Stellaris

Stay far away. I mean it, do not buy this game right now, do not play this game right now. Stellaris used to be an amazing game, but the developers ruined it with patch 4.0, they broke the AI to an unreasonable extend, the balance is all kinds of atrocious, and there are plenty of other issues, while some ancient bugs that have never been fixed for years on end still remain an issue. In short, 4.0 is a complete mess of a patch that turned an amazing game into a pile of crap. This patch needed A LOT more work, and should never have been released in such a sorry state, even now MONTHS later it has barely gotten any better. Paradox loves to nickle and dime their players more and more for each new bit of content, their DLC policy is greedy, and terrible, anti consumer at this point really, but usually they at least deliver something worthwhile. Recently however they developed a serious habit of delivering things of heavily declining quality, rushed, unfinished, unstable, damn near unpla...

I really like this game, but it has a lot of DLC bloat that makes it confusing for new people. Just buy the base game and if any of the DLCs really catch your attention, buy them on sale.

I've gotten my soul partially sucked away by this game. Stellaris makes you lose all track of space and time, and just as you are about to log off: your economy crashes and you need to spend 4 more hours fixing it only to get invaded and wiped off the face of the map by a slightly larger empire. 10/10, would recommend.

Only game where you can shove 1 trillion people into a brain frying torture computer for science! 😁👍

Game is currently unplayable and has been for the past 3 months, glad the dev team is having a nice holiday though

I have played this game in two short bursts. It is fun but it is more addicting than a factory game. I forgot why I uninstalled it the first time and I paid the price of my free time. I've literally only played 3 games from start to finish and I'm already at 243 hours Good game, but way too addicting

4.0 is an unplayable atm can't play with friends because of constant resync issues. Wish they'd spend more time fixing and improving the game rather than rebuilding and shipping it for what the fourth time now? I do really enjoy having to relearn the game again! =/ and on top of that the dlc always felt half baked ei hiveminds have been in-game almost since the start and just recently gained access to auto migration but for years as a hive if you wanted to keep growing you'd spend most of your time manually resettling pops and this new dlc introducing bio ships a fleet that grows? Cool concept but if i have to manually re-add juvenile ships to my fleet manager after every battle your waisting my time

LOVE THIS GAME its one of thoughts sims where you can lose hours in the mechanics of battle , constructing and building your empire

This is digital crack in the best way possible. They didn't even need to give me the first rock for free. This game now runs continuously on my computer and I un-pause and play at every opportunity I have without the annoying delay of having to start the game. In a reductionist sense, this is a 4X grand strategy. But the level of control, or not, available at any time in the same gameplay is pretty unique in me experience. I often times will let my civil affairs run themselves while I conduct warfare and then concentrate on the civil stuff when I am at peace. it feels more realistic to me. I'm immersed. Wifey is basically a Stellaris widow now :) Additionally... there is a pause button.... which is awesome. If you are new, you can pause often and treat it like a turn based game. That's how I play as things get hectic. There are so many mods and DLCs too... just so much replay ability. It may look expensive... but if you look at dollars spent per hour of enjoyment...

I've had the game since early on, and enjoyed it. However the last update trashed it, and months later it is still not working properly despite many patches. An effort to speed up the game has slowed it down, whilst degrading the game mechanics. It really is not worth buying right now, that may change, but it would be most unwise to buy in its current state.