Halo: Sins Of The Prophets is some of the best fan Halo we've seen in years

Halo: Sins Of The Prophets is a game made by Halo fans, for Halo fans, and you can play it for free right now on PC.

If you’re tired of what 343 Industries and Xbox have been doing with the series, then Halo fan games are where it’s at.

That being said, Halo Infinite was a pretty good return to form for the series

No shade to the developers of Halo: Infinite and the last few games in the series, but fan games truly feel like passion projects, and lack the bloated mechanics and in-game stores that the latest AAA games seemingly need to be considered successful by publishers.

Halo: Sins Of The Prophet is worth a look if you’re a fan of real-time strategy games, or RTS for short.

It’s a total conversion mod for Sins Of The Solar Empire, an intergalactic battle simulator where spaceships wage war across the cosmos.

As you’d expect the mod switches the in-game ship models for that of the Halo series, essentially turning it into Halo Wars but in space instead.

After choosing between the UNSC or the Covenant, players can put together mighty fleets of frigates and cruisers, all varying in their speeds, sizes and firepower.

You can download the mod for free from ModDB, as long as you have a copy of Sins Of The Solar Empire of course.

If you don’t have a copy of the game you can buy one from Steam for a pretty reasonable price, slightly more if you want DLC included.

Halo: Sins Of The Prophet feels like a breath of fresh air for the first-person shooter series, and will probably scratch an itch for those patiently waiting for Halo Wars 3.

Hopefully a few official spin-off projects are on the cards for Halo’s future, as there are a lot of game genres that could be explored, from more RTS games, to open-worlds, to horror.