A little too many micro transactions, but I haven’t spent any money and am still doing great and having a fun time with it. If they deflate the prices just a little bit I’d probably spend some money on it, because I do really enjoy this game. Has room for improvement, and is built on the same basic mechanics as Nova Empire with their own twist on things. Overall I give it a 5/5 because it keeps me occupied as a game should. There are a few bugs here and there, but there’s a lot of good player interaction. Join a good/big alliance and there’s tons of stuff to do. Could use group missions like the Legions in Nova Empire for some extra fun. If you do your radar missions you get tons of the boosts and speedups that money could be spent on for free. They don’t quite give out enough free premium currency as is done in Nova. The monthly subscription should be dropped by $2-$5 for its worth, but it’s still got some nice bonuses. They should make the annual subscription just be a permanent subscription instead of annual, but that’s okay I guess. Also they need to do something with the Omphalous structures because they don’t do anything yet.TL;DR I like this game a lot even though they could fix a few things.

The names Stellaris and Paradox Interactive set certain expectations for fans of strategy games. Unfortunately, Stellaris: Galaxy Command is yet another shallow, boring mobile clicker game designed to pull money from your wallet like air sucked into the vacuum of space.The game opens with a lengthy cutscene — choose voice-acted and partially animated — that sets a scene of recolonizing the galaxy after an invasion from some unspecified interdimensional threat. Then, the player is unceremoniously dumped onto a screen of a space station orbiting a planet. The player is instructed to place and upgrade shipyards, warehouses, and radar stations. No context for what these buildings do is provided, and each upgrade is just and incremental percentage increase to speed up some timer. The game is training you to get in the rhythm of plunking something down and then pressing a button labeled “Free” to “speed up” the building process, because after five minutes of this busywork, that button suddenly costs a currency. Pay up, or wait the five minutes for it to finish.Those expecting to find any semblance of strategy here — or better, a proper port of this game‘s namesake to mobile devices — will be sorely disappointed. The art assets are the only thing that made the jump. Stellaris: Galactic Command is a wholely different game, and all it requires of you is occasionally pressing buttons to start timers and authorizing purchases to your credit card to speed them up.

The game is good but it’s very pay to win unless you don’t want to pay you have to do a lot of grinding and if your trying to make your station happiness go up it’s hard because the art complex and university are the only efficient things to upgrade to increase happiness and then you have to get people moving in, and if your a alliance leader territory is hard to get because the territory will be taken fast so if you fail on getting any before all territory is occupied by a alliance it’s almost impossible there’s only 1 way to get territory in that server which is to attack a small alliance with territory and also if your a alliance leader and your a small alliance but you still have territory it’s hard to gain more the only way you can gain more is by attacking a alliance or buying a territory because medium and big alliances they like to sell sectors at times but it’s expensive.

Besides not deserving the Stellaris name at all, the game is extremely pay-to-win and incredibly boring. Combat is overly risky as a bad fight or leaving your ships out can cost you weeks of real-life time, along with pay-to-win players simply being able to pay to speed their ships up faster than yours besides having massively disproportionately-sized fleets, removing all actual tactics from the game. PvE (fighting pirates or events) is extremely unrewarding as well, with drop rates for anything useful being so painfully low that it kills any motivation to do it, especially considering repairing from fights takes hours to days. There’s very little thought into building the base, as there are specific buildings, most of which are useless, required to upgrade your core building which allows you bigger ships, and bigger ships are all that matter in combat. Exploration is boring as well and often unrewarding, as there are only a few events repeated ad nauseam throughout the entire galaxy. Most, if not all, in game rewards seem like a joke at how useless they are. The servers are slow, buggy, and often down. The UI is a mess and very little of the game is actually explained, leaving many of the mechanics a mystery. Just an overall disappointment of a game, and, frankly, PDX has lost my future support after such an obvious cash grab of a terrible mobile game.