As you travel through space, get ready to investigate, discover, and communicate with a wide range of species. Create a galactic empire by sending out science ships to examine and explore while building ships erect stations around recently discovered planets.  

• As you spin a path for your society and impose constraints and evolutions on your explorers, uncover hidden riches and extraterrestrial wonders.
• War will be declared, and alliances will develop.
• Allow your science ships to survey and investigate anomalies, leading you on a slew of quests and introducing you to strange worlds with even stranger stories and discoveries that could completely alter your outcome.
• You will join a maelstrom of spectacles in a highly detailed universe filled with distinctly intricate unique planets and celestial bodies.
• You will come across infinitely different races thanks to customization and procedural generation.
• Select either advantageous or detrimental qualities, certain philosophies, restrictions, evolutions, or anything else you might think of.
• With dozens of randomly generated planet types, galaxies, quests, and monsters hiding in space, you can grow and extend your empire.
• Create your own Empire! You can add attributes like ethics, technology preferences, preferred space travel modes, habitat preferences, philosophical viewpoints, and more to the characters you select, whether they are from a murdering mushroom civilization or an engineering reptilian race.

Reviews

Stellaris captures the craziness and fun of sci-fi in an engaging, infinitely replayable strategy game.

ZTGD  

While this almost feels like “Sim Universe” at times, the core difference is in something for which to strive and active threats beyond your own mishandling of resources and the occasional fire to put out. There’s a whole universe out there, and I can’t wait to play through Stellaris as many times as it takes to experience the whole thing.

Game Revolution