Stellaris New Player Edition

Stellaris is a strategy game about exploring a procedurally generated galaxy and building an empire among the stars. You begin as a civilization that has just discovered interstellar travel, then send science ships to survey star systems, investigate anomalies and uncover quests, strange worlds and stories. Discoveries can change how your empire’s story unfolds.

Explore the galaxy

Each star system holds the possibility of a new mystery or alien civilization. The galaxy contains thousands of randomly generated planet types, galaxies, quests and monsters lurking in space. Planets and celestial bodies have distinct characteristics, and exploration can uncover buried treasures and galactic wonders.

Shape your empire

You decide the direction of your society and how it develops, choosing traits, ideologies, limitations and evolutions for your civilization. Customize its characters, ethics, technology, preferred form of space travel, habitat and philosophies. Your choices shape the game, from your first warp jump to the prospect of galactic domination.

Diplomacy and warfare

Interact with other species through diplomacy, negotiation and alliances; suspicions and wars also shape the galaxy. You can defend or attack with customizable fleets, adapting your strategy to the situation. The ship designer lets you choose technologies and configure your ships to meet the challenges ahead.

Included content

This edition includes the base game, three expansion packs and a collection of digital goods:

• Stellaris: Explore a vast, procedurally generated galaxy and shape your empire’s path, whether as a benevolent pioneer or a conqueror.
• Utopia: Develop your society through mega-structures or ascend to a higher plane of existence.
• Synthetic Dawn Story Pack: Lead a Machine Empire and reshape the galaxy, pursuing peaceful coexistence or bringing synthetic life into conflict with organic beings.
• Humanoids Species Pack: Add a new origin, unique civics, a ship class and portraits for the humanoid phenotype.
• Digital goods: A Digital Collector’s Book, a Signed Wallpaper, and a Unique Forum Avatar and Icon.

The galaxy and its conflicts evolve over time, with free updates adding technologies and capabilities.