Stellaris

I like Paradox's grand strategy games for the most part and this one, along with CK2, is my favourite one. This game has excellent customization options, beautiful graphics (singularities, anyone?), superb early game with all the exploration and ancient secrets of the galaxy just begging to be discovered (and discover them you will), very nice tech tree (although not very well explained in -game), interesting and distinct choices, dormant ancient empires, megastructures, secret worlds and much, much more. Colonizing phase is good, conflict phase is just OK and when you play the game long enough, the end game crisis begins, and they are also excellent finale-type quests. Plus, the multiplayer in this game is fun too. The bad: it's a Paradox Grand strategy game with all its flaws: complicated systems, super long time to play, pretty boring late game, generally becoming less excited as time goes by, predictible AI and conquest paths for most of the game. Plus, the biggest flaw for me is the amount of expansions Paradox made. First, its really confusing. Second, the price of the game is easily tripled when you include the expansions. Third, the game becomes really bloated when you install most of them. Overall, I rate the base game as 8, and expanded by some (for the love of god, don't buy them all!) of the expansions to be about 9.

If you like sci fi and grand strategy this is for you. The dev team are constantly working on ways to make it better and are active with the community that play it. You might need to say goodbye to your social life however because this game keeps you drawn in for a long time! Buy it and enjoy.

Stellaris is meant to be a relatively big and well-designed astro strategy game. And, well, the concept is good, the graphics are nice, music is apt, gameplay is rather rich in options -- or it would be, but unfortunately the developers failed in providing even the minimum functionality for their product. There is an old bug, for instance, which prevents context menus from showing up. But those are essential for the gameplay. Therefore it does not even deserve a single point out of 5. It does not work. No more gameplay to consider there. Therefore alone, Stellaris is a clear fail -- except for those who like to spend their idle time by installing and uninstalling to no avail. Even though in general GOG seems to be facing rather severe quality management problems these days, I would attribute this specific unfunctionality to the developer, Paradox Interactive. It has been a well-known bug for years.

for a game to be good it need a good base then developers built on it but this game is basic as hell without all the dlcs which are pricey as hell it's a scam to get your leg in by making the base game cheap then pushes all the dlcs on you like it's covid v also where are achievement support?! high seas it's

Eines vorweg, auch wenn bereits öfter geschrieben: der Multiplayer ist an ein Paradoxkonto geknüpft, also nicht gänzlich drm-frei. Dennoch, für mich als Einzelspielerspieler (^^) hat Stellaris eine herausragende Langzeitmotivation und wird mit jedem Update (und jedem DLC) nur komplexer! Tolle Sache.