A sci-fi RTS game that can be played both in single and multiplayer mode. It has a lot of similarities with Eve. You have planetary and orbital industry , galactic market and council, you can engage in diplomacy, espionage, wage wars , subjugate empires , enslave and conquer worlds, etc. You can build orbital and planetary infrastructure, design your own ships and manufacture them, recruit armies, research technologies, explore archaeological sites, etc.
In a way when starting a game , it’s like starting Eve in 2003, you have a whole galaxy to conquer. I could talk about it for hours. It also has plenty of mods and DLCs , but the DLCs are optional if you want to play in multiplayer, as long as the game host has them installed.
Not to be subjective , as a score, I would give it a 8.5/10 .
Sins of a Solar Empire is a 2008 science fiction real-time strategy video game developed by Ironclad Games and published by Stardock Entertainment for the PC. 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 star systems using military, economic and diplomatic means.
What impresses about this game is the AI, it is pure non scripted AI, it as a real AI.
This AI keeps iterating over itself, if you are a good player then the AI will learn your tricks and it will become more inteligent and the matches will be harder.
So I was right at the corner of the map with a very agressive race cornered me, but we weren’t at war he just took all planets and star systems around me and I didn’t have technology to go beyond. This other race was fighting someone bigger.
So I built a few invasion ships with no strike fleet, I had only invasion ships that had nothing but soldiers only, it’s for land invasions.
I flew close to his planets and when all my ships were in range for taking all his planets in one turn, this alien AI convoed me and said something like this:
So what did he do?
He surrendered to his enemy and they formed this huge race, the biggest in the galaxy!!!
So I though:
-Wel, game over, right?
Actually, no!
Other empires came together and started a huge war against him, he moved his fleets to the new frontline.
Later on I attacked him by my side and conquerer many planets, was one of the longest and more interesting plays of any game I had.
