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Sins of a Solar Empire II
Battle for galactic dominance in this real-time 4X strategy game with unrivaled scale! You’ll explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate through military force, diplomacy, trade, culture, influence, and other underhanded tactics.
Details
- Released
- October 27, 2022
- Developer
- Ironclad Games
- Genres
- Real Time Strategy (RTS) · Simulator · Strategy
- Publisher
- Stardock Entertainment
- Platforms
- PC
How it plays
Up to 10 players
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Sins of a Solar Empire II Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Sins of a Solar Empire 2's spectacular space battles are an excellent reward for learning to manage at least some of this complex real-time strategy epic's systems.
While perhaps more like a remaster of Sins of a Solar Empire than a sequel, Sins of a Solar Empire 2 is a robust RTS, and you can play it just fine on the Steam Deck.
Stardock Entertainment and Ironclad Games bring us a worthy sequel which dazzles the eyeballs and challenges the tactical skills of 4X players everywhere. Only the lack of a cohesive and engaging narrative keeps this title from attaining perfection.
Sins of a Solar Empire II has many issues, but it is a fun experience that offers some of the best carnage and graphics in the genre. If you have the money to spare and like the original game, it's a good grab; otherwise, it might not be.
The "real-time" thing may be confusing. This isn't something that moves with the pace of Command & Conquer. Even the small maps are a couple of hours' play. If you want to deal with a multi-star galaxy with ten races looking to be the winner, you're looking at the sort of commitment of time that matches many entire single-player games (or two or three Losts). You can have slower games by reducing the speed, or speed them up instead, but this is a game where the relative ponderousness of what you're controlling is absolutely the point.