A screenshot of the Stellaris entry in my Steam library, with 419 hours total played and 27 hours in the past two weeks.

Back to Gaming: Stellaris

Since I started with the Kubernetes Migration in my Homelab last December, It had gotten a tad bit monomaniacal, spending my free time only on the migration, and almost nothing else. So by beginning of March, I hadn’t even launched Steam in three months, let alone played anything. To remedy that, I went ahead and didn’t just chose any game. Oh no, I chose one of my all-time favorites: Stellaris. It is a game in one of my favorite genres, Grand Strategy or 4x, whichever you prefer. And it is from one of my favorite Grand Strategy studios: Paradox Development, of Hearts of Iron and Victoria fame. I discovered them and Grand Strategy way back with Hearts of Iron II and bought pretty much everything they’ve released up to now. To me, there’s no better 4x studio than PDS. Even Firaxis and their Civilization series only comes close. Yes, I’m a fanboy. And if your think that this is already bad, you might want to stop reading now, because the next paragraph is going to be a love letter to Paradox’ DLC policy. 😉 ...

March 24, 2024 · 11 min · Michael