Let us not kid ourselves, Stellaris has issues. It'd middle game can drag on, the AI can be questionable in its descions at times and the war system sometimes makes no sense. On the other hand the visuals are stunning, the abilty to make your own race and its influnce on play makes replaying it an enoyable expereince and lastly and maybe most importantly its a Paradox game.

This is important since you have games that are five years old (EUIV) and still getting udates AND DLC. The most recent major update with 2.0 completely changes how FTL worked as they tried to address issues with the war system and AI. The next update is promising a complete overhaul of the economic system. None of these changes were locked behind DLC either they were free to download with extras like space dragons being DLC you had to pay for (did I mention the game has SPACE DRAGONS? becuase it does)

Let us not kid ourselves, Stellaris has issues. It'd middle game can drag on, the AI can be questionable in its descions at times and the war system sometimes makes no sense. On the other hand the visuals are stunning, the abilty to make your own race and its influnce on play makes replaying it an enoyable expereince and lastly and maybe most importantly its a Paradox game. This is important since you have games that are five years old (EUIV) and still getting udates AND DLC. The most recent major update with 2.0 completely changes how FTL worked as they tried to address issues with the war system and AI. The next update is promising a complete overhaul of the economic system. None of these changes were locked behind DLC either they were free to download with extras like space dragons being DLC you had to pay for (did I mention the game has SPACE DRAGONS? becuase it does)