I used to be really big on strategy and 4x game and as such came across Paradox titles, in the end I was fed up with them with the carrot and stick updates, always one more patch away from a halfway stable game, and then pathetic DLC money draining. Just got sick of them and then when looking at them in depth there wasn't actually that much strategy and more of an excel sheet (yes before the meme.)

Since then I've moved onto bigger and better things such as Slitherine Strategy games; PanzerCorps, Order Of Battle, Field Of Glory Empires. Civilization 4 ect, Dominions ect.

There is a new Space 4x coming out called Astra Exodus that might be good.

Yeah, 20$ for a bundle of portrait DLC. And that's what they call a collection. But before that, those were separate DLC that came with a major DLC, accompanied by music DLC. lol Before they created those collections, the list of DLC on steam store was insane.

Music DLC are absolutely fantastic tho. I mean all music in CKII is an absolute blast.

Oh yes, I did grab a music DLC and it I have to agree, it was totally worth it :)

Then once you learn it, a DLC might change fundamental parts, whether you buy the dlc or not, and you are back to re-learning.

One thing never changed with Paradox, since day one of their existence, to this day, is the music. It's always really good, no matter how old the game is, no matter what game it is.

Oh forgot to mention, the game also actively PUNISHES players who are good at managing their economy by having a storage cap of how many resources you can have at any one time. So you spend hours building up the perfect economy? Sucks to be you because you'll just have to watch your resources waste away at the cap. The megastructures make this even worse.

Oh sorry, disregard this thread, I'm now playing Stellaris again, it's like heroin you're never truly free :(