Paradox Interactive launched The Machine Age, the new major expansion for its sci-fi strategy game Stellaris. The Machine Age is available on PC for E24.99 ($24.99/£16.45 or is part of Stellaris Season 08, which encompasses three upcoming additions for Stellaris and the exclusive " Rick theCube" portrait. Additionally, it is part of the Expansion subscription offer that includes all additional content for Stellaris for a monthly fee.

The Machine Age is coming alongside the free update 3.12 "Andromeda" featuring numerous bug fixes and updates for machine worlds and empires. Ascend through technologies with The Machine Age new features: 700NEW ENDGAME CRISIS AND CRISIS PATH: Players will face a new synthetic threat in a brand-new Endgame Crisis, or will themselves become the threat to the balance of the universe in a new Crisis Path. 700INDIVIDUALISTIC MACHINES: Machine empires are no longer limited to gestalt consciousness and can have individual personalities and more diverse stories and origins.

Further customize empire with 3 new Machine Ascension Paths. 700INDIVIDUALISTIC MACHINES: As delve ever closer to the mind of the machine, will have to face new challenges for society. Every decision matters and the only certainty is that empire will not be the same after its Ascension.

7003 NEW ORIGINS: 700Cybernetic Creed: empire pursues a divine calling: the holy fusion of the body and cybernetics. Augmentation is worship. 700Synthetic Fertility: Once a thriving society, a novel genetic disease leaves empire unable to reproduce biologically.

Digital salvation seems the only option to avoid extinction. 700Arc Welders: Hailing from a world starved for space, a robotic society turns to the stars for resources. On top of that, The Machine Age includes new reactive portraits, 6 new Civics, 2 new mid-game structures (the molten Arc Furnace and powerful Dyson Swarm), new Population Traits, and 7 brand-new music tracks for the best in synthetic beats.

The free update 3.12 "Andromeda" launches alongside The Machine Age expansion. In addition to standard updates and bug fixes, this patch also rebalances the Genetic, Cybernetic, and Synthetic tradition trees (for owners of Utopiaand Synthetic Dawn), enhances various AI functions related to leader assignment and economic management, reworks Fallen Empire buildings and enables modders to introduce new Crisis paths, among other improvements.