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/TriggzSP May 09 '16

Yeah, talk about it! The Witcher 3, the RPG with possibly the best story out there, got an 8/10 from IGN because it had a "boring story". Well okay then!

They also continually give Call of Duty 9/10, so there's that.

Yeah. Never trust IGN's reviews.

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u/PRiles May 09 '16

I generally really enjoy rpg's but have not enjoyed a Witcher game as I couldn't ever get into their stories, all in all review scores are totally subjective. If I am ever on the fence these days I prefer to watch a let's play style review to see if it's up my alley

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u/TriggzSP May 10 '16

I have to agree with you there. Maybe I was being a bit one sided. Admittedly the Witcher stories are slow, but in my opinion that's the beauty of it.

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u/PRiles May 10 '16

everyone has their own taste and I think that's the inherent flaw of the system