I'm just hoping this clears the way for more Paradox games in unexpected genres. Give me Crusader Kings 3: Dancing All Night.
: a VR"action-roguelite set in Paradox’s sci-fi milieu" for the Meta Quest 2. It comes from Fast Travel Games, who also made aIt's called Ghost Signal: A Stellaris Game, and it looks very Star Trek indeed. You play the captain of the good ship Aurora as it ventures into the void on a quest for the titular ghost signal emanating from somewhere in the unplumbed depths of space.
Along the way, you'll meet—and probably destroy—all sorts of familiar Stellaris aliens: the trailer shows encounters with space amoebas, the leviathan Shard, and a stellar devourer all in the space of 55 seconds. It doesn't look like the game has completely shed its 4X roots, mind you. You can research new species as you encounter them—just like in Stellaris—and progress up a tech tree to unlock new stuff for your ship. Beyond that, though, it's a full-on roguelite, replete with"randomized maps and reshuffled discoveries".
I'm kind of curious to know how random those randomised maps are. The beauty of Stellaris is that, unless you're deliberately playing alongside the pre-generated empires, your opponents are generated from the same bric-à-brac of ideologies and physical traits that you are.
We shouldn't have to wait long to find out: Ghost Signal will launch some time in 2023. If you just can't wait to drift between the stars, though, Stellaris is still one of the