Determinance screenshot

Sins of a Solar Empire

Sins of a Solar Empire is a great name for a space game and is getting a lot of coverage around the net.  I bought it while drunk Thursday night (buying games online while drunk… yeah that’s something I do quite a lot).  I’m not going to talk too much about the fairly ridiculous software that is Stardock (think what would happen if Microsoft circa 1992 tried to make a Steam client and then quit half way through), apart from telling you that despite it telling you you don’t need to create an account to buy the game it really would be a fairly good idea.
Setting a 4X game in a single solar system (well, up to 6… er, ignore that) is an idea I like a lot: all these space games set accross an entire galaxy end up feeling annonymous and lacking in atmosphere.  I’m going to call Sins’ genre Action-4X, it’s basically a very complex RTS.  I’m not an RTS fan so I probably won’t play it much more, but if that sounds like fun to you I think you can’t go far wrong.

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