Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
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Get ready to explore, discover and interact with a multitude of species as you journey among the stars. Forge a galactic empire by sending out science ships to survey and explore, while construction ships build stations around newly discovered planets. Discover buried treasures and galactic wonders as you spin a direction for your society, creating limitations and evolutions for your explorers. Alliances will form and wars will be declared.
Like all our Grand Strategy games, the adventure evolves with time. Because free updates are a part of any active Paradox game, you can continue to grow and expand your empire with new technologies and capabilities. What will you find beyond the stars? Only you can answer that.
Stellaris now includes the base game, three expansion packs, and a collection of digital goods.
Stellaris: Chart a vast, procedurally generated galaxy where every star system holds a new mystery to uncover or an alien civilization to encounter. Forge a unique empire: from your first warp jump to galactic domination, you decide whether the universe remembers you as a benevolent pioneer or a relentless conqueror.
Utopia: Unlock the full potential of your empire with this expansion focused on the evolution of society. Whether you're building mega-structures or ascending to a higher plane of existence, Utopia helps you create a future that’s as bright as the stars themselves.
Synthetic Dawn Story Pack: Take command of a Machine Empire and reshape the galaxy in your own image. Will you lead your mechanical creations to peaceful coexistence, or will the rise of synthetic life spell the end for organics?
Humanoids Species Pack: the most-played phenotype now gains more variety with unique civics and a new origin. Along with their own unique ship class, new portraits, and more, there’s never been a better time to explore the future of humanity.
And on top of this, the Digital Collector’s Book, a Signed Wallpaper, a Unique Forum Avatar and Icon!
Every game begins with a civilization that has just discovered the means to travel between stars and is ready to explore the galaxy. Have your science ships survey and explore anomalies, leading you into a myriad of quests, introducing strange worlds with even stranger stories and discoveries that may completely change your outcome.
With characteristically complex unique planets and celestial bodies, you will enter a whirlwind of spectacles in a highly detailed universe.
Through customization and procedural generation, you will encounter infinitely varied races. Choose positive or negative traits, specific ideologies, limitations, evolutions or anything you can imagine. Interact with others through the advanced diplomacy system. Diplomacy is key in a proper grand strategy adventure. Adjust your strategy to your situation through negotiation and skill.
An eternal cycle of war, diplomacy, suspicions and alliances await you. Defend or attack with fully customizable war fleets, where adaptation is the key to victory. Choose from an array of complex technologies when designing and customizing your ships with the complex ship designer. You have a multitude of capabilities to choose from to meet the unknown quests that await.
Grow and expand your empire with thousands of randomly generated planet types, galaxies, quests and monsters lurking in space.
Customize your Empire! The characters you choose, be it a murderous mushroom society or an engineering reptile race, can be customized with traits like ethics, type of technology, form of preferred space travel, type of habitat, philosophies and more. The direction of the game is based on your choices.
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The gradual enshittification of Stellaris through every new DLC is something that needs to be studied by future video game developers.
Good game big planets
Came from console a few years ago and now the game is stupid and they completely changed the game and all the mechanics and not in a good way. and not having a rollback option for the game before all the cancerous updates is wild.
As you can see, I have a pretty good amount of playtime on this game, I've been playing since it was released. What's the point of playing this game when every single time they release an update it becomes a buggy mess that won't even let you finish a game without crashes, and the devs will go as far as to head off on a summer break while the product I paid for literally doesn't work. They'll patch it in 3 or 4 months, but then they'll just break it again.
DLC Nightmare
玩你妈了b游戏，刚习惯这个流派就因为玛了碧要出新的狗dlc对着旧版一顿乱砍是吧，单机游戏做尼玛的数值平衡，合着平衡就是围绕着你端上来的那坨dlc构思才更新的吗？，吗的改帝国规模改炮击脑，现在好了默认无T槽下全是蛆，小船的存在就是给尼玛t槽AOE爆烟花玩吗
Very good game took me 133.5h to win a game without destroying the settings, dlcs are way too expensive tho they need to fix that ngl
me parece de los jueguitos de gestion más completos que he jugado en mi vida. Las opciones y posibilidades molan un monton y se crean situaciones muy muy interesantes. El ensayo y error de crear tu especie es la hostia. Sinceramente está tremendo. Solo que ojalá las batallas de asedio planetarias, tuvieran modelos 3d, aunque sean genericos para poder verlos. Cosas de autista supongo
Stellaris is a great game, but the way Paradox handles DLCs is getting ridiculous. You keep getting less and less while the prices remain the same or even keep going up. On top of that, they've been using generative AI since around 2024.. you can read the disclosures on the respective Steam pages. Of course I can't prove it, but I think that generative AI has been used in more places than they're actually disclosing, though. Some of the text in the newer DLCs reads very much like it was written by an LLM for example and I'm pretty sure the portraits for the Infernals Species Pack DLC are at least AI assisted. Unfortunately, I only found out about the AI stuff after I'd already bought the newer DLCs and by then it was too late for a refund. I dunno.. I think I'm finally fed up with this. Like I said, it's a really good game at its core, but Paradox really kicks the bucket with how they market and monetize their games.
i wouldn't pay £42 for this game. when you can buy the base game elsewhere for £8 you wont have any dlc's but the price is much more reasonable.
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Languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean
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