Sins of a Solar Empire II
Sins of a Solar Empire II
Game
Game2011
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®
Developer Ironclad Games Corporation, Stardock Entertainment
Sins of a Solar Empire is a 2008 science fiction real-time strategy 4X video game developed by Ironclad Games and published by Stardock Entertainment for Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is a real-time strategy (RTS) game that incorporates some elements from 4X games; its makers describe it as "RT4X". Players are given control of a spacefaring empire in the distant future, and are tasked with conquering… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
278 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Oct 30, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
78
LovedLoved
131 positive · 37 negative
95% range 71–84%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 131 | 37 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 22 | 10 | 46 |
| Lemmy * | 6 | 0 | 22 |
| Mastodon * | 2 | 0 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
534 of 688 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
79% recommend · 134 yes, 36 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 170 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (635 of 818 positive).
Several reviewers note that Rebellion is the superior version to buy. [1][2][3][4] Some players still consider Trinity a classic and their favorite version. [5][6]
Liked
Representative posts
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DON'T BUY THIS GAME! Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion is the same game with additional features and better graphics.
- [7]
People say that this version of Sins is obsolete due to the sequel (Rebellion) but it isn't. The AI is way more competent in this version. It's capable of actually attacking you properly, as opposed to the sequel where you can put the AI on hard/aggressive and still not see them for 2 hours. You play against hard AI in this game and it feels like you're playing against a hard AI. They'll be hitting you with small …
- [1]
It was good but Rebellion is the game you should buy because its this but more 10/10
- [5]
This is a classic game, and the best version of it. I regard Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity and European Wars: Back to War as the two greatest games of all time.
- [6]
One of the best RTS Space games out there, Rebellion took it to a whole new world though. But Trinity is my favorite always will be.
Summarised from 34 of the 271 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity® sits at 78% positive across 168 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Sins of a Solar Empire was awarded "Best Strategy Game of the Year 2008" by GameTrailers, and best PC Game of the Year by IGN. The game was met with positive reviews, holding an aggregate score of 88% based on 46 reviews at GameRankings, and an aggregate score of 87/100 based on 52 reviews at Metacritic. Much praise for the game has been directed towards the game's clever blend of RTS and 4X gameplay, the seamless zoom function, and the user-friendly Empire Tree and UI. That the game was designed to play efficiently on older as well as newer PCs has garnered considerable praise. Criticism has been focused on the lack of a single-player campaign, sporadic game crashes when played online, and…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 278 · most liked firstSins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Review by MandaloreGaming.
neutral · AI labelView post →DON'T BUY THIS GAME! Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion is the same game with additional features and better graphics.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sins of a Solar Empire II on Steam.
neutral · AI labelView post →Sins of a Solar Empire 2 Review [5/10].
neutral · AI labelView post →Sins of a Solar Empire II - Coming to Steam this Summer.
neutral · AI labelView post →outdated version of Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion so unless this is on sale and Rebellion is not and you want to see if its a game for you dont buy this
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Any Sins of a Solar Empire communities?. Since Sins 2 just came out today, I hopped on Lemmy and was wondering if anyone else around here plays it, and where you hang out?
neutral · AI labelView post →Great game, don't get me wrong, but save your time and money, and just get Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion. It's just this, and then some.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Review [MandaloreGaming]. [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgwlDlyr7Wc)
neutral · AI labelView post →People say that this version of Sins is obsolete due to the sequel (Rebellion) but it isn't. The AI is way more competent in this version. It's capable of actually attacking you properly, as opposed to the sequel where you can put the AI on hard/aggressive and still not see them for 2 hours. You play against hard AI in this game and it feels like you're playing against a hard AI. They'll be hitting you with small fleets within minutes of starting, and they only get bigger as time goes on. Also…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some of the other reviews say this better, but others have some misinformation (at least in 2023), so: 1) As of 2023, you don't seem to need a stardock account to start this game (at least the Trinity version, the play button exposes 3 options, the original game, the game with Entrenchment expansion, and then Trinity which contains the game, and 2 expansions: Entrenchment and Diplomacy); 2) Despite Steam's listing showing this game tagged as Single-Player, the game is really not - there's no…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[MandaloreGaming] Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Review.
neutral · AI labelView post →Spaceships are cool, follow if you agree. (This is from the game I work on, Sins of a Solar Empire II)
neutral · AI labelView post →Apropos of nothing: I remember thinking for ages 'gosh it would be nice to have a Sins of a Solar Empire sequel! That game was really fun, had a lot of interesting things going on, and could have used some more polish but there's nothing quite like it!' Then we got AI sequel so I can't enjoy it
positive · AI labelView post →Seriously though, the space game I want is a Halo GSG where the space combat is Sins of a Solar Empire but with Empire at War hardpoints and reinforcements, the ground combat is Company of Heroes, and the 4X galaxy map uses the board game Diplomacy's simultaneous turn based system
neutral · AI labelView post →[ObsidianAnt] Sins of a Solar Empire 2 - First Look At MASSIVE 4x Space Game.
neutral · AI labelView post →[PcGamer] Sins of a Solar Empire 2 review (87/100).
neutral · AI labelView post →Steam Launch Trailer | Sins of a Solar Empire II.
neutral · AI labelView post →Spent three hours playing a big Sins of a Solar Empire II game against the AI only for the AI to intelligently mass and overrun our home system while the bulk of our forces were stuck fighting in another system. Kinda sad to lose after that much time commitment, but a good sign for the AI I guess.
neutral · AI labelView post →Sins of a Solar Empire 2 - Official Steam Release Date Announcement Trailer.
neutral · AI labelView post →People defending stardock using tons of horrible generative image on their last games , Galactic Civilization IV and Sins of a Solar Empire 2 saying that the game is lower price because of this dont realize the price is actually the same but they are already bombarded by dlcs on top of that.
neutral · AI labelView post →It was good but Rebellion is the game you should buy because its this but more 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't recommend buying any games from Stardock anymore since they have decided to release all of their games as timed exclusives on the Epic Game store. A betrayal to all of us who have been supporting them on steam for the last 10+ years.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®" is an ancient game from 2010. It's a whopping 14 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for the typical features of modern gaming PCs, hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on contemporary machines. The game looks and feels dated. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an old game. This seems to have be lingering on Steam with an inflated price to try profit from abandonware. One…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i feel really old when i randomly remember cultural changes from when i was young. like the time i walked into a video game store, asked for Sins of a Solar Empire, and the male staff fell all over themselves to serve me because GIRL GAMER???
neutral · AI labelView post →Sins of a Solar Empire II Ironclad Games Corp and Stardock Entertainment. Steam disclosure -y
neutral · AI labelView post →I have to disagree on this one. Playing Sins of a Solar Empire with the ST mod made me love seeing the basic shape, but exceedingly formidable Borg cube showing up in a space battle and absolutely annihilate the opposition. Admittedly, a mod update had to nerf the Borg a bit after people complained. You needed to go after their resources to beat the Borg, but even then it was difficult if the player had developed the assimilation ability. Anyhow, that cube just had an awesome and dominating…
positive · AI labelView post →🧵I have purchased one (1) game with AI Slop in it, and it was pretty early in (by my understanding) and that's Sins of a Solar Empire 2, and because I noticed all of the facial art would have put a goddamn artists kid through college (there are a *LOT* of pictures) I vowed to *NEVER* buy AI Art.
negative · AI labelView post →For those that want an RTS game that doesn't require a high APM, I'd recommend Supreme Commander Forged Alliance (FAF) and the Sins of a Solar Empire Games (which requires an even lower APM).
neutral · AI labelView post →I always forget Stardock makes games. Like, Sins of a Solar Empire is theirs, but I think of Start11.
neutral · AI labelView post →Sins of A Solar Empire is still the coolest video game name ever. shame the sequel is an ai-filled clusterfuck because the original is still one of the better rts games of this century, i love massive scale stuff, supreme commander in space is always the best idea anyone ever had
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh hey, I recognise those! Sins of the Prophets (a Halo mod for the strategy game Sins of a Solar Empire) uses them as fighter screeners. They called them the DAS-class Storm Cutter and the Gladius-class Heavy Cruiser. Apparently the Halo show had a Gladius and the DAS was mentioned in Halo Infinite
neutral · AI labelView post →cant get the game to load it changes my resolution then locks the computer up and i take the lords name in vain a lot
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sins of a Solar Empire 2 appreciation post. This game is really pretty and fun.
positive · AI labelView post →Saw Sins of a Solar Empire II on Steam, loved the first game, interested in this one until I remembered Brad Wardell is still in charge of Stardock and fuck that guy.
negative · AI labelView post →So game testing: Tie Fighter Total Conversion was great - even with the crashes and the failiure. I hope I keep going SW Strike Force - I need to learn how to play Sins of a Solar Empire again, I felt lost for mechanics and controls but I was picking it up ATM I'd put Tie Fighter in my rotation😅
neutral · AI labelView post →Play some games. Star Trek Elite Force is basically a Voyager episode, complete with Voyager episode opening. Star Trek Klingons Academy is really good, but it does have a few bugs. If you're more tactical, perhaps try Star Trek Starfleet Command. There are three games and they're all on GOG. Of course, you could pick up Sins of a Solar Empire for a fart and three marbles on the grey market. Then you can down the stellar Star Trek mods for it, like Star Trek Armada III or Ages of the…
neutral · AI labelView post →Sins of a Solar Empire I think is a good example of a game that has at least *some* unit autonomy. I can send a fleet to a planet, and they will automatically engage everything in that gravity well, use special abilities on their own, and all that good shit.
positive · AI labelView post →I can confirm that Sins of a Solar Empire II is great. It's rare these days to get a sequel that is just the first game improved in every single way.
positive · AI labelView post →Does any game title go harder than Sins of a Solar Empire? No
positive · AI labelView post →The multiplayer is not supported any longer because of a new EU policy regarding internet security. !!!!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's another, much better version of the game... It's called "Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion"... and I would honestly recommend you to get that instead. Don't get me wrong - I love the gameplay, the setting, and basically, the SoaSE game franchise but this game didn't age well at all. I had trouble finding a way to reduce the enemy's difficulty (I'm good at 4x strategy games but not THAT good, ya know wut I mean?) - a feature that's available in Rebellion but apparently not in Trinity.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →...So the Galactic Empire mod in Sins of a Solar Empire 2 will keep me sane until we hear about the next Empire at War game... It's... Really good. Like 'holy shit this is a mod?' good. I am still figuring out how the fuck the faction mechanics work though - a bit different resource management.
positive · AI labelView post →This is a classic game, and the best version of it. I regard Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity and European Wars: Back to War as the two greatest games of all time.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Oh hey, Sins of a Solar Empire II is out! I enjoyed the first game!" *boots up* "Hm. Something feels off..." *checks store page* "Ah. Figured." Can we please f*cking fire every single C-Suite f*ck who greenlights genAI usage? Please?
negative · AI labelView post →Mandalore doing a Sins of a Solar Empire video? I am spoiled. Also Sins of a Solar Empire is a great game, look into it if you like space ships or RTS/4X.
positive · AI labelView post →Can't play without a Stardock account. Lame.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just bought the Ultimate edition...alll th DLC, everything... but what did i ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ get!?!?! only the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ original version where i cannot even ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ update it cause it just sends me in ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ loophole around the damn internet... and when i try to get th damn updates it sas ive already got them.. so now i can only play the original Sins of solar empire..nothing else!?!?!?! i tried messaging, emails, contacts but no one is gettin back to me and its been a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ week... wtf is going…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Solid gameplay but can't say I can recommend this since there is a better version of this (Rebellion) out; definitely worth the money to get that instead of this. Runs awfully slow if having massive space battles with potato pc's.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My first encounter of it was how it was used to completely fuck up Sins of a Solar Empire 2. AI Generated character portraits and UI layouts created a game that was borderline unreadable despite over 2 years of Early Access. SOASE2 was an early adopter of the tech, and it had a big negative effect.
negative · AI labelView post →Actually, I think Battletech is a very good choice here. I was going to suggest a few things but that 'half hour' part kinda killed it for me (Like, I love Sins of a Solar Empire, but a half hour is...not a good segment time for that game). But battletech has a good story, and missions are 30min.
positive · AI labelView post →Sins of a Solar Empire. It's a space based strategy game that I've sunk hours into. years ago I used to have really shotty internet so it would go down all the time. I'd play that game for 8 hours a pop easily and the time would just fly by. I'm not even a big strategy gamer but I adored that game.
positive · AI labelView post →I’m no game dev, but Factorio meets Sins of a Solar Empire meets “We are legion, we are Bob” by @dennisetaylor.bsky.social is my dream game. Macro-focused strategy mixed with micro-focused planetary exploration and factory/base building.
neutral · AI labelView post →Enslaved: Odyssey to the West - pretty much influential to many modern games like Horizon that really didn't get the love it deserved when it came out. Beyond the Beyond - the first JRPG to release in the West on the Playstation. a difficult game (the random encounters can be brutal and frequent) but had a good story and a neat battle system. Ranger-X - one of the best action side scrollers of the 16bit era and easily one of the best Genesis games. Wet - fun and goofy action game…
neutral · AI labelView post →Space 4X game Sins of a Solar Empire 2 introduces population and culture mechanics alongside new scenario DLC #strategygame www.pcgamesn.com/sins-of-a-so...
neutral · AI labelView post →Check out Sins of a Solar Empire II by Ironclad Games Corporation & Stardock Entertainment! Sins of a Solar Empire II is a real-time 4X strategy game where players explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate to achieve galactic dominance! www.weloveeverygame.com/games/157594... #RTS #PCGaming
neutral · AI labelView post →I've made this modding tool for the video game Sins of a Solar Empire 2 https://github.com/JustAnotherIdea/sins2-scenario-tool It's still a work in progress, but I'm very happy with how it's turned out so far
positive · AI labelView post →Sins of a Solar Empire is such a good name for a game tbh
positive · AI labelView post →For the first time ever in a Sins of the Solar Empire game I am playing a faction other than Advent. And even on Advent I only ever play one subfaction. I have owned Sins of a Solar Empire (and the sequel) since their launch days.
positive · AI labelView post →Wait Sins of a Solar Empire 2 is a full on 4x game and not the pseudo 4x RTS game the first one was?
neutral · AI labelView post →
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