Sword of the Stars 2: Lords of Winter

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 5 expert reviews

Excellent:

0
Good:

0
Average:

0
Bad:

5

Pros:

Beautiful and interesting ship designs.
Fun to design and tinker with starships.

Cons:

A devastating array of bugs, crashes, and broken features.
Information is buried in difficult to read graphs and screens.

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Last revision on November 4, 2014

Reviewers Liked

Beautiful and interesting ship designs
Fun to design and tinker with starships

Reviewers Didn't Like

A devastating array of bugs, crashes, and broken features
Information is buried in difficult to read graphs and screens
User interface is a mess

Expert reviews and ratings

Slightly better than it was before, Sword of the Stars II is finally playable, but still hobbled by bizarre design decisions....

By PC Gamer on December 31, 2012

Sword of the Stars II: Lords of Winter is a huge disappointment. After more than a dozen patches as of this review, it remains a buggy, difficult-to-play mess, prone to multiple crash bugs and freezes, obscured by unclear mechanics, and bereft of...

By GameSpot on December 14, 2011

Sword of the Stars II is in love with its own history and story, to the point where its encyclopedia favors dozens of background entries over any sort of gameplay information. It may be just as well, because seven patches later, the game is still...

By ign.com on November 21, 2011

It's hard to talk about Sword of the Stars II as a game without talking about the circumstances surrounding it. As many of you will have heard, it's in a pretty dire state right now, with the dev team having to work round the clock to fix things. Out...

By Strategy Informer on November 15, 2011

A beautiful but baffling space strategy game. Bugs and bewildering menus make for a frustrating and very missable...

By PC Gamer on December 03, 2011