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...
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.
DEEP AND VARIED EXPLORATION
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.
STUNNING SPACE VISUALS
With characteristically complex unique planets and celestial bodies, you will enter a whirlwind of spectacles in a highly detailed universe.
INFINITE VARIATION OF SPECIES AND ADVANCED DIPLOMACY
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.
INTERSTELLAR WARFARE
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.
ENORMOUS PROCEDURAL GALAXIES
Grow and expand your empire with thousands of randomly generated planet types, galaxies, quests and monsters lurking in space.
PLAY THE WAY YOU WANT
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.
FREE UPDATE HISTORY
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This is a great game and I have it on steam and have enjoyed playing it on and off since it's released. (I pre-ordered it there)
However aside from the game itself, this game suffers from a growing trend on GOG which is that it is not in fact 100% DRM-free. It falls under the category of playable without DRM, but only in single player. The multiplayer aspect is completely locked to the Paradox multiplayer platform and is locked behind a paradox account login screen.
There is no direct IP or LAN play. The game cannot be played in multiplayer without an internet connection and logging in. That is a form of DRM. So the game while great, if viewed under the auspice of GOG and it's DRM-free pledge, this is a subpar release. As I said though, this is an increasing trend with GOG games where the MP is locked behind either GOG Galaxy reliance, forced internet connections or in this case an actual login screen. If the game needed this to function I could probably forgive it but I can't think of any reason why such a system would be needed for any purpose other than DRM.
TLDR: So the game is great, this release not so much.
There are two version of Stellaris 2.0+ the current game and 1.9 and bellow. The game launched as many Paradox title launch a complete but shallow game with a lower than start AAA price point but with a frequent DLC releases that can take the game into the hundreds of dollars in overall cost. With each DLC adding more and more meat to the game.
The game released with warp drives, hyperlane drives and wormhole drives all with their own strengths and weaknesses but as of 2.0 they removed 2 of the three drive types. It was a HUGE disappointment to many players because that 3 drive system required different strategies to counter each type. It was fun encountering a wormhole drive aggressor state and watching them jump over your defences forcing you to scramble to counter their attacks. This made the game really enjoyable for me, with the asymmetric setup resulti9ng in many great games.
Today I see stellaris as a game that broke the 4x mode to a game that withered and died on the vine to be just a mediocre 4x game. If I recall this happen because the lead designer for the game changed and IMHO the new chap just didn't have the vision or imagination to run as lead for stellaris so he dumbed it down. The game has divided the fan base on those that love 2.0+ and those that love 1.9 or earlier. There is no right or wrong it subjective choice but it has made it so I just don't play stellaris much anymore. As I so miss playing with and against multiple drive types. It changed the game so much to remove them. The also made the game more grindy requiring you to build a station in each system as jumping systems doesn't save you resources as it cost twice as much to claim a system two systems away than it does one system away. Which is another change which makes the game a grind compared to 1.9-. Just not a fan of 2.0+
10 € for the game, 68 € for all dlc's. WTF?
I liked playing the game in the beginning. Now i checked the dlc's and i lost the motivation to play it again, because i have a unfinished game now...
Paradox wants me paying more than the full price again... thats ridi... very very unsatisfaying and disappointing.
Milk other people, i will keep spending my money to other developers :P
Version 2.4 is tied to the new version of the Paradox Launcher which requires registering at Paradox. By definition, that's DRM. On the plus side, the new launcher finally allows cloud saving, which didn't work before.
The game is good, and I like playing it. But GOG should be honest about the current version not being DRM free!
In my opinion, definitely on the best 4x space games out there. Paradox does a fantastic job at crafting grand strategy games. I was also happy to see it brought to GOG, which was the ultimate reason I bought it. Unfortunately, Paradox keeps up some rather unfortunate business practices which make it hard for me to recommend this game on its own merits.
Specifically, just like with Crusader Kings 2, they release a TON of, mostly small, but rather expensive DLC. Some are essential, and rebalance the game (with patches focused specifically for those DLC). Others are portraits. I'm also not pleased with the lack of direct IP/LAN multiplayer. You must create an account, and consent to data harvesting. It's not exactly DRM free, unless you're sticking with single player only.
That being said, is it a great game you should buy? YES. Just be prepared to pay more than you'd expect.
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