Stellaris
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Critic Reviews for Stellaris
Stellaris combines watertight strategic gameplay with a wonderful sense of exploration to create a thrilling and engrossing spacefaring grand strategy title.
Stellaris is filled with good ideas, and it's not difficult to see the outline of a great space strategy game where those ideas could come together. But beyond the early game, it's only compelling in bits and pieces – it turns into a largely uneventful slog after that. Paradox has developed a reputation of major upgrades to their games for years after launch, and Stellaris is going to need all that love and more to reach its potential.
The early game promises an instant strategy classic, but Stellaris is unable to maintain that pace.
A series of small tasks makes Stellaris easy to jump into, but hard to put down without completing that "one last thing"
Stellaris gives you the stars as your playground, proving that Paradox capably translates some of their strategy game prowess into space.
Stellaris is not a perfect game and there are aspects that Paradox could (and, judging by their track record, probably will) improve, including an unexciting range of technologies, a potentially plodding mid-game and timid enemy AI.
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