Stellaris (video game)

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Stellaris is an upcoming turn-based, real-time 4X Strategy Game being developed by Paradox Interactive. Gameplay in Stellaris revolves around space exploration, managing an empire, warfare and diplomacy with other spacefaring civilizations. The game also utilizes an updated version of the "Clausewitz Engine" that has been in use since the Europa Universalis III. It is set to be released on 9 May 2016.

The game's official website can be found here.

Tropes used in Stellaris (video game) include:
  • 2-D Space: The bulk of the action takes place on a horizontal plane.
  • All Planets Are Earthlike: Averted, as many planets are either not suitably comfortable to your species by default (barring measures like terraforming) or utterly uninhabitable.
  • Ancient Astronauts: Potentially, you. As it's possible to come across planets with varying degrees of complex if not sentient life and "uplift" them, ultimately becoming "vassals" of sorts.
  • Design-It-Yourself Equipment: Not only are your ships heavily customizable, but everything about your species/civilization can be customized to a significant degree.
  • Humanoid Aliens: In addition to humans, a number of the various species types available are at least vaguely humanoid. The rest however are Starfish Aliens.
  • X Meets Y: Europa Universalis meets Galactic Civilisations