Posted on: January 15, 2025
hanchogrande
Games: 152 Reviews: 4
Small but great DLC
Disclaimer, I purchased on Steam. This DLC pack is probably one of my favorite in a while and overall. It's a small pack but it offers interesting and fun alternative / supplemental playstyles and new sci-fi beasties to face. The two biggest things are the Grand Archive and the Vivarium, which each have a civic, Origin and tradition path. In a normal empire these are just more buffs that are worth taking and looking into but won't change your whole play - but in a focused empire using these new elements can allow you to completely replace existing systems! They take slight wind up to really shine and they take learning to use instead better than the default options but they're very powerful and more importantly FUN to use. Building a galactic museum with trophies of each little event and rarity you've found is FUN. Cloning space-cows to fight your wars is FUN. That it can be fun and useful is great! You can invest some or all in each new option, or ignore it entirely. You can also turn on or off the new space crabs and voidworms, so you never need to mind these if you don't like them; you get good new content and full control over it in-game, so what's not to love?
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