Once you’ve tried out various empires for yourself, you can build your own based on what you’ve learned and what your overall aim is. For example, on my first game, I colonised too many planets (not realising there was a cap) and recruited too many leaders, leaving me with no Unity. If you’re anything like me, your first few games are likely to be filled with varying degrees of mistakes – ones that you’ll learn not to make again.

You can have a random one chosen for you or you can create your own but h onestly, if you’re just starting out, I’d just pick whichever you like the look of and jump straight in. So, the first thing you’ll need to do is choose an empire that you want to play as. It seems that there’s a lot to learn when it comes to managing an empire in deep space and, while this is far from a comprehensive guide, it should at least give you a good starting point. There’s an option to turn on a full tutorial which will give you pop-up messages whenever you open a menu while the pop-ups themselves can be a little annoying, it’s well worth turning on for your first few games so you can get a basic grasp of what everything does. If you’re new to Stellaris: Console Edition – or strategy games in general – the amount of information thrown at you when you first boot up the game can be overwhelming.

Guide on how to play stellaris