After enjoying this game from spending around 213$ on the PS4 version, I cannot recommend this product anymore.

When you have members from the Stellaris Discord, advertising the Discord, & yet messaging people asking about Charlie Kirk & your political views, to then block you for sharing the views they requested, your Moderators should make efforts to do an actual investigation, vs just saying "We cannot confirm it came from our Discord" despite me never having had been in the discord until your member reached out.

This game has its own political system, which does not involve real world politics, & the political views of your players should NOT AT ALL be anything you push for.

For everyone reading this, PM me Stellaris Mods for the screenshots.

What a great game, to be brought down by real world politics. Wish I could refund both mine & the copy I bought my brother. You do not deserve our money for this egregious overstep & failure to act.

Take-Two and 2K games have updated all their games Terms of Service, turning this game as well as all of their other games into literal spyware.

Important Info in Terms of Service:
• Mods are a bannable offense
• Display of Cheats/Exploits is bannable
• Forced arbitration clause and a waiver of class action and jury trial rights for all users residing in the United States and any other territory other than Australia, Switzerland, The United Kingdom, or The Territories of The European Economic Area
• You can be banned for using a VPN while connecting to online servers
• Cannot access game content on a Virtual PC

Then we have the lack of transparency in data processing, data transfers to third countries, dubious consent by minors, no purpose limitation, profiling and to top it all of - insufficient justification for data use.

Collected Data Types as per the EULA, it's a generalisation for anything and everything 2K related, this list includes more than just what the game collects. It includes everything they want to collect through their services, from you.

• Identifiers / Contact Information: Name, user name, gamertag, postal and email address, phone number, unique IDs, mobile device ID, platform ID, gaming service ID, advertising ID (IDFA, Android ID) and IP address
• Protected Characteristics: Age and gender
• Commercial Information: Purchase and usage history and preferences, including gameplay information
• Billing Information: Payment information (credit / debit card information) and shipping address
• Internet / Electronic Activity: Web / app browsing and gameplay information related to the Services; information about your online interaction(s) with the Services or our advertising; and details about the games and platforms you use and other information related to installed applications
• Device and Usage Data: Device type, software and hardware details, language settings, browser type and version, operating system, and information about how users use and interact with the Services (e.g., content viewed, pages visited, clicks, scrolls)
• Profile Inferences: Inferences made from your information and web activity to help create a personalized profile so we can identify goods and services that may be of interest
• Audio / Visual Information: Account photos, images, and avatars, audio information via chat features and functionality, and gameplay recordings and video footage (such as when you participate in playtesting)
• Sensitive Information: Precise location information (if you allow the Services to collect your location), account credentials (user name and password), and contents of communications via chat features and functionality.

Fast paced first-person shooter/hack & slash, with a small sprinkle of Psyker in the mix for you mutants out there.
The gameplay is relatively easy to learn, with more challenging difficulties offering better experience & coin.
Has a few cosmetics.

There was a sense of freedom in these older titles that today's generation of gaming can't quite grasp. A level of love & detail that went into making such amazing story lines with different ways to end it.
From the classic Xbox to Steam on PC, Deus Ex: Invisible War.
Step into a world where you truly can do what you want. From following the story & choosing a faction to believe in, to wiping out every single person you see, you truly can play how you want.

Community Order complete:
We Dive Together, or not at all.

Not only is this a very fun kind of "jump in & gun things down" kind of game, it's probably the first of it's kind to bring a gaming titan to heel, as the community itself banded together to defend the title.
Micro-transactions are also very minimal, with the premium credits being something you can get from the war bond or even find in-game.
Overall I would strongly recommend this game to new people & veterans of action based gaming.

UPDATE:
Welcome home, HellJumpers!

Update #2:
The game is so poorly optimized that people across the board are suffering crashes, freezes, & entire PC lock-up...
The game itself is so unique & fun, but the engine is too broken to properly enjoy...

Game was fun in the beginning city.

To kill my wife & highest rank soldier for some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥*t story fluff while going to the second city, then kill my high rank engineer for NOT being in a zone that was attacked, the game isn't getting harder due to mistakes.
Seeing a horde I really can't fight, I abandoned a block to let them take it so I could rally up & try to focus on establishing what I did have left.
So, to kill my engineer who is a full 2 city blocks away, leaving me with 2 Rank 1 survivors & now NO soldiers, this game immediately cranks up the bullsh*t meter & just forces it to be harder.

Do better, you immediately lost my support & I will not be buying any other products from this company if it's just going to be a fake difficulty meter. I want a REAL challenge, not some synthetic p*SS that you claim is a "harder" difficulty.

Up next I shouldn't be surprised if my Leader is critically injured from an attack on the other side of the city that I can't even see? Yeah, shove it.

Great game with decent graphics is heavily marred by the requirement to spend 105$ total on the factions to have them (even in a bots game), & another 41$ to unlock all of the units that belong with said races...

146$ is NOT an acceptable value for the total product, it is extremely predatory.
Even more considering I was able to get this for free during a promotion, 30$ for two factions where I know units that are missing all have separate price tags is a painful bite. It would make way more sense if the game stayed free, maybe even be understandable.

But in this current state that sees more locked behind paywall than any other Warhammer title I own, I would strongly suggest away from this product unless you get it free, & if the DLC prices drop from AAA expectations/ see a merging with the "booster" DLCs hiding other units.

If you love sandbox zombie survival, this game is rather amazing to play with friends!

Neutral preferred, but using negative review because I personally would expect to see the content actually fit well with a paramilitary organization (instead it stands out heavily against most of the gear), any of the customization used will be replaced by armour upgrades (meaning they aren't even cosmetics that will stay without mods or altercations), & the amount of cosmetics in itself is rather light compared to some of the mods that are freely available (with some adding way more alone cosmetically than this offers itself.)

Great gameplay, amazing progress over the years, definitely worth the time. <3

Made even better for those of us who have been patient!
The Dev has been SLAMMING updates out of late!