22 June

Outlaw Sectors brings new maps and gameplay options to Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion

Outlaw Sectors DLC is here with a new gameplay option and lots of new maps

Challenge yourself with new strategies and unique setups with the new “Outlaw Sectors” gameplay option and brand new maps for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion. The variety of map sizes and designs will let you enjoy any kind of match you want, from intimate 1v1 duels all the way to epic 10-player brawls.

Gameplay Options

The lawless fringe is increasingly hostile, but for those with a criminal mind it's also rich with new opportunities.

Smuggling Specialization: Choose this planetary development to grab a cut of everyone's trade income - but at a cost. The increased corruption from this black market activity will reduce that planet's tax income.

Rampant Militias: Autonomous planetary militias will grow, raid nearby systems, and repopulate over time. Use them to help defend your worlds, or coordinate your attacks with their strikes for maximum impact.

Pirate Turf: Vicious when in their home sector, pirates can now raid multiple players simultaneously, drastically changing the art of the bidding war. And, just to make sure they are fully motivated to do what they do best, all credits spent on bounties will receive an automatic bonus.

Included Maps

Power Struggle - Contest the distant resource fields and nearby planets before striking at the enemy’s homeworld.
Slim Pickings - Claim what remains among the war-torn stars and seize what you can from the other empires.
Crossfire - Take your enemy’s homeworlds and coordinate your assault with your ally in order to win.
High Stakes - Build a powerful fleet and seize the resource rich planets from enemy militia.
Ironheart - Flanked by an enemy on each side, you must prioritize your resources carefully to achieve victory.
Titans of Cimtar - Secure your planet from among the 8 gas giants dominating the map, then make war upon your neighbors.
Death Spiral - The system is falling into a black hole and your enemies aren’t about to let you leave without a fight.
Dogfight - Lead your allies into glorious battle amongst the stars in this huge map.
Buzzsaw - Make one mistake and you may lose more than you bargained for in this spiral galaxy that leaves no room for error.
Rising Empires - Secure your star system amidst the crushed local resistance and set your sights on your rivals’ territories.
Desolation - Claim what little the Vasari have left behind and forge what remains of the worlds in the massive cluster of stars into a force capable of conquest.

Outlaw Sectors DLC is now available on Steam or through Stardock.
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“Bigger and more stable than ever, Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion will happily strip-mine your life of its free time.”
86/100 – PC Gamer
“...this is the ultimate version of Sins of a Solar Empire...”
8.5/10 – Strategy Informer
"...Sins embraces its grand strategy like never before."
5/5 – Quarter to Three
“As a standalone expansion, it does very well at balancing between long time Sins fans and newcomers to the series.”
9/10 – RTS Guru

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Posted: 17 August

Only downside is that there is no campaign. Mechanics and micro management are very easy to get used to and are not very overwhelming.

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Posted: 16 August

If you like realtime strat and space this is your game. Sucks that they seem to put this on a back burner. My friend and I play this thing atleast once every couple months, the balace between the factions is pretty darn good.

55 hours in and I have not yet played the base game. Just Sins of the Prophets (Halo) and Star Trek Armada 3. So...

great game for mods

dis game is gud.

Posted: 15 August

It's fairy ok.

Posted: 13 August

If you like RTS, buy this game. seriously.

Posted: 12 August

Top tier game. Great game, great mods, great everything.

This is a fantastic game, but I can't recommend it because it gets to be very repetitive after a while, and it doesn't support Linux. Also, there are large performance issues if you're running on larger maps, even on fairly modern builds. This is compounded if you're running on a laptop, as I had to most of the time.

I've been PC gaming since 1988, this is the best game I've ever played, 'nuff said.

Posted: 10 August

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DragonEgg

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7 reviews

Posted: 22 July

I normally find RTS for 4X space games a big turn off mainly due to the genre not balancing the elements of the game well and high reliances on quick reflexes which makes it more of an arcade experience than 4X.

So before providing my review, I wanted to thoroughly spend time with this game to see if it was as good as others have said. Well, lets just say I lost track of time. :)

Boy do I really love this game - even over some turn based 4X games! And it's still something I enjoy coming back to!

There is a lot of depth and strategy with appropriate pacing to keep the RTS component manageable for even older folk like me. As others have mentioned, even as your empire grows, you are not bogged down with managing your planets and fleets. Ironclad strikes a good balance here.

And the ship combat is such a joy to watch! Watching large armadas mixed with starbases and titans going all out is an epic experience every time.

If you normally prefer 4X turn based games and are looking for a RTS to try out, I highly recommend this game. It will really give you your money's worth. I recommend you start easy to get the hang of things before hitting the harder difficulties. Also, play each faction. This will help you better understand their strengths and weakness before settling on your favorite. Cheers and have fun!

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Cain the Enabler

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3 reviews

Posted: 21 July

This game has given me hundreds of hours of enjoyment to the extent that I actually payed for the game twice. First time I got it was DRM free playing local multiplayer with 4 friends in my college dorm. My favorite memory was teaming up with 2 of them on our first very hard lard random map. I quietly built up my culture as Advent reminding tham that they do in fact recieve the culture bonuses from an ally. The last AI was about to die, friends' fleets are dwindled and and their economy in the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ from fleet upkeep. Tell team that it is time to start the pvp and end the ceasefire. Proceed to max out all my starbases in asteroid belts for max culture. Friends start fighting eachother because I was objectively "weaker." I wasnt until they lost most of thier planets from the sheer force of the Advent cultre machine. They grouped up against me but failed to hold even planet even with maxed culture buildings on their homeworlds and domination victory was achieved. 8 hours of long con never felt so good.

5/7 would purchase again.

Xarbin

68 products in account

11 reviews

Posted: 27 July

My hours do not do my playtime of this game justice, I have over 300+ hours on stardocks launcher before the steam release.

This game is the BEST space strategy game ever released. Perfect mix of RTS, 4X, and even some RPG elements. Every map isnt just a game, its a story of your empire and how you choose to build it. Some matches will be a fast blitzkreig of domination, others will be a drawn out war filled with diplomacy and betrayal. Some matches i emerge victorious and the sole empire, but most I will have been destroyed and defeated by my enemies, watching my planets and fleets fall to the overwhelming enemy. I cant write a review of this game without gushing its every praise, so this is a love poem to Sins and Stardock. Thank you for making this game.

Only 2 negatives in the endless streams of positives
-End game slowdown with large fleets is inevitable, I have a GTX 970NVIDIA and I still get slowdown
-No definitive campaign or storymode.

GET THIS GAME NOW, on sale or fullprice its worth it dont worry.

MageMatthew

16 products in account

4 reviews

Posted: 31 July

Great Game still well worth playing.

MitchyMatt

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2 reviews

Posted: 9 August

Sins of a Solar Empire has consumed many hours of my time, all of it worth it. Before I started playing some of the many mods available, the vanilla version was very simple to get involved in and the learning curve wasn't to harsh. I eventually found Sins to be addicting and devoted many hours to playing.

I eventually moved onto mods. Specifically: Sins of a Galactic Empire; one of several Star Wars mods available, but the one I found suited to my kind of "fun."

Some Features:

- Large Matches, up to 8 players, either with friends, other players, or AI (with varying types of AI difficulty sets)

- Different victory conditions for those who like to switch it up or like to change up how to win their game

- 3 vanilla factions to choose from, 2 sub-culture for each faction for different types of playthroughs

- Active mod community with varying amounts of mods that range from Halo to Star Wars to Star Trek

While this may be a dated game, a new DLC was recently released which was a nice surprise to find. So if you ever tire yourself of vanilla, you can certainly utilize the new DLC

You will lose some games and you will spend hours upon hours in some, it all depends on the challenge you set yourself up for.

I would recommend this game to any of my friends and certainly have already and play often when I have time. It's a great game with little flaws, but overall, it's a great game and it does what all games should do: provide fun.