Stellaris

Was one of my favourite games, until devs decided to change the naval capacity and the ship upkeeps, "for performance". Now, when you're supposed to play a GALACTIC EMPIRE, you command fleets of 4 ships, going to war with your neighbours, who have fleets of 4 ships too. You can technically have more, but a single battleship has more upkeep costs than a WHOLE GALACTIC SECTOR. Space "battles" now look like a road rage involving 2 cars and a Karen, when they used to be epic with hundreds of ships fighting. Star Wars Episode 6's Death Star II Battle with Stellaris 4.3 naval economy would have involved 1 X-Wing, 1 Y-Wing, fighting against 3 TIE Fighters. And that's it. Final battle right here guys. Most ridiculous decision award goes tooooo... Stellaris devs! YAY!

This is the best space strategy game out there. Bought this game at release and it just keeps getting better.

I actually would recommend the game it's really good, but paradox's newer DLC expansions use generative AI so like nah

I used to love this game but unfortunately, the devs have resorted to using AI slop. Even before that, they made alot of weird decisions with this game and kept reworking core gameplay features seemingly every year, usually for the worse and making it more bland or too rigid, giving it less customizable playstyles, experiences or roleplay which was the main draw for me that made me overlook it's flaws initially. The overpriced DLC spam also feels like an actual scam. Do not support these devs or this game, it's not worth your money.

Downvoting for the aggressively greedy DLC practises. Downvoting for the menu screen DLC advertisements. Downvoting for the FOMO race creation screen DLC advertisements. Finally, downvoting for filling the game with AI slop - from "generating ideas" to generating assets, to the voice work. Lazy garbage. Lazy -expensive- garbage.

I am at the point where i cant recommend this, it was fun, real fun, but the blatant greed, horrible ai, bad mechanics and devs who seemingly want to pump out more dlcs rather than fix existing ones, and with dlcs that SHOULD be in the base game but just exist to feed the greed of paradox costing a total of like 375 bucks. its just not worth it

With Stellaris now showing that it is using generative AI in it's development for the core game and DLC, I can no longer recommend this title. AI steals from other people from all levels of talent and it's data centres use costly amount of resources, damages nature and people living nearby. I will not tolerate this in my hobby and will cut other titles that use AI.