StrategyFit check
Is Haegemonia: The Solon Heritage worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Space strategy players who want colonization, research, trade, and combat in one game
- Multiplayer groups interested in diplomacy and espionage alongside fleet battles
- Players of Legions of Iron seeking an expansion with additional ships, inventions, and heroes
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a campaign-focused experience, since this package is multiplayer-only
- Players looking for a small set of new systems, as the expansion adds over 70 inventions plus ships, units, and maps
- Players who want a standalone game rather than an expansion to Legions of Iron
Our take on Haegemonia: The Solon Heritage
Rather than centering solely on fleet combat, this space strategy expansion puts diplomacy, trade, spying, and research alongside conquest. Its multiplayer-only structure also departs from strategy games built around a solo campaign.
What is Haegemonia: The Solon Heritage?
The Solon Heritage is a stand-alone expansion to Legions of Iron and a multiplayer-only package.
Its space strategy gameplay includes colonizing, conquering, conducting research, trading, spying, and fighting, with diplomacy as part of avoiding the extinction of a race. The expansion adds over 70 inventions, new skills and heroes, spaceships, and strategy options. It includes 15 maps for solo and multiplayer modes, 10 new ships, simultaneous invention research, and new spy missions. Hero and mercenary units add tactical options, while gameplay for inventions and ships has been rebalanced. The package also adds special effects made with the Walker engine.
How Haegemonia: The Solon Heritage plays
- 01Solo and Multiplayer Maps
- The package includes 15 maps for play in either mode.
- 02New Ship Roster
- 10 ships include diplomatic and race-specific vessels, as well as probes.
- 03Parallel Research
- Invention research can proceed simultaneously.
- 04Espionage Missions
- New missions add spy operations to the available strategy options.
- 05Hero and Mercenary Units
- These units add variety to tactical actions.
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Haegemonia: The Solon Heritage: platforms & release
Is Haegemonia: The Solon Heritage worth it?
It is worth it if: space strategy players who want colonization, research, trade, and combat in one game. Skip it if: players seeking a campaign-focused experience, since this package is multiplayer-only.
Where can I download Haegemonia: The Solon Heritage?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Haegemonia: The Solon Heritage's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Haegemonia: The Solon Heritage on?
Windows only.
