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Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition

The Enhanced Edition contains Sword of the Stars II: The Lords of Winter and the first expansion, the End of Flesh. The new expansion introduces the new playable race, the Loa. All previous DLCs containing new…

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Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition is a strategy developed by Kerberos Productions, released 30 November 2012 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition is

Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition is a strategy game developed by Kerberos Productions and released in 2012. It was published by Paradox Interactive. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Enhanced Edition contains Sword of the Stars II: The Lords of Winter and the first expansion, the End of Flesh. The new expansion introduces the new playable race, the Loa. All previous DLCs containing new avatars, new combat music, alternate voices, skins, and new badges for the warships are also included. Customize your own starships, amass your fleet, explore the outer reaches of the galaxy and expand your empire. Research new alien technologies and bring them into battle with a mix of turn-based strategy and real-time skirmishes. Now a new Faction bursts onto the scene, a race of Artificial Intelligence who once served as slaves and now return seeking vengeance. Playing as the Loa…
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How it plays

Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 10% of the 3,250 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 15 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition launched on 30 November 2012, within three weeks of Far Cry 3, Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Game Dev Tycoon and Hitman: Absolution. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Far Cry 3, Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Game Dev Tycoon, Hitman: Absolution.

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When did Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition come out?
Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition was released on 30 November 2012 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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