Posted on: August 22, 2024
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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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32.5 hMain
89 h Main + Sides
339 h Completionist
83 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: September 13, 2024
Darrove
Verified ownerGames: 65 Reviews: 1
fun but expensive
It's a great, great sci-fi 4x game, but it being a Paradox game means that it's expensive due to all the dlcs.
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Posted on: September 16, 2024
CommanderTrev
Verified ownerGames: 28 Reviews: 1
Best genocide sim on the market
10/10, blood for the blood god
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Posted on: July 1, 2025
nork_nork
Games: 233 Reviews: 6
Great Idea, meh execution
I have the game on Steam and have put in hundreds of hours. The game is, okay, but disappointing. I love sci-fi and grand strategy games, so this seemed like a no brainer. Unfortunately the execution of the game is lacking. The first few games are tremendously fun, as you haven't seen the universe before and you don't know whats coming. After a few games, you realize that you've seen everything the game has to offer. You get the same events, the same anomalies. Sure, you get different neighbors, but they all feel pretty much the same unless you get unlucky. The tech is the same, the gameplay loop is the same. It gets old fast. It doesn't help that the starts are randomized, meaning unlike in EU4 where you can choose to play a tough nation, every start feels pretty much the same. You can mess around with sliders, but the start of the game will usually feel pretty similar. The only way to really have fun is to role play, but unlike Crusader Kings the roleplay options are limited. It's designed to be a strategy game, not a roleplaying game. Of course, it doesn't help that the devs have changed course multiple times over development and made radical changes to the game. EU4 has had a similar number of DLCs but the core game feels the same, not so here. They have added things to try and address these issues. New events, starting legacies, space faring entities, Unfortunately, most of these are locked behind DLC or you only get very basic options without DLC. Besides, it's a band-aid. It just pushes back the time it takes to realize the game is a mile wide and an inch deep. By no measure is it a terrible game. I get the itch to come back to it every couple of years. Then a play a game and remember why I stopped playing in the first place. It's not bad, just disappointing.
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Posted on: July 19, 2025
jingplusone
Verified ownerGames: 355 Reviews: 1
Game keeps crashing computer on load.
Something is messed up with how the game loads, as most of the time, it floods the CPU processes to a complete crawl, where not even external USB devices remain responsive. Sometimes, outright complete hang of entire PC, other times, it seems to load to about 30 percent until the game itself outright crashes. Every once in a while after multiple reboots, it might actually load into the game, and in those cases it runs smoothly without issue. This might be one of those games where you want a dedicated machine that you keep on and you just never close the application to avoid the crashing on load. The game itself seems fun but also not very beginner friendly. I feel like I should have read a technical manual on the game before starting the game even when playing with the tutorial and tool tips on.
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