Stellaris
Stellaris! Explore a vast galaxy full of wonder! Paradox Development Studio, makers of the Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis series presents Stellaris, an evolution of the grand strategy genre with space exploration at its core.
Featuring deep strategic gameplay, a rich and enormously diverse selection of alien races and emergent storytelling, Stellaris has engaging challenging gameplay that rewards interstellar exploration as you traverse, discover, interact and learn more about the multitude of species you will encounter during your travels.
Etch your name across the cosmos by forging a galactic empire; colonizing remote planets and integrating alien civilizations. Will you expand through war alone or walk the path of diplomacy to achieve your goals?
Main Stellaris Features:
- Deep and Varied Exploration.
- Enormous procedural galaxies, containing thousands of planets.
- Explore Anomalies with your heroic Scientist leaders.
- Infinitely varied races through customization and procedural generation.
- Advanced Diplomacy system worthy of a Grand Strategy Game.
- Ship Designer based on a vast array of technologies.
- Stunning space visuals.
Stellaris Review
I’ve been playing this game since day 1 that it came out. At 290 hours of play I consider it a gem. A rough, misshapen gem, but one that is always being polished and improved. As you’ve read in many other reviews the early game is fantastic, but it starts to flounder the further you get into the end game. This can make the game a living hell if you do one thing, try to win. There is no “winning” in this game.
The amazing parts of this game are the early game exploration, the mid game crisis that was added in one of the dlc, the late game awakening empires, and the end game crisis. The terrible part of this game is trying to conquer the entire galaxy. I would recommend building up a formidable empire that has a dominate position in the galaxy and then start a new game knowing your people will eventually dominate the galaxy if the continue with the path you’ve set them upon.
This issue becomes less of a problem with every updated version of this game as the developers try to improve the mid to last game. The newer versions have been getting review bombed because they removed certain features(multiple types of ftl) to improve gameplay. These features made for a more interesting universe with more diversity, but that increased diversity led to increased balancing issues that left the game broken. It was really cool when your worm hole civilization had one neighbor who got around by warping and one who got by using hyperlanes. However, it was impossible to plan static defenses with all of these options. The AI was to stupid to use wormholes. Factions that used hyperlanes were doomed unless they could survive long enough to research a new form of ftl. So they scraped the diversity in exchange for better gameplay. While I do miss the stories you could create for yourself playing in the old complex universes, those stories were ultimately broken since the balancing didn’t work and it would unravel the further you progressed in the game.
I would highly recommend this game. I decided to write this review to say thank you to the developers for continuing to improve this game. I also wrote this review because this gaming community is a little toxic and I’m hoping someone will read this and get so angry that I don’t agree with their point of view.
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