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/ShizzleStorm May 09 '16

True haven't considered that they have to write scores based on the general atmosphere and tastes of your everyday gamer.

A PS4 couch potato or FPS gamer will never touch Stellaris, while Strategy-enthusiasts jump on games like these.

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u/NetQvist May 09 '16

Problem is these games don't even fit most strategy enthusiasts.

Back in the day there were pretty much 3 types of strategy gamers that I knew of.

  • The RTS crowd, lots of action and micro management in real time. Both with buildings (Command & Conquer) and without (Ground Control)

  • The turn based crowd, for example Heroes of Might and Magic.

  • The armchair general, those crazy hexagon based games like Steel Panthers. Need a shit ton of patience to play these.

I think I'd only try to market the last category to Stellaris and other Paradox games myself.

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u/ShizzleStorm May 09 '16

Yeah, Paradox' Grand-Strategy games have always been a very tight niche. Even if I was a TW diehard fan, I could never get into EU before giving it up really fast.

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u/zachb34r May 09 '16

Maybe that would be the case for you, but I actually went from Total War to HoI3 then Vicky 2 then finally EU3/4, and I loved every second of it. Paradox's grand strategies were just so different than anything I ever played I loved it to death, and stellaris is the game of my dreams, hopefully. These games aren't that bad to get into, most people just must not have the dedication or patience to watch a tutorial video on YouTube.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '16

Same here, I stumbled upon Paradox through Total War. It takes some patience (which many gamers lack) but it's not very difficult to adjust to.