Stellaris: Shadows of the Shroud

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Delve in the Shroud. End the cycle.

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Developer:
Paradox Development Studio
Publisher:
Paradox Interactive
Engine:
Clausewitz Engine
Release date:
22 September 2025
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Mixed (325)

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Delve in the Shroud. End the cycle.
The Psionic Plane is vast and full of perils. Shadows of the Shroud is the ultimate expansion for those who seek to master the unknown behind the veil, offering a complete overhaul of the Psionic Ascension Path. Moral actions, patron allegiances, and the ever-present risk of total annihilation will now shape your connection to the entities that live on the other side.

The Machine Age redefined the Synthetic and Cybernetic ascension. BioGenesis reshapes the Biological ascension. Shadows of the Shroud completes the trilogy with a comprehensive remaster of the Psionic Ascension in Stellaris.

Key Features:

Carve your path into the Shroud

  • Breaching the Shroud unfolds as a three-stage situation, where your decisions will determine your empire’s spiritual destiny and determine your attunement to specific Patrons in the Shroud.

  • After you breach into the Shroud, you will have access to a new Shroud Panel, where you can visually analyze your attunement to the Shroud. The more you attune to specific Patrons, the more benefits and bonuses you will unlock.

End of the Cycle Revamped

  • Powers, knowledge, and wealth beyond measure are yours for the taking - and you already know the cost. However, you can delay the inevitable and acquire even more benefits from this unfathomable pact.*

Psionic Auras

  • Your Empire’s Shroud Attunement will manifest across space, influencing your systems. And your friends. And your enemies. Unless the Mindwarden Enclave will curtail your power.

Stellaris: Shadows of the Shroud will also feature New Origins, Civics, Government types, events, portraits, ships… and more!

*The End of the Cycle will remain available to players who own Utopia. Shadows of the Shroud will also grant access to this feature (in case you do not own Utopia) and exclusive new content that expands it.

User reviews

Etienne
Not recommended | 26 Nov 2025

I had been waiting for so long for a Psionics ascension rework, it's only a shame it released on the worse version to date of the game 4.0. Fix the game before releasing more DLCs please.

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jolle
Not recommended | 06 Feb 2026

So I have to pay 20€ and they still use generative AI to create their content? No wonder the game is in such a horrible state. They won't get a single Euro for their Ai slop.

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Tubifix
Not recommended | 16 Feb 2026

This expansion’s take on 'The Shroud' is a complete ripoff of the 4 Chaos Powers from the Warhammer 40k universe. Normally, that’s fine—Stellaris borrows tech and ideas from everywhere (e.g., it has Xenomorphs and Clone

Helpful: 80
Sorra
Not recommended | 17 Nov 2025

The content itself is okay... for both 4.0 dlc. But man ... as someone who playtested the beta from 3.x to 4.0 and made some bug reports in the forum the current state of Stellaris feels foul. It's just more bugged and

Helpful: 79
Rekomstopa
Not recommended | 19 Mar 2026

I can't really recommend the DLC, it fails to actually understand what Psionics was before the DLC was released. Before it was much more mystical and fascinating, Being a game of tradeoffs and moral ambiguity. You

Helpful: 51
Мамкiн Бiзнесмен
Not recommended | 03 Nov 2025

I do not really recommend this DLC. 1. It slows down the late game drastically, because with this DLC you make kinda agreement with "war devil-entity in Shroud" that randomly spawns tonns of corvete astral ships that

Helpful: 45