

You are a gun for hire, trapped in a war-torn African state, stricken with malaria and forced to make deals with corrupt warlords on both sides of the conflict in order to make this country your home. You must identify and exploit your enemies' weaknesses, neutralizing their superior numbers and firepower with surprise, subversion,...

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Everything Steam lists for Far Cry® 2 · record updated 1 day ago

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Overview

App ID19900

Release dateOct 22, 2008

Last change number37431996

Last record update1 day ago

App type: Game
Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Publisher: Ubisoft
Steam profile: Counts toward game count and achievement totals · checked Nov 1, 2025
Franchise: Far Cry
Metacritic: 85
Website: farcry.us.ubi.com

Steam Deck: Playable

Multi-playerSingle-playerFamily Sharing

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Build	Branch	Updated
52164	public	Oct 25, 2026

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ID	Name	Price (US)
21960	Not on the store yet	—

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ID	Name	Systems	Size	Download	Manifest
19901	—	All	3.33 GB	—	3673361057961369345
19902	— English	All	229.4 MB	—	9155719787324890368
19903	— French	All	234.8 MB	—	407630865862319198
19904	— German	All	216.0 MB	—	6126982062191436208
19905	— Italian	All	236.3 MB	—	3493246412726470268
19906	— Spanish	All	235.8 MB	—	7743973407637979881
21961	—	All	115.0 MB	—	2265566049842091901

Branch	Build	Updated	Access
public	52164	—	Open

Configuration

Install foldersteamapps/common/Far Cry 2

Executable	Systems	Description
bin\FarCry2.exe	All
bin\FC2Editor.exe	All	Launch Map Editor
bin\FC2BenchmarkTool.exe	All	Launch Benchmark Tool
bin\FC2ServerLauncher.exe	All	Launch Dedicated Server

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Far Cry® 2

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