How to Open a Port in Your Router for The Game of Life 2

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March 29, 2021 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

The Game of Life 2 is a Strategy, Simulation, and Trivia/Board Game game published by Marmalade Game Studio released in 2020.

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The Game of Life 2 includes the following styles of gameplay.

Port Forward The Game of Life 2

When you are playing The Game of Life 2 you might need to forward some ports in your router. Forwarding ports is a useful trick in gaming because it can really help to make your network connection most stable and on occasion even faster. Routers were not designed to allow incoming network requests and some games can play tremendously better if an incoming connection is forwarded through the router to the game.

Before You Forward a Port

Before you can forward a port you need to know the following things:

How to find your router's IP Address

The easiest way to locate your router's IP address is to run our free Router Detector utility. It's a part of the Network Utilities suite of tools and it's completely free to use.

How To Forward Ports

Use our Network Utilities for a quick way to get your ports forwarded. Network utilities makes it easy to enable and disable your port forwards to keep your network security as tight as possible. You can also do it by hand by following these steps.

The process for forwarding a port is generally:

Ports To Forward for The Game of Life 2

The connection ports for The Game of Life 2 are as follows:

The Game of Life 2 - Steam

  • TCP: 27015-27030, 27036-27037
  • UDP: 4380, 27000-27031, 27036

The Game of Life 2 - Switch

  • TCP: 6667, 12400, 28910, 29900, 29901, 29920
  • UDP: 1-65535

If you want to follow guides that are custom tailored to your exact router and The Game of Life 2 simply follow one of these links:

That's all it takes to get your ports open. Don't forget to check out our growing list of games and programs.

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