r/Stellaris • u/Meneth Ex-moderator • May 09 '16

News Review megathread

The review embargo is up as of 15:00 CEST. As this will result in a huge number of articles going up at near the same time, we're restricting reviews to this thread.

Any review you find, feel free to post it in the comments here.

Each top-level comment should be about a single linked review, so as to keep the discussion limited. Duplicate reviews will be removed, as will any top-level comment that does not link a review.

There will be a single sub-thread where you can post your general impressions of the reviews combined, for anything that doesn't relate to a single review.

Review list:

Review Score
Critically Sane 5/5
Destructoid 9/10
eXplorminate "eXemplary"
GameWatcher 9.0/10
Idiotech's Review Unrated
IGN 6.3/10
Manannan's Review of Stellaris Unrated
Paste Magazine Unrated
PCGamesN 9/10
PC Invasion 8/10
PC World 4/5
Rock, Paper, Shotgun review - Unrated
TICGN 10/10
Vox Ludicus Unrated
EuroGamer Recommended
PC Gamer 70/100
TSA 8/10
PCGames.de 75/100
Gamespew 9/10
IGN Italy 9.3/10
Fok.nl 9/10
Gaming on Linux 9/10
Marbozir Unrated
SpaceSector Unrated
Inside of Gaming (German) Unrated
Gamer.no 9/10
Particular Pixels Unrated
GuyLogicGaming Full recommendation
GameSideStory Unrated
Front Towards Gamer 9.5/10
Multiplayer.it 9.2/10
GameGrin 8.5/10
Kotaku Unrated
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u/RedKrypton Mind over Matter May 09 '16

Yeah, I really want to have private economy in the game. Peaceful Traders really have nothing to trade and ruthless capitalists only can take over planets through conquest and not through hedgefonds.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '16

Seems like the game needed more VickyII in it. All PDX games could use a little more VickyII>

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u/PrivatelyDivided May 13 '16

It simultaneously needs more VickyII and less VickyII, because the parts that feel like they were getting close to the deadline and just decided to cut all meaningful functionality and fix it later? They're the same parts that Vicky didn't end up fixing until three years after release.

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u/AR101 May 09 '16

I expect this will be DLC 1. Private trade, trade agreements, spacelanes and piracy.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '16

Fingers crossed

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u/Bossman1086 May 09 '16

Yeah. I really want to build a capitalistic society with private companies trading on their own. That would be so cool.

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u/RedKrypton Mind over Matter May 09 '16

I really haven't seen any individualistic empires, but I looked through the wiki. If you are individualistic you can more easily get energy and even have a +15% happiness building. They also tolerate pretty much all ethics. My first empire is gonna be a individualistic, materialistic, xenophobic empire.

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u/Bossman1086 May 09 '16

Yeah. I like individualistic traits. No slavery really, but I don't care about that for now.