This is a 27 year old game, and clearly still much loved. I never played it back in the day tho and so far the interface is as annoying as heck and the controls non-intuitive and just clunky. If it wasn't for the heap of third party help out there this would be borderline unplayable. For the nostalgia I guess.
Probably the best Space 4X game in town, but that comes with some BIG caveats. I really wish I'd frozen the game a while back and not applied any of the patches for the last couple of years. Paradox DLC policy/approach is a bit of a joke really and while the upside is continuing new content (although a whole DLC about storms in space...really???), the devs can't stop futzing with underlying mechanics to benefit (?) a small subset of the player base and to the detriment of people who just want to play casual games and role play. It becomes harder and harder to just do stuff with each release and I think the micromanagent requirements keep getting worse. There's probably been 4 or 5 completely different games of Stellaris really, with all the changes. Maybe there's a market to release retro versions of Stellaris fixed at earlier patch levels :) Go in with your eyes open as to the real cost of a playable game. 3.5
Love all the Warlords, grabbed this instantly, but it gives a bogus low disk warning and wont run for more than a couple of minutes. Seems there are know Win 10 issues and running under compatibility or as Admin don't fix them.
