dare reviewed Stellaris: Infinite Frontiers by Steven Savile
Meh.
2 stars
Video game novel adaptations and tie-ins - are there any good ones? I'm trying to find out.
Stellaris: Infinite Frontiers takes the setting of the game, and tells a very basic, bare-bones science fiction story with it. The epic scale and complicated clash of interstellar civilisations is nowhere to be found; the book only does the bare minimum to qualify as a tie-in. Essentially it's a rather pedestrian story of a very simple anomaly research mission in the early game.
The main characters are uninterestingly humans and no really fascinating aliens turn up either. As a Stellaris player I was rather disinterested, as a sci-fi fan I felt underserved. Rather meh.