While the core gameplay of complete management of everything about your empire is there, it’s simple enough where you can see it easily getting ported to the console without losing much or any of the grand strategy genre’s integrity. There is little information about how Tantalus will handle this task but if the studio is going to try to bring a grand strategy game to the console audience, then Stellaris is a great place to start. Tantalus previously worked with Paradox in bringing its better than Sim City city-builder Cities: Skylines to consoles.

Paradox is once again trusting the folks at Tantalus Media to port its game from the complexity of the keyboard and mouse setup down to the simplicity of a controller. Soon PlayStation 4 and Xbox One users will be able to feel uneasy when a Xenophobic war-mongering species shows up at one of their border planets, and the glory of the Blorg.

For everyone who thought they had an excuse when I asked them why they don’t play grand strategies, think again! This morning ahead of Gamescom, Paradox Interactive announced that its runaway hit Stellaris would be the first grand strategy game to grace home consoles.

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