Its a remake.
Literally a remake. It is the same game with better (albeit great looking) visuals.
Anything new like a CAMPAIGN or...any new content you have to pay extra for. If it even comes out.
Wait for deep sale.

its a great game, except the vast majority of the artwork is AI generated, and not even decently AI generated, it rings hollow and takes a great deal away when your visual cues look, Off.

One of the best things in my mind about Sins of A Solar empire, was the world built up around the factions, the artwork was a big factor in that.

This doesnt have that, so I cant recommend it unless its dirt cheap.

I think it’s pretty disgusting that the DLCs are already available for purchase without even having a set release date.

I highly recommend this game to any fan of the ‘grand strategy’ genre.

Disclosure - at the time of writing this, I’ve played SoaSE 2 for ~110 hours. I was a fan of the original game and I am fan of related titles such as Stellaris and RTS games generally.

Here’s why I think this game is brilliant:

Pacing - I think a common problem in grand strategy games is pacing. Either the early game has a lot of idle time and / or the late game bogs down in mico managing and menus etc. SoaSE 2 has solved this problem. My games run 3-7 hours, and I’m making meaningful tactical and strategic decisions every minute.

Technology - The game engine is a marvel. There are remarkable, fine details to enjoy when zoomed in and a truly massive scale when zoomed out. The graphics are not only beautiful, they also convey important, real-time game information clearly and efficiently.

Replayability - The base game has more than enough to entertain me for another 100+ hours. But the Devs have also published their road map for expansions etc. I think the planned content will add variety / depth in the right places and I’m excited to play it. Finally, a real focus seems to have been placed on mod support. So I’m equally excited to see what the community does with the engine. All in, I expect to get thousands of hours of enjoyment here.

If you ever wanted to nuclear strip-mine your ancestral home world, use the proceeds to build an inter-stellar fleet of warships, and then order this fleet to desperately defend the frontier of your space-faring civilization from a legion of fanatic aliens, then this is the game for you.

At first glance appears to be convoluted and overwhelming but after playing for a few hours you start to get hang of the systems, the game has deep but is not necessary to master all the mechanics to start having fun.
The blend of RTS/4X is great,the space battles are visually stunning you can watch all the planets from far away or zoom to apreciate every ship minor details.
Be aware at the moment there's no campaing, only a set of pre made scenaries to explore the races in a classic sandbox mode.

The fleet limits make this unplayable for me. Its a cheap and lazy way of solving what they obviously found to be a problem and rather then reworking the economy and production to fix the issue they add a cheap and dodgy max fleet limit.

Been playing RTS since Red Alert, then Warcraft 2, then Starcraft 1 and 2... but man, this Sins of Solar Empire 2 is sick bro! best purchase of 2025, so far.

on first try, id rather player sins 1, i have more control over what i can build and what i can research. they have added alot of new stuff but its all the same old stuff just made to look nice. i was hoping for more, more races more ships more research, but knowing paradox it will be new races with ships for 49.99, robot species 9.99

A sequel that is actually good and doesn't try to fix what isn't broken unlike homeworld 3.

To be honest, it feels like a very recycled version of the 2008 Sins of a Solar Empire, they added a few additional features but honestly no new significant content and the game is still very shallow, I appreciate the pre-made scenarios that are made but it still doesn't add a lot of substance to the game, just very disappointing.