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Recommended with a big warning light. The best of recent DLC for the game, but considering how garbage the DLC has become this is not a glowing endorsement. Wouldn't be a Stellaris DLC without major disappointments the Devs seemingly went out of their way to insert into the game for no reason other than to f* with their customers so they forget their pathetic lives for a few moments while they laugh at their customers. True there's a lot here that will add to the game, improved species customization traits and kilo structures are good, lots of additional art, they synthwave tracks are nice, but if you were hoping to run a civilization that transforms to a virtual civilization (a IRL goal people are pushing towards) that option is missing. I guess the Devs thought no one would play their stupid Virtuality origin if people had the option to avoid it so you can only transform biological civilization into a virtual one if your species is dying Children of Men style - yes, we all saw that movie Devs you are not fooling anyone into thinking you are creative geniuses. Is this a pointlessly stupid restriction? Why yes, welcome to Stellaris the land of f*ing with your customers out of sadistic spite. As with all recent DLC the origins are just one shot amateur scifi stories that the devs really shouldn't be so proud of.

Light Police Officer Role Play. Light Combat. Light Story. Good presentation. Good game length. Minimal backtracking. Full spectrum of selectible difficulty.
Overall a fun shallow game. You'll get roughly 20 hours of story then you can grind to max out Robocop if that's your thing. I bought on sale so it cost me a buck an hour and I feel satisfied with the time and money spent.

I bought the whole bundle just for Generals and Zero hour single player game. These work fine. Have experienced zero crashes. I understand the older games require third party patches. Doesn't effect me.

Single player version plays very well on a modern machine. I understand some of the older titles in the bundle require work around fixes, but this worked fine for me.

(Update! Not recommending unless you're comfortable paying for something you will only use a couple of times. This is the only DLC I disable. Went from okayish to fricking annoying after five games)
Adds a new kind of branching archaeology site to the game, rifts, that become available mid game to give your explorer ships something to do. Exploring rifts is almost identical to archaeology digs except you have choices you can make that change the outcome. Adds a couple of techs, another origin good for a single play through and a couple of civics. Have not encountered any bugs or crashes. Really was hoping for gateways to mirror universe maps considering the price, but I'm not reviewing this based on price. The very definition of "adds a little more" DLC, and is at the bottom of the story packs in terms of what it adds. If you want more story stuff, can afford the price, and already have the other story packs, then this is for you.

UPDATE! The game has been updated. This improves a few things. Everything else I said still stands. The game is perfectly adequate.
Recommended with a few points of note. Most importantly DO THE MAIN QUEST LAST pretty much when you're done with the game do the Constellation questline as it is the worst and changes the way the game plays so you miss out on things if you do it first.
Second this is a Bethesda game. These games have their fans. I am not one. There is a lot of grind (you can use console commands to skip grind), but the games are buggy, glitchy and Bethesda is not going to do much to fix them. Crashes are rare but you need to save early and save often or you'll be repeating potentially hours of gameplay.
Third this game has the best NPCs Bethesda has ever written. That's not saying much because their writing generally stinks, but this is perfectly acceptable. Which best describes this game. Perfectly acceptable.

(EDIT: 32 hours in scroll down to the UPDATE. TLDR full of glitches, bugs, woke messaging and grooming - not safe for children.)
At the two hour mark. Horrifically over-hyped pathetic successor to the original Baldur's Gate games.
Generic writing. Bland dialog. Linear story with the over used "you're dying therefore you must" to force you down a linear path. No actual gameplay to speak of. Dice roll combat pads out the game with reloads since random numbers drive success or failure. Lean on that quick save because you will be reloading and repeating the same garbage over because a goblin went John Wick with lucky shots and one shot your crew. What will you do different? Nothing, the tactical element of Baldur's Gate and Shadows of Amn is gone. Remember how in proper D&D some encounters let you feel like a badass and others humble you? None of that here. You can take on the end boss as a level one because it's just the roll of the dice and if you reload and reroll enough you will win. In large part this is a 5th edition problem. The original game was AD&D aka 2nd edition. It was wonky but it worked. 3rd edition tried to rip off World of Warcraft mechanics and was a disaster. 4th edition tried to fix that. 5th edition is D20, the generic all purpose, no depth role playing system. This game is D20. D20 is boring. This game is boring.
Endless replayability? How? Why? You're playing through the exact same story beat for beat. There is an overt "THIS IS THE CORRECT CHOICE AND YOU WILL BE PUNISHED FOR DOING ANYTHING ELSE" every step of the way. Maybe some unique dialog choices! Okay, I'm only two hours in so maybe in the fifth hour the game opens up? Maybe in the twentieth hour it lets me make a decision that will impact the story, but I'm dubious.
UPDATE 32 Hours In
The whole gaming community is being played for fools. There is a hype bandwagon driven by an agenda at work here claiming this is the quality gamers want - so it sounds pro gamer.
Quality? That is a big fat lie.
I was sneaking through a dungeon, scouting, and opened a door. This prompted the door to go into a quantum state where it was both open and closed at the same time. You could walk through the door, but it blocked line of sight - made the fight that triggered a bit challenging. I've seen dead bodies glitch out so bad they cover the whole map in dead body spaghetti. I've seen goblins with 4 (total) hit points go John Wick and wipe out my entire party in a single turn. The game is far buggier than my experience with Cyberpunk 2077 when that game launched.
Aside from the bugs there are the mechanics. Try to ambush an enemy from hiding? That gives you a single free shot from one character and then your party goes into "surprised" and is stun locked for the enemy to get two free turns. Because you aren't supposed to be playing a stealth character. Ranged weapons are OP while melee weapons are pathetically weak - a short bow routinely does more damage than a two handed sword. Oh, and I can not forget to mention the games habit of having your party stumble onto people having s3x and forcing you to watch a cut scene of it. Usually g@y s3x. Because grooming.
But let us not just dwell on the fixable f* ups. There is your very intentional party of NPCs who basically all deserve to die - they're all a*holes. The best of the lot eats your magical loot because he has a well deserved curse, and then there's the vampire who is supposed to be a good guy because he normally only eats poor people, however if your character is male prepare to be harassed for g@y s3x every time you stop to rest... because grooming. Round out the cast with the race supremacist, the murderous girl boss and let us not forget the good guy who willingly sold his soul to a demon. Did I miss one? Oh yeah, a Drow race supremacist - this game loves the racists, and a Druid... he's a generic hippy dippy type. There are a few more I haven't met.

This game has been out for a few years so you'd think at the very least the tutorial would work. No. At some point they changed what keys default to do what action and the tutorial has never been updated. So it tells you to push a button to accomplish a task and nothing happens. Looked up a tutorial for the tutorial online and that's equally useless since they all reference the old keys. So do I spend a few hours remapping the keys to the old layout or refund? Refund.

Basically you get the gene lord origin, some agendas, more trait options and two extra council slots that can be unlocked slowly over the course of play. The traits can be very powerful. Having more trait options can make for some very counter intuitive strategies. None of this is necessary, but if you're a roleplay player then you'll want this.
I'm not going to cost analyse this. I rarely cost analyze games or DLC. People saying this is worth X amount but not Y amount is pointlessly dependent on a particular context heavy point of view.

Fail. This is basically the first game but as someone's terrible fan fic. You now have a voiced protagonist who is an obnoxious, not at all self aware, self insert from the writer. A game should not aspire to be a fan fic. We the players are the protagonist. When you take that away from us to force us to play as the writer's idealized self all we can see is what a @#$%* you are. And now every time you start getting into the game you'll get pulled out of immersion by this @#$%* who goes on and on about how much you the player care about their personal social struggle. Oh, everything else is better than the first game, but the fan fic nature of the game makes it not recommendable.