Sins of a Solar Empire II
Skip · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 41, under the fair line, at $49.99.
- Length
- 16h
- Value
- $3.12/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 3D Video Card w/4GB VRAM (Nvidia GeForce 950 / AMD Radeon RX 450), 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $24.99. It has been discounted 16 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 28 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion ($19.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Hades' Star (free, scores 33).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 16-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 20 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 595 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
38% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 16-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
779 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 11:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The Gameplay is nice, as an oldschool SOS Rebellion player im quite enjoying myself. Except one thing. The AI Art is attrocious. I hoped it would only be placeholder Art until a later state of the game but no. Youre loading into the game? Enjoy the pseudo smooth Ai Main Screen. Picking a Race? here have some AI Pictures for your Commander. It devalues a, in my opinion, good game sooo much. If youre annoyed by the AI...
Great game and a nice refresh of the original, but like so many other games these days, updates keep changing gameplay, ruining saved games, rules changing, interface changing, for no other purpose it seams than to be an annoyance to learn new aspects that screw with the game mechanics or force you to adjust to periodic changing locations of items or mechanics. I don't want a stardock account to play offline, I...
I'm going to give it a thumbs up if not because i know that the devs will fix the big issues with this game but i would warn people of those issues before buying still. I have yet to find satisfaction in a single game. The AI just spam ships and sends them at you and has the overall capabilities of a potato. In short? The game is overpriced for what it is. Plain and simple. I don't recommend buying at full price...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Sins of a Solar Empire II scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1575940/sins-of-a-solar-empire-iiReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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