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For anyone unfamiliar, Stellaris is a grand strategy game where you assume the role of a fledgling space-faring society; colonizing new planets, meeting other alien civilizations, and otherwise asserting yourself on the galactic stage through the use of technology, diplomacy, and military. As with most strategy games there's quite a lot of information at your fingertips and bit of a learning curve to understand all the mechanics at work.

This style of game is obviously suited to mouse and keyboard, but Tantalus (the same folks who ported Paradox's Cities: Skylines console edition) have done a commendable job of adapting it to work well on a controller. The first few go-rounds will be intimi