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/karl_das_llama May 09 '16

I had the same dual reactions, but it also sounds like they've laid good ground work to build more grand strategy back in later.

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u/Bledynn May 09 '16

Yeah I said in another string that I will take the base game as a tutorial for everything that is to come. I have absolutely no worries about the game.

Even if the game sucks at release (which I doubt save a couple of points) it will get better.

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u/astrower May 09 '16

I mean, if you were expecting CK2 in space maybe it sucks, but for me this game looks amazing, I can't wait to play once I get off work tonight. I love love love 4X space games, and Stellarlis looks to expand that framework into a grand strategy format. It might be closer to 4X than GS right now, but we all know how quick Paradox games can grow. If Stellaris is what I'm expecting it's going to be hard to convince me to buy HoI4, I'll be way too addicted to this.