Stellaris

I've only played the single player version, so I cannot comment on multiplayer functionality. This game turned out to be much more complicated than I anticipated. Overall, I'm extremely pleased with the purchase, and bought the Utopia DLC. What to expect: a long, involved, complicated game where you need to balance all elements of an economy, research, space navy, and other aspects in your part of the galaxy. You may want to play a *full* game with no other species first to understand what you're getting yourself into. Play through to an endgame crisis to understand how it will impact you. It's also fun, albeit at times frustrating when a hostile neighbor decides to keep beating on you. Galactic haters abound. Some flaws/frustrations: there are errors in the code regarding math behind both production on planets and pricing of traded goods on the market. For example, using Ix'Itar (Utopia DLC), I altered my species' genes, then the amenities and stability went haywire on my homeworld. Structures on the homeworld meant to increase amenities didn't impact them. The per-unit pricing is also wrong when buying between, say, 5000 and 10,000 units. The per unit price should vary significantly, but it doesn't change. I didn't pay attention before because there's so much else I was trying to understand, so I don't know if it's solely for this species or all of them. In-game guidance is hard to find or is non-existant. How far should I expand my empire beyond administrative capacity? How can I trade lots of resources to other species without clicking 1000 times? (Hold down shift and click; it'll enter 100.) There is a wiki online; have it handy with another screen, smartphone, etc. Overall, I love the game, I'm addicted, and I intend to buy more expansions.

I love this kind of game, the only problem I have is the extensive DLC.

I think i played enough to make myself a overall image of the game: + good strategy game, very in depth, quite well developed in design + awesome races, animations, portraits, graphics, sound, music - very price even on sale - sometimes queue actions don't actually click on the interface, i suspect a overlay bug - very GPU consuming, like 50-80% from a RTX3080 on 1080p !

Have it on Steam. Stellar production. Easy to grasp the basics as for PDX game, or grand strategy. You can just jump in, and get the space ropes on the fly. You can make your own empire, and fallow your favorite troophy. It could be serious SF or joyrney of dark space elves. Game is visually and phonetic beauty. DLC are under control so far, and some bring significant value to next walkthough. Developer is still working on it, and generally tries to improve. But: AI could be quite stupid, and plays in very unoptimal way. You may need some dlc to get enought depth for mid and late game. It depends how many hours you want to play. It is game that could sink in for over 100. There are some inbalances, some strategies being so much better. Or you could arbitrary be blocked off something even if you are star empire. Still a lot of fun.

The game is amazing! Claasical Paradox game with rich game mechanics and very high replayabliity. Like many other users. I Would Love to have this game on GOG but I already spend like 60 $ on it in Steam... should definatley be available in gog connect!!