

I don’t even know if it matters – the internet is awash in outdated information on the game – but it still bothered me. Except that last planet, with was taken over by my ally a few in-game months later. This enemy civilization had zero unoccupied planets and yet they “forced” me into a truce… that still resulted in me claiming all their shit. I was in a recent war, for example, and was prevented from claiming total victory because… an ally was occupying the last planet instead of me. There have been some noob mistakes on my part, and some additional jankiness with the game that I am coming to terms with.


I’m about 30 hours into my sort of beginner tutorial playthrough and I’m trying to decide whether to start over or not. Then, finally, a recent 60% sale on Stellaris pushed me over the edge. So skeptical that I ended up installing Galactic Civilization 2 (free download) and Galactic Civilization 3 (don’t even know where this came from) in order to scratch the itch that Civ 6 had left. So when a friend of mine recommended Stellaris recently, I was skeptical. Nope, I played about 3 hours before uninstalling it. Much like with EVE, I had heard a lot about Crusader Kings 2, all sorts of crazy stories, and bought it thinking that I’d like to play the game that generated them. This is important because of my history with this developer. Stellaris is a non-Paradox game developed by Paradox.
