Lots of things to do and plenty of statistics to monitor as you use the Windows interface to direct your game. Technology upgrades, alien race generator, colonize new worlds, build fleets of ships, and other features . Stars is a very complex game with lots to do and many things to monitor and manage. The screens are filled with details with a small one-quarter screen window out into the Stars. Most of the windows are numeric and bar chart read outs of the various statistics.
Stars has lots of micromanagement to keep up with.
Pretty straight forward, mostly windows based menu systems with simple graphics. You can run the game at 640 x 480 pixels resolution and it will work fine on a high end pentium. The game can run at 1024 x 768 pixels which causes the details to stand out and allow you to really appreciate and view the complexity. There is an online tutorial to deal with the steep learning curve. The manual has a great section to get you started quickly.