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Embark on Your Galactic Adventure with the Stellaris: Starter Edition
Set course for the stars and begin your journey into the vast unknown! The Stellaris: Starter Edition is crafted to guide you through your first steps in the Stellaris universe, giving you the tools to explore, expand, and conquer as you build your interstellar empire. Whether aiming for peaceful exploration or galactic domination, this pack equips you with the best DLCs to ensure success across the stars.
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8 May 2016
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Starter Edition includes
- Stellaris
- Stellaris: Utopia
- Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn Story Pack
- Stellaris: Galaxy Edition Upgrade Pack
Embark on Your Galactic Adventure with the Stellaris: Starter Edition
Set course for the stars and begin your journey into the vast unknown! The Stellaris: Starter Edition is crafted to guide you through your first steps in the Stellaris universe, giving you the tools to explore, expand, and conquer as you build your interstellar empire. Whether aiming for peaceful exploration or galactic domination, this pack equips you with the best DLCs to ensure success across the stars.
What’s Included:
Stellaris: Utopia
Unlock the full potential of your empire with this expansion focused on the evolution of society. Whether you're building mega-structures or ascending to a higher plane of existence, Utopia helps you create a future that’s as bright as the stars themselves.- Control a Hive Mind, a society that acts as one unit
- Build towering megastructures that reshape the galaxy
- Embrace the ascension paths: Biological Mastery, Cybernetic Augmentation, Synthetic Evolution, or Psionic Awakening
- Foster harmony or exert control over your empire’s development
Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn Story Pack
Take command of a Machine Empire and reshape the galaxy in your own image. Will you lead your mechanical creations to peaceful coexistence, or will the rise of synthetic life spell the end for organics?- Play as a Machine Empire with unique gameplay mechanics
- Experience the captivating story of the synthetic uprising
- Explore new events and challenges tailored to the rise of AI
Stellaris: Galaxy Edition Upgrade Pack
Enhance your base game experience with exclusive extras, from stunning digital artwork to behind-the-scenes content. This upgrade adds a treasure trove of content, both in and out of the game.- Exclusive in-game cosmetic features and content
- Digital soundtrack and artbook to immerse yourself further into the universe
- A collection of behind-the-scenes insights to deepen your Stellaris knowledge
- Start Your Journey Today
The Stellaris: Starter Edition is your gateway to a universe filled with endless possibilities. Whether you're a first-time player or a seasoned strategist, these expansions will help you navigate the cosmos, evolve your empire, and perhaps even conquer the galaxy.
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Galaxy Edition
This is a fun past time game that turned into a very intricate and time consuming play! Its command and conquer style is very fun, the governing and settlement building is very fun. The race to explore and take over worlds before other races is always fun and challenging! Its crusader kings in space!
- Lots to do and manage
- very intricate
- Governing and polotics
- time consuming
- not a whole lot of mods
8th March 2024
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Always loved the strategic type of games, let alone the ones that can be played in space.
Harder to learn without guide, but nothing is impossible, and google is our friend :D.
Fairly good amount of content (but DLC's are welcome), the gameplay quickly got you in, so prepare for a longer session.
For me it is also really fun with friends, and with steam workshop the possibilites are endless.
Good game for a good price :).
Harder to learn without guide, but nothing is impossible, and google is our friend :D.
Fairly good amount of content (but DLC's are welcome), the gameplay quickly got you in, so prepare for a longer session.
For me it is also really fun with friends, and with steam workshop the possibilites are endless.
Good game for a good price :).
- Lot of content
- Good gameplay
- Fair price
- Lack of guide
21st December 2023
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Starter Pack
6th November 2024
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Galaxy Edition
26th April 2023
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26th March 2023
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18th March 2023
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Very interesting and complex game, certainly not suited for a newbie in strategy games. Hours will pass and you will not notice it.
Probably the most awesome game of this style i have tried in years: there is always something new to learn, the tech tree is nearly infinite, customizing your race to start taking over the galaxy is really fun, kinda like building your character in an RPG game, even though this is a strategy game, and the space battles are just incredible.
Probably the most awesome game of this style i have tried in years: there is always something new to learn, the tech tree is nearly infinite, customizing your race to start taking over the galaxy is really fun, kinda like building your character in an RPG game, even though this is a strategy game, and the space battles are just incredible.
- Graphics
- Battles
- Complex
- Not for newbies
9th March 2023
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Now stellaris is the definition of good soup. If the soup is setting the galaxy on fire to see what happens and good is the utter carnage you can wreck on any empire. Stellaris is a strategy game similar to hearts of iron but in space so the possibility is infinite
- Endless amount of galaxy domination
- Great mod support
- Being a cult that purifies and worships planets and much more
- a lot of pain dlc
- a lot of time investment to see endgame
- a lot of micromanagment
20th April 2022
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Very interesting and complex, certainly not suited for a newbie in strategy games. Stellaris is probably the most awesome game i've tried in years: there is always something new to learn, the tech tree is nearly infinite, customizing your race to start taking over the galaxy is really fun, kinda like building your character in an RPG game, even though this is a strategy game, and the space battles are just incredible. Plus, if you ever got to build a titan and use it...oh, man! I just can put down in words the feeling of destroying a planet like Tarkin did in SW...you will have to try it yourself.
Only one flow: it's reeeeally difficult to understand. It lacks a guide, so you will need a few days to finally keep up the pace with AI, but once you do you are probably ready to get to the end game. I recommend to buy some DLC too, they are really worth it.
Only one flow: it's reeeeally difficult to understand. It lacks a guide, so you will need a few days to finally keep up the pace with AI, but once you do you are probably ready to get to the end game. I recommend to buy some DLC too, they are really worth it.
- Complex
- Captivating
- Good graphics
- Enduring, there is always some other combination that you didn't tried
- Lack of a Guide, for a game this complex it would have really helped.
16th December 2020
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Best 4X Strategy in space in my opinion.
Great value for money but you need the DLC to have a complete experience.
Early and mid-game you can role-play and craft a story but in late-game is a bit of a micromanagement nightmare and lacks concrete goals to achieve.
The game got a lot fo updates that changed the way it's being played.
Great value for money but you need the DLC to have a complete experience.
Early and mid-game you can role-play and craft a story but in late-game is a bit of a micromanagement nightmare and lacks concrete goals to achieve.
The game got a lot fo updates that changed the way it's being played.
5th June 2020
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Galaxy Edition
29th November 2019
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8th October 2019
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Fun 4X game. First one I've played and it was simple enough with a short guide to get started and have fun. Would definitely recommend to anyone that is starting to play 4X games for the first time, or anyone that is a 4X vet, as I believe they'd also have a significant amount of fun with the game.
- Late game feels amazing
- Extremely fun with friends
- Early game is a slogfest
11th June 2019
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Das Spiel macht sehr viel Spaß, wenn man sich darin erstmal zurecht findet. Zum Anfang war es nämlich immer wieder frustrierend wenn man bestimmte Dinge in den vielen Menüs nicht gefunden hat. Sowohl der Single und Multiplayer Modus hat einiges zu bieten und mit Mods kann das Spieleerlebnis auch noch aufgewertet werden.
Was die DLCs angeht. Nun das Spiel habe ich zu beginn nur mit Mods gespielt aber ohne DLCs. Ich kann jetzt also nicht mehr sagen, was Hauptspiel und was eine Mod war. Ich glaube aber, dass das Spiel auch ohne Mods Spaß macht. Die DLCs sind hier genauso wie bei allen anderen Paradox Spielen. Ein wenig Kontent bekommt man kostenlos, aber der Rest ist hinter einer Paywall versteckt. Auf "bestimmten" Websiten bekommt man diese jedoch auch billiger.
Da muss jeder selbst entscheiden, ob er die kaufen will. Es geht wie gesagt aber auch mit Mods genausogut.
Was die DLCs angeht. Nun das Spiel habe ich zu beginn nur mit Mods gespielt aber ohne DLCs. Ich kann jetzt also nicht mehr sagen, was Hauptspiel und was eine Mod war. Ich glaube aber, dass das Spiel auch ohne Mods Spaß macht. Die DLCs sind hier genauso wie bei allen anderen Paradox Spielen. Ein wenig Kontent bekommt man kostenlos, aber der Rest ist hinter einer Paywall versteckt. Auf "bestimmten" Websiten bekommt man diese jedoch auch billiger.
Da muss jeder selbst entscheiden, ob er die kaufen will. Es geht wie gesagt aber auch mit Mods genausogut.
- Gameplay
- aktive Modding-Comunity
- Atmosphäre & Musik
- (DLC Politik)
- tw. kompliziertes Menü
30th May 2019
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16th October 2018
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19th November 2017
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Great game with loads of content, and many interesting ways to play: Anything from peace-loving xenophiles through gestalt hiveminds and genocidal dictatorships in good old WH40K style. Anyone who like games such as Homeworld and Galactic civilizations will love this.
Steam workshop fills in the blanks where the devs haven't reached yet.
Steam workshop fills in the blanks where the devs haven't reached yet.
- Loads of content.
- Few bugs
- Allows genocides of filthy xenos.
- Too time consuming for multiplayer.
- AI is easy to exploit once you realize how.
- Repetative music (redeemed by steam workshop)
6th September 2017
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Le début de ce jeu est tout simplement magnifique et très prenant...au moins 40h de jeu palpitant (pour le genre).
Par la suite malheureusement cela manque de contenu diversifé, on espère disposer dans un futur proche de "freeLC" pour étoffer le tout.
à recommander selon le prix affiché ;)
Par la suite malheureusement cela manque de contenu diversifé, on espère disposer dans un futur proche de "freeLC" pour étoffer le tout.
à recommander selon le prix affiché ;)
- univers passionnant
- late game décevant
14th November 2016
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A good game, but still did not live up to Imperium Galactica 2 in my eyes :( If they shipped it with the Dlc's im prety sure about it would be the best 4x strategy game ever... The detail and the variety you are offered is a nice start tough, so lets wait for the diplomatic and economic Dlc's that will surely come soon.
- Variety of Species
- Technology
- The atmosphere of the game because of the care for the details.
- Dlc policy
20th October 2016
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