Stellaris: Grand Archive Story Pack Review

Stellaris: Grand Archive is the third and final content drop for the game’s eighth season of DLC. Compared to this year’s excellent The Machine Age update or the visually stunning but divisive Cosmic Storms expansion, Grand Archive is decidedly less ambitious. It’s also less focused, blending a pirate quest, treasure hunting, and monster ranching. While these additions sound promising, they feel too light on substance to feel fully realized.

But that’s not to say it’s bad; it’s just not for everyone. There are impressive changes to fleet dynamics and a customizable set of modifiers to fine-tune various aspects of the game. For Stellaris fans who are excited about the prospect of new ways to micromanage their empires, this DLC is definitely for them.

This new content update is a loose collection of ideas, all tied together through the titular Grand Archive. The Archive itself is a dual-function mega structure that houses two new classes of collectibles: Specimens and... Read more