Covering a special interest niche as a game is rarely easy. As a space simulation, Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos probably never had it easy. Although it was released in 2001 in what felt like the heyday of the genre, the game is hardly known to anyone today. As the successor to 1997's I-War, the second game is also set in the 24th century, around a hundred years after the events of its predecessor.