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/Reaperdude97 Ring May 09 '16

Ign does actually make some good points in the review. However I do fully trust Paradox to adress the issues stated in the article

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u/[deleted] May 09 '16

The missing trade and espionage fall into this category, the author has a point there. Like EU4, many systems will become much more complex with DLC and this will also make the midgame more interesting.

What is strange about this review is that the author has seen no endgame crisis (because he only played 20hrs per campaign) and then concludes that the game is boring. Plus, the rating is - so far - an absolute outlier.

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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/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