Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
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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.
Stellaris now includes the base game, three expansion packs, and a collection of digital goods.
Stellaris: Chart a vast, procedurally generated galaxy where every star system holds a new mystery to uncover or an alien civilization to encounter. Forge a unique empire: from your first warp jump to galactic domination, you decide whether the universe remembers you as a benevolent pioneer or a relentless conqueror.
Utopia: Unlock the full potential of your empire with this expansion focused on the evolution of society. Whether you're building mega-structures or ascending to a higher plane of existence, Utopia helps you create a future that’s as bright as the stars themselves.
Synthetic Dawn Story Pack: Take command of a Machine Empire and reshape the galaxy in your own image. Will you lead your mechanical creations to peaceful coexistence, or will the rise of synthetic life spell the end for organics?
Humanoids Species Pack: the most-played phenotype now gains more variety with unique civics and a new origin. Along with their own unique ship class, new portraits, and more, there’s never been a better time to explore the future of humanity.
And on top of this, the Digital Collector’s Book, a Signed Wallpaper, a Unique Forum Avatar and Icon!
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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Reviews
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Reviews
Time passes, paid DLCs are churned out, systems are reworked into being completely foreign, content is left in a broken and bugged state in favor of the next cash grab. I adored this game when I started and I hardly even recognize it now. I genuinely wish I could recommend it, in the past I would have even, but now I really can't say enough that you should stay away, and be wary of the general Paradox profit model.
stellaris is a cash cow that's threatening to burst. i've reached a point where i can't recommend this to anyone. [b]tldr; Paradox gave us something that was really good for a while and then bogged it down with incomplete releases at high prices for downloadable content that should have been in the base game.[/b] look, i LOVED this game. i played so much of it nonstop for hours and hours and hours- hours spent mainly in single player with a handful of private lobbies as well. it was [i]fun[/i], plain and simple; immersive, vast, and full of unknowns and with so, so much replayability. but if you look at it nowadays, there are DLCs left, right, and center with [i]season passes[/i] for future releases, AND [i]subscription services[/i] for if you don't want to spend, as of the time writing this, [b]$375 USD[/b] to own your own copies of. don't get me wrong, a majority of the DLCs' added some really fun stuff that, in my opinion, [i]should have been in the base game already[/i], but instead of pushing it out as a patch, it's just another chance to milk consumers dry. so why is it that Paradox can't be bothered to finish their products before release date just to sell it to us at ridiculous prices for what's less than the bare minimum? the rampant greed lives on as a significant problem that's additionally punctuated by Paradox [i]using gen AI on multiple assets and content[/i]. Paradox is a significant studio full of many talented people. why are things being relegated to AI at all? there are people that can be paid to do better work with better longevity, but that's what feeds back into the overall greed of the company. AI doesn't need to be paid. Paradox isn't footing the bills for the data centers (which is a whole other issue of ethics that isn't the topic here). [b]if Paradox cannot be assed to make their own games, then i cannot be assed to purchase [i]any[/i] of their products.[/b]
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Latest in each market: best RU #75, worst FR #98 · 6 markets collected
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Languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean
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Uno de esos juegos de los que nunca te cansas. Con dos puntos negativos: Demasiados DLC´s con calidad diversa y muchas veces los productos del workshop hacen que el juego vaya mal (aunque los hay muy interesantes).
星系探索、艦艇建造、銀河を征服。 無限に時間が解けるゲームです。 ・自分の国を設定してスタンスを決めて、その国でゲームを進めます（デフォルトで用意されている国家もある） ・自国のスタンスで、他国との外交の難易度に変化があります（こちらの振舞い次第で友好的に接してくれる国家もある） ・ワークショップ対応！DLC必須なものがありますが更に楽しめます 実績を取りたい場合は「鉄人モード」でゲームを始める必要があります。（自分の好きなタイミングでセーブできないモード） このゲームをがっつり楽しむ場合はDLCを沢山購入する必要があります。 なのでこのゲームを遊びたいと思っている方は、セールが開催されるまで待った方がいいです。
Multiplayer is permanently broken since version 4... we play once a week for 2 hours. If you don't get screwed over by a new patch version and people wanting to restart, you get screwed by the game going into a broken state once it's run for too long (rarely even get to endgame without some catastrophe like slowdown or stutter). Every time we think this is going to be one. Every time we end up abandoning due to things breaking... I only have this to play multiplayer, so without that it's a bust for me, can't recommend unless this gets fixed and stays fixed for a change...
I've enjoyed this game a lot, and bought most of the previous DLCs even though they were quite expensive because I think that artists and writers deserve to get paid for their work; but I cannot justify shelling out money for someone's Chat GPT prompt. When they started stuffing AI generated slop into their product, they lost me as a customer.
I really do like this game, it's a great management game, but I simply do not support their recent usage of AI in any capacity. Also $300 of DLC is absurd.
I used to love this game, but I cannot support Paradox's new love of generative AI. It has massive environmental costs, and takes work away from real artists, voice actors, sfx artists, animators, etc. I really hope they reverse this, and I'll delete this review if they do, but I cannot continue to play the game while they're doing this.
Too many broken DLC that costs the same as an entire game each, with at least one including AI assets. More of a platform to sell DLC than a game, just like everything paradox publishes.
Game has become extremely bloated and they keep adding useless functionalities to justify their predatory business practices with DLC nobody needs or wants. Game was ready 10 years ago, let it go. Make new games. You are just making it worse. I have been playing Paradox games since Europa Universalis, so it has been a while. Stellaris is one of my most played games. It used to be good. Then "investors", "executives" and "marketing" swooped in, installed predatory business practices, digital colonialism, nickel and diming customers to death with useless DLCs and all the other crap. Cant suggest anything from predatory company like this. Fix yourself or die.
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