Stellaris combines watertight strategic gameplay with a wonderful sense of exploration to create a thrilling and engrossing spacefaring grand strategy title. When it comes to grand strategy and 4X ...

Stellaris’ biggest strength doesn’t appear to be its beautiful graphics, its expansive universe, its seemingly endless variety, or its fun pace of gameplay as you explore and build out and conquer ...

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Stellaris: Console Edition brings Paradox's grand 4X strategy to consoles remarkably effectively, but it's a few lightyears behind in important updates. Featuring the same deep strategic gameplay, ...

In 2016, Paradox released Stellaris, its first space-based 4X grand strategy game. It allowed players to take on the role of an upstart interstellar empire, establish colonies, manage their government ...

Stellaris has a long tail of content behind it, making what started as an already exciting real-time 4X strategy into a massive treasure chest of sci-fi civilization experiences. The developers keep ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Serenity and wonder fill my ears when I first open Stellaris. Pulling from the same lived-in future aesthetic of games like Mass Effect, Stellaris ...

Above: Stellaris’ apparent answer to giant mutant spiders: angry eyeball monsters. Combat seems optional and uninspired As noted above, Stellaris’s combat looks amazing. I sometimes attacked other ...