Stellaris Biogenesis: Living Planets & World-Eating Titans Arrive in 4X Game

The Stellaris Biogenesis expansion is a special new add-on for the space strategy game released with the Phoenix update.

Stellaris is getting a big update with its new expansion. The space strategy game has been popular for almost ten years. To celebrate its ninth anniversary the creators are releasing two big updates. The first is Stellaris 4.0 which changes some core systems to make the game run better and easier to manage. The second is a new DLC called Biogenesis which adds some of the most unique groups of characters the game has ever had.

Stellaris Biogenesis comes out today Monday May 5. It adds many new tools for bioengineering and genetic changes. The main feature is a new system called Biomorphosis which gives you three ways to improve your species Purity (improving your current form) Cloning (growing faster but losing uniqueness) and Mutation (using random changes to find powerful traits).

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You're not the only ones changing. Biogenesis adds living starships that grow and change with your empire. Even more exciting is a new game challenge called Behemoth Fury. This path is only for empires that use bioships. You collect something called Feral Insight by raising giant creatures called Behemoths huge beasts big enough to eat planets. Controlling them takes a lot of effort.

If you manage to control the creature you can make it attack enemy colonies or even connect your mind to it to take full control (though that's risky). As it grows it can eat entire planets to gain their life and power. If it gets strong enough it could become the top monster of all. But you'll have to fight other powerful monsters to get there.

Or maybe you'd like to be a planet. With the new Wilderness origin you can play as a smart planet that spreads its mind across space. You could also pick Evolutionary Predators to become a creature that changes and adapts to survive better. Or start as the Starlit Citadel a strong and defensive empire that can build a powerful space fortress early on.

There's a lot included in this. You get six new civics. 16 more species traits two new types of ships, new city designs, and new rooms for diplomacy. There are also portraits that react more music and 65 new events. No matter how you play Biogenesis adds many new options and some of the most creative ideas ever seen in Stellaris.

The Stellaris 4.0 update called Phoenix is being released alongside Biogenesis. It's a free update for everyone. whether or not you buy the new DLC. It brings major changes to how population and trade work along with better guidance for new players and improvements to make the game easier to play. These updates should also make Stellaris run more smoothly in the late-game even on lower-end computers.

Stellaris Biogenesis is available now. You can buy it for $24.99 / £21.99 or get it with the Season 9 expansion pass for $44.99 / £37.99. There's also an option to subscribe to the Stellaris expansion for $9.99 / £8.50 per month. You can find it here.