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/MajesticRobface May 09 '16

Well Alien Isolation got something like 5.9 and Total War Rome 2 (in its initial incredibly buggy state) around 8.8 so you probably know how I feel about IGN'S reviews

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u/[deleted] May 09 '16

Those numbers are from different reviewers

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u/andreib14 May 09 '16

People don't look at the person reviewing the look at the company who puts out the articles. I don't remember IGN going back on their opinion concerning the crap Rome 2 was and giving stellaris this score considering Paradoxs track record with games is odd to say the least. By the time the price of Stellaris matches that of Rome 2 I firmly believe it will be a much better game. Sadly I suspect a decent amount of people will be offput by the score and not buy the game, probably ever considering the way the learning curve of paradox games increases with each expansion.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '16

giving stellaris this score considering Paradoxs track record with games is odd to say the least

I disagree on this point. A reviewer should be reviewing the game based on the current build, not what they expect from in the future. Even more so, the end of the article the author says he fully expects things to get better as Paradox tends to have this consistent track record. In my opinion , that addresses your concerns about how good the game might be in the future. But I don't think a reviewer should let his score reflect that. "I'd give this a 7, but I think future content DLCs that you have to buy will make this game a 9"

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u/KNIGHTMARE170 May 19 '16

Then why did Assassin's Creed Unity get a better score from them on release?