Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®
Skip · Multiplayer · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 8.2h
- Value
- $1.22/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128 MB DirectX 9.0c Compatible Video Card w/Pixel Shader 2.0 Support, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
In Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, you are the leader of a civilization embroiled in a galactic war, fighting for the survival of your entire race against relentless foes.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in June 2023. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 97 in the 14 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 20 percent on value. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 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 Demigod ($9.99, scores 37).
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 87 against 77 percent.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 109 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
Players
11 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity® scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/201290/sins-of-a-solar-empire-trinityThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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