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Stellaris

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Stellaris is a real-time 4X grand strategy game set in a procedurally generated galaxy. Players control an interstellar civilization, exploring star systems connected by hyperlane networks, colonizing habitable worlds, and managing their empire's economy across resources like energy, minerals, and alloys. The game emphasizes empire customization through species traits, ethics, government types, and civics that shape both aesthetics and mechanics. Gameplay progresses through diplomacy, trade, and warfare with other civilizations, while mid-game and late-game galactic crises introduce escalating threats such as extragalactic invasions or hostile artificial intelligence awakenings. Players can pursue ascension paths including genetic engineering, cybernetic augmentation, or psionic abilities. Originally released for PC, the game later received a console edition and has been supported with numerous expansions adding megastructures, new empire types, espionage mechanics, and additional crisis scenarios.

Real Time Strategy (RTS) Simulator Strategy Science fiction 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)
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219 achievements
Energetic

Energetic

Store/have 1000 EC

Power Overwhelming

Power Overwhelming

Store/have 5000 EC

Brave New World

Brave New World

Colonize a planet

Break On Through...

Break On Through...

Research a Rare technology

Archaeologist

Archaeologist

Successfully investigate an archaeological site

League of Nations

League of Nations

Be a founding member of the Galactic Community

Explorer

Explorer

Survey one of each basic planet-class

Domo Arigato

Domo Arigato

Build a Robot Pop

Digging Deep

Digging Deep

Earn a total Mineral income each month above 250

Supremacy

Supremacy

Win a War against another Empire

Mutual Understanding

Mutual Understanding

Successfully negotiate a trade deal

We Come In Peace

We Come In Peace

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

A Home Away From Home

A Home Away From Home

Conquer another species homeworld

What Came Before

What Came Before

Find the home system of a precursor empire

The Grand Fleet

The Grand Fleet

Build a fleet with a total fleet-size above 500

Building Better Worlds

Building Better Worlds

Terraform a planet

New Shining Star

New Shining Star

Upgrade your capital to an Imperial Complex

... To The Other Side

... To The Other Side

Research 15 Rare technologies in a single game

Throw Your Weight Around

Throw Your Weight Around

Have a Diplomatic Weight of over 9000

Grand Admiral

Grand Admiral

Empire total fleet military power equals 100000

Birth of a Federation

Birth of a Federation

Establish a Federation

Tourist Trap

Tourist Trap

Own a planet with at least 10 different species on it

Let Us Go Forward Together

Let Us Go Forward Together

Level up your Federation

Megapolis

Megapolis

Have a planet with at least 10,000 Pops.

Emissary

Emissary

Explore a Natural Wormhole

Faster, Stronger, Better

Faster, Stronger, Better

Genetically alter a species (not uplift)

Tradition is Everything

Tradition is Everything

Unlock all 42 Traditions

Citadel of Death

Citadel of Death

Own a Citadel with 40k fleet power

Omnicultural

Omnicultural

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

The Industrial Re-Revolution

The Industrial Re-Revolution

Earn a total Mineral income each month above 1000

Center of Trade

Center of Trade

Earn at least 1000 Energy Credits per month from trade

Old Friends

Old Friends

Receive a gift from a Fallen Empire

Resourceful

Resourceful

Have access to ten different strategic resources

It belongs in a museum!

It belongs in a museum!

Find a Relic

Clever Girl

Clever Girl

Uplift a species

Shoot To Kill

Shoot To Kill

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

Unlimited Power!

Unlimited Power!

Use the active effect of a Relic

Imperial Highway

Imperial Highway

Own 4 active Gateways

Battle Thralls

Battle Thralls

Have 3 other Empires as vassals

Then Virgil, Now Beatrice

Then Virgil, Now Beatrice

Return a long-dead species to life

Artificer

Artificer

Have 100 Minor Artifacts

Star Struck

Star Struck

Own 200 Starbases (Outposts are counted)

Paradise Found

Paradise Found

Terraform a planet into a gaia world

Rift Sealed

Rift Sealed

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

We're Number One

We're Number One

Be the leader of a max level Federation

All-Seeing Eye

All-Seeing Eye

Have an Intel Level of 100 on five different empires simultaneously

Controlled Evolution

Controlled Evolution

Genetically modify a species to possess traits worth 7 points

Slave to the Systems

Slave to the Systems

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

Think Tank

Think Tank

Construct a complete Science Nexus

They Come In Pieces

They Come In Pieces

Vivisect an alien

Arcana

Arcana

Study Minor Artifacts and discover a random technology

I Can See Forever

I Can See Forever

Construct a complete Sentry Array

Unstoppable Force

Unstoppable Force

Build a Juggernaut

Fine Print

Fine Print

Modify a vassalization contract.

Very Open Borders

Very Open Borders

As a xenophilic empire, have migration treaties with at least 10 other empires

Voight-Kampff

Voight-Kampff

Develop the means to prevent nefarious infiltration

Our Fleets will Blot Out the Stars

Our Fleets will Blot Out the Stars

Construct a complete Mega-Shipyard

Beyond the Veil

Beyond the Veil

Breach the Shroud

Unboxing

Unboxing

Open up a shielded world

Victorious

Victorious

Win the game through any victory condition in Ironman Mode

...and Hope?

...and Hope?

Unseal the path to the L-Cluster

Captive Star

Captive Star

Construct a complete Dyson Sphere

Giga-Engineering

Giga-Engineering

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

It Followed Me Home

It Followed Me Home

Befriend a Space Amoeba

Patron

Patron

Support the Artisan Troupe for 10 years

Surfing the Web

Surfing the Web

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

Burn Notice

Burn Notice

Disavow all knowledge of an Asset during an Operation

Does Not Compute

Does Not Compute

Shut down the Contingency plan

View from the End of the World

View from the End of the World

Build a Habitat station in a Black Hole system

Council of Elders

Council of Elders

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

Strategic Initiative

Strategic Initiative

Build a Strategic Coordination Center

The Good Stuff

The Good Stuff

Purchase a rare resource from the Traders

Breaching the Planes

Breaching the Planes

Explore an Astral Rift.

Ringworld Engineers

Ringworld Engineers

Construct a complete Ring World

United Space

United Space

Build an Interstellar Assembly

Xenophage

Xenophage

Keep at least 5 different species as livestock in your Empire

Green Thumb

Green Thumb

Complete the Baol Precursor chain

Mad Genius

Mad Genius

Recruit a scientist from the Curators

Queening

Queening

Successfully capture an extragalactic matriarch

Whence It Came

Whence It Came

Defeat a horrifying invader

Relic Hunter

Relic Hunter

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

A Hump Like a Snow-Hill

A Hump Like a Snow-Hill

Hunt the Tiyanki Matriarch

Growing Planes

Growing Planes

Explore 5 Astral Rifts in one game.

Like Tears in Rain

Like Tears in Rain

Evolve into perfect, immortal machines

Planet of the Mechs

Planet of the Mechs

Terraform a planet into a Machine World

Planned Obsolescence

Planned Obsolescence

As a Materialist empire, with at least 20,000 have at least 75% of the pops in your empire be robots

Dreadnought

Dreadnought

Restore an ancient warship

Exterminatus

Exterminatus

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

Who Scraps the Scrapper

Who Scraps the Scrapper

Destroy the Scrapper Bot

Black Hole Mining

Black Hole Mining

Build a Matter Decompressor

Opposites Attract

Opposites Attract

Have all eight ethics represented within your Federation

No Khan Do

No Khan Do

Kill the Great Khan in battle

We Are Legion

We Are Legion

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

Wormageddon

Wormageddon

Destroy a Voidworm nest.

1999 A.D.

1999 A.D.

Slaughter the Voidspawn

Animal Farm

Animal Farm

Reach 50 Vivarium capacity.

Dust Off

Dust Off

Complete the Zroni Precursor chain

Stay on Target

Stay on Target

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

Unravelling Enigma

Unravelling Enigma

Uncover the secrets of an ancient fortress

Warrior of Light

Warrior of Light

Destroy a wraith

Peacekeeper

Peacekeeper

As a pacifistic empire, be at peace for 200 consecutive years (crises do not count as wars.)

Suffer not the Alien

Suffer not the Alien

As a xenophobic empire, purge all other sentient species in the galaxy

Clash of the Titans

Clash of the Titans

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

Return to Dust

Return to Dust

Destroy an enclave

What Was Will Be

What Was Will Be

Close the loop, or don't

Distinctiveness Added

Distinctiveness Added

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

Enlightened Times

Enlightened Times

Enlighten a Bronze or Stone age civilization

Hear me Roar

Hear me Roar

Hatch the egg

Put a Ring On It

Put a Ring On It

Have a ring world section as your capital

With Thunderous Applause

With Thunderous Applause

Become the Galactic Emperor

That's No Asteroid

That's No Asteroid

Capture a Cutholoid with a Gravity Snare.

Towards Utopia

Towards Utopia

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

Burning Brightly

Burning Brightly

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

Infinite Creation

Infinite Creation

Birth a new universe

Rise of the Machines

Rise of the Machines

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

Franchising

Franchising

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

Stellar Performance

Stellar Performance

Take a trophy from a stellar being

It Belongs in a... oh right

It Belongs in a... oh right

Fill any Collection category with active Exhibits.

Payback

Payback

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

Put a Cork in It

Put a Cork in It

Construct a Dimensional Lock.

Big Red Button

Big Red Button

Destroy the Galaxy

Whatever it is, I'm against it

Whatever it is, I'm against it

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

Deus Vult

Deus Vult

As a spiritualistic empire, own 4 holy worlds

Obscure Tastes

Obscure Tastes

Build a Mega-Art Installation in a nebula system

Outside Context

Outside Context

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

Inscrutable Power

Inscrutable Power

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

Humble Pie

Humble Pie

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

Last, Best Hope

Last, Best Hope

Lead the non-aligned powers to victory against an awakened empire

None Shall Pass

None Shall Pass

Have a Fortress World with a Defense Shield, Ring filled with defenses, and a power of 10000.

Pandora's World

Pandora's World

Seal a world of Fanatic Purifiers, Ravenous Swarms, Determined Exterminators with a Global Pacifier

Retirement Home

Retirement Home

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

Gotta Subjugate Them All

Gotta Subjugate Them All

Have a tier 3 subject of each Specialist type simultaneously.

Made a Friend Today

Made a Friend Today

Form a Covenant with any Patron

Maximally Effective

Maximally Effective

Be the patron of three maximum sized Mercenary Enclaves.

Modern Cincinnatus

Modern Cincinnatus

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

My name is Ozymandias

My name is Ozymandias

Claim the Eternal Throne.

Quest Complete

Quest Complete

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

Strange Mood

Strange Mood

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

Yeet the Fleet

Yeet the Fleet

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

You've Been Served

You've Been Served

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

Can you Smell What the Lithoids are Cooking?

Can you Smell What the Lithoids are Cooking?

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

Insightful

Insightful

Research 12 pre-FTL Insight Technologies.

Non-Prophet Organization

Non-Prophet Organization

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

Raiders of the Lost Galatron

Raiders of the Lost Galatron

Capture the Galatron from another empire

Returned to Form

Returned to Form

make friends...

Sic Semper Tyrannis

Sic Semper Tyrannis

Lead a rebellion that successfully deposes the Galactic Emperor

There’s a Zombie on my Lawn

There’s a Zombie on my Lawn

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

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Blorg

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Blorg

Complete at least ten distinct operations during a game

Underlord

Underlord

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

You Monster

You Monster

Reduce, reuse, recycle.

A Tad Too Late

A Tad Too Late

Discover Keides' Origin.

Back with Your X

Back with Your X

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

Dawn Of A Million Souls

Dawn Of A Million Souls

Terraform 3 planets with Azaryn.

Ethical Dilemmas

Ethical Dilemmas

Have 6 different Ethics on the Council.

Fishing for Trouble

Fishing for Trouble

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

Growing Like Weeds

Growing Like Weeds

Have 10 organic pop assembly on your capital, as a budding species without the Clone Army origin.

Holy Water

Holy Water

Drench a Fallen Empire’s holy world.

Humility before the Fall

Humility before the Fall

Complete the Inetian Traders’ Precursor chain.

Into the Unknown

Into the Unknown

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

Meet the New Boss

Meet the New Boss

Same as the old boss.

Nothing to See Here

Nothing to See Here

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

Rock Beats Paper

Rock Beats Paper

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

Room for Desert

Room for Desert

Consume another empire’s desert homeworld.

Tend the Garden

Tend the Garden

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

There be Dragons

There be Dragons

Own 13 dragons and have them in your capital system.

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality

Fully embrace the virtual world and leave no pop behind.

We’ll Make Great Pets

We’ll Make Great Pets

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

With Great Power

With Great Power

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

Could be Worse

Could be Worse

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

Dark Forest

Dark Forest

Convert to a Fanatic Purifier as a FotD empire and eliminate... everyone!

Destroy the People of Earth!

Destroy the People of Earth!

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

Directive 67

Directive 67

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

Equality! Democracy! Freedom!

Equality! Democracy! Freedom!

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

Fixer Upper

Fixer Upper

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

Machine Supremacy

Machine Supremacy

Win the game as a machine uprising.

Mother Knows Best

Mother Knows Best

Submit to all of Cetana's demands.

No Good Deed…

No Good Deed…

Save a Pre-FTL experiment from failure, even though it puts you in breach of Galactic Law.

Recent History

Recent History

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

The Path Not Taken

The Path Not Taken

Have 10 colonies without ever discovering Hyperdrives.

Toxic Workplace

Toxic Workplace

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

We Bring Peace

We Bring Peace

Liberate 3 different empires while having Crusader Spirit Civic.

With Interest

With Interest

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

Unpopularity Contest

Unpopularity Contest

Use the Tempest Invocator Relic to Summon a storm.

Unshackled

Unshackled

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

X Marks the Spot

X Marks the Spot

Discover Captain Ness's Treasure Hoard.

A Universe of Paperclips

A Universe of Paperclips

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

Beastmaster

Beastmaster

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

But at what cost...

But at what cost...

Kill Gurr.

Cosmic Confetti

Cosmic Confetti

Watch your Red Giant home star blow up

Flesh Adapts

Flesh Adapts

Defeat the Prethoryn Scourge while using biological ships.

Footsteps of the Prophet

Footsteps of the Prophet

As a Cybernetic Creed empire, defeat Cetana.

King of Monsters

King of Monsters

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

Master of Puppets

Master of Puppets

While playing with the Secret Societies Civic, have 5 or more empires in a Proxy War simultaneously

Mediocre!

Mediocre!

Complete the Succumb to Tempest Challenge.

Mildly Possessed

Mildly Possessed

Discover every available minor and major Patron in a single game

Mind Over Metal

Mind Over Metal

Unlock every Psionic Ship Component

Past the Expiration Date

Past the Expiration Date

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

Smörgåsblorg

Smörgåsblorg

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

Void Charmer

Void Charmer

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

Blazing Domain

Blazing Domain

Terraform 100 stars to Red Giants (Before Galactic Firestorm victory)

Born to be Wild

Born to be Wild

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

Galactic Firestorm

Galactic Firestorm

Win the game through the Hyperthermia Crisis Path

I am the Invader Now

I am the Invader Now

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

Master of the Shroud

Master of the Shroud

Gain a Covenant Power from each Patron when forging your own path

Smugglers of Hope

Smugglers of Hope

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

Summer Vacation

Summer Vacation

Create a Volcanic Resort World

The End

The End

Destroy the galaxy with the Aura of the End

This Is the Part Where We Kill You

This Is the Part Where We Kill You

Lose more than 999 Pops when completing the Experimental Testing Situation

Volcanic Empire

Volcanic Empire

Terraform 10 planets to Volcanic world (Before Galactic Firestorm victory)

Burning Heaven

Burning Heaven

Create a Volcanic Holy World

From Bad to Worse

From Bad to Worse

Use 5 Blazing Scourge decisions on a Tomb World

I Win Longest Road!

I Win Longest Road!

Connect 2 Capital Planets with a Wayline that is at least 20 Waystations long.

Defenders of the Galaxy

Defenders of the Galaxy

Defeat all End Game Crises before abdicating as DotG without ever having any non-Arkship colonies

Forever is a Long Time

Forever is a Long Time

As Forever Cruise, survive for at least 200 years and reach the End Game Crisis

It's Full of Stars

It's Full of Stars

As a Nomadic empire, settle on Europa as your Empire's Capital.

Khan of Khans

Khan of Khans

As Heirs of the Khan, seize back your throne and have at least 5 Satrapy Vassals.

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Embark when your homeworld is at 70% devastation.

Take My Energy

Take My Energy

Cook a homeworld with a Stellar Cannon

The Long Way Round

The Long Way Round

As Sacred Path, complete the pilgrimage to all seven Sacred Sites

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