I can definitely play Stellaris, but I don’t think I can win Stellaris. It’s a pattern for me with long-running strategy games that have definite win conditions - I can often play competently enough to comfortably avoid defeat well into a game, but when it comes down to sealing the deal in the endgame, there’s some crucial mistake I made or aspect I’ve neglected that leaves me in an unwinnable position.
It’s part of why I never really got into Civilization. More recently it happened to me when I tried playing Terra Invicta, when it turned out I had needed to seriously scale up my combat capabilities far, far earlier than I had been.
I can definitely play Stellaris, but I don’t think I can win Stellaris. It’s a pattern for me with long-running strategy games that have definite win conditions - I can often play competently enough to comfortably avoid defeat well into a game, but when it comes down to sealing the deal in the endgame, there’s some crucial mistake I made or aspect I’ve neglected that leaves me in an unwinnable position.
It’s part of why I never really got into Civilization. More recently it happened to me when I tried playing Terra Invicta, when it turned out I had needed to seriously scale up my combat capabilities far, far earlier than I had been.