2016 · Space · Grand Strategy · Sci-fi
How long isStellaris?
by Paradox Development Studio
99 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 29 hours and 310 hours
Stellaris among the 37 grand strategy games here
The whole tier list#3
of 37
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 71%
- got past 2 hours
- +20 on the kind's 50%
- 42%
- past 20 hours
- +22 on the kind's 21%
- 86%
- launched it
- +21 on the kind's 65%
- 372
- libraries own it
- 1 in 7 of the 2,483 read here
Next to it in the ranking
Long for a grand strategy game: 99 hours for the typical player, longer than 51 of 53 grand strategy games here.
54% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
84% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
88% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
89% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
90% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
89% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
88% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
85% recommend it at 200 to 500 hours
80% recommend it past 500 hours
Does Stellaris hold up?
Wears thin
Do the first two hours of Stellaris tell you?
In the first two hours54%recommend it
After that87%recommend it
14 in 100 said no: 13 after the window had closed, 1 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 99 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 29 hours and 310 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 197,000 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It is recommended most by players at 20–50 hours: 90% of them. Among players past 500 hours that falls to 80%.
2% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 54% of those recommend it. After the window, 87% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 92% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 125 hours in.
When would you get there?
14weeks
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 99 hours on Sunday, February 21, 2027.
Half of its reviewers had played between 29 and 310 hours: Dec 13 to Sep 20, 2027 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Is Stellaris worth it?
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Stellaris
- Steam list price, US
- $49.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 99 h
- grand strategy game rate
- $1.25/h
- 99 h at that rate
- $124
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Stellaris worth it? Mostly.
A steal
2.5× the hours of a typical grand strategy game, for the same money
Liked
87% recommend it after the refund windowmost grand strategy games: 83%
Gets played
86% of owners here have played itmost grand strategy games: 68%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $49.99, the typical player's 99 hours come to 50¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 87% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 50¢ an hour, Stellaris is cheaper per hour than 42 of 53 grand strategy games here: the typical one of 53 grand strategy games here charges $1.25, so the same $49.99 buys 2.5× the hours.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (grand strategy games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Is Stellaris better now than at launch?
May 2016
87%
≈ 6,100 reviews
Now
74%
≈ 13,200 reviews
How this is counted
Its Steam reviews began in May 2016. Of those posted in the first 30 days, 87% recommend it; of those posted in the last 12 months, 74% do.
One token is 2% of the reviews first posted in its first 30 days, and in the last 12 months. Each counts with the verdict it carries today, so a review its author has since changed shows the new one. The biggest comebacks and falls.
Where can I play Stellaris today?
Almost anywhere
PC, PS5, Xbox Series, PS4 and 1 more.
- todayPS42019
- todayXbox One2019
- todayPC2024in Stellaris: Starter Edition
- todayXbox Series2025
- todayPS52025
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Stellaris came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like Stellaris?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Stellaris, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Stellaris would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
@mikewolf holds this page
- 1st
@mikewolf5,179 h - 2nd
@mr-v362 h - 3rd
@chlo229 h - 4th
@thenobody666168 h - 5th
@sakamdi129 h - 6th
@le-venin-noir51 h - 7th
@eso48 h - 8th
@mossyotter35 h
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with Stellaris?
1 in 50
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.
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How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Stellaris: a kind of game it is that Stellaris is not, a feature its tags carry that Stellaris's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.