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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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.
they use gen AI now. Uninstalled
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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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| 897ratings |
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they use AI now
It's yet another Paradox grand strategy game, just like all the others. A mile wide and an inch deep. Here's how these games work: Paradox releases a barebones base game, then spends the next decade bolting expansions onto it. But because the game now has to support any possible combination of expansions, none of the systems meaningfully interact. You get spammed left and right with notifications and events, but the actual gameplay mostly boils down to: "Are there buttons to be pressed that I haven't pressed yet?". It's not fun. It's a chore. You're rarely making any meaningful decisions beyond optimizing percentage points or clicking on the obvious next choice as soon as it's available. Most of the playtime consists of dismissing dialog boxes and making sure each of your units and colonies is keeping busy. At all times you'll have a dozen different anomalies and ancient sites and whatever special events being drip fed in parallel, so everything blends together and starts feeling interchangeable. Even if you stop to read it all like I did, the writing reads like space Mad Libs. Procedurally generated filler. Each quest is its own self-contained chain that resolves with minimal dependency on anything else, so that they can be shuffled freely across playthroughs. There is no sense of continuity between events beyond tweaking the same numbers. The idea of exploring the galaxy and managing your own space civilization is cool. The music is very good. The gameplay often feels like a dressed up idle game.
This game is just a money grab game that breaks after a patch, especially playing with players. They hate modders, and censor about everything possible when this game allows slavery, genocide, and etc. Don't waste your time, I spent over 2000 hours modding, and got banned for creating WWII Germany, while working on other factions. It is now impossible.
Originally I would have left a positive review but I can't condone the devs recent decision to use generative AI going forward. I don't care if its being used "ethically" it sets a precedent in the industry that they can get away with AI usage in more and more facets of development and in larger portions eventually cutting out artists, composers, and actors, even coders, completely from an industry that makes giant collaborative works of human art if the usage of gen AI, a fundamentally unethical piece of tech, doesn't stop you there are other amazing games out there that don't charge you $200+ for dlc to make the game functional and these games don't use gen AI.
Love this game. Have still yet to actually win but love it. Why haven't i won? simple. Grand Admiral, Iron Man Mode and over 20 Enemies may be a bit too much. I shall do it though. I was close once but then accidentally opened the L Gates and well the nanite fleets simply tore through mine and everyone else s defenses. I can do it, Juts need time. Worth every penny.
Charging this much money for the game and all it's DLC's is bad enough, but to then be using AI to make all this DLC you're extorting people with is a depth of banal corporate evil which is disgusting
I liked this game when I bought it, but it is no longer that game. They continually break more and more stuff, reformulate how basic game concepts work, and basically it's just not what I liked anymore.
EMBRACE YOURSELF IN THE WONDERFUL SPACE FAIRING WAITING SIMULATOR. THIS GAME FEATURES WONDERFULL SHIP COMBAT CONSISTING OF SPAMMING ONE SHIP THAT YOU OBTAIN AFTER A RANDOM AMOUNT OF TIME!!!! SPEND HOURS OF YOUR LIFE GETTING FLOODED WITH NOTIFICATIONS ABOUT HOW AN EXCERVATION SITE UNCOVERED A BIG WOODEN DILDO!!!! THEN AFTER ALL YOUR PRECIOUS EFFORTS ARE SUNK INTO BUILDING YOUR SPACE FAIRING NATION.... GET INSTANTLY WIPED OUT BY A ROBOT HIVE MIND WITH BROKEN MILITARY!!! HOOOOORAY TO PARADOX INTERACTIVE!! AND THE BEST PART YET SPEND ONLY 20$ PER DLC TO GET ABSOLOUTLEY BUT NOTHING!!!!!!! HOOOOORAY!!!! IHATE EVERYTHING IHATE EVERYTHING I HATE THIS GAME I HATE THIS GAME I HATE THIS GAME I HATE THIS GAME I HATE THIS GAME I HATE THIS GAME I HATE THIS GAME IHATE THIS GAME I HATE THIS GAME I HATE THIS GAME I HATE THIS GAME I HATE THIS GAME I HATE THIS GAME I HATE THIS GAME I HATE THIS GAME I HATE THIS GAME
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