

Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
Ironclad Games Corporation · 2012 · Management, Diplomacy, Online Co-Op, Multiplayer, Singleplayer
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About Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
Build your solar empire and wage war across the galaxy in this standalone RTS-4X hybrid that blends real-time tactical combat with deep strategic empire building. Play as loyalist or rebel factions within three warring civilizations, each with unique units, technologies, and paths to victory through military might, diplomacy, research, or sheer occupation.
While many were hopeful that diplomacy would finally end the war, differing opinions on what should be done, along with the depleted power of the controlling factions, has led to a splintering of the groups involved.
The loyalist members of the Trader Emergency Coalition adopt a policy of isolation, focusing on enhanced defenses to ride out the rest of the war. Those who rebel against the coalition take on a purely militant view, coming to the opinion that the only way to bring peace is by ultimately crushing all who oppose them - especially xenos.
For the first time in their history, the war creates a schism in the Advent Unity. The loyalists seek to continue their policy of revenge against the Traders, and to assimilate all others to the Unity’s influence. However, others amongst the Advent suspect that a corrupting influence from within has diverted the Unity from its proper destiny.
The divide created in the Vasari Empire is less pronounced, but just as severe to their people. With the Vasari now practically frantic to move on to new space, the loyalist faction abandons cooperation and decides to take the resources they need by any means necessary. Having accepted the need to work together, the rebel faction feels that their best chance for survival is to work with the other races and bring them along to flee the approaching enemy.
Take the battle for galactic supremacy to its ultimate level in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion – a standalone RT4X game that combines the tactics of real-time strategy with the depth of the 4X genre (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate).
Key features:
- New Factions: Decide whether to play as a Loyalist or Rebel – each unlocks new technologies, ships and play styles for each race.
- New Titan Class Warships: Mighty titans enter the fray of the war to tip the scales of power. Each faction may field their own unique titan, drawing upon unique strengths and abilities on the battlefield.
- New and Updated Capital Ships: A new capital ship joins the fleet for each race to offer even more tactical options. Additionally, all existing capital ships have been upgraded to four levels for their abilities, allowing players to focus their ships along specific strengths.
- New Corvette Class Ships: Small and maneuverable, each faction has developed a new light attack craft to harass enemy forces.
- Updated Visuals: Updated graphics, particle effects, lighting and shadows, race specific UI and other enhancements make the Sins’ universe look better than ever.
- New Victory Conditions: Take multiple paths to victory including – Military, Diplomatic, Research, Last Flagship Standing, Last Capital Standing and Occupation.
- New Audio: More than 60 minutes of original music, countless new sound effects and dozens of new voice overs help bring the drama of battle to new levels of immersion.
- Tutorials: New and updated tutorials make it easy for both experienced and new players to quickly start building their own solar empire.
- Plus, a number of optimizations that provide better performance than ever before!
DLC & expansions
🎁 Complete the collection
Base game + 4 of 4 DLC at today's best prices.
-66%Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion - Forbidden Worlds® DLC
-66%Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion - Stellar Phenomena®
-66%Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion® - Outlaw Sectors™ DLC
-66%Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion - Minor Factions DLC
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Players praise this as an excellent, polished space strategy game with tight mechanics, significant depth, and strong replayability across three unique factions, with the added bonus of running on modest hardware and benefiting from an active mod community. The main appeal seems to be its engaging gameplay that keeps veterans returning years later, though some mention it primarily for card drops rather than extended play.
Oldy but very goody - tight, polished, intense wargame. Almost no fluff, yet still enough of strategic and tactical depth to keep the player on edge. One more hidden advantage - it's a very portable game as it runs nearly on everything today, so you one can play it on an office-level laptop when travelling.3 found this helpful
its an exellent game and its mods are awesome too
Recommend for getting cards!
this ♥♥♥♥ is genuinely so peak
10/10 One of the best strategy games on the market and THE best space strategy game. Even though I own this and the sequel, I still come back to this one. Three incredibly unique factions to play as and each one capable of being completely OP. Don't you dare try to build a Novalith Cannon near me TEC or we're gonna have some problems. Not to mention the mods are fire and can turn it into Star Wars/Star Trek/Stargate/etc. Such an incredible game.
I've been playing this game since 08, coming back sporadically. I just introduced 3-4 buddies to it, and they're enjoying the hell playing against 4 computers with a massive map of 5 stars. It's probably my favorite RTS since Brood War, and I haven't even tried the mods available.
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