Stellaris: Console Edition (2019) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Stellaris: Console Edition

The universe is getting bigger every day! Paradox Development Studio is bringing the grand strategy genre to consoles for the first time ever with Stellaris: Console Edition. Featuring the same deep strategic…

80 26 February 2019

What Stellaris: Console Edition is

Stellaris: Console Edition is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Paradox Development Studio and released in 2019. It was published by Paradox Interactive. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It runs on Clausewitz Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The universe is getting bigger every day! Paradox Development Studio is bringing the grand strategy genre to consoles for the first time ever with Stellaris: Console Edition. Featuring the same deep strategic gameplay, rich and diverse alien races and emergent storytelling, Stellaris: Console Edition puts the complexity of the galaxy at your thumbsticks.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Stellaris: Console Edition holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 63% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Stellaris: Console Edition launched on 26 February 2019, within three weeks of Metro Exodus, Devil May Cry 5, Anthem and Tom Clancy's The Division 2. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Metro Exodus, Devil May Cry 5, Anthem, Tom Clancy's The Division 2.

Official trailer