The first thing that you see when setting up Stellaris is just how many options you get when creating a race to play with (and indeed you can just use one of the pre-made ones). This means that you can customise your race to play just about any way you want, do you want to be a pacifist xenophobic race, sure, or a gestalt conscience, have at, or militant spiritualist.

This is also a game where it is clear that a lot of work has gone into getting the small details right, for example when you open up the Sol System everything is there. You have a variety in the solar systems with trinary systems, black holes, pulsars, asteroid belts, or leftover remnants of long-lost civilizations. This detail also extends into the art design. When you open up the game you are greeted with some of the concept art for the game.

The same flexibility also exists when it comes to the gameplay, do you want to play at a leisurely pace, or do you want to play oscillating between paused and ultra-speed, either is fine. You can shrug off building massive navies and instead create great starbases at strategic locations and watch your enemies send waves of ships crashing into them. You can make a beeline through the science to a specific technology and then say bypass an enemy’s defences with a wormhole and be attacking their capital before their fleets can make it back in from the fringes of their empire. However, while this customisation in everything is a great feature, it also means that there is a lot of to learn, and you will likely lose your first couple of games for things you didn’t know about.

Stepping into the storied world of 4x, Stellaris takes us into space and taps into that love of exploration among the stars … or just conquering everything you see, with deep systems that give you the kind of customisation that you need in a empire building game.

THE GOOD
- Rich strategy experience
- The UI is clean and easy to navigate
- You always have a few ways to accomplish any task
- Deep mechanic

THE BAD
- The soundtrack lacks variety overall
- Diplomacy on the weak side

DISASTER | BAD | MEDIOCRE | OKAY | GOOD | GREAT | AMAZING | MASTERPIECE

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Reviewed on: Win10 Home 64-bit, Intel i5-11600K, GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB GDDR6 TUF, 32GB DDR4-3600 RAM, 2 x Kingston NV1 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD, Internet Broadband 300/50 Mbit

The first thing that you see when setting up [b][i]Stellaris[/i][/b] is just how many options you get when creating a race to play with (and indeed you can just use one of the pre-made ones). This means that you can customise your race to play just about any way you want, do you want to be a pacifist xenophobic race, sure, or a gestalt conscience, have at, or militant spiritualist. This is also a game where it is clear that a lot of work has gone into getting the small details right, for example when you open up the Sol System everything is there. You have a variety in the solar systems with trinary systems, black holes, pulsars, asteroid belts, or leftover remnants of long-lost civilizations. This detail also extends into the art design. When you open up the game you are greeted with some of the concept art for the game. The same flexibility also exists when it comes to the gameplay, do you want to play at a leisurely pace, or do you want to play oscillating between paused and ultra-speed, either is fine. You can shrug off building massive navies and instead create great starbases at strategic locations and watch your enemies send waves of ships crashing into them. You can make a beeline through the science to a specific technology and then say bypass an enemy’s defences with a wormhole and be attacking their capital before their fleets can make it back in from the fringes of their empire. However, while this customisation in everything is a great feature, it also means that there is a lot of to learn, and you will likely lose your first couple of games for things you didn’t know about. Stepping into the storied world of 4x, [b][i]Stellaris[/i][/b] takes us into space and taps into that love of exploration among the stars … or just conquering everything you see, with deep systems that give you the kind of customisation that you need in a empire building game. [b]THE GOOD[/b] - Rich strategy experience - The UI is clean and easy to navigate - You always have a few ways to accomplish any task - Deep mechanic [b]THE BAD[/b] - The soundtrack lacks variety overall - Diplomacy on the weak side [h1]9/10[/h1] DISASTER | BAD | MEDIOCRE | OKAY | GOOD | GREAT | [b][u]AMAZING[/u][/b] | MASTERPIECE [quote] If you like this review, then please consider giving it a thumbs up. I've also reviewed other games that you might find interesting. If so please follow [u][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/27418263/] Top of the Chart.[/url][/u] Reviewed on: Win10 Home 64-bit, Intel i5-11600K, GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB GDDR6 TUF, 32GB DDR4-3600 RAM, 2 x Kingston NV1 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD, Internet Broadband 300/50 Mbit[/quote]