Stellaris: Grand Archive

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What does it take to contain a galaxy? In the Grand Archive Story Pack , uncover and showcase the rarest treasures across the cosmos—both living and inanimate.

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Developer:
Paradox Development Studio
Publisher:
Paradox Interactive
Engine:
Clausewitz Engine
Release date:
29 October 2024
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All Steam reviews:
Mixed (277)

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What does it take to contain a galaxy?

In the Grand Archive Story Pack, uncover and showcase the rarest treasures across the cosmos—both living and inanimate. Amass an unparalleled collection of xeno-geological artifacts, relics of forgotten civilizations, and untamed space fauna in your Grand Archive, a groundbreaking new megastructure.

Will you become the galaxy’s greatest curator or sell your finds for untold riches?

Harness advanced gravity snare technology to safely capture and study space fauna. Clone these creatures to create fleets of formidable fauna customized through genetic mutations. But tread carefully—two new deadly species, the asteroid-dwelling Cutholoids, and the sinister Voidworms, now roam the galaxy.

Explore, collect, and showcase. The galaxy is now your personal treasure trove.

Key Features:


The Grand Archive
A monumental new megastructure that preserves and displays the galaxy's rarest and most valuable artifacts.

151 specimens to collect (and more available with other DLCs!)
From historical relics to wild space creatures, create the ultimate galactic exhibition.

The Vivarium
Capture and breed wild space fauna, then genetically enhance them to build custom fleets.

New Mid-Game Crisis: The Voidworm Plague
Face the terror of a rampaging Voidworm infestation and save your empire—or watch it fall.

Two New Origins
Treasure Hunters and Primal Calling

Two Deadly Species of Space Fauna
Voidworms and Cutholoids

Two New Civics
Galactic Curators and Beastmasters

Two New Tradition Trees
Archivism and Domestication

17 New Relics
Discover powerful new relics that will aid in your conquest and collection.

3 New Music Tracks
Immerse yourself in the cosmic splendor with new music that enhances your exploration of the galaxy.

User reviews

jedavis
Not recommended | 02 Nov 2025

Top-line: interesting at first but on longer play becomes intrusively irritating rather than fun. To the extent that it makes options available, they are mostly options that you need to commit to from the beginning of

Helpful: 30
LittleMissHiveMind
Not recommended | 08 Aug 2025

Space Fauna Design is broken with the new patch, as in doesn't work. Considering space fauna is like 65% of this dlc, it absolutely isn't worth it. This is completely unacceptable for a paid dlc.

Helpful: 19
Ragmor
Not recommended | 28 Nov 2025

It has been over a year and you incompetent sw*dish clowns still haven't fixed the Treasure Hunters origin planet that can't be terraformed or colonized even after you clear it of pirates

Helpful: 16
KingSceptile
Not recommended | 27 Aug 2025

Meh. Nothing in this DLC really stands out to me. The relics you can get from the Curators are alright and being able to clone space fauna is cool. However specimens have too high upkeep to be super useful unless you

Helpful: 10
Dr. Quackers M.D.
Not recommended | 25 Jul 2025

This mod fixes a bug — transport ships endlessly circling — that has existed since Stellaris launched. It’s one of hundreds of small, nagging issues that collectively make the game feel clunky and unfinished. Despite

Helpful: 10
Fazzmatazz
Not recommended | 16 Jul 2025

Grand Archive concept is actually quite awesome. I really enjoy the concept of managing this additional aspect to the game. Voidworms are an absolute nightmare. In multiple campaigns, I had a 24k power voidworm swarm

Helpful: 10