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Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity® cover art

Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®

Ironclad Games Corporation · Stardock Entertainment · 2011-11-16

SteamGOG

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Feb 04, 2010 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

In Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, you are the leader of a civilization embroiled in a galactic war, fighting for the survival of your entire race against relentless foes.

10
playing now
77%
positive of 816 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

10 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Sins of a Solar Empire is a 2008 science fiction real-time strategy 4X video game developed by Ironclad Games and published by Stardock Entertainment for Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is a real-time strategy (RTS) game that incorporates some elements from 4X games; its makers describe it as "RT4X". 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.

Health check

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  • · Top 28% of 18,216 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 33k–65k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 816 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.20-68%
GOG$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.59 at Fanatical (2024-08-15) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 62 of 97 observed days · $8.40 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

2632026-08-11 17:00 — 17 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 9 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 10 players2026-08-13 16:00 — 17 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 15 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 20 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 10 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 26 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 11 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 5 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 16 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 12 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 6 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 16 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 19 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 10 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 17 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 16 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 6 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 19 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 14 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 9 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 13 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 6 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 7 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 19 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 20 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 10 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$2.992015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $6.782015-10-26 — best price $19.952016-10-07 — best price $4.992017-09-25 — best price $19.992018-07-12 — best price $19.992019-03-13 — best price $19.992019-10-14 — best price $3.752020-01-23 — best price $4.252020-05-13 — best price $4.992020-07-11 — best price $16.682020-09-15 — best price $19.992020-10-30 — best price $19.992020-12-10 — best price $19.992021-02-04 — best price $17.882021-03-13 — best price $3.842021-05-01 — best price $19.992021-07-09 — best price $16.882021-10-04 — best price $4.992021-12-13 — best price $4.992022-02-27 — best price $16.882022-06-28 — best price $19.992022-10-14 — best price $15.892023-01-16 — best price $3.992023-05-13 — best price $19.992023-10-02 — best price $3.992024-01-25 — best price $3.992024-04-18 — best price $14.692024-07-31 — best price $19.992024-11-11 — best price $9.992025-02-04 — best price $19.992025-05-21 — best price $9.992025-09-25 — best price $4.992025-12-08 — best price $9.992026-03-09 — best price $3.992026-06-19 — best price $3.992026-08-30 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

162402026-05-29 — 73 pageviews2026-06-01 — 56 pageviews2026-06-04 — 50 pageviews2026-06-07 — 71 pageviews2026-06-10 — 52 pageviews2026-06-13 — 60 pageviews2026-06-16 — 42 pageviews2026-06-19 — 57 pageviews2026-06-22 — 67 pageviews2026-06-25 — 59 pageviews2026-06-28 — 79 pageviews2026-07-01 — 117 pageviews2026-07-04 — 82 pageviews2026-07-07 — 62 pageviews2026-07-10 — 59 pageviews2026-07-13 — 103 pageviews2026-07-16 — 58 pageviews2026-07-19 — 74 pageviews2026-07-22 — 76 pageviews2026-07-25 — 56 pageviews2026-07-28 — 54 pageviews2026-07-31 — 48 pageviews2026-08-03 — 54 pageviews2026-08-06 — 104 pageviews2026-08-09 — 61 pageviews2026-08-12 — 63 pageviews2026-08-15 — 58 pageviews2026-08-18 — 54 pageviews2026-08-21 — 50 pageviews2026-08-24 — 68 pageviews2026-08-26 — 54 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPLAN PvPCo-opLAN Co-opCustom Volume ControlsAdjustable DifficultyPlayable without Timed InputSave Anytime

Player tags

3D4XPvEPvPRTSSpaceSci-fiBuildingMilitaryStrategy

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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