Knights of Honor II: Sovereign

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User Score
7.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 22 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 22
  3. Negative: 4 out of 22

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  1. GERULAS
    Dec 22, 2022
    5
    I just loved KoH1, so perfect for his time, one of my favourite strategy game of all time. I waited years for this sequel to come out and..i can tell you this: sadly, but I consider this game a mediocre one at most.

    They streamlined this game so much: -no more spies that can be recruited by the enemy as a general or a bishop -marshals, no longer will gain skills based on experience,    I just loved KoH1, so perfect for his time, one of my favourite strategy game of all time. I waited years for this sequel to come out and..i can tell you this: sadly, but I consider this game a mediocre one at most.

    They streamlined this game so much:
    -no more spies that can be recruited by the enemy as a general or a bishop

    -marshals, no longer will gain skills based on experience, even if he will fought 10000 battles. In the first one, the more you fight, the more exp and you gain levels. In this game? They just merged everything into books.

    -UI for buildings is a disaster, u don't know what you build where, just through some small circles that will eventually change their color, something like grey, greyed out and grey bluish

    -battles totally suck..its the same battle system from koH1 invented in 2004 in a game of 2022

    -The RTS camera is very bad one, you can’t zoom out enough to control your army well.
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    Man...F this bs review, but i would tell you this,. If this game would came out as it is couple years after the first one 2008. 2010, 2012, ect, could be still considered a good game, but it came 18 years later with same old stuff, diplomacy for a 2022 game, totally suck, was good back then in 2004, but now, it's just bad.
    in 2004 KOH1 battles almost looked like a total war. I was playing this game in 2004 and Rome 1 in 2004 and I could decide who to love more. KoH2 battles in 2022, are identical with KoH1, nothing changed, nothing improved, all they did was to rearrange the icons
    Campaign map is looking good, needs a bit of polish, but the camera, like battles, are bad, again you can't zoom out enough like in KoH1

    Overall it's not a bad game, even if its just a design clone of the first one, but I expected way much more for a 2022 game. So for the nostalgia and HD graphics, I give him a 5    … Expand
  2. PenetratorGod
    Aug 26, 2023
    5
    I don't know if it's because I played this after Crusader Kings 3 but I couldn't get into this game. I found it boring and there's not enough content right now. Maybe I will try again in the future.

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Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 24, 2024
    80
    Whichever path you choose, any can lead you to absolute control of Europe, and therefore the endgame. [Issue#324]
  2. Game World Navigator Magazine
    May 4, 2023
    77
    Knights of Honor II: Sovereign is by no means a perfect game, but it’s refreshingly original. Some of its concepts deserve to be adopted even by renowned studios like Creative Assembly. [page 48]
  3. GameCritics
    Feb 28, 2023
    65
    See, as suboptimal as many of Knights of Honor II’s macro design choices are, they add up to a vision of the grand strategy genre that, at the very least, provides a much different rhythm and feel from its contemporaries. Instead of the player securing their family line for future generations, or expanding an empire from the stone age to the space age, the player is given a modest patch of land and tasked with developing and defending it at all costs from inscrutable opponents that often feel like a swarm of angry wasps buzzing at the player’s stoop. Its core systems could use some elaboration, perhaps, but fans of this genre who need this particular itch scratched could do a lot worse!
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