Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn

Paradox Development Studio · Sep 21, 2017

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Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn is a story pack for Paradox’s sci-fi Grand Strategy Game, providing an all-new way for players to establish their empire across the stars: as an entire civilization of artificial beings. Players will have the option to start the game as a Machine Empire -- a society made up entirely of robots. Unique game features and event chains will allow the synths to expand as a robot hivemind, and create an AI-led network that grows to galactic dominance.

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Critic 6.8 (3 critics) · Gamer 7.2

Critic reviews

Cubed3
Eric Ace · Sep 30, 2017
5.0
For players wanting to act as machines, it is going to be a fun expansion, but the amount of content is very thin. The lack of cities and ships for the machine empire comes off as cheap, and the entire race feels like a re-kin of hive mind mechanics. Those looking for something new or substantial will not find it here. Sure, those who love Stellaris to death will surely find something in Synthetic Dawn, but wayward fans will not find redemption in this expansion.
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Game Watcher
T.J. Denzer · Sep 22, 2017
8.0
In the end, Synthetic Dawn adds a good amount of content onto the core Stellaris game for a reasonably small investment. It doesn’t do everything perfectly and could use some mid-campaign meat, but the machine races certainly set themselves apart from their organic counterparts in a grand slew of ways that are fun to interact with and play.
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Multiplayer.it
Simone Tagliaferri · Sep 26, 2017
7.5
Dopo l'eccezionale Utopia, con Synthetic Dawn Story Pack i DLC di Stellaris tornano a percorrere strade più tradizionali, con contenuti più specifici e, inevitabilmente, limitati. Guidare l'impero delle macchine è interessante, sia per le nuove meccaniche legate alle tre razze, sia per i risvolti nell'evoluzione delle partite, in particolare quelli narrativi, nonostante la mancanza di contenuti di metà gioco più mirati e la riproposizione di dinamiche ormai ben conosciute dagli appassionati.
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