Stellar Monarch 2 Reviews

great game, really gives you the feel of controlling a vast empire. Dev is awesome and open with the community and development.

"One more turn!" Turn based, asymmetric (- AI have different roles / goals than player) sandbox, with a few different mid-game / end-game crisis types, some of which can be avoided, if you play smart. Once you get a feel, try harder difficulties or different starting conditions / game-modes. Worth around 35h per playthrough I would guess. Three different game modes, thus depending on wether you like the game enough to play more game modes and higher difficulties the actual game time might be a multiple of that. Balancing during events (different "currency" investments vs outcomes) often makes "best"/"most economic" choices pretty obvious, which isn't necessarily a bad thing; rarely it seems worth investing in the more expensive options. Never enough Focus Points though, so especially at harder difficulties you have to choose wisely. As for optimizing combat: currently there is only a single Guide, and some mechanics have changed: e.g. fighters now do half damage vs shielded, instead of aborting their bombing run. - Still: Read the Guide (and the comments below). - A lot of the combat system is a bit obscure at first, but can be optimized, once you figure out what you want. Edit: ended up playing 100h; One standard game at diificulty 5, 7 and 9 each. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3487130926

Got back into this game after the DLC and loving it so far, hope the dev continues to update and maintain the game with free updates/DLCS for the far future, one piece of advice id like to give is to maybe make reading reports from your empire more easier/intuitive in the UI, maybe have a event every turn where you are presented with all the important events in your country (with the ability for the player to customise/add priority to what events hed like to see).