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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Updates
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Reviews
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Reviews
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
Single player game asking for 10€/month subscription.... Yeah, nah. They could just release the DLCs as part of the game and have happy players.
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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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Hours played at review time, across 1.9K reviews with recorded playtime.
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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.
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.
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.
Used to be a very good game, every update makes it worse.
Before I state anything, I would like to say that yes, this is a game that I have put a lot of hours into, and one that I still do enjoy, however, I simply can no longer recommend it with full confidence after paradox have decided to use ai in place of real voice actors. Generative ai is a Cancer toward the very idea of human creativity as a whole and while I have no intentions of dropping the game myself after this long of a time playing it, I will no longer be monetarily supporting anything this company makes after the fact and will be dissuading others from doing so. please, if you are considering getting this, perhaps instead put your money toward a Developer that actually respects the creatives upon which the very bones of this hobby is built.
Пусть тот кто придумал пустотных червей в этой игре умрет в муках. Это же надо додуматься в мид гейме сгенерировать червей на 70к+. Парадоксы это сборище людей с 47 хромосой, потому что ни один здравый человек такую парашу в игру не добавит.
In fact, Stellaris can be considered one of the most pragmatic real-time strategy games. Perhaps the most common trend and, if I may say so, the problem of many strategies is the radical imbalance between the economic and military aspects of state simulation. Typically, strategies prioritize either the military or the economic simulation. However, Stellaris stands out for its well-balanced approach to these two distinct areas. Yes, they are not implemented as meticulously as they could be implemented individually, but the current level of development in the game is sufficient for an interesting, engaging, and most importantly, multi-scenario game. This is why I can confidently say that Stellaris is one of the most pragmatic strategies that does not limit the player's freedom.
FIX THE BUGS!!!!!!!!! Don't buy DLC!!! The half of them is broken!!!!
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