Etch your name across the cosmos by forging a galactic empire colonizing remote planets and integrating alien civilizations. Featuring deep strategic gameplay, a rich and enormously diverse selection of alien races and emergent storytelling, Stellaris has engaging challenging gameplay that rewards interstellar exploration as you traverse, discover, interact and learn more about the multitude of species you will encounter during your travels. There’s a few minor niggles, but it’s compelling and it’s easy to lose yourself in Stellaris for hours at a time, as you build your empire and explore both the galaxy and the stories that it can contain.Explore a vast galaxy full of wonder! Paradox Development Studio, makers of the Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis series presents Stellaris, an evolution of the grand strategy genre with space exploration at its core. Marrying Paradox’s particular brand of real time grand strategy to the familiarity of space and 4X empire building has worked wonders, making this the most welcoming and accessible of their games that I’ve played. Going all the way back to 2016 for the original release and our Stellaris review, I said:

The most recent expansion, Nemesis, is not discounted – to be fair, it only came out last month! More than any expansion before it, it puts the fate of the galaxy in your hands, letting you act to choose unity or actually become the endgame crisis that defines each playthrough of the game.

During this time, there the game and all of its expansions have been reduced by up to 75% – most are 50% off, to be fair. On the PC side of things, you have the free weekend with the game, which started last night at 6PM UK time, and will continue on until 6PM UK time on 24th Monday. Then there are the new constructions, like the Juggernaut, a large mobile starbase that can support and rebuild your fleets, and the Mega Shipyard, a megastructure that will spit out fleets like crazy. You also have new types of federations to create or join, with a Trade League, Martial Alliance or Hegemony. This expands your diplomatic capabilities, letting you foster internal cohesion between a federations members. Federations launched for PC in March 2020, adding a “galactic UN” to the game.

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