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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ANOMALY DETECTED: The Paradox Loop Science Officer Xirmian reports a disturbing discovery on the lifeless tomb world of P-3X. Buried beneath layers of oxidized silicon, the crew of the ISS Sunk Cost Fallacy has unearthed a functional, two-dimensional temporal window running a staggering, universe-spanning simulation designated "STELLARIS (Build v4.4)." Our researchers are baffled by the simulation's operational parameters. It appears to simulate an entire galaxy, commanded by an omnipotent, unseen entity whose primary objective is extreme micro-management. According to the data logs, this entity will spend standard centuries meticulously editing the genetic code of aquatic space geckos, only to immediately enslave them upon discovering a slightly more efficient species of lithoid rock-people. The anomaly exhibits several highly concerning paradoxes: The Temporal Slowdown: As the simulated galaxy becomes more populated, the very fabric of space-time decays into an agonizing crawl. The logs indicate the omnipotent entity routinely solves this "lag" by constructing a colossal superweapon and shattering heavily populated worlds — not out of malice or strategic necessity, but simply to reduce the simulation's processing load. Our scientists have dubbed this phenomenon "Genocide by Framerate." The Tribute Cycle: To experience new dimensions of reality within the simulation — such as constructing a Dyson Sphere, participating in galactic espionage, or experiencing a machine uprising — the entity is forced to periodically sacrifice localized currency to an extra-dimensional collective known only as "The Developers." The Abandonment Protocol: Curiously, almost none of these simulated universes ever reach their natural conclusion. Right around the simulated year 2350, when the endgame crisis approaches and the micromanagement becomes unbearable, the god-entity abruptly abandons the universe out of sheer boredom. It then instantly sparks a brand new Big Bang just to try a "Tall Mega-Corp" build. Xirmian notes that the simulation is highly addictive, despite consisting mostly of staring at colored spreadsheets, managing unemployed clerks on newly conquered habitats, and completely ignoring the mandates of the Galactic Community.
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Latest in each market: best RU #82, worst FR #98 · 6 markets collected
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Languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean
| $14.99−70% |
| 899ratings |
| 76% |
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Hours played at review time, across 1.9K reviews with recorded playtime.
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прикольно!!!
I can't figure how to play.. and really don't have the time to invest..
A game that fulfills a niche but with an unsatisfying ending. The default lower difficulty let you steamroll the ai so second or third game so you'll most likely raise the difficulty. At higher difficulties the awakened empires then scale to the point where fighting them head on is unoptimal and you got to do hit and runs and station defending to bleed them out. Then you put in the time to reach the end-game crisis only to steamroll them and find out that they don't scale with difficulty and there is a different slider for them. The difficulty slider also I believe only scales the AI econ which you'll still most likely beat by end-game w/ a decent build apart from the fallen empires. Veteran players seem to have the optimal settings to maximize the enjoyment of this game. But for someone starting out it would be nice if the default difficulties were more optimized for enjoyable gameplay. Regardless, I think its a nice game that fulfills a niche. But in the end I dont think I enjoyed it personally because I expected more depth into how warfare plays out. It'd also be nicer if the harder AI was more sophiscated instead of just getting econ bonuses.
10/10
挺好玩的
It's buggy. It's too unnecessarily complicated. The games are long and are won or lost really early in the process.
I did not realize this game is so addicting.
not gonna finish, oh the dlcs wow
The new nomad features are entirely broken. Not only are they chronically underpowerd and unable to properly defend themself, the sheild debug on their mothership is dumb, the influence cost for everything is chronic and makes them horrifically unscalable, and the new automation mechanics, whilst better than the old dynamics are broken and sent me directly into the enemy. Just dumb, fix it, and test stuff before release, it's not hard!!!
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