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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This is the best space strategy game out there. Bought this game at release and it just keeps getting better.
I used to love this game but unfortunately, the devs have resorted to using AI slop. Even before that, they made alot of weird decisions with this game and kept reworking core gameplay features seemingly every year, usually for the worse and making it more bland or too rigid, giving it less customizable playstyles, experiences or roleplay which was the main draw for me that made me overlook it's flaws initially. The overpriced DLC spam also feels like an actual scam. Do not support these devs or this game, it's not worth your money.
With Stellaris now showing that it is using generative AI in it's development for the core game and DLC, I can no longer recommend this title. AI steals from other people from all levels of talent and it's data centres use costly amount of resources, damages nature and people living nearby. I will not tolerate this in my hobby and will cut other titles that use AI.
Unfortunately, because of the constant updating that breaks mods, along with the AI-generated DLCs and AI code, Stellaris used to be good but has become absolute trash, sadly. Multiplayer is just completely broken it just keeps desyncing and cant even play modded multiplayer.
Uno de esos juegos de los que nunca te cansas. Con dos puntos negativos: Demasiados DLC´s con calidad diversa y muchas veces los productos del workshop hacen que el juego vaya mal (aunque los hay muy interesantes).
Time passes, paid DLCs are churned out, systems are reworked into being completely foreign, content is left in a broken and bugged state in favor of the next cash grab. I adored this game when I started and I hardly even recognize it now. I genuinely wish I could recommend it, in the past I would have even, but now I really can't say enough that you should stay away, and be wary of the general Paradox profit model.
Too many broken DLC that costs the same as an entire game each, with at least one including AI assets. More of a platform to sell DLC than a game, just like everything paradox publishes.
I've enjoyed this game a lot, and bought most of the previous DLCs even though they were quite expensive because I think that artists and writers deserve to get paid for their work; but I cannot justify shelling out money for someone's Chat GPT prompt. When they started stuffing AI generated slop into their product, they lost me as a customer.
Game has become extremely bloated and they keep adding useless functionalities to justify their predatory business practices with DLC nobody needs or wants. Game was ready 10 years ago, let it go. Make new games. You are just making it worse. I have been playing Paradox games since Europa Universalis, so it has been a while. Stellaris is one of my most played games. It used to be good. Then "investors", "executives" and "marketing" swooped in, installed predatory business practices, digital colonialism, nickel and diming customers to death with useless DLCs and all the other crap. Cant suggest anything from predatory company like this. Fix yourself or die.
Love this game. Have still yet to actually win but love it. Why haven't i won? simple. Grand Admiral, Iron Man Mode and over 20 Enemies may be a bit too much. I shall do it though. I was close once but then accidentally opened the L Gates and well the nanite fleets simply tore through mine and everyone else s defenses. I can do it, Juts need time. Worth every penny.
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Languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean
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