Game clients

It has been suggested that this article be merged into Path of Exile#Game clients.

Reason: This article is mostly duplicated information.

Proposed since August 23, 2023

Supported clients

Clients in this section are officially supported by GGG.

PC

The following PC clients are supported on Windows operating system only.

• Path of Exile Standalone Client
• International Path of Exile Steam Client
• Garena Taiwan Path of Exile Client
• Tencent Mainland China Path of Exile Client

For the Standalone and Steam clients, the available servers and their approximate locations to choose from on the login screen are listed in the following table.

Available servers

Country	Location
Australia	Australia
Brazil	Sao Paulo
France	Paris
Germany	Frankfurt
Great Britain	London
Italy	Milan
The Netherlands	Amsterdam
Russia	Moscow
Singapore	Singapore
Thailand	Thailand
United States	California
United States	Miami
United States	Texas
United States	Washington, D.C.

Console

The console versions of Path of Exile have the same User Interface as when using a controller on the PC client.

Consoles

Store page	Console	Initial launch
PlayStation	PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5*	March 2019
Xbox	Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S	August 2017

* There is currently no PlayStation 5 optimized version of Path of Exile

Features

Not all clients have the same features when comparing to the Path of Exile Standalone Client.

Path of Exile Standalone Client features (baseline)

• Language support: Selectable from English, Portuguese, Russian, Thai, French, German, Spanish, Korean, Japanese
• Input modes: mouse + keyboard, controller
• Different user interface depending on the used input mode
• Gateway selection: Ability to manually select Gateway / server

International Path of Exile Steam Client changes from baseline

• Gateway selection: Steam can use region locking which can prevent selecting certain gateways

Garena Taiwan Path of Exile Client changes from baseline

• Language support: Traditional Chinese only
• Gateway selection: Fixed to Taiwan

Tencent Mainland China Path of Exile Client changes from baseline

• Language support: Simplified Chinese only
• Gateway selection: Fixed to Mainland China
• Gameplay differences:
  • Option to have a pet that auto-collects currency
  • Dedicated inventory slots for Portal Scrolls and Scrolls of Wisdom
  • One free respec during campaign
  • Planner for passive skill tree

Console clients changes from baseline

• Language support: Uses console language if supported, with fallback to English. No in-game option to choose a language.
• Mouse + keyboard input mode is not supported
• Re-binding controller buttons is not supported
• Gameplay differences:
  • Blight has significantly fewer monsters spawning (-50% for encounters in maps and -70% for blighted maps) to account for memory and performance issues.