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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...
Critics reviews
77 %
Recommend
Game Informer
8.3/10
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Recommended
PC Gamer
70/100
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3.8/5

( 428 Reviews )

3.8

428 Reviews

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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
Stellaris: Leviathans Story Pack, Stellaris: BioGenesis, Stellaris: Grand Archive, Stellaris: Distan...
Time to beat
31.5 hMain
89 h Main + Sides
339 h Completionist
83.5 h All Styles
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.

 

FREE UPDATE HISTORY

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Starter Edition
Galaxy Edition
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e-book
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Stellaris: Utopia DLC
Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn Story Pack
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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
31.5 hMain
89 h Main + Sides
339 h Completionist
83.5 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04), Mac OS X (10.15+)
Release date:
{{'2016-05-09T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
Size:
12.7 GB

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Posted on: October 9, 2019

DavidBai

Verified owner

Games: 31 Reviews: 1

Review undergoing

Just started play this game for a few hours, and i realized it is very difficult to begin with. The tutorial part is not good at all, i hate to say, but it tooks me serval tries to just figure out how to play the game. After some researching online, finally, i finish the first tutorial quest. We will see how it goes later. Btw, this game feels like Civialization.


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Posted on: April 3, 2020

msoos

Verified owner

Games: 190 Reviews: 5

Great game but sloppy AI

I love this game, I have spent 50 hours playing it at this point, and it's incredibly detailed and very entertaining. I can just get lost in it. The only thing I miss is a much smarter AI. Apparently, there is a mod for it, though: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?l=german&id=692253918 but it really ought to be part of the game, rather than a mod.


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Posted on: December 10, 2021

wonderful game.Much fun for many hours.

I´m no veteran of 4x games or grand strategy or any of that sort. I mean I played CKIII a bit and Planetfall ,AOW3 etc but not for the thousands of hours some people have put into those types of games. I was looking for something complex you could pour many hours into, and this came recommended. This has many knobs and dials to turn with many game systems not always easy to understand with a glance, that´s what makes it fun. Theres very little downtime there´s always somewhere you can optimise or something to click on managing your space empire. I think of the reasons I got hooked on Stellaris is even though theres many obscured systems you won´t see just looking at the map ,initially there is the instant gratification and easy to understand , "if I click here this little ship flies here" presentation combined with the "events" that are just small text popups with little stories in them and I found them very (some very very very good basis for a sci-fi mystery movie or novel level) interesting sci-stories. I still haven´t seen anywhere near all of them I still get new things happening after having played for 70+ hours. I did spend some time on youtube looking at tutorials and guides to understand how some of the systems worked but even before I understod them the game was for the reasons mentioned fun to play as I was learning. game is not perfect but any issues I have with the game are minor compared to how much I enjoy it. I got the game and most of the dlc except a couple of the species packs on the sale and combined it was about the price of a AAA blockbuster at full release price. Definetly worth it.


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Posted on: August 3, 2019

Natedrummer

Verified owner

Games: 235 Reviews: 20

Great video game

The music, gameplay and mechanics are spot on. Its Civ in space, and you can modify anything. I start playing and then the sun starts setting and I wonder where the weekend went. Time to be a wage slave again


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Posted on: October 2, 2018

adambat

Games: 124 Reviews: 4

A realy good game

Why did this game take so long to come to GOG. I already own this game on steam and I sunk a lot of hours in to it. It was really good getting all new version because with each major update the mechanics of the game changes so much that you actually got a brand new game (for free). And a new change is coming soon so I will again spend hours on this game.


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