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Knights of Honor II: Sovereign
Choose your kingdom and become the king as you wrestle over control of Europe in this fresh take on medieval real-time grand strategy. Manage provinces, gather armies, initiate diplomacy, and dabble in espionage. The path is open: become the true Sovereign of your people and bring them to glory.
Details
- Released
- December 6, 2022
- Developer
- Black Sea Games
- Genres
- Real Time Strategy (RTS) · Simulator · Strategy
- Publisher
- THQ Nordic
- Platforms
- PC
How it plays
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Knights of Honor II: Sovereign Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Knights of Honor II: Sovereign is a precious RTS gem and one of those games that we don't get to play very often. It simply is a gift from Black Sea Games and THQ Nordic to the RTS fans.
As accessible as I’ve ever seen serious strategy gaming, Knights of Honor is still strategically interesting, gorgeous to look at, and still offers plenty of challenge. It hasn’t been compromised in any significant way for the sake of accessibility, and really, this is just a very good example of a publisher finding a genuine and worthy niche to occupy within a very mature and saturated genre.
Knights of Honor II: Sovereign is a real-time grand strategy game developed by Black Sea Games and published by THQ Nordic. The game is a sequel to the original Knights of Honor, which was originally released in 2004; set in medieval Europe, one of the things that immediately stands out about Knights of Honor II: Sovereign is its detailed visuals. With the interface mainly consisting of a grand map of a medieval European kingdom, it feels like being plunged into a beautiful painting of green ...
I won't lie... I grabbed the chance to review Knights of Honor 2: Sovereign because I wanted another game with some large scale historic battles. So my
Knights of Honor II: Sovereign does quite a few things right, though it could use more polish for many aspects of the game, starting with the voice lines that generals get.
Medieval PC strategy games are a dime a dozen. Nearly literally as Humble Bundle frequently hosts packs of them starting at a dollar. Not bad games either, but genre standouts like Crusader Kings and Civilization. So when you’re making a game in arguably PC gaming’s biggest genre, you’re already on the back foot. Any idea you have, odds are somebody already did it. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible to break into this scene, as the sublime Old World proved last year. You just need to...