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Do you Like guns? Do you like a *LOT* of guns? Do you like shooting 7 foot tall hotdogs that try to kill you? Do you like realistic ballistics and weapon handling? Then this is the game for you!

I had this game sitting in my library for years and looked at it, considering picking it back up. I've always loved watching experienced players play this game for hours, and liked to dabble in it myself. However, upon looking at the store page to see what's changed since then, I see they added a new subscription model. At the 6 month model, the cheapest per month, it would have costed $479 for the 8 years of the game's existence leading up to today. The grand total of all DLC leads up to $306.77 + 39.99 for the base game for a total of $346.76 (prices of March 2024). Unless they pickup the pace with released paid content by at least 38%, you're financially better off saving up and buying dlcs individually, dlc's that overall have been rated mediocre at best. I've seen no guarantee that they'll respect it long term, not even the cheapening of existing content to incentivize you to buy into it (an increasingly standard practice in big game studios).

All for a game that notoriously does not run well late game (and has not changed from everything I have read), for a game that through regular major updates, completely changes the basic fundamentals of it's gameplay; Seriously, in 2 years you may not be playing the same game you bought today. I certainly didn't pay for the game I have today. All for a game whose developers (or the publishers holding their leashes), financially speaking, simply do not respect your time and hard earned cash. I generally avoid games that have dlc that total in the hundreds of dollars, it's a genuine shame to see a game that, with time, grew into it.

However, it is even worse to see a game that *knows* it is too expensive for you, that knows you'll cheap out and buy a subscription that slowly will bleed you out even more over the long run, or risk missing out on content. Maybe you'd actually enjoy bits of the content spread out over various dlcs, but not enough to cancel your subscription and purchase it individually, after all, it totals to $306.77. They know it, and they know you know it too. Through this subscription, you will *not* own your game. You will instead pay time and time again for the privilege of simply playing it, and they will rake in all the profits for no effort on their part. Only to produce even more overpriced dlc to further stack onto the cost to increasingly disincentivize future players from considering actually owning their game. In 2 years, it may be over $600 for the whole experience. Who in the world has half a grand for a game? Much of the content almost 10 years old at that? Even then, say you absolutely love the game, and you're purchasing off individual parts to own what you love; You're still paying an unchanging subscription to access what you haven't bought, In a way, you're still purchasing what you've already bought. They will rake in even more money in the long run, all because you dared to love the game they made.

I enjoyed playing Stellaris all those years ago, I may have recommended it then, I considered my money well spent all things considered. However, it seems that with time, the priorities have shifted with those in charge of the game. I pray it's a top dog money man type deal, because under everything, it's a genuinely good game (or at least was when I played it). It's now another diamond in the rough turned hostage in this giant monstrosity that is "modern gaming", a hyper-corporatized world of *money money money* for me, and *gimme gimme gimme* from the people just looking to escape and have fun.

This game is perfect for playing while listening to audiobooks or watching several hour long video essays. I listened to the audiobooks of both 'Man after Man', and 'All Tomorrows' while powerwashing a backyard, a playground, and several assorted vehicles, and I still have plenty of more dirt covered environments and audiobooks left to go!

This version seems to be a unity based mobile port. Not the Original PC version. Besides the addition of microtransactions (they can be entirely ignored through registering, otherwise you have to deal with tokens), the game is absolutely barebones in terms of features.

There is no ability to control which levels you get, you can't save progress, no ability to select backgrounds, you can't have custom snoods (ie. Turn all your snoods into dinosaurs or fruit). You could even customize the frequency of Magic Snoods (Now apparently you can outright buy them?)

I was really excited to play snood again, but this is not the version I was looking for. Immense downgrade. You can still get the original PC version off the site, which has all the missing features I mentioned and more, plus it works perfectly right out of the box, no weird patches or anything, which is why it is so perplexing to me that they'd offer this version instead of the much better older version. I was very disappointed with this steam release.

This game is perfect as something to do while listening to a several hour long video/podcast. The gameplay difficulty isn't so demanding that you'll be unable to listen, but is engaging enough that you always have something to do, even if that's just cruising down a never ending highway in Mad-Maxified Europe.

I had the Mass Effect characters reenact the opening scene from Hotel Mario. Good stuff.