Stellaris

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• Recommended Posted March 19, 2026 on Steam DO NOT BUY THE STARTER PACK THEY ARE GIVING THIS FOR FREE AS PART OF THE BASE GAME SOON Other than that, My favourite game of all time.
• Not recommended Posted January 20, 2026 on Steam I loved Stellaris, right up until it became clear I was being DLC farmed by Paradox while still waiting for them to fix major base-game issues. My experience went like this: love the game, can’t get enough of it, but can’t actually finish campaigns because of late-game performance problems. A new DLC releases, I buy it, the core issues remain unfixed. The DLC introduces new problems, those aren’t fixed either. Then another DLC releases. Rinse and repeat. I may have been born in the morning, but I wasn’t born yesterday. There’s only so much rose-colored glasses can excuse, and I hit that limit a year ago. The only reason I hadn’t written a review sooner was I was hoping the performance issues would be fixed then out of pure disgust after they introduced the DLC subscription model. So no, I do not recommend this game, not because it isn’t fun (it absolutely is), but because certain business practices shouldn’t be encouraged unless you’re comfortable being endlessly farmed for cash.
• Recommended Posted June 26, 2025 on Steam Hate the 4.0+ update, but the earlier versions of this game are great. I have 130+ hours and I’ve just barely scratched the surface of what you can do Just reminding everyone you can easily play earlier versions of the game: settings (in the game’s library page) -> properties -> betas -> then pick whatever version you want to play
• Not recommended Posted March 23, 2026 on Steam This is probably the best thing i can describe for this game.... and really any paradox game in general. You buy the game. it is something super cool and interesting and up your alley. They send an update. the game is completely new and different. they replace so many things that it doesn't feel like the same game. you get used to it. They release a major update. And the cycle continues. At this point Stellaris has been about 5 different games with a similar backbone. I got this back when asymmetric FTL was a thing and it was the key draw point for me. it was unique and interesting. It was one of the first things that went. Alot of things i loved of the older versions are gone or overshadowed by what is current It also used to be fun with friends. but... that is not a thing anymore for me. Ever since last years major update. Current update stellaris has been completely unplayable for us in multiplayer due to rampant Desync issues. If your going to play multiplayer. Hope to god your not friends with someone on another continent. because your not playing with them. It sucks for me to say this. but the game is too buggy to be a positive for me. My biggest gripe is the Desyncs and lack of locking onto a vision of what they want the game to be.
• Recommended Posted July 24, 2025 on Steam Run. Don't buy it, don't launch it. Just don't. "I'll just play it for a bit, I got like an hour to spare after work" "I just need to finish this war, 5-10 minutes max" "Oh, this planet is grossly mismanaged, I'll just fix it real quick" DON'T DO IT RUN DON'T LOOK BACK
• Not recommended Posted November 23, 2025 on Steam It makes me so incredibly sad to tick the thumbs down for this game. For a long, long time, Stellaris was my favourite 4x of all time. The initial release was shaky but had good bones, bones which were reinforced and built upon with some fantastic updates and DLC over the years. The aesthetic was wonderful, the musical score was wonderful, the sheer detail that has been added to allow customisation of your civilisation is incredible, and the variety of events and crises you could encounter meant no two games ever played the same. But we've long since passed the point where the game should have been called done, and any further changes left for a sequel. We're now into the 3rd round of "patches" which effectively remake core systems of the game from the ground up in order to make it work with the new DLC they keep adding. I can't say this is my favourite 4x anymore becuase it isn't even the same game that I bought in 2016 anymore. Nor is it the same game I sunk hundreds of hours into during the sweet spot during late patch 2.0 and early patch 3.0. Now we're well into 4.0 and the game is increasingly bloated, broken, and unrecognisable. So many of these massive, sweeping changes to the core game should have been saved for Stellaris 2, but instead it seems that either good intentions have paved the way to hell, or Paradox simply did their thing and pushed for more DLC and more monetisation, as they always do, and turned the game into a live service mess which it was never designed to be.