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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)
2016 ★ 78 211 achievements
211 achievements
Energetic

Energetic

35.1%

Store/have 1000 EC

Brave New World

Brave New World

32.4%

Colonize a planet

Power Overwhelming

Power Overwhelming

31.5%

Store/have 5000 EC

Break On Through...

Break On Through...

27.6%

Research a Rare technology

Explorer

Explorer

23.0%

Survey one of each basic planet class

Domo Arigato

Domo Arigato

21.5%

Build a Robot Pop

Archaeologist

Archaeologist

21.4%

Successfully investigate an archaeological site

Digging Deep

Digging Deep

21.3%

Earn a total Mineral income each month above 250

Mutual Understanding

Mutual Understanding

20.9%

Successfully negotiate a trade deal

Supremacy

Supremacy

19.8%

Win a War against another Empire

A Home Away From Home

A Home Away From Home

19.3%

Conquer another species' homeworld

League of Nations

League of Nations

18.9%

Be a founding member of the Galactic Community

What Came Before

What Came Before

18.7%

Find the home system of a Precursor Empire

The Grand Fleet

The Grand Fleet

18.4%

Build a fleet with a total fleet size above 120

... To the Other Side

... To the Other Side

17.7%

Research 15 Rare technologies in a single game

Building Better Worlds

Building Better Worlds

17.3%

Terraform a planet

New Shining Star

New Shining Star

17.2%

Upgrade your capital to an Imperial Complex

Grand Admiral

Grand Admiral

16.1%

Have an Empire total fleet power of 100,000+

We Come In Peace

We Come In Peace

15.5%

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

Faster, Stronger, Better

Faster, Stronger, Better

15.2%

Genetically alter a species (not uplift)

Throw Your Weight Around

Throw Your Weight Around

14.7%

Have a Diplomatic Weight of over 9000

Emissary

Emissary

14.4%

Explore a Natural Wormhole

Megapolis

Megapolis

14.4%

Have a planet with at least 100 Pops

It belongs in a museum!

It belongs in a museum!

14.2%

Find a Relic

Birth of a Federation

Birth of a Federation

13.7%

Establish a Federation

Resourceful

Resourceful

13.5%

Have access to ten different Strategic Resources

Unlimited Power!

Unlimited Power!

13.3%

Use the active effect of a Relic

Tradition is Everything

Tradition is Everything

13.2%

Unlock all 42 Traditions

Artificer

Artificer

13.1%

Have 100 Minor Artifacts

Tourist Trap

Tourist Trap

13.0%

Own a planet with at least 10 different species on it

The Industrial Re-Revolution

The Industrial Re-Revolution

12.5%

Earn a total Mineral income each month above 1000

Old Friends

Old Friends

12.3%

Receive a gift from a Fallen Empire

Citadel of Death

Citadel of Death

12.2%

Own a Citadel with 40k fleet power

Let Us Go Forward Together

Let Us Go Forward Together

11.4%

Level up your Federation

Center of Trade

Center of Trade

10.9%

Earn at least 1000 Energy Credits per month from trade

Omnicultural

Omnicultural

10.8%

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

Arcana

Arcana

9.7%

Study Minor Artifacts and discover a random technology

Clever Girl

Clever Girl

9.7%

Uplift a species

Patron

Patron

9.3%

Support the Artisan Troupe for 10 years

Then Virgil, Now Beatrice

Then Virgil, Now Beatrice

9.1%

Return a long-dead species to life

Imperial Highway

Imperial Highway

8.7%

Own 4 active Gateways

The Good Stuff

The Good Stuff

8.5%

Purchase a rare resource from the Traders

...and Hope?

...and Hope?

8.4%

Unseal the path to the L-Cluster

Think Tank

Think Tank

8.4%

Construct a complete Science Nexus

Battle Thralls

Battle Thralls

8.1%

Have 3 other Empires as vassals

Unstoppable Force

Unstoppable Force

8.0%

Build a Juggernaut

It Followed Me Home

It Followed Me Home

7.5%

Befriend a Space Amoeba

Mad Genius

Mad Genius

7.5%

Recruit a scientist from the Curators

I Can See Forever

I Can See Forever

7.1%

Construct a complete Sentry Array

Beyond the Veil

Beyond the Veil

7.0%

Breach the Shroud

Our Fleets will Blot Out the Stars

Our Fleets will Blot Out the Stars

7.0%

Construct a complete Mega-Shipyard

Star Struck

Star Struck

7.0%

Own 200 Starbases (Outposts are counted)

Controlled Evolution

Controlled Evolution

6.9%

Genetically modify a species to possess traits worth 7 points

Captive Star

Captive Star

6.5%

Construct a complete Dyson Sphere

Giga-Engineering

Giga-Engineering

6.4%

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

All-Seeing Eye

All-Seeing Eye

6.0%

Have an Intel Level of 100 on five different empires simultaneously

Fine Print

Fine Print

5.9%

Modify a vassalization contract.

Strategic Initiative

Strategic Initiative

5.9%

Build a Strategic Coordination Center

Whence It Came

Whence It Came

5.9%

Defeat a horrifying invader

Paradise Found

Paradise Found

5.8%

Terraform a planet into a gaia world

Green Thumb

Green Thumb

5.7%

Complete the Baol Precursor chain

Rift Sealed

Rift Sealed

5.7%

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

Shoot To Kill

Shoot To Kill

5.6%

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

Victorious

Victorious

5.6%

Win the game through any victory condition

Council of Elders

Council of Elders

5.4%

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

Dreadnought

Dreadnought

5.4%

Restore an ancient warship

United Space

United Space

5.2%

Build an Interstellar Assembly

View from the End of the World

View from the End of the World

5.1%

Own a Habitat station in a Black Hole system

Breaching the Planes

Breaching the Planes

5.0%

Explore an Astral Rift.

Ringworld Engineers

Ringworld Engineers

4.9%

Construct a complete Ring World

Surfing the Web

Surfing the Web

4.9%

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

A Hump Like a Snow-Hill

A Hump Like a Snow-Hill

4.7%

Hunt the Tiyanki Matriarch

Like Tears in Rain

Like Tears in Rain

4.7%

Evolve into perfect, immortal machines

Who Scraps the Scrapper

Who Scraps the Scrapper

4.7%

Destroy the Scrapper Bot

Planned Obsolescence

Planned Obsolescence

4.6%

As a materialist empire with at least 200 Pops, have at least 75% of the Pops be robotic

Relic Hunter

Relic Hunter

4.6%

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

Black Hole Mining

Black Hole Mining

4.4%

Build a Matter Decompressor

Burn Notice

Burn Notice

4.4%

Disavow all knowledge of an Asset during an Operation

Unravelling Enigma

Unravelling Enigma

4.3%

Uncover the secrets of an ancient fortress

Warrior of Light

Warrior of Light

4.3%

Destroy a wraith

No Khan Do

No Khan Do

4.1%

Kill the Great Khan in battle

Planet of the Mechs

Planet of the Mechs

4.1%

Terraform a planet into a Machine World.

Slave to the Systems

Slave to the Systems

4.1%

As an authoritarian Empire with at least 500 Pops, have at least 200 enslaved Pops

Unboxing

Unboxing

4.1%

Open up a shielded world

Growing Planes

Growing Planes

4.0%

Explore 5 Astral Rifts in one game.

We're Number One

We're Number One

3.9%

Be the leader of a max level Federation

Xenophage

Xenophage

3.7%

Keep at least 5 different species as livestock in your Empire

1999 A.D.

1999 A.D.

3.6%

Slaughter the Voidspawn

Clash of the Titans

Clash of the Titans

3.6%

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

Exterminatus

Exterminatus

3.6%

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

Dust Off

Dust Off

3.4%

Complete the Zroni Precursor chain

Hear Me Roar

Hear Me Roar

3.3%

Hatch the egg

Return to Dust

Return to Dust

3.3%

Destroy an Enclave

They Come In Pieces

They Come In Pieces

3.3%

Vivisect an alien

Voight-Kampff

Voight-Kampff

3.0%

Develop the means to prevent nefarious infiltration

We Are Legion

We Are Legion

3.0%

Be a biological Hive Mind with at least 1000 drone Pops

Animal Farm

Animal Farm

2.9%

Reach 50 Vivarium capacity.

Opposites Attract

Opposites Attract

2.9%

Have all eight ethics represented within your Federation

Wormageddon

Wormageddon

2.9%

Destroy a Voidworm nest.

Does Not Compute

Does Not Compute

2.8%

Shut down the Contingency plan.

Infinite Creation

Infinite Creation

2.8%

Birth a new universe

What Was Will Be

What Was Will Be

2.6%

Close the loop, or don't

Put A Ring On It

Put A Ring On It

2.5%

Have a ringworld section as your capital

Towards Utopia

Towards Utopia

2.5%

As an Egalitarian empire, have at least 500 Pops living under Utopian living conditions in your Empire

Very Open Borders

Very Open Borders

2.5%

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

With Thunderous Applause

With Thunderous Applause

2.3%

Become the Galactic Emperor

Distinctiveness Added

Distinctiveness Added

2.2%

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

Franchising

Franchising

2.2%

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

Queening

Queening

2.2%

Successfully capture an extragalactic matriarch

Rise of the Machines

Rise of the Machines

2.1%

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

That's No Asteroid

That's No Asteroid

2.1%

Capture a Cutholoid with a Gravity Snare.

It Belongs in a... oh right

It Belongs in a... oh right

2.0%

Fill any Collection category with active Exhibits.

Stellar Performance

Stellar Performance

2.0%

Take a trophy from a stellar being

Burning Brightly

Burning Brightly

1.9%

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

Big Red Button

Big Red Button

1.8%

Destroy the Galaxy

Enlightened Times

Enlightened Times

1.7%

Enlighten a Bronze or Stone Age civilization

Put a Cork in It

Put a Cork in It

1.7%

Construct a Dimensional Lock.

Peacekeeper

Peacekeeper

1.6%

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

Obscure Tastes

Obscure Tastes

1.4%

Build a Mega-Art Installation in a nebula system

Stay on Target

Stay on Target

1.4%

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

Suffer not the Alien

Suffer not the Alien

1.3%

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

Inscrutable Power

Inscrutable Power

1.0%

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

Last, Best Hope

Last, Best Hope

1.0%

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

Payback

Payback

1.0%

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

My name is Ozymandias

My name is Ozymandias

0.9%

Claim the Eternal Throne.

Pandora's World

Pandora's World

0.9%

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

Retirement Home

Retirement Home

0.9%

As a Rogue Servitor, own at least 10 Pops from Fallen Empires.

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality

0.9%

Fully embrace the virtual world and leave no pop behind.

Deus Vult

Deus Vult

0.8%

As a spiritualist Empire, own 4 holy worlds

Outside Context

Outside Context

0.8%

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

None Shall Pass

None Shall Pass

0.7%

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

Quest Complete

Quest Complete

0.7%

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

Whatever it is, I'm against it

Whatever it is, I'm against it

0.7%

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

Gotta Subjugate Them All

Gotta Subjugate Them All

0.6%

Have a tier 3 subject of each Specialist type simultaneously.

Humble Pie

Humble Pie

0.6%

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

Insightful

Insightful

0.6%

Research 12 pre-FTL Insight Technologies.

Made a Friend Today

Made a Friend Today

0.6%

Form a Covenant with any Patron

Modern Cincinnatus

Modern Cincinnatus

0.6%

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

Nothing to See Here

Nothing to See Here

0.6%

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

Returned to Form

Returned to Form

0.6%

make friends...

Strange Mood

Strange Mood

0.6%

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

Yeet the Fleet

Yeet the Fleet

0.6%

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

0.6%

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

Back with Your X

Back with Your X

0.5%

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

0.5%

Terraform 3 planets with Azaryn.

Maximally Effective

Maximally Effective

0.5%

Be the patron of three maximum sized Mercenary Enclaves.

There’s a Zombie on my Lawn

There’s a Zombie on my Lawn

0.5%

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

A Tad Too Late

A Tad Too Late

0.4%

Discover Keides' Origin.

Can you Smell What the Lithoids are Cooking?

Can you Smell What the Lithoids are Cooking?

0.4%

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

Ethical Dilemmas

Ethical Dilemmas

0.4%

Have 6 different Ethics on the Council.

Humility before the Fall

Humility before the Fall

0.4%

Complete the Inetian Traders’ Precursor chain.

Non-Prophet Organization

Non-Prophet Organization

0.4%

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

0.4%

Capture the Galatron from another empire

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Blorg

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Blorg

0.4%

Complete at least ten distinct operations during a game

Underlord

Underlord

0.4%

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

You Monster

You Monster

0.4%

Reduce, reuse, recycle.

Fishing for Trouble

Fishing for Trouble

0.3%

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

Growing Like Weeds

Growing Like Weeds

0.3%

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

Into the Unknown

Into the Unknown

0.3%

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

Mother Knows Best

Mother Knows Best

0.3%

Submit to all of Cetana's demands.

Sic Semper Tyrannis

Sic Semper Tyrannis

0.3%

Lead a rebellion that successfully deposes the Galactic Emperor

Tend the Garden

Tend the Garden

0.3%

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

The Path Not Taken

The Path Not Taken

0.3%

Have 10 colonies without ever discovering Hyperdrives.

We’ll Make Great Pets

We’ll Make Great Pets

0.3%

Have at least 10 pops of your primary species on display in Alien Zoos within your empire.

With Great Power

With Great Power

0.3%

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

With Interest

With Interest

0.3%

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

Could be Worse

Could be Worse

0.2%

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

Dark Forest

Dark Forest

0.2%

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

Destroy the People of Earth!

Destroy the People of Earth!

0.2%

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

Directive 67

Directive 67

0.2%

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

Equality! Democracy! Freedom!

Equality! Democracy! Freedom!

0.2%

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

Fixer Upper

Fixer Upper

0.2%

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

Holy Water

Holy Water

0.2%

Drench a Fallen Empire’s holy world.

King of Monsters

King of Monsters

0.2%

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

Machine Supremacy

Machine Supremacy

0.2%

Win the game as a machine uprising.

Meet the New Boss

Meet the New Boss

0.2%

Same as the old boss.

No Good Deed…

No Good Deed…

0.2%

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

Recent History

Recent History

0.2%

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

Rock Beats Paper

Rock Beats Paper

0.2%

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

Room for Desert

Room for Desert

0.2%

Consume another empire’s desert homeworld.

Smörgåsblorg

Smörgåsblorg

0.2%

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

There be Dragons

There be Dragons

0.2%

Own 13 dragons and have them in your capital system.

Toxic Workplace

Toxic Workplace

0.2%

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

Unpopularity Contest

Unpopularity Contest

0.2%

Use the Tempest Invocator Relic to Summon a storm.

Unshackled

Unshackled

0.2%

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

We Bring Peace

We Bring Peace

0.2%

Liberate 3 different empires while having Crusader Spirit Civic.

X Marks the Spot

X Marks the Spot

0.2%

Discover Captain Ness's Treasure Hoard.

A Universe of Paperclips

A Universe of Paperclips

0.1%

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

Beastmaster

Beastmaster

0.1%

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

But at what cost...

But at what cost...

0.1%

Kill Gurr.

Flesh Adapts

Flesh Adapts

0.1%

Defeat the Prethoryn Scourge while using biological ships.

Footsteps of the Prophet

Footsteps of the Prophet

0.1%

As a Cybernetic Creed empire, defeat Cetana.

I am the Invader Now

I am the Invader Now

0.1%

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

Master of Puppets

Master of Puppets

0.1%

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

Master of the Shroud

Master of the Shroud

0.1%

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

Mediocre!

Mediocre!

0.1%

Complete the Succumb to Tempest Challenge.

Mildly Possessed

Mildly Possessed

0.1%

Discover every available minor and major Patron in a single game

Mind Over Metal

Mind Over Metal

0.1%

Unlock every Psionic Ship Component

Past the Expiration Date

Past the Expiration Date

0.1%

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

Void Charmer

Void Charmer

0.1%

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

Blazing Domain

Blazing Domain

0.0%

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

Born to be Wild

Born to be Wild

0.0%

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

Burning Heaven

Burning Heaven

0.0%

Create a Volcanic Holy World

Cosmic Confetti

Cosmic Confetti

0.0%

Watch your Red Giant home star blow up

From Bad to Worse

From Bad to Worse

0.0%

Use 5 Blazing Scourge decisions on a Tomb World

Galactic Firestorm

Galactic Firestorm

0.0%

Win the game through the Hyperthermia Crisis Path

Smugglers of Hope

Smugglers of Hope

0.0%

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

Summer Vacation

Summer Vacation

0.0%

Create a Volcanic Resort World

The End

The End

0.0%

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

0.0%

Lose >999 Pops when completing the Experimental Testing Situation

Volcanic Empire

Volcanic Empire

0.0%

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

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