Stellaris
Fair · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $49.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.55/hr
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 197,443
- Critics
- 78 players 8 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 11% Strategy
Holding it back: AI content, Recent reviews
Recent reviews trending down: 66% over the last 30 days against 86% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 32.3h
- To 100%
- 415.5h 12.9x the story
- Finish
- <1% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 219
Price and sales
- Sales
- 82 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $3.99 December 2024
- Sale every
- 41d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 7,093 now
- Recent reviews
- 66% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 90% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
41% start to <1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 82 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 11 percent. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion ($19.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats NEBULOUS: Fleet Command ($29.99, scores 35).
More about Stellaris
78 from critics against 86 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts under 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 32.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Players rate it 86 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 66 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 2,868 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
32.3 hours to finish it, 416 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 13 times the campaign.
197,443 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
10/10. I started a match as a hyper-optimized MegaCorp of toxic, cave-dwelling bird-people who cram 30 billion citizens onto single planets. Fast-forward to the late game, and my galaxy has turned into a terrifying, multi-front war zone of absolute cosmic proportions as a simultaneous triple-25x strength Endgame Crisis systematically tears the universe apart.Here is how my current quarterly report looks:The Galactic...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is pretty much one of my favorite games. It is the only game that has ever given me this feeling of being in a massive sci-fi setting, and it gives a lot of freedom in that regard. The DLCs are expensive, but the monthly subscription is a nice temporary option as I buy the DLCs up over time, because it isn't that expensive (and it helps the developers work even more on this masterpiece). Overall, can't...
I loved this game in the past and cannot recommend it. Plenty of other reviews highlight the major issues. Very predatory pricing model, poor endgame performance, and too much of a rush to push out new dlc instead of refining how old ones work together. I feel for the devs, as a decent amount of this is likely not something they can control. If someone that is in charge of these decisions does end up reading this, I...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Stellaris scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/281990/stellarisReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.