Anyone play Stellaris?

[Burticus]

So I picked this up in a recent bundle deal on the cheap... getting tired of Civ and this one got good reviews for a space 4X and the bundle came with a ton of DLCs.

I tried to play a game and was totally lost. I have watched 4 hours of YT videos explaining things and I am still lost. This thing appears to be deeper than I had hoped for.

Anyone here play it (recently 2.7+) ? Suggestions on getting started? I tire quickly of the talky YT vids and lets play stuff. I was hoping it would have a tutorial mode but not really that I can tell.

Looks kinda cool but I hope I didn't just waste $12 or whatever I spent on it.

 

[Dogsofjune]

I have it, but it appears I have only played it for .3 hours. It struck me as a decent time waster, but I just never wasted time with it

 

[Daniel_Doty]

I've looked at it several times and kind of thought that there would be a ton of micromanagement in the game.

 

[Armenius]

Reading reviews for this just leaves me confused. It's on Game Pass for PC and consoles, so I was just going to give it a go through that.