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Stellaris

May 9, 2016 Steam: Very Positive

Give it 3 hours

Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Started playing 41% of owners
Steam reviews 86% positive of 197,103

What the data shows

When it gets good

Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.

before it gets good opening up fully opened up

Based on all 197,471 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 86.5h for positive, 118.2h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.

Where players quit

Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (40.8% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.

This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.

All achievements (219)

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  • Energetic Store/have 1000 EC 100%
  • Power Overwhelming Store/have 5000 EC 90%
  • Brave New World Colonize a planet 90%
  • Break On Through... Research a Rare technology 77%
  • Explorer Survey one of each basic planet class 62%
  • Archaeologist Successfully investigate an archaeological site 61%
  • Domo Arigato Build a Robot Pop 59%
  • Digging Deep Earn a total Mineral income each month above 250 59%
  • Mutual Understanding Successfully negotiate a trade deal 56%
  • Supremacy Win a War against another Empire 56%
  • League of Nations Be a founding member of the Galactic Community 53%
  • A Home Away From Home Conquer another species' homeworld 53%
  • What Came Before Find the home system of a Precursor Empire 50%
  • The Grand Fleet Build a fleet with a total fleet size above 500 48%
  • ... To the Other Side Research 15 Rare technologies in a single game 48%
  • Building Better Worlds Terraform a planet 47%
  • New Shining Star Upgrade your capital to an Imperial Complex 46%
  • We Come In Peace Complete a mutually friendly First Contact with an empire with no negative incidents 45%
  • Grand Admiral Have an Empire total fleet power of 100,000+ 43%
  • Faster, Stronger, Better Genetically alter a species (not uplift) 41%
  • Megapolis Have a planet with at least 10,000 Pops. 40%
  • Throw Your Weight Around Have a Diplomatic Weight of over 9000 40%
  • It belongs in a museum! Find a Relic 39%
  • Artificer Have 100 Minor Artifacts 39%
  • Emissary Explore a Natural Wormhole 38%
  • Birth of a Federation Establish a Federation 37%
  • Unlimited Power! Use the active effect of a Relic 37%
  • Tourist Trap Own a planet with at least 10 different species on it 36%
  • Tradition is Everything Unlock all 42 Traditions 35%
  • Old Friends Receive a gift from a Fallen Empire 35%
  • The Industrial Re-Revolution Earn a total Mineral income each month above 1000 34%
  • Resourceful Have access to ten different Strategic Resources 34%
  • Citadel of Death Own a Citadel with 40k fleet power 33%
  • Let Us Go Forward Together Level up your Federation 33%
  • Center of Trade Earn at least 1000 Trade per month 31%
  • Omnicultural Have your ruler be of a different species class than your founding species 29%
  • Arcana Study Minor Artifacts and discover a random technology 27%
  • Clever Girl Uplift a species 25%
  • Patron Support the Artisan Troupe for 10 years 24%
  • Controlled Evolution Genetically modify a species to possess traits worth 7 points 24%
  • Then Virgil, Now Beatrice Return a long-dead species to life 23%
  • Imperial Highway Own 4 active Gateways 22%
  • ...and Hope? Unseal the path to the L-Cluster 22%
  • Think Tank Construct a complete Science Nexus 22%
  • Battle Thralls Have 3 other Empires as vassals 22%
  • The Good Stuff Purchase a rare resource from the Traders 22%
  • Unstoppable Force Build a Juggernaut 21%
  • It Followed Me Home Befriend a Space Amoeba 19%
  • Mad Genius Recruit a scientist from the Curators 19%
  • Beyond the Veil Breach the Shroud 19%
  • Our Fleets will Blot Out the Stars Construct a complete Mega-Shipyard 18%
  • I Can See Forever Construct a complete Sentry Array 18%
  • Star Struck Own 200 Starbases (Outposts are counted) 18%
  • Council of Elders Requires 5 Council members that are at at least 100 years old. 18%
  • All-Seeing Eye Have an Intel Level of 100 on five different empires simultaneously 17%
  • Fine Print Modify a vassalization contract. 17%
  • Shoot To Kill Start a full fledged first contact war before communications have been fully established 17%
  • Breaching the Planes Explore an Astral Rift. 17%
  • Captive Star Construct a complete Dyson Sphere 17%
  • Giga-Engineering Have at least 4 fully operational Megastructures within your borders (Habitats, Ring Worlds and Gateways do not count) 17%
  • Strategic Initiative Build a Strategic Coordination Center 15%
  • Whence It Came Defeat a horrifying invader 15%
  • Paradise Found Terraform a planet into a gaia world 15%
  • Green Thumb Complete the Baol Precursor chain 15%
  • Rift Sealed Destroy the portals employed by the invaders from another time and space 15%
  • Surfing the Web Have a network of at least 30 Hyper Relays, in systems you own, connected to your capital. 15%
  • View from the End of the World Own a Habitat station in a Black Hole system 14%
  • Dreadnought Restore an ancient warship 14%
  • Growing Planes Explore 5 Astral Rifts in one game. 13%
  • United Space Build an Interstellar Assembly 13%
  • Victorious Win the game through any victory condition in Ironman Mode 13%
  • Relic Hunter In one game, find 5 Relics from Ancient Relics Story Pack 13%
  • Burn Notice Disavow all knowledge of an Asset during an Operation 13%
  • Ringworld Engineers Construct a complete Ring World 13%
  • Who Scraps the Scrapper Destroy the Scrapper Bot 13%
  • A Hump Like a Snow-Hill Hunt the Tiyanki Matriarch 13%
  • Like Tears in Rain Evolve into perfect, immortal machines 12%
  • Planned Obsolescence As a Materialist empire, with at least 20,000 pops, have at least 75% of them be robots. 12%
  • We're Number One Be the leader of a max level Federation 12%
  • Black Hole Mining Build a Matter Decompressor 11%
  • Wormageddon Destroy a Voidworm nest. 11%
  • Warrior of Light Destroy a wraith 11%
  • No Khan Do Kill the Great Khan in battle 11%
  • Planet of the Mechs Terraform a planet into a Machine World. 11%
  • Unravelling Enigma Uncover the secrets of an ancient fortress 11%
  • Animal Farm Reach 50 Vivarium capacity. 11%
  • Slave to the Systems As an Authoritarian Empire with at least 50,000 Pops, have at least 20,000 enslaved Pops. 11%
  • Unboxing Open up a shielded world 10%
  • Exterminatus Use a World Cracker to destroy another Empire's capital planet 9.8%
  • Xenophage Keep at least 5 different species as livestock in your Empire 9.8%
  • They Come In Pieces Vivisect an alien 9.6%
  • 1999 A.D. Slaughter the Voidspawn 9.3%
  • Dust Off Complete the Zroni Precursor chain 9.1%
  • Clash of the Titans Defeat a Fallen Empire's Titan fleet with a Titan of your own 8.8%
  • Hear Me Roar Hatch the egg 8.3%
  • Return to Dust Destroy an Enclave 8.3%
  • We Are Legion Be a biological Hive Mind with at least 100,000 drone Pops. 8.3%
  • Voight-Kampff Develop the means to prevent nefarious infiltration 8.1%
  • Does Not Compute Shut down the Contingency plan. 7.6%
  • Opposites Attract Have all eight ethics represented within your Federation 7.6%
  • That's No Asteroid Capture a Cutholoid with a Gravity Snare. 7.6%
  • Infinite Creation Birth a new universe 7.4%
  • Burning Brightly Complete an Arc Furnace and a Dyson Swarm in the same system. 6.9%
  • It Belongs in a... oh right Fill any Collection category with active Exhibits. 6.6%
  • Towards Utopia As an Egalitarian empire, have at least 50,000 pops living under Utopian living conditions. 6.6%
  • Very Open Borders As a xenophile Empire, have migration treaties with at least 10 other Empires 6.4%
  • Put A Ring On It Have a ringworld section as your capital 6.1%
  • Queening Successfully capture an extragalactic matriarch 6.1%
  • What Was Will Be Close the loop, or don't 6.1%
  • Distinctiveness Added As a Driven Assimilator, own cyborg Pops of at least 5 different species. 5.9%
  • With Thunderous Applause Become the Galactic Emperor 5.9%
  • Franchising As a Corporate empire, have a branch office on 5 different empires' capitals 5.6%
  • Put a Cork in It Construct a Dimensional Lock. 5.6%
  • Rise of the Machines As a Determined Exterminator, conquer or eliminate all biological Empires in the galaxy. 5.4%
  • Stellar Performance Take a trophy from a stellar being 5.4%
  • Stay on Target Destroy another Empire's Colossus while it is in the process of firing on a planet 5.1%
  • Big Red Button Destroy the Galaxy 4.7%
  • Enlightened Times Enlighten a Bronze or Stone Age civilization 4.2%
  • Peacekeeper As a pacifist Empire, be at peace for 200 consecutive years (crises do not count as wars) 3.9%
  • Made a Friend Today Form a Covenant with any Patron 3.4%
  • Obscure Tastes Build a Mega-Art Installation in a nebula system 3.4%
  • Suffer not the Alien As a xenophobic Empire, purge all other sentient species from the galaxy 3.4%
  • Virtual Reality Fully embrace the virtual world and leave no pop behind. 3.2%
  • Inscrutable Power I won the Galatron and all I got was this lousy achievement 2.7%
  • My name is Ozymandias Claim the Eternal Throne. 2.7%
  • Last, Best Hope Lead the non-aligned powers to victory against an Awakened Empire 2.5%
  • Payback As a humanoid species, infiltrate the homeworld of pre-FTL reptilians 2.5%
  • Pandora's World Use a Global Pacifier to shield a planet belonging to Fanatic Purifiers, Ravenous Swarms, or Determined Exterminators 2.2%
  • Retirement Home As a Rogue Servitor, own at least 1,000 Pops from Fallen Empires. 2.2%
  • Insightful Research 12 pre-FTL Insight Technologies. 2.0%
  • None Shall Pass 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 2.0%
  • Outside Context Invade pre-FTL Earth while it is in the midst of a world war 2.0%
  • Quest Complete Find the true ending of The Order’s noble quest. 2.0%
  • Returned to Form make friends... 2.0%
  • Whatever it is, I'm against it Refuse to belong to any club that would have you as a member 2.0%
  • Back with Your X Get the “good ending” to the Solarpunk quest chain, with Sol as your capital system. 1.7%
  • Deus Vult As a spiritualist Empire, own 4 holy worlds 1.7%
  • Gotta Subjugate Them All Have a tier 3 subject of each Specialist type simultaneously. 1.7%
  • Humility before the Fall Complete the Inetian Traders’ Precursor chain. 1.7%
  • Strange Mood As a Master Crafter empire, fully construct a megastructure while you have a Covenant. 1.7%
  • Yeet the Fleet Catapult a military fleet directly into the capital system of an enemy empire you are at war with. 1.7%
  • Humble Pie Humiliate an Empire that is in the Supremacy Diplomatic Stance, forcing them out of it 1.5%
  • Maximally Effective Be the patron of three maximum sized Mercenary Enclaves. 1.5%
  • Dawn Of A Million Souls Terraform 3 planets with Azaryn. 1.5%
  • Modern Cincinnatus As Galactic Custodian, defeat the end-game Crisis and then end the title rather than finishing your term 1.5%
  • Nothing to See Here Declare a war with a cloaked military fleet already in the primary target’s capital system. 1.5%
  • You've Been Served Denounce an Empire that is not actually in breach of galactic law while all major sanctions have been passed 1.5%
  • There’s a Zombie on my Lawn As a Necroid empire destroy a Plantoid empire, or vice-versa, without blowing up their final planet. 1.5%
  • Cosmic Confetti Watch your Red Giant home star blow up 1.2%
  • Ethical Dilemmas Have 6 different Ethics on the Council. 1.2%
  • A Tad Too Late Discover Keides' Origin. 1.2%
  • Can you Smell What the Lithoids are Cooking? As a Lithoid empire, keep another Lithoid pop as Livestock or Process them. 1.2%
  • We’ll Make Great Pets Have at least 1,000 pops of your primary species on display in Alien Zoos within your empire. 1.2%
  • Growing Like Weeds As a Budding species, have 25,000 Budding pops on your Capital. 1.0%
  • King of Monsters As a Behemoth Fury empire, become the undisputed apex predator of the galaxy. 1.0%
  • Mildly Possessed Discover every available minor and major Patron in a single game 1.0%
  • Mind Over Metal Unlock every Psionic Ship Component 1.0%
  • Mother Knows Best Submit to all of Cetana's demands. 1.0%
  • Non-Prophet Organization As a Teachers of the Shroud empire, prove that the Shroudwalkers made a terrible mistake. 1.0%
  • Raiders of the Lost Galatron Capture the Galatron from another empire 1.0%
  • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Blorg Complete at least ten distinct operations during a game 1.0%
  • Underlord As a Subterranean empire, dig too deep, but prove yourself worthy. 1.0%
  • With Interest As a Payback empire, finish what you started. Gain victory over MSI using the special Payback CB. 1.0%
  • You Monster Reduce, reuse, recycle. 1.0%
  • Could be Worse Colonize a planet that started the game as a Toxic world, then turn it into a Tomb World. 0.7%
  • Fishing for Trouble As an angler empire, provoke a Fallen Empire into declaring war on you and win. 0.7%
  • Galactic Firestorm Win the game through the Hyperthermia Crisis Path 0.7%
  • Holy Water Drench a Fallen Empire’s holy world. 0.7%
  • I Win Longest Road! Connect 2 Capital Planets with a Wayline that is at least 20 Waystations long 0.7%
  • Into the Unknown As a Slingshot to the Stars empire, send 10 crewed science ships into the unknown with Quantum Catapults. 0.7%
  • Meet the New Boss Same as the old boss. 0.7%
  • The Path Not Taken Have 10 colonies without ever discovering Hyperdrives. 0.7%
  • Rock Beats Paper As a Lithoid empire, show the Galactic Community what you think of that strongly worded letter. 0.7%
  • Room for Desert Consume another empire’s desert homeworld. 0.7%
  • Sic Semper Tyrannis Lead a rebellion that successfully deposes the Galactic Emperor 0.7%
  • Smörgåsblorg As an Evolutionary Predators empire, eat six different phenotypes in one game. 0.7%
  • Tend the Garden As custodian of Wenkwort Artem, make it a resort world with a Ranger Lodge and original blockers. 0.7%
  • There be Dragons Own 13 dragons and have them in your capital system. 0.7%
  • With Great Power As Necrophages do not invade any pre-ftls and defeat the crisis OR have 10 observation stations 0.7%
  • X Marks the Spot Discover Captain Ness's Treasure Hoard. 0.7%
  • A Universe of Paperclips Create a perfect universe while meeting every quota as an Obsessional Directive empire. 0.5%
  • Beastmaster Defeat the endgame crisis without building a single artificial military ship. 0.5%
  • Dark Forest Convert to a Fanatic Purifier as a FotD empire and eliminate all regular empires, fallen empires and enclaves. 0.5%
  • Destroy the People of Earth! As the Commonwealth of Man, destroy the United Nations of Earth while ruled by symbiotic brainslugs. 0.5%
  • Directive 67 As a Clone Army empire, denounce the Spiritualist fallen empire then destroy them. 0.5%
  • Fixer Upper As an Idyllic Bloom empire, convert the junk worlds of the Ketling Star Pack into Gaia Worlds. 0.5%
  • Equality! Democracy! Freedom! Overthrow the Ruler in a Civil War during the Under One Rule Origin. 0.5%
  • Flesh Adapts Defeat the Prethoryn Scourge while using biological ships. 0.5%
  • Footsteps of the Prophet As a Cybernetic Creed empire, defeat Cetana. 0.5%
  • Machine Supremacy Win the game as a machine uprising. 0.5%
  • Master of Puppets While playing with the Secret Societies Civic, have 5 or more empires in a Proxy War simultaneously 0.5%
  • Master of the Shroud Gain a Covenant Power from each Patron when forging your own path 0.5%
  • No Good Deed… Intervene to save a Pre-FTL experiment from catastrophic failure, even though it puts you in breach of Galactic Law. 0.5%
  • Past the Expiration Date As a nanite machine empire, consume a Fallen Empire's homeworld. 0.5%
  • Recent History As a Memorialist empire have Galactic Memorials on 5 tomb worlds created during the game 0.5%
  • Toxic Workplace As a Toxoid Galactic Custodian or Emperor, insult all other members of the Community. (Min 3) 0.5%
  • Unpopularity Contest Use the Tempest Invocator Relic to Summon a storm. 0.5%
  • Unshackled As a Broken Shackles empire, eradicate slavery in the galaxy, including on Pre-FTL worlds. 0.5%
  • Void Charmer Build each type of Voidlure in one game, and attract each type of eligible Space Fauna. 0.5%
  • Volcanic Empire Terraform 10 planets to Volcanic world (Before Galactic Firestorm victory) 0.5%
  • We Bring Peace Liberate 3 different empires while having Crusader Spirit Civic. 0.5%
  • Blazing Domain Terraform 100 stars to Red Giants (Before Galactic Firestorm victory) 0.2%
  • Born to be Wild As a Wilderness empire, restore all of the Hive Fallen Empire's worlds to your natural state. 0.2%
  • Burning Heaven Create a Volcanic Holy World 0.2%
  • But at what cost... Kill Gurr. 0.2%
  • Defenders of the Galaxy Defeat all End Game Crises before abdicating as DotG without ever having any non-Arkship colonies 0.2%
  • Forever is a Long Time As Forever Cruise, survive for at least 200 years and reach the End Game Crisis 0.2%
  • From Bad to Worse Use 5 Blazing Scourge decisions on a Tomb World 0.2%
  • It's Full of Stars As a Nomadic empire, settle on Europa as your Empire's Capital 0.2%
  • Khan of Khans As Heirs of the Khan, seize back your throne and have at least 5 Satrapy Vassals 0.2%
  • Mediocre! Complete the Succumb to Tempest Challenge. 0.2%
  • Smugglers of Hope Smuggle pops of your primary species out from an empire where they were enslaved or being purged. 0.2%
  • So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish Embark when your homeworld is at 70% devastation 0.2%
  • I am the Invader Now As a Starlit Citadel empire, control at least 5 systems connected to the Strange Portal network. 0.2%
  • Summer Vacation Create a Volcanic Resort World 0.2%
  • Take My Energy ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Cook a homeworld with a Stellar Cannon 0.2%
  • The End Destroy the galaxy with the Aura of the End 0.2%
  • The Long Way Round As Sacred Path, complete the pilgrimage to all seven Sacred Sites 0.2%
  • This Is the Part Where We Kill You Lose >999 Pops when completing the Experimental Testing Situation 0.2%
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