Game details · IGDB
Stellaris is a real-time 4X grand strategy game set in a procedurally generated galaxy. Players control an interstellar civilization, exploring star systems connected by hyperlane networks, colonizing habitable worlds, and managing their empire's economy across resources like energy, minerals, and alloys. The game emphasizes empire customization through species traits, ethics, government types, and civics that shape both aesthetics and mechanics. Gameplay progresses through diplomacy, trade, and warfare with other civilizations, while mid-game and late-game galactic crises introduce escalat…
- Released
- 2016
- Genres
- Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy
- Platforms
- Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One
- Game modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Engine
- Clausewitz Engine
- Developer
- Paradox Development Studio
- Publisher
- Paradox Interactive, DMM GAMES
Key facts
- Developer
- Paradox Development Studio
- Publisher
- Paradox Interactive
- Directors
- Henrik Fåhraeus Martin "Wiz" Anward (Post-release) Daniel "grekulf" Moregård (Post-release) Stephen "Eladrin" Muray (Post-release, current)
- Producers
- Rikard "Åslund" Jansson Anna Norrevik
- Designers
- Henrik Fåhraeus Joakim Andreasson Daniel Moregård Johan Andersson
- Artist
- Fredrik Toll
- Composers
- Andreas Waldetoft Bert Meyer
- Engine
- Clausewitz Engine
- Platforms
- Linux macOS Microsoft Windows PlayStation 4 Xbox One
- Release
- Windows, OS X, Linux , May 9, 2016, PlayStation 4, Xbox One , February 26, 2019
- Genres
- 4X , Grand strategy
- Modes
- Single-player , Multiplayer
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Encyclopedic overview
Stellaris is a 4X grand strategy video game developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive. Players take control of an interstellar civilization on the galactic stage and are tasked with exploring, colonising, and managing their region of the galaxy, encountering other civilizations that they can then engage in diplomacy, trade, or warfare with. A large part of the game involves dealing with both scripted and emergent events, through which the player might gain useful bonuses and profits, or vice versa, lose their power and strengthen rival civilizations. It was released worldwide for Windows, macOS, and Linux on May 9, 2016, and for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as Stellaris: Console Edition on February 26, 2019.
Gameplay
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