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Stellaris

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3.8/5

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3.8

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Stellaris
Description
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...
Genre:
Strategy - Real-time - Sci-fi
Tags:
Strategy, Atmospheric, Sci-fi, Exploration, Science, show 10 more... Great Soundtrack, Management, Multiplayer, Sandbox, Real-Time, Space, Procedural Generation, Military, Grand Strategy, 4X
Critics reviews
77 %
Recommend
Game Informer
8.3/10
Eurogamer
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PC Gamer
70/100
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3.8/5

( 443 Reviews )

3.8

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Product details
2016, Paradox Development Studio, ...
System requirements
Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit, Intel® iCore™ i3-530 or AMD® FX-6350, 4 GB RAM, Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 460 or...
DLCs
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Time to beat
32.5 hMain
89 h Main + Sides
339 h Completionist
83 h All Styles

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Description

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.

 

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Stellaris: Utopia DLC
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Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
32.5 hMain
89 h Main + Sides
339 h Completionist
83 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Game details
Genre:
Strategy - Real-time - Sci-fi
Tags:
Strategy, Atmospheric, Sci-fi, Exploration, Science, show 10 more... Great Soundtrack, Management, Multiplayer, Sandbox, Real-Time, Space, Procedural Generation, Military, Grand Strategy, 4X
Works on:
Windows (10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04), Mac OS X (10.15+)
Release date:
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Company:
Paradox Development Studio / Paradox Interactive
Size:
12.7 GB
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DLCs
Stellaris: Leviathans Story Pack
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Critics reviews
81
Top Critic Average
77 %
Critics Recommend
OpenCritic Rating
Game Informerby Ben Reeves
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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Eurogamerby Christopher Bratt
Recommended
Stellaris is the Paradox grand strategy game you need to play.
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PC Gamerby Phil Savage
70/100
The early game promises an instant strategy classic, but Stellaris is unable to maintain that pace.
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Posted on: November 20, 2020

pjdodd

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Games: 107 Reviews: 64

A Micro-Managers Wet Dream

It looks nice. I like the race selection set-up and all the options available at the start. I hate the UI - it's dis-organised in a way that bears no relation to what you need to do moment to moment. Playing Stellaris at a larger resolution is even worse because it simply amplifies the blunt fact that popups and dialog choices literally come on screen from all directions in no logical order. Once you become acccustomed to the ghastly UI (I never really did) the over-whelming throbbing clicking tedium of it all sinks in. For a grand strategy to have so many little, annoying, boring choices to make is nothing short of an amazing failure. I was bored because micro-management is the gameplay loop...in this grand strategy. Dialog. Choice. A couple of stats change. Dialog. Choice. A couple of stats change. Dialog. Choice. A couple of stats change. Dialog. Choice. A couple of stats change. Dialog. Choice. A couple of stats change. Dialog. Choice. A couple of stats change. Dialog. Choice. A couple of stats change. Dialog. Choice. A couple of stats change. Dialog. Choice. A couple of stats change. Dialog. Choice. A couple of stats change. Dialog. Choice. A couple of stats change. Dialog. Choice. A couple of stats change. Dialog. Choice. A couple of stats change. Dialog. Choice. A couple of stats change. Dialog. Choice. A couple of stats change. Dialog. Choice. A couple of stats change. Dialog. Choice. A couple of stats change. Dialog. Choice. A couple of stats change. Dialog. Choice. A couple of stats change. Dialog. Choice. A couple of stats change. Dialog. Choice. A couple of stats change. Dialog. Choice. A couple of stats change. If Stellaris didn't have the dressing of it's space theme it would have sunk without a trace and wouldn't have an excuse for the crapola of DLC it offers. I was so bored with Stellaris I went digging through the installation,.... I love the fact there's an actual silence.wav sound file. Then I deleted Stellaris forever.

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Posted on: October 3, 2024

Perimal

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Games: 22 Reviews: 1

Stellaris

It's not the game I originally bought. Still good but now losing stars. Power creep is increasingly destroying the game.

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Posted on: April 30, 2023

Chaosmik

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Games: 23 Reviews: 3

Good concept but bad AI

Love the concept of it, but the AI in late game is impossible. Not balanced at all

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Posted on: March 14, 2025

nichongben

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Games: 19 Reviews: 2

I love this game

Born too late to explore the world. Born tool early to explore the galaxy. Born in time to play Stellaris.

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Posted on: March 30, 2025

SuicideSquadie

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Games: 80 Reviews: 1

It's Stellaris.

It's also Paradox, so therefore has a trash monetization system. But I still enjoy the game.

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