No it’s cuuuute! :D Also, nothing can go wrong when there’s a corgi familiar

I agree with the textures and progression from sketch to finished illustration, it would be amazing to see! :D

Is the game good? I’ve had it on my Steam wishlist for a while!

Well, I think so?

I mean it depends a bit on what you’re looking for - as someone who tends to find Paradox’ previous grand strategy games really overwhelming and near-impenetrable when trying to get into them, I’ve found Stellaris a good enough balance that I’ve been able to get into it. And I really enjoy the subject matter - creating my own species and empire, going around exploring and colonising space, naming most of the things as I go.

Last game I had a species of friendly sentient geckos who discovered a prophecy in space, became religious collectivists, formed an empire spanning about half of a galactic spiral arm while incorporating all kinds of other species with all kinds of environmental preferences and then went and stomped on two awakening ancient empires to keep them from taking control of the galaxy and ended up the sole hope to stop an invasion of extradimensional energy beings.

While in this game, I’m playing science-focused space parrots that just uplifted the cockroaches that apparently survived a human nuclear war to full sentience and membership of their space nation and I’ve named my primary military fleet We Shall Not Budgie.

It being a Paradox game also means there’s plans for the long haul - there’s been a number of major patches already that have overhauled existing systems and introduced entirely new mechanics to improve the experience, and Paradox are starting to outline what we might expect to see in the upcoming patch 1.5 (codenamed “Banks”) and its accompanying expansion - including reworking empire ethics, adding more agency to populations, making ethics drift a more interesting mechanic, more end-game stuff to further specialise your empire and a lot of other things to that end.

Plus, being a Paradox game it also has a pretty solid mod support meaning there’s already a sizeable number of mods that add or modify various elements, including in-progress conversions to both Star Wars and Star Trek universes.

It’s certainly not perfect by a long shot - there’s a number of bugs that are still hanging around, there’s plenty of things I’m hoping either Paradox or mods will change or add in time, and so forth. But I don’t know of any other game where you can stumble upon the Earth, find that we humans have accidentally glassed ourselves and been replaced by pre-sentient cockroaches, uplift said cockroaches to full sentience and then give them full citizen rights in your space empire.