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Sins of a Solar Empire

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Sins of a Solar Empire
Sins of a Solar Empire cover
Developers
Ironclad Games
Publishers
Stardock Corporation
Engines
Iron Engine
Release dates
Windows February 4, 2008
Reception
Metacritic 87
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, DLC
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres RTS
Themes Sci-fi, Space
Series Sins of a Solar Empire
Sins of a Solar Empire on HowLongToBeat
Sins of a Solar Empire on IGDB
Sins of a Solar Empire guide on StrategyWiki
Sins of a Solar Empire on MobyGames
Sins of a Solar Empire on Wikipedia
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Sins of a Solar Empire 2008
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion 2012
Sins of a Solar Empire II EA

Sins of a Solar Empire is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view RTS game in the Sins of a Solar Empire series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail Release version has no DRM but patches require Impulse.[1]
Windows
Official website
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Trinity
Windows
Publisher website
DRM details are not known
Trinity
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Windows
GamersGate
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Trinity
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Trinity. Also available as part of Rebellion Ultimate Edition.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Trinity
Windows
Humble Store
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Trinity
Windows
Steam
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Trinity
Windows
Online play via Ironclad Online is no longer available. LAN and direct TCP/IP support remains functional.[2]
All gameplay content is included in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion.
A free English demo is available from GamePressure. German demo available from 4Players.de.

Version differences

The Trinity edition contains the base game and both expansion packs.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Entrenchment
Windows
Diplomacy
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/201290/pfx/[Note 1]
Base game, Entrenchment and Diplomacy use independent configuration

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/201290/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Polish
Local retail version only.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
10
Online play

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Multiplayer via Ironclad Online no longer available[2]
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Shader Model support 2.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio FMOD
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP3, Vista SP2
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 2.0 support
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9.0c compatible
Other Broadband Internet connection


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/201290/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (201290) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References