Stellaris: Astral Planes

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Every adventure requires a step into the unknown… Astral Planes offers you the chance to chart your own path, navigating an array of wonders and dangers alike. Travel through Rifts in space and time for a glimpse of strange, new realities.

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Developer:
Abrakam
Publisher:
Paradox Interactive
Engine:
Clausewitz Engine
Release date:
16 November 2023
Recent Steam reviews:
Not specified
All Steam reviews:
Mostly Negative (1070)

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Description

Every adventure requires a step into the unknown…

Astral Planes offers you the chance to chart your own path, 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?

NEW CORE SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES.

Unlock new Technologies, Actions, and Relics to manipulate space and interact with the galaxy in unexpected ways. Explore new realms filled with mysteries and opportunities.

NEW PLANES TO EXPLORE.

Traverse the Astral Planes to discover a wide variety of unique sites, each with properties and phenomena beyond the mundane. Come face to face with fascinating and terrifying creatures, uncover long buried secrets, or choose to explore the true nature of your past with the Riftworld Origin.

NEW BRANCHING NARRATIVES.

Encounter story events with more branching narratives than ever before! The Astral Planes are full of surprises, and hard choices will be necessary to reach your desired outcome. Make the right decision for your empire and chart a course that fits your play style.

User reviews

jedavis
Not recommended | 02 Nov 2025

Top-line: poorly designed and poorly integrated into the rest of the game. I keep this DLC turned off the majority of the time. The good: + There's an astral unlock to get Hyper-Relays as a guaranteed tech, which is

Helpful: 61
Drungip
Not recommended | 16 Sept 2025

Genuinely regret buying this DLC, the only redeemable thing from it are the crisis and relics, astral planes as a concept are extremely poorly built since theres no travelling between them or actual use of them as

Helpful: 29
57
Recommended | 20 May 2025

Definitely do not buy for full price, but on sale the DLC is good. It's just a glorified archeology pack, maybe buy for 5-10$. HOWEVER, BEFORE YOU PLAY THIS DLC, DO THIS EXTREMELY CRITICAL THING! Steam Library > View

Helpful: 76
Elebril
Recommended | 05 Jul 2025

We've bought it despite the negative reviews and it turned out a huge, positive surprise. Played on the largest galaxy setting, 4.21 patch, 2 player multiplayer with 12 other AIs. As someone already mentioned, it's

Helpful: 33
DarkRealm
Recommended | 03 Aug 2025

I don't get it, did the negative review people not actually play with this mod or did they skip every notification and entire tab of buffs and bonuses you get from doing this? This DLC was a great add-on. It adds

Helpful: 22
A-Sartek
Not recommended | 20 Aug 2025

Just my two cents here, they charge $30 for both DLCs (Ancient Relics and Astral Rifts) that could've been a single DLC, In fact you could even swap their respective DLC names and name them Astral Relics and Ancient

Helpful: 49