Stellaris

The house commanded 354 viewers in 2018 for Stellaris, Paradox's grand strategy space opera. Two years after its 2016 launch, StreamerHouse jumped in during the 2.0 mega-update that overhauled FTL travel and warfare. The streams mixed tall versus wide empire strategies, first contact protocols, and the occasional genocide when machine empires got too uppity. The year was 2018, when Stellaris was still finding its identity through major patches, and the house documented the growing pains of a 4X game trying to balance roleplay with competitive meta. Viewers watched multi-hour sessions of careful expansion punctuated by crisis events that threatened the entire galaxy, proving that Paradox's slowest-burn strategy game could still hold an audience's attention.