Hour after hour was sucked into this game and even on a limited and simple map one could easily start to need vitamin D supplements. It had more depth than the Mariana trench and yet managed to remain accessible. In the office, Gal Civ was a God of games. I was lucky enough to come across their previous games thanks to Penny Arcade,when they introduced me to Galactic Civilisations II. This then unlocks the game itself and downloads the content. To order a Stardock game it is required that you download and install their horrendous client first. They also pioneered the online product delivery method back when Steam was just a gleam in a fat mans eye. The sort of thing we have all installed once, but removed once it dragged Windows to its very knees.

Stardock is perhaps a name that you don’t know well, mainly due no doubt to their penchant of making software that mods windows XP or Vista. Sins of a Solar Empire (or just Sins as it is known around town) is the latest RTS game from Stardock and Ironclad.

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