

The game should default to an Elliptical galaxy. When learning keep things manageable, a little can go a long way! This size will give a real good idea of what managing an empire in Stellaris is all about. One advantage to this is avoiding the micromanagement of a huge empire while still having a minimal amount to work with to learn about.


Set the Galaxy size to small (400 stars). Read More:Having trouble getting Stellaris to run?
#Empires of the undergrowth difficulty changes for you how to#
Learning how to play Stellaris can be overwhelming too, I wrote an entire page about learning how to play Stellaris. There are a lot of overwhelming options for a beginner but in order to set up an easy game for learning the basics these are the most important options. You can easily change the appearance, origin, empire name, traits, and a myriad of other stuff at the empire screen but for learning the basics of the game accepting the defaults works perfectly.Įarly exploration and expansion, researching resource increasing buildings, and rapidly increasing your population are the keys to success in the early game.Īfter selecting an empire to play you’ll be taken to the game details screen. For one thing it’s pretty straightforward and secondly, it’s an empire most players can easily identify with, making some of the concepts easier to understand. Starting with the United Nations of Earth is one of the best empires to start out with as a beginner.
