r/StellarisOnConsole Nov 06 '25

Development Diary Stellaris: Console Edition for Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5, Stellaris: Season 08 and the Astral Planes Story Pack available now!

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Hello Console Edition Community!

Stellaris: Console Edition for Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5, The Machine Age (also available as part of Stellaris: Season 08), and the Astral Planes Story Pack are now available! (If you’re looking for details on how to claim the game or DLC, or are having trouble claiming a particular DLC, please scroll to the bottom of this post!)

Stellaris: Console Edition for Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5

Stellaris: Console Edition for Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 will take you into the next generation of Stellaris gameplay, taking full advantage of the advanced hardware and optimization on modern consoles as well as featuring 4k resolution, improved performance, and more galaxy setup options than ever before. Galaxies in Stellaris: Console Edition for Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 really are vast and full of wonders.

This new version of Stellaris: Console Edition is being offered as a free upgrade for players who are coming from the Xbox One/PlayStation 4 version of the game, with all DLC purchases carrying over.

We are working with Sony Interactive Entertainment and Microsoft to bring you the new Stellaris: Console Edition on Game Pass & PlayStation Plus Extra. We are targeting to have everything set up for release, but there could potentially be delays before the game becomes available on these platforms.

Want to find out more about this new version of Stellaris: Console Edition? Read Console Edition Development Diary #79 - Free Features in Stellaris: Console Edition Series X|S and PS5 versions and Console Edition Development Diary #83 - Settings Parity and Performance!

The Machine Age (also available as part of Stellaris: Season 08)

The Machine Age is the heart of the Stellaris: Season 08. This major expansion allows you to explore cyberpunk fantasies of technological augmentation and digitalization of consciousness, expanding the possibilities offered in game by the Cybernetic and Synthetic Ascension Paths. You can address the moral and social challenges that communing with the machine brings to your space-faring empire, and face a new threat looming over the galaxy… or become a new threat yourself, as you tear through time and space to shape reality to your image.

The Machine Age expansion includes:

  • Individualistic Non-Gestalt Machine Empires
  • Gestalt Machine Intelligence Empires (also unlocked by the Synthetic Dawn Story Pack)
  • Three new Origins
    • Cybernetic Creed
    • Synthetic Fertility
    • Arc Welders
  • Civics
    • Guided Sapience
    • Natural Design
    • Obsessional Directive
    • Protocol Droids
    • Tactical Cogitators
    • Augmentation Bazaars (Requires Megacorp)
  • Two Mid-Game Structures
    • Arc Furnace
    • Dyson Swarms
  • Three New Machine Ascension Paths
    • Modularity
    • Nanotech
    • Virtuality
  • Cybernetic and Synthetic Ascension (also unlocked by Utopia)
  • Exploration of the effects of the cyberization or synthesization of society, with Advanced Government Forms for those who complete it.
  • New Species Traits for Cyborgs, Machines and Robots
  • Cybernetic portraits that change based on advancement through cyberization
  • Synthetic portraits with both organic and synthetic variants that changed based on synthesization, usable by either organics or machines
  • Two new Shipsets, Diplomatic Rooms, and City Sets
  • 7 new synthetic and cybernetic inspired music tracks
  • A new Become the Crisis Path - Cosmogenesis
  • …And the Synthetic Queen, a new End-Game Crisis

Want to find out more about The Machine Age? Read Console Edition Development Diary #80 - Machine Age Origins, Megastructures and more and Console Edition Development Diary #81 - Ascension Paths, Civics and Crises!

Astral Planes Story Pack

Take a step into the unknown with Astral Planes, navigating an array of wonders and dangers alike. Travel through Rifts in space and time for a glimpse of strange, new realities. What will you discover, in a universe beyond limits?

Astral Planes includes:

  • Astral Scars
  • New Site Type: Astral Rift
  • New Resource: Astral Thread
  • Astral Harvesting - Technology to harvest Astral Threads
  • Rift Sphere - Technology to explore Astral Rifts Rifts
  • "Rift in Space" Situation - Unlocks Rift Sphere tech.
  • Random Stage 2 Rift Situation Events
  • 30+ Rift Sites
  • Each site contains branching narratives, featuring multiple potential endings and a chance at powerful new rewards
  • 8 New Relics
  • Astral Actions
  • 10 New Astral Actions
  • 2 Additional Astral Actions that will swap depending on research (requires Overlord)
  • The Formless
  • 1 Origin
    • Riftworld Origin
  • 4 Civics
    • Hyperspace Speciality
    • Dimensional Worship
    • Dark Consortium
    • Sovereign Guardianship
  • New Sounds, Music and Visual Effects
  • 3 New Music Tracks from Andreas Waldetoft
  • 70+ New Event Pictures
  • 80+ New Sound Effects

* Some content may require DLC sold separately

Read more about the Astral Planes Story Pack in Console Edition Development Diary #82 - Astral Planes!

How to claim your Free Upgrade/DLC

We’re aiming for a smooth launch across all platforms, however with so many moving parts (2 different platforms, over 20 different titles) there may be some delays and hiccups during the rollout. The Community and Product Launch teams will be on standby to investigate issues with game/DLC ownership, so if you’re experiencing a missing DLC or other issue, please report it in the thread below and we will investigate and resolve the issues as soon as we can.

  1. Open your platform’s store page, and then find Stellaris: Console Edition for Xbox Series X|S/PlayStation 5, and claim the item and install it
  2. Go through each of the DLC you own, and claim them
  3. Launch the game and enjoy!

Thank you for playing Stellaris: Console Edition for Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5!


r/StellarisOnConsole Mar 17 '25

Discussion 16,000 spacelords!

33 Upvotes

We crossed the 16k line this weekend and we will always want you to remember!

SPACE!


r/StellarisOnConsole 10h ago

Question (Unanswered) Can someone tell me why AI empires randomly take systems far away from their home system?

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As you can see, the Zracon Nation (AI) has taken 2 systems relatively close to me, neither of these appear to be connected to their home systems via an l gate or wormhole.

It’s the start of the game (2218)

This happened on a previous save too, just wondering how and why they do it


r/StellarisOnConsole 12h ago

Question (Unanswered) Do DC purchases for console edition still carry over to the enhanced edition?

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r/StellarisOnConsole 12h ago

Do the old gen DLCs work on the new gen game?

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r/StellarisOnConsole 23h ago

Suggestion Non-Egalitarian utopic living standard that isn't Chemical Bliss

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r/StellarisOnConsole 1d ago

Advice on Curators and ship design needed

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I have my Grand Archive full and was wondering if there was some sort of cooldown for what the Curators can give you regarding the Archive. Is it that I have to have the artifacts active for their energy cost and then they will give me the bonuses. Lastly what are the best ship designs that people run for early, mid, and late. I’d look it up online but I can’t figure out what videos actually can be used for the console version of this game. Sorry if these are dumb questions, any help is appreciated


r/StellarisOnConsole 1d ago

Screenshot What the hell happened

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r/StellarisOnConsole 2d ago

The hell?

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So whilst in the middle of fighting the contingency, the last fallen empire awoken and decided it wanted to wage war. Right in the middle of it the whole map has turned back and now I can see anything. Tried reloading the game and gone back a few saves but get to a certain point and it still happens... Is this just now a dead save?


r/StellarisOnConsole 2d ago

Suggestion Psionic build suggestions

5 Upvotes

Hello all. I have been playing off and on for a few years. I play on Xbox Series X and have all dlc available to console. I’m interested in doing a Teachers of the Shroud origin psionic playthrough and am looking for tips and suggestions on civics, government type, and traits. Will probably restart until I get the Zroni origin if it doesn’t take too long to get it to come up. Any recommendations are welcome, including if there is a better origin to start as. Thank you.


r/StellarisOnConsole 3d ago

Suggestion You know, it would be nice to have a preset Milky Way galaxy type.

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r/StellarisOnConsole 3d ago

Can’t invade a habitat station

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r/StellarisOnConsole 5d ago

Discussion Expanding gameplay options

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I fall into the category of having the same 3 starting military ships for most of my early game. I usually don't even build military ships until I research cruisers. I play wide, I play tall, I tech rush, I focus on unity in different games. Some of my games I have barely any economy. Just enough to get by.

If I get attacked in the first 30-40 years I chuck it to a loss and start over. Can anyone who doesn't play like this give me some pointers?

What early game build 1-2k in corvettes until I get destroyers, then build 2k in destroyers? Do I do this when I don't plan on going to war early? If I do try a run when I want to go to war early what numbers am I shooting for?

Do most people usually play this same way? With only three ships for a long time?

Thank you


r/StellarisOnConsole 5d ago

Question (Answered) CK3 doesnt run the best on console. How does this run compared?

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I play CK3 on PC whenever I get the opportunity, which isn't often so sometimes I settle for Console. Obviously it runs worse and it's whatever, that kind of ruins it for me so I play for about 30 minutes and drop it. How does Stellaris compare? If I get this, I probably won't touch the game on PC as to not ruin it like CK3 lol


r/StellarisOnConsole 6d ago

Discussion Now that Stellaris is off game pass it is on sale for $4 on Xbox.

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I just saw this. It’s only available for 19 hours. If you haven’t seen a $4 sale yet i would wait because that seems to be going around. I noticed someone else said they had a $4 sale back when it was leaving game pass. But it wasn’t available for me. So I waited. You guys might want to check for that sale if you were playing on gamepass.


r/StellarisOnConsole 6d ago

Screenshot Some relics really are busted...

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30 Upvotes

Who needs refinery worlds when you have this?

Anyone wondering it's from the curators, as one of the picks for Xeno Geology.


r/StellarisOnConsole 5d ago

Question (Unanswered) Stupid question: Console Edition

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Stupid question but does the deluxe edition include synthetic dawn or is that only available to the starter edition?


r/StellarisOnConsole 7d ago

Last Chance for Stellaris on Game Pass

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Stellaris is leaving Game Pass, and this is your final chance to take advantage of a special base-game sale for Game Pass subscribers on the XBOX Store for both Console and PC.

Your saves, your custom empires, your years of carefully (or catastrophically) managed galaxies: all of it carries over the moment you own the base game.

Your empire has outlasted the Prethoryn, the Contingency, and probably your own worst decisions. This won't stop you either.

Thank you, Game Pass. It's been an honor exploring the galaxy alongside you.


r/StellarisOnConsole 6d ago

Trying to jump drive back into dacha, but it just says no access. Can’t catapult either, any ideas?

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r/StellarisOnConsole 6d ago

Discussion Best worlds for research

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Like, should I make my research planet one with a couple bonuses, or should I do relics, Gaia, or ring worlds?


r/StellarisOnConsole 7d ago

Question (Answered) 2 Builds Nanite ?

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I am currently looking for two types of powerful builds for a Nanite path. But I'm not quite sure how to do it. I've seen some suggestions, but since Grand Archive came along, I wonder if things have changed.

I am looking to create a Nanite build for individualistic robots. And a Build for robotic consciousness. What are your builds and suggestions ? My first thought is to create a Galactic Empire rather than Cosmogenesis (I believe one cannot be an emperor and be in crisis). But I suppose a dedicated exterminator might also be of interest.


r/StellarisOnConsole 8d ago

Want someone to play with

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Hello I am looking for a player or multiple to play with on ps5 I live in the eu and looking for another player casus I feel like it would make the game more “Alive” if you see this and think hell yeah just message me or react to this post
Thanks for Reading this crap


r/StellarisOnConsole 8d ago

Bug Report Notification bug

3 Upvotes

I've noticed that when I disable notifications related to celebrity recruitment, it prevents all other notifications from appearing.


r/StellarisOnConsole 8d ago

Why the fuck is this happening this early i stopped playing for 2 years , I come back and this is happening wtf this save is done i was testing the game if it feels okay because I was gonna buy all the DLC s guessing not now. I'm guessing this Is a bug

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r/StellarisOnConsole 10d ago

Question (Unanswered) Help me end this war

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