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.
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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Posted on: August 17, 2025
TOG84
Verified ownerGames: 240 Reviews: 1
One of the games I always come back to!!
This game has so much depth that I find myself coming back to it over and overagain. The dlcs add new and interesting mechanics to the game! Even if you just get the base game, there is still a lot to enjoy!
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Posted on: September 29, 2025
furyan9x
Verified ownerGames: 1 Reviews: 1
Great game, modding it is a nightmare
I thoroughly enjoy the game. However since the recent updates, trying to use mods has been utterly abysmal. Ive got a mod list that "works", in that i can play the game without crashing, however i discover many things that dont work over the course of a session and end up trying to find the broken mod, removing it/replacing it, and starting a new game. Otherwise the game is epic, i have all dlcs and its just a great time sink and fun to make new empire ideas.
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Posted on: October 1, 2025
Frezzic
Verified ownerGames: 1 Reviews: 1
A messy masterpiece
There are a lot of criticisms that can be made against this game, and most of those are very valid points, especially with the release of the extremely buggy 4.0 that was recently released. Despite this, Stellaris remains one of the most popular and in my opinion one of the best space strategy games out there. The dev team is clearly passionate about this game and there are constant updates to improve and freshen the game, and with the sheer amount of content and options in this game it is practically limitlessly replayable. Even if it's been a while since you've last played, you can just jump back in and start to rediscover the game, and within 15 minutes you're fully immersed in the game. I find it to be the type of game that you have to play to understand how fun it is, as watching it be played really doesn't do it justice. Even then, it's still not everyone's cup of tea, but if you enjoy roleplay, strategy games or just space even the slightest bit, I think this game is worth trying. There's so many options that every person who I have shown this game to has found at least one thing that interested them. And while the large number of DLCs may seem intimidating, they are not necessary to enjoy the game, and it means you can tailor the game to the parts of it that you find interesting. The fact that they are not part of the base game is probably the worst thing about stellaris, but provided you can buy them on sale and enjoy playing the game, you will find them well worth the money:time ratio. As a game that is planned to continue to be worked on for a long time to come, it will have its ups and downs with good updates and bad updates, but in the end it will end up with a better system than the one before, and not many games can say they have had or will have support for such a long time. So despite its flaws, I highly recommend Stellaris as a classic that will only continue to get better
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Posted on: October 7, 2025
asejevu
Verified ownerGames: 3 Reviews: 1
Extremely good game
10/10 recommend, perfect game to pick up when you have nothing to do or for large sessions with friends. Creativity, randomness, its all there. No two games are the same
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Posted on: May 23, 2022
j_m_o_
Verified ownerGames: 93 Reviews: 2
Could be a good game.
I was playing last night and auto save settings were default. I tried to save the game before I got off for the night. However, the game told me there were too many saves for the session. I tried to delete some of the saves but the game would not let me. Now I have lost progress and I will not play again because I don't know if I load game back up if it will start saving again.
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