Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion - Stellar Phenomena® DLC

Interesting content. I'm glad the developers continue to support the game.

This adds more depth and forces a player to strategize. Especially later in the game where every small choice matters for a win or lose situation.

A very small addon, but it helps make things a little more interesting.

The added star types are mostly annoying to get stuck with and random events mostly means constant CME's to shut your orbital structures down.

great depth. great diversity of races. balanced well between the 3 (6) races. always a fun time

Really fun game, unless the pirates single you out for half the game and the other half is a NPC launching nuke warheads at you literally every 30 seconds for 3 hours. lol Needless to say, I lost that game. However I had loads of fun and would recommend this game!

This DLC just add some random forgettable effects to the universe, I'd say pass on this one unless you're a completionist. If it's on sale for 1 or 2 dollar though it might be a nice addition.

With Sin's slightly lacking amount of diversity, a little DLC pack like this can really make the game seem a little more flavorful, though I only reccomend buying it during a sale.

Honestly a good little DLC for its prize. Worth it, adds a bit of flavor and the random events can cripple you. Probably won't really bother you in a game against AI but in games against players they can turn it around sometimes.

This dlc is strange for me to explain. While it does put out game changing content that adds a random variable and interesting ideas, some of it is rather counter-intuitive to the elements of the original game, not to mention the stuff added feels like something that should have already been in the game to start with. The dlc adds some rather interesting ideas to the game. For one, it follows the concept of the forbidden worlds dlc by adding variation to the galaxy, particularly in the star types. Black Holes, pulsars, and neutrons all add a danger to their systems depending on which one you have for a star and make that area harder to protect, forcing any star strategies one might have pretty much useless depending on what you get. Black Holes slowly damage ships, Pulsars disable abilities (I think), and Neutrons slow ships to a crawl. Regular star types still exist, but they are now much harder to have spawn in unless you are playing a custom map. The anomalies are probably one of the few things this dlc has going for it. The 6 anomalies add a new level of strategy to games as most are rather benefical and can be found on practically any premade map. Random events are the last thing this dlc brings to the table, luckily however, compared to the other additions, these can be manually turned off in the map setup. There are 11 events and can range from magnetic storms wreaking havoc on a planet to a global market crash in your empires economy; sometimes stars will shoot gases as well along with enemy empires supposedly "sensing" weakness in your planets. For the most part, they are all annoying and pretty much work against you as the game progresses. It is interesting, however, to use these in multiplayer games as you can use a few of them to your advantage against another player. The question I know everyone is going to ask, is it worth the $5? Well..... Kinda. Like the forbidden worlds dlc, it adds interesting ideas to the mix to give some spice to your galaxy on one side of a coin. But on the other side, the dlc is rather poorly executed on how it delivers the content, more of it is just plain out annoying than it is fun and really does feel like it should have already been in the game to start with, particualry the random events and stars. I still recommend it as it is kinda interesting and the anomalies are rather helpful. I highly suggest to wait for a sale before buying it, you'd be much better off. Overall, I give this dlc a 6/10, worth getting, just not worth $5.