Posted on: May 11, 2025
Axelthir
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EPIC SCI-FI
Stellaris is one of the most EPIC SCI-FI games ever developed. It's one of Paradox master pieces.
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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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31.5 hMain
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: June 15, 2025
2L84H8M8
Games: 96 Reviews: 3
not great not terrible
Great concept and setting, fun to play. lots of microtransactions/DLC that should´ve been part of the base game or as free updates. kinda hard to figure out how to play properly without having having google open on the 2nd monitor.
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Posted on: October 21, 2024
Rittz420
Verified ownerGames: 111 Reviews: 1
I just got an std from this.
It auto installed a launcher without permission. Instantly uninstalled. I'd refund if the game wasn't free. Fuck off.
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Posted on: November 18, 2021
klampshaw
Verified ownerGames: 54 Reviews: 36
A great game with insane fans
I stumbled upon this game after a disastrous run of Star Control 2. Stellaris scratches that itch and more. Granted, it's not a better game. In a way it can be better thought of as a sandbox than a strategy game: build yourself a little world, and play in it. That's fine for me, however a bit more emphasis on overarching scenario plots and the potential for character development would be appreciate. You can safely ignore the review bombing this game gets every time a DLC is released, because the fanbase are completely out of their minds. Hopefully this game distracts them somewhat from strangling cats and putting bananas in car tailpipes, or whatever it is that they normally do in their free time.
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Posted on: January 6, 2023
Honers_Maximus
Verified ownerGames: 132 Reviews: 4
The game is broken.
The game does not function properly. I got an end-game bug that ruined the game and essentially prevented me from finishing it. The bug was reported on the official Paradox forums last year, and has gotten no response. 0 / 5
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