


The game was released on February 4, 2008, receiving positive reviews and multiple awards from the gaming press. Players are given control of a spacefaring empire in the distant future, and are tasked with conquering star systems using military, economic and diplomatic means. It is a real-time strategy (RTS) game that incorporates some elements from 4X games its makers describe it as "RT4X". Sins of a Solar Empire is a 2008 science fiction real-time strategy video game developed by Ironclad Games and published by Stardock Entertainment for Microsoft Windows operating systems.
