Changed to a yes after the release of Grand Archives but still a bit tentative for anyone who isn't a big Stellaris head.


Machine age was an absolute smash hit massively overhauling core systems and expanding heavily on ideas put in fairly early in Stellaris's life.

Cosmic Storms is a considerable plop as of right now, barely noticeable and quite disappointing as a dlc of its own. Its like the the Espionage system had been its own DLC and not a subfeature of the Nemesis dlc, really undercooked. Still waiting on a revisit to the espionage system to make it usable btw... Have to click through 3-4 menus just to get to a screen where I can even see any of the espionage info let alone actually do any espionage...

Grand Archive has quite a smorgasbord of content, new space fauna, new ways to interact with them and a collectathon megastructure mechanic that lets you grab souvenirs from the plethora of events and activities littered throughout the game. Its a more-of-the-same DLC but in a way that's a good DLC if you already like and wanted more of that same.
At the moment the new space fauna are pretty disappointing, in my games they kind of just get eradicated by midgame and the new tradition trees are really underwhelming especially since the devs continue to refuse to expand the maximum number of tradition trees you can pick, not really a problem if you play with mods but I still like the vanilla game to be a good, strong foundation rather than leaning on modders to "fix" content.

Changed to a yes after the release of Grand Archives but still a bit tentative for anyone who isn't a big Stellaris head. Machine age was an absolute smash hit massively overhauling core systems and expanding heavily on ideas put in fairly early in Stellaris's life. Cosmic Storms is a considerable plop as of right now, barely noticeable and quite disappointing as a dlc of its own. Its like the the Espionage system had been its own DLC and not a subfeature of the Nemesis dlc, really undercooked. Still waiting on a revisit to the espionage system to make it usable btw... Have to click through 3-4 menus just to get to a screen where I can even see any of the espionage info let alone actually do any espionage... Grand Archive has quite a smorgasbord of content, new space fauna, new ways to interact with them and a collectathon megastructure mechanic that lets you grab souvenirs from the plethora of events and activities littered throughout the game. Its a more-of-the-same DLC but in a way that's a good DLC if you already like and wanted more of that same. At the moment the new space fauna are pretty disappointing, in my games they kind of just get eradicated by midgame and the new tradition trees are really underwhelming especially since the devs continue to refuse to expand the maximum number of tradition trees you can pick, not really a problem if you play with mods but I still like the vanilla game to be a good, strong foundation rather than leaning on modders to "fix" content.