How to play with a friend?

Overview

Colonists! We’ve prepared an instruction on how to join your friends in the game world. We hope that it helps those of you who have problems with this matter.

WARNING!

After exiting the tutorial area you might end up in different drop zones.
To play together, you’ll have to meet up in one specific location of your choice.

Play with friends

If the player is not bound to any game session, the Game Mode selection screen will show the “Play with your Friends” panel on the left. Notably, if a friend is not currently bound to any game, they will not be displayed on this list until they connect to any game cycle. This includes both the whole friends’ list and friends online.
If there are no friends who are currently playing Population Zero, the panel will not be active.
After choosing the “Play with your friends” option, the player gets access to the “Play with your Friends” screen. Here they can see the list of friends who are playing the game at that moment. When selecting a friend from the list, the player can see their friend’s game mode and the time left until the session termination.
In order to get into a friend’s game, press “Join”. You will see a pop-up notification saying that the client will restart.
The client will restart and then begin connecting to the friend’s session.

Take on a sci-fi adventure on an alien planet of Kepler together with your faithful friends.

Explore, craft, battle, solve mysteries, and survive together!

To join your friend in a session:

• Open your friend list on Steam
• Right-click your friend, who’s playing Population Zero
• Press ‘Join game’
  

To invite your friend to a session:

• Launch Population Zero
• Join a session
• Press Shift+Tab
• Open your friend list
• Right click a friend you want to invite
• Choose “invite to lobby” command
  
• Your friend will receive an invitation. All that’s left for him is to press play.