Posted on: December 14, 2018
Lakilucky
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Crossplay doesn't work
Crossplay with Steam doesn't work as intended. I'm getting a refund and buying it from Steam.
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Stellaris
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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.
DEEP AND VARIED EXPLORATION
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.
STUNNING SPACE VISUALS
With characteristically complex unique planets and celestial bodies, you will enter a whirlwind of spectacles in a highly detailed universe.
INFINITE VARIATION OF SPECIES AND ADVANCED DIPLOMACY
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.
INTERSTELLAR WARFARE
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.
ENORMOUS PROCEDURAL GALAXIES
Grow and expand your empire with thousands of randomly generated planet types, galaxies, quests and monsters lurking in space.
PLAY THE WAY YOU WANT
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.
FREE UPDATE HISTORY
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89 h Main + Sides
339 h Completionist
83.5 h All Styles
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8.3/10
A series of small tasks makes Stellaris easy to jump into, but hard to put down without completing that "one last thing"
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Recommended
Stellaris is the Paradox grand strategy game you need to play.
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70/100
The early game promises an instant strategy classic, but Stellaris is unable to maintain that pace.
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Posted on: January 12, 2019
barfolemu1998
Verified ownerGames: 147 Reviews: 1
Ridiculous end game....
Up until the end it's fun, but I can't finish it. At the end, a race appears, I can beat every fleet they send at me, but they are producing so fast I can't even get close. Even though I lost only a few ships per battle, by the end they are still out producing me. Tried 3 times, deleting. A game this frustrating isn't worth playing. Waste of money.
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Posted on: April 12, 2022
toupz111
Games: 355 Reviews: 38
Not drm-free
paradox sucks !
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Posted on: June 8, 2025
X-Codes
Verified ownerGames: 196 Reviews: 9
Broken Patch
Patch 4.0 has ruined the game. So many game mechanics are just completely nonfunctional and will be introduced into the game by the randomly generated AI empires in a broken state. Balance work also just hasn't been done on the core gameplay. Absolutely do not buy this game or any DLC for it at all until at least 2026. That's how catastrophically broken it is right now.
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Posted on: April 30, 2021
MaciejKrok
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 47
Better than EUIV in some areas.
I like Paradox's grand strategy games for the most part and this one, along with CK2, is my favourite one. This game has excellent customization options, beautiful graphics (singularities, anyone?), superb early game with all the exploration and ancient secrets of the galaxy just begging to be discovered (and discover them you will), very nice tech tree (although not very well explained in -game), interesting and distinct choices, dormant ancient empires, megastructures, secret worlds and much, much more. Colonizing phase is good, conflict phase is just OK and when you play the game long enough, the end game crisis begins, and they are also excellent finale-type quests. Plus, the multiplayer in this game is fun too. The bad: it's a Paradox Grand strategy game with all its flaws: complicated systems, super long time to play, pretty boring late game, generally becoming less excited as time goes by, predictible AI and conquest paths for most of the game. Plus, the biggest flaw for me is the amount of expansions Paradox made. First, its really confusing. Second, the price of the game is easily tripled when you include the expansions. Third, the game becomes really bloated when you install most of them. Overall, I rate the base game as 8, and expanded by some (for the love of god, don't buy them all!) of the expansions to be about 9.
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