About Stellaris

Stellaris is a grand strategy game that sends you out to explore, discover and interact with countless species across the galaxy. You build a spacefaring empire by dispatching science ships to survey anomalies and chart unknown space, while construction ships raise stations around freshly found planets. Along the way you uncover buried treasures and galactic wonders, steering the direction of your society and shaping both its limits and its evolution.

Exploration sits at the core of the experience. Every game opens with a civilization that has only just learned to travel between stars, and surveying the galaxy leads into a web of quests, strange worlds and stranger stories. Diplomacy runs deep as well, with alliances forming and wars breaking out among the infinitely varied races produced through customization and procedural generation.

As a Paradox grand strategy and simulation title, Stellaris keeps growing over time through free updates that add new technologies and capabilities, so your empire can continue to expand well after launch. Set against a highly detailed universe filled with unique planets and celestial bodies, it invites you to answer a single open-ended question on PC: what will you find beyond the stars?