We hope you’ve all had a great holiday season, and we’re excited to see people starting to trickle back from their well-earned vacations. That means more Stellaris news is just right around the corner, with regularly scheduled dev diaries picking up in the next week or two.
But before we get too hyped over what’s coming next, we have to finish up some bookkeeping from last year. Specifically, we mentioned last year that we would be retiring Stellaris: Season 08 early in the new year. That time is now, specifically, tomorrow.
After tomorrow - around 3 PM CET - Stellaris: Season 08 will no longer be available and the content will be rolled into the Ultimate Bundle in order to make space for a new Season for 2025.
What is Stellaris: Season 08?
Stellaris: Season 08 contains all the major Stellaris releases from 2024, including The Machine Age, the Cosmic Storms Mechanical Expansion, and Grand Archive Story Pack and the illustrious non-spherical Rick the Cube machine species portrait.
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/46229/Stellaris_Season_08__Expansion_Pass/
The Machine Age contains:
- Individualistic Non-Gestalt Machine Empires
- Gestalt Machine Intelligence Empires (also unlocked by the Synthetic Dawn Story Pack)
- A new End-Game Crisis - The Synthetic Queen
- A new Player Crisis Path - Cosmogenesis
- Three new Origins [list]
- Cybernetic Creed
- Synthetic Fertility
- Arc Welders
- Guided Sapience
- Natural Design
- Obsessional Directive
- Protocol Droids
- Tactical Cogitators
- Augmentation Bazaars (requires Megacorp)
- Arc Furnace
- Dyson Swarm
- Virtuality
- Nanotech
- Modularity
Cosmic Storms Mechanical Expansion contains:
- 8 New Space Storms
- Storm Chasers Origin
- 3 New Civics [list]
- Planetscapers
- Astrometeorology
- Storm Devotion
Grand Archive Story Pack includes:
- Space Fauna capture, breeding, and modification systems
- 151 Specimens to collect and display across events from Grand Archive and the base game
- Over 240 Specimens total including those distributed across other Stellaris content
- 15 new Relics
- New Megastructure - The Grand Archive
- Two new Tradition trees [list]
- Archivism
- Domestication
- Primal Calling
- Treasure Hunters
- Beastmasters
- Galactic Curators
- Cutholoids
- Voidworms
Season 08 Bonus Portrait: Rick the Cube
This is your last chance to get all the content above, plus the bonus Rick the Cube portrait at a 20% discount (outside of the Ultimate Bundle)!
