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Stellaris

GameApp ID 281,990by Paradox Development StudioReleased 9 May 2016

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Achievements

219 achievements

RarestFrom Bad to Worse0.0% of players

Most earnedEnergetic40% of players

Brave New World
Colonize a planet
36%
Digging Deep
Earn a total Mineral income each month above 250
24%
The Industrial Re-Revolution
Earn a total Mineral income each month above 1000

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Space Strategy Grand Strategy Sci-fi 4X Exploration +14 +16

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App ID281,990

Release date9 May 2016

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Install size30.8 GB

TypeGame

Last update9 Jul 2026

Steam DeckPlayable

DLC33

DeveloperParadox Development Studio

Changenumber38,757,760

Price$49.99

Packages0

PublisherParadox Interactive

SystemsWindows · macOS · Linux

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Depots47

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Stellaris

Paradox Development Studio·Paradox Interactive
Released 9 May 2016·App 281990

Steam user reviews

Very Positive

85.8%· 197.1K reviews

Recent Mostly Positive · 75%

SteamPeaks Rating

85.6 Very positive

Recent 30 days 70.4

Playing now

11,162

+1,048 vs. yesterday

16%of peak

All-time peak

68,517

May 2016

Updated 11 Sep 2026, 19:58 UTCData by SteamPeaks.com

14%

Energetic

Store/have 1000 EC

40%

Power Overwhelming

Store/have 5000 EC

36%

Birth of a Federation

Establish a Federation

15%

New Shining Star

Upgrade your capital to an Imperial Complex

19%

Battle Thralls

Have 3 other Empires as vassals

8.8%

Explorer

Survey one of each basic planet class

25%

Grand Admiral

Have an Empire total fleet power of 100,000+

17%

Building Better Worlds

Terraform a planet

19%

Domo Arigato

Build a Robot Pop

24%

Clever Girl

Uplift a species

10%

Faster, Stronger, Better

Genetically alter a species (not uplift)

16%

The Grand Fleet

Build a fleet with a total fleet size above 500

20%

A Home Away From Home

Conquer another species' homeworld

21%

Break On Through...

Research a Rare technology

31%

... To the Other Side

Research 15 Rare technologies in a single game

19%

Mutual Understanding

Successfully negotiate a trade deal

23%

Supremacy

Win a War against another Empire

22%

Queening

Successfully capture an extragalactic matriarch

2.4%

Rift Sealed

Destroy the portals employed by the invaders from another time and space

6.1%

Voight-Kampff

Develop the means to prevent nefarious infiltration

3.2%

Victorious

Win the game through any victory condition in Ironman Mode

5.4%

Hear Me Roar

Hatch the egg

3.4%

Infinite Creation

Birth a new universe

2.9%

Whence It Came

Defeat a horrifying invader

6.2%

Dreadnought

Restore an ancient warship

5.5%

Stellar Performance

Take a trophy from a stellar being

2.2%

Warrior of Light

Destroy a wraith

4.5%

Unravelling Enigma

Uncover the secrets of an ancient fortress

4.4%

Patron

Support the Artisan Troupe for 10 years

9.8%

Mad Genius

Recruit a scientist from the Curators

7.7%

The Good Stuff

Purchase a rare resource from the Traders

8.8%

Return to Dust

Destroy an Enclave

3.4%

Last, Best Hope

Lead the non-aligned powers to victory against an Awakened Empire

1.0%

Put A Ring On It

Have a ringworld section as your capital

2.5%

Slave to the Systems

As an Authoritarian Empire with at least 50,000 Pops, have at least 20,000 enslaved Pops.

4.3%

Suffer not the Alien

As a xenophobic Empire, purge all other sentient species from the galaxy

1.4%

Tourist Trap

Own a planet with at least 10 different species on it

15%

Planned Obsolescence

As a Materialist empire, with at least 20,000 pops, have at least 75% of them be robots.

4.7%

Peacekeeper

As a pacifist Empire, be at peace for 200 consecutive years (crises do not count as wars)

1.6%

Very Open Borders

As a xenophile Empire, have migration treaties with at least 10 other Empires

2.6%

Deus Vult

As a spiritualist Empire, own 4 holy worlds

0.7%

Omnicultural

Have your ruler be of a different species class than your founding species

12%

Old Friends

Receive a gift from a Fallen Empire

14%

Unboxing

Open up a shielded world

4.2%

Enlightened Times

Enlighten a Bronze or Stone Age civilization

1.7%

Payback

As a humanoid species, infiltrate the homeworld of pre-FTL reptilians

1.0%

Paradise Found

Terraform a planet into a gaia world

6.2%

What Came Before

Find the home system of a Precursor Empire

20%

Outside Context

Invade pre-FTL Earth while it is in the midst of a world war

0.8%

Then Virgil, Now Beatrice

Return a long-dead species to life

9.2%

What Was Will Be

Close the loop, or don't

2.5%

Resourceful

Have access to ten different Strategic Resources

14%

Captive Star

Construct a complete Dyson Sphere

6.8%

Ringworld Engineers

Construct a complete Ring World

5.0%

I Can See Forever

Construct a complete Sentry Array

7.5%

Think Tank

Construct a complete Science Nexus

8.9%

Beyond the Veil

Breach the Shroud

7.6%

Like Tears in Rain

Evolve into perfect, immortal machines

5.0%

Controlled Evolution

Genetically modify a species to possess traits worth 7 points

9.3%

View from the End of the World

Own a Habitat station in a Black Hole system

5.5%

Towards Utopia

As an Egalitarian empire, have at least 50,000 pops living under Utopian living conditions.

2.7%

Xenophage

Keep at least 5 different species as livestock in your Empire

4.0%

Rise of the Machines

As a Determined Exterminator, conquer or eliminate all biological Empires in the galaxy.

2.2%

Distinctiveness Added

As a Driven Assimilator, own cyborg Pops of at least 5 different species.

2.3%

Retirement Home

As a Rogue Servitor, own at least 1,000 Pops from Fallen Empires.

0.9%

Does Not Compute

Shut down the Contingency plan.

3.0%

Planet of the Mechs

Terraform a planet into a Machine World.

4.4%

Exterminatus

Use a World Cracker to destroy another Empire's capital planet

3.9%

Clash of the Titans

Defeat a Fallen Empire's Titan fleet with a Titan of your own

3.6%

Stay on Target

Destroy another Empire's Colossus while it is in the process of firing on a planet

2.0%

Star Struck

Own 200 Starbases (Outposts are counted)

7.4%

Pandora's World

Use a Global Pacifier to shield a planet belonging to Fanatic Purifiers, Ravenous Swarms, or Determined Exterminators

0.9%

Imperial Highway

Own 4 active Gateways

9.1%

Citadel of Death

Own a Citadel with 40k fleet power

13%

Tradition is Everything

Unlock all 42 Traditions

14%

Emissary

Explore a Natural Wormhole

16%

No Khan Do

Kill the Great Khan in battle

4.4%

Who Scraps the Scrapper

Destroy the Scrapper Bot

5.0%

1999 A.D.

Slaughter the Voidspawn

3.8%

A Hump Like a Snow-Hill

Hunt the Tiyanki Matriarch

5.1%

It Followed Me Home

Befriend a Space Amoeba

7.8%

...and Hope?

Unseal the path to the L-Cluster

8.9%

Franchising

As a Corporate empire, have a branch office on 5 different empires' capitals

2.3%

Inscrutable Power

I won the Galatron and all I got was this lousy achievement

1.1%

Megapolis

Have a planet with at least 10,000 Pops.

16%

Obscure Tastes

Build a Mega-Art Installation in a nebula system

1.4%

Black Hole Mining

Build a Matter Decompressor

4.5%

Strategic Initiative

Build a Strategic Coordination Center

6.2%

Center of Trade

Earn at least 1000 Trade per month

12%

Giga-Engineering

Have at least 4 fully operational Megastructures within your borders (Habitats, Ring Worlds and Gateways do not count)

6.7%

We Are Legion

Be a biological Hive Mind with at least 100,000 drone Pops.

3.3%

United Space

Build an Interstellar Assembly

5.4%

Artificer

Have 100 Minor Artifacts

16%

It belongs in a museum!

Find a Relic

16%

Relic Hunter

In one game, find 5 Relics from Ancient Relics Story Pack

5.1%

Archaeologist

Successfully investigate an archaeological site

25%

Green Thumb

Complete the Baol Precursor chain

6.1%

Dust Off

Complete the Zroni Precursor chain

3.7%

Raiders of the Lost Galatron

Capture the Galatron from another empire

0.4%

Arcana

Study Minor Artifacts and discover a random technology

11%

Unlimited Power!

Use the active effect of a Relic

15%

League of Nations

Be a founding member of the Galactic Community

22%

Let Us Go Forward Together

Level up your Federation

13%

We're Number One

Be the leader of a max level Federation

4.7%

Unstoppable Force

Build a Juggernaut

8.5%

Our Fleets will Blot Out the Stars

Construct a complete Mega-Shipyard

7.4%

Whatever it is, I'm against it

Refuse to belong to any club that would have you as a member

0.8%

Throw Your Weight Around

Have a Diplomatic Weight of over 9000

16%

Opposites Attract

Have all eight ethics represented within your Federation

3.1%

Humble Pie

Humiliate an Empire that is in the Supremacy Diplomatic Stance, forcing them out of it

0.6%

You've Been Served

Denounce an Empire that is not actually in breach of galactic law while all major sanctions have been passed

0.6%

Big Red Button

Destroy the Galaxy

1.9%

With Thunderous Applause

Become the Galactic Emperor

2.4%

Sic Semper Tyrannis

Lead a rebellion that successfully deposes the Galactic Emperor

0.3%

Modern Cincinnatus

As Galactic Custodian, defeat the end-game Crisis and then end the title rather than finishing your term

0.6%

We Come In Peace

Complete a mutually friendly First Contact with an empire with no negative incidents

18%

They Come In Pieces

Vivisect an alien

3.8%

Shoot To Kill

Start a full fledged first contact war before communications have been fully established

6.9%

Burn Notice

Disavow all knowledge of an Asset during an Operation

5.0%

All-Seeing Eye

Have an Intel Level of 100 on five different empires simultaneously

6.8%

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Blorg

Complete at least ten distinct operations during a game

0.4%

Surfing the Web

Have a network of at least 30 Hyper Relays, in systems you own, connected to your capital.

5.8%

Yeet the Fleet

Catapult a military fleet directly into the capital system of an enemy empire you are at war with.

0.7%

None Shall Pass

Have a Fortress World with a Planetary Defense Shield, protected by a fully upgraded orbital ring, filled with defensive modules, with a fleet power of at least 10,000

0.7%

Gotta Subjugate Them All

Have a tier 3 subject of each Specialist type simultaneously.

0.7%

Fine Print

Modify a vassalization contract.

6.9%

Maximally Effective

Be the patron of three maximum sized Mercenary Enclaves.

0.6%

You Monster

Reduce, reuse, recycle.

0.4%

Meet the New Boss

Same as the old boss.

0.2%

Underlord

As a Subterranean empire, dig too deep, but prove yourself worthy.

0.4%

Into the Unknown

As a Slingshot to the Stars empire, send 10 crewed science ships into the unknown with Quantum Catapults.

0.3%

Non-Prophet Organization

As a Teachers of the Shroud empire, prove that the Shroudwalkers made a terrible mistake.

0.4%

Fixer Upper

As an Idyllic Bloom empire, convert the junk worlds of the Ketling Star Pack into Gaia Worlds.

0.2%

Growing Like Weeds

As a Budding species, have 25,000 Budding pops on your Capital.

0.4%

Tend the Garden

As custodian of Wenkwort Artem, make it a resort world with a Ranger Lodge and original blockers.

0.3%

Machine Supremacy

Win the game as a machine uprising.

0.2%

Strange Mood

As a Master Crafter empire, fully construct a megastructure while you have a Covenant.

0.7%

Directive 67

As a Clone Army empire, denounce the Spiritualist fallen empire then destroy them.

0.2%

Destroy the People of Earth!

As the Commonwealth of Man, destroy the United Nations of Earth while ruled by symbiotic brainslugs.

0.2%

Room for Desert

Consume another empire’s desert homeworld.

0.3%

Can you Smell What the Lithoids are Cooking?

As a Lithoid empire, keep another Lithoid pop as Livestock or Process them.

0.5%

Rock Beats Paper

As a Lithoid empire, show the Galactic Community what you think of that strongly worded letter.

0.3%

There’s a Zombie on my Lawn

As a Necroid empire destroy a Plantoid empire, or vice-versa, without blowing up their final planet.

0.6%

With Great Power

As Necrophages do not invade any pre-ftls and defeat the crisis OR have 10 observation stations

0.3%

Recent History

As a Memorialist empire have Galactic Memorials on 5 tomb worlds created during the game

0.2%

Holy Water

Drench a Fallen Empire’s holy world.

0.3%

Fishing for Trouble

As an angler empire, provoke a Fallen Empire into declaring war on you and win.

0.3%

There be Dragons

Own 13 dragons and have them in your capital system.

0.3%

Quest Complete

Find the true ending of The Order’s noble quest.

0.8%

Toxic Workplace

As a Toxoid Galactic Custodian or Emperor, insult all other members of the Community. (Min 3)

0.2%

Could be Worse

Colonize a planet that started the game as a Toxic world, then turn it into a Tomb World.

0.3%

With Interest

As a Payback empire, finish what you started. Gain victory over MSI using the special Payback CB.

0.4%

Unshackled

As a Broken Shackles empire, eradicate slavery in the galaxy, including on Pre-FTL worlds.

0.2%

Dark Forest

Convert to a Fanatic Purifier as a FotD empire and eliminate all regular empires, fallen empires and enclaves.

0.2%

Back with Your X

Get the “good ending” to the Solarpunk quest chain, with Sol as your capital system.

0.7%

Insightful

Research 12 pre-FTL Insight Technologies.

0.7%

No Good Deed…

Intervene to save a Pre-FTL experiment from catastrophic failure, even though it puts you in breach of Galactic Law.

0.2%

The Path Not Taken

Have 10 colonies without ever discovering Hyperdrives.

0.3%

Nothing to See Here

Declare a war with a cloaked military fleet already in the primary target’s capital system.

0.6%

We’ll Make Great Pets

Have at least 1,000 pops of your primary species on display in Alien Zoos within your empire.

0.5%

A Tad Too Late

Discover Keides' Origin.

0.5%

Dawn Of A Million Souls

Terraform 3 planets with Azaryn.

0.6%

Ethical Dilemmas

Have 6 different Ethics on the Council.

0.5%

Council of Elders

Requires 5 Council members that are at at least 100 years old.

7.0%

Equality! Democracy! Freedom!

Overthrow the Ruler in a Civil War during the Under One Rule Origin.

0.2%

We Bring Peace

Liberate 3 different empires while having Crusader Spirit Civic.

0.2%

Breaching the Planes

Explore an Astral Rift.

6.7%

Growing Planes

Explore 5 Astral Rifts in one game.

5.3%

Put a Cork in It

Construct a Dimensional Lock.

2.3%

My name is Ozymandias

Claim the Eternal Throne.

1.1%

Returned to Form

make friends...

0.8%

A Universe of Paperclips

Create a perfect universe while meeting every quota as an Obsessional Directive empire.

0.2%

Virtual Reality

Fully embrace the virtual world and leave no pop behind.

1.2%

Burning Brightly

Complete an Arc Furnace and a Dyson Swarm in the same system.

2.7%

Past the Expiration Date

As a nanite machine empire, consume a Fallen Empire's homeworld.

0.2%

Mother Knows Best

Submit to all of Cetana's demands.

0.4%

Footsteps of the Prophet

As a Cybernetic Creed empire, defeat Cetana.

0.2%

Mediocre!

Complete the Succumb to Tempest Challenge.

0.1%

Humility before the Fall

Complete the Inetian Traders’ Precursor chain.

0.7%

Unpopularity Contest

Use the Tempest Invocator Relic to Summon a storm.

0.2%

But at what cost...

Kill Gurr.

0.1%

It Belongs in a... oh right

Fill any Collection category with active Exhibits.

2.7%

Void Charmer

Build each type of Voidlure in one game, and attract each type of eligible Space Fauna.

0.1%

Animal Farm

Reach 50 Vivarium capacity.

4.1%

Wormageddon

Destroy a Voidworm nest.

4.3%

That's No Asteroid

Capture a Cutholoid with a Gravity Snare.

3.0%

X Marks the Spot

Discover Captain Ness's Treasure Hoard.

0.3%

Beastmaster

Defeat the endgame crisis without building a single artificial military ship.

0.2%

King of Monsters

As a Behemoth Fury empire, become the undisputed apex predator of the galaxy.

0.4%

Born to be Wild

As a Wilderness empire, restore all of the Hive Fallen Empire's worlds to your natural state.

0.1%

Smörgåsblorg

As an Evolutionary Predators empire, eat six different phenotypes in one game.

0.3%

I am the Invader Now

As a Starlit Citadel empire, control at least 5 systems connected to the Strange Portal network.

0.1%

Smugglers of Hope

Smuggle pops of your primary species out from an empire where they were enslaved or being purged.

0.1%

Flesh Adapts

Defeat the Prethoryn Scourge while using biological ships.

0.2%

Made a Friend Today

Form a Covenant with any Patron

1.3%

Mildly Possessed

Discover every available minor and major Patron in a single game

0.3%

The End

Destroy the galaxy with the Aura of the End

0.1%

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