# Stellaris: Galaxy Command — user reviews > 341 indexed App Store user reviews of Stellaris by GameBear Tech, rated 4.00/5 from 1,598 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stellaris-galaxy-command/id1455954927/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stellaris-galaxy-command/id1455954927.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 926 · 4★ 305 · 3★ 87 · 2★ 57 · 1★ 223 ## What do users think of Stellaris? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 😂 Chaotic but fun - 🤑 Rewarding for free-to-play players - 🤝 Good alliance and community features **Cons** - 🤑 Heavily pay-to-win - 🐛 Bugs and glitches - 🔄 Repetitive and grindy - 🧭 Lack of in-game guidance and instructions - 🏃‍♂️ Server merges and shutdowns **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes when trying to access solar systems - Account data loss and resets - Connectivity and server issues **Most requested features** - More in-depth gameplay and strategy - Improved UI and navigation - Ability to customize ships and fleets - Meaningful single-player content ## Newest reviews (16 of 341) ### 3/5 — I mean this is good but... *2026-08-16, version 0.2.52* The graphics are somewhat good (but need to be updated), overall the storyline is good, but many things are left unexplained, such as how to obtain some resources especially engineering research (I have no idea how to get that) which is the main reason my fleets are so damn weak, so please explain how to obtain such things with like a tooltip or something. Besides, why is this game so damn STRESSFUL to play?! There are so many things to care for and I can't even control them most of the time. Take population for example. You can't stop it from going up or down, and I can't even control happiness as well. Upgrading structures and stuff barely does a dent to my station's extremely low happiness. There should be a clear way to earn EC so it all doesn't get teleported to Eta Carinae if I do one thing wrong. So many other things are unclear, like how the hell do i make my weapons and stuff better? This game also literally favors experienced players and gives novices the short end. Why? Literally zero events are for novices themselves, like every single pirate in events like Leviathan and Subspace is extremely strong oh my god. Besides, I CANT DELETE MY DAMN ACCOUNT Please, make this game easier and less stressful to play. ### 4/5 — MODE Portrait *2026-06-23* Bonjour à quand un mode portrait sur ce jeux merci ### 2/5 — Needs single player *2026-06-21, version 0.2.50* It needs a single player mode. I’m not going to monitor this “game” for months. I suggest adding a single player experience that only takes a few hours to play offline. It should be like the PC version but for people that don’t have money ### 2/5 — Decent game, horrible touch controls *2026-04-05, version 0.2.49* Scrolling around the map works as expected, but the second you try to zoom in or out… the headache begins. Pretty much any 2 finger touch function straight up doesn’t work… either spazzing out and twitching erratically or not responding or doing anything at all. This seriously roughens up the edges of an otherwise decent game. Also side note, the tutorial is a little too hand-holdy, and some of the text in cutscenes shows up and disappears WAYYYY too fast. ### 4/5 — I mean this is good but... *2026-02-05, version 0.2.49* The graphics are somewhat good (but need to be updated), overall the storyline is good, but many things are left unexplained, such as how to obtain some resources especially engineering research (I have no idea how to get that) which is the main reason my fleets are weak, so please explain how to obtain such things with like a tooltip or something. ### 3/5 — I’d rather buy it. *2025-12-24, version 0.2.49* Honestly if the company re made this game and made it look like the one on PC and consoles, then I would gladly purchase this for $$. Right now This is a waste of time not in the good way. ### 2/5 — The PC game is AMAZING. This? Meh. *2025-08-15, version 0.2.47* I played the PC version. Yes there are add-ons that you can buy, but overall the base game is still amazing. The mobile version is poor imitation of that. ### 2/5 — Fatigué *2025-05-07* Dans l’ensemble le jeu n’est pas mauvais les graphismes sont sympa le gameplay pas mauvais mais comme dit dans les commentaires on est clairement sur un copier-coller c’est fatiguant c’est manie de devoir faire le moins d’effort possible tout en te rajoutant une quantité de micro transactions qui transforme la majorité des jeux mobile en pay to win et là on te fait ça avec une licence connu qui ne ressemble en rien au jeu de base c’est décevant fatiguant de voir constamment la même chose **Developer response:** Bonjour, Galaxy Command s'inspire de son homologue PC, Stellaris, mais a été soigneusement adapté à l'expérience de jeu mobile. Il apporte la profondeur et la complexité de Stellaris sur votre appareil mobile, offrant des fonctionnalités uniques et attrayantes qui le distinguent des jeux de SLG spatiaux traditionnels. ### 1/5 — this is not Stelaris *2025-05-06, version 0.2.47* SCAM!!!!!!!!!!! ### 1/5 — Money makes a winner *2025-05-02, version 0.2.47* Just what the title says. The game allows the most powerful players (those that spend the most $$$) to destroy all other players. Game is depressing. Don’t waste your time. ### 3/5 — Smh *2025-03-15, version 0.2.47* You shouldn’t force the player to do the beginning tutorial. I deleted the game then when I reinstall I have to do the tutorial all of again. ### 1/5 — Excessive cheating *2025-03-11, version 0.2.47* If you’re going to play this game, do not spend any money on it and expect people to cheat against you, very disappointed this game was kind of fun, but the cheating makes it worthless if you don’t know how to cheat ### 1/5 — ?? *2025-03-03, version 0.2.47* Try to find a game with sci-fi combat, finally get to the first battle. can’t interact with it in any way and still have not made a single choice for myself. So I deleted it. ### 1/5 — Fix our server *2025-02-19, version 0.2.47* You just merged servers into someone else’s existing server. This needs to be corrected. ### 3/5 — Needs a little changes *2025-02-09, version 0.2.47* I just wish that you can customize everything and…why are you not on a planet and lastly I want to just start from the beginning in my opinion but everything else is great. ### 1/5 — Forced PvP? No ty *2024-11-03, version 0.2.44* Game is fun till all of a sudden other players are attacking you and literally taking your personnel. Forced PvP is a hard pass. Shame since the early PvE is fun. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Decent but not free to play friendly *2026-08-07, version 0.2.52* If you don't spend on certain special offers you fall behind people in power/fleet strength easily, Heliopause is only available to purchase when u upgrade station to 16 for 2-3 days and they can compete with drednoughts using nightshade equipment which requires 7 in game purchases (lowest is only 5$). The few "free to play" fragments u can get are trickled so slowly at a rate u can't even combine them for years. (Update post response: Doesn't adress the issues like obtaining heliopauses, grants or nightshade equipment for free. Nighshade available from an event driven by pay to win mechanic is not free to play friendly either. This game is not free to play friendly at all no matter how many times you say it. Mechanics say otherwise.) ### 1/5 — Сразу минус из-за обучения *2026-04-30* Как показывает практика, игры, где нужно тыкать пальцем по подсказкам около часа ничего из себя не представляют. Пропустить обучение нельзя, игры тоже нет. Но донат конечно же предложат в ходе обучения. **Developer response:** Здравствуйте! После завершения обучения вы можете делать всё, что захотите, и исследовать игру. ### 1/5 — Не возможно играть *2026-04-20* Альянс Celestial Sonata не дает развиваться малышам без альянса, прогресс стоит на месте месяц и никакой Донат это не исправит **Developer response:** Здравствуйте! Если у вас возникли проблемы или вы не можете играть из-за ошибки, пожалуйста, свяжитесь с нашей службой поддержки, и они помогут вам их решить. psupport@gamebeartech.com ### 1/5 — Huge let down *2026-03-18, version 0.2.49* My coworker showed me his stellaris so I got this to get a lil taste and I’ve only plaid like 20 minutes but this game thins you’re dumb otherwise they wouldn’t have such an annoying long tutorial that you can’t even turn off the instructions. STOP. That is not a strategy game. Regret downloading it and wasting time of my life on it. ### 1/5 — I regret downloading it *2025-10-31, version 0.2.47* So what is this game idk cuz it ain’t Stellaris and u might say they can’t copy all of it to mobile and that’s fine but they give this sloppy mobile game that’s all pay to win barely can call it stellaris just disappointing ### 1/5 — I want my stallaris to be stallaris *2025-10-30, version 0.2.47* Isn’t this supposed to be like the steam game? Why is it like a traditional mobile strategy game? Where is the AI game play? ### 1/5 — Разочарован *2025-10-29* Time out, увы… **Developer response:** Здравствуйте! Приносим извинения за разочарование, которое вы испытали в Stellaris. В игре есть много интересного, и мы рекомендуем вам уделить больше времени, чтобы полностью её изучить. Наша команда стремится улучшить игру и учесть отзывы игроков в будущих обновлениях. ### 1/5 — Pls paradox *2025-09-06, version 0.2.47* Please update the game.. please 🙏 the game has so much wasted potential…if the game had a massive update like us in the N ark have requested, the game could explode. (Causing a massive spike in income aka money 💵 ) ### 1/5 — Doesn’t allow you to cancel automatic taxing *2025-07-30, version 0.2.47* Moment you start automatic trade,they EXPLOIT you by not allowing you to cancel the trade ### 1/5 — Doesn’t run in portrait *2025-07-17, version 0.2.47* All of the game’s screenshots lead you to think the game runs in portrait mode. It doesn’t. It only runs in landscape. How utterly slimey and deceptive to show such screenshots. Deleting. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Песочница на долго *2026-04-01* Пойдет 👍👍👍👍 **Developer response:** Здравствуйте! Сожалеем, что у вас возникли проблемы с подключением к игре из России. Это не зависит от нас, и, к сожалению, мы не можем помочь. ### 5/5 — 😂😂 *2025-09-14, version 0.2.47* This game is pure chaos in the best way. Sure, there’s a paywall, but that just makes it more fun to squad up with your friends and crush the so-called “whales.” Watching the biggest players topple is the best part. And the complainers in these reviews? Easy targets. Can’t wait to hunt them down next 😂😉 ### 5/5 — Отзыв *2024-11-21* Вы дигинираты рукажепые ваши руки заточены гуся душить ИГРТЬ НА ПЛАНЩЕТЕ НАДО УТЫРКИ ТУПЫЕ ### 5/5 — So good! *2024-10-18* This very good game ### 5/5 — Review *2024-10-07, version 0.2.44* For me I think the game is really fun. I enjoy the multiple galaxy system so you don’t join into a group where your super far behind. Theres a lot of communication with players, not to much pay to win. For me the only thing is trade? The trade option for some reason rarely gives you a opportunity to cancel. So now I have resources just stuck in an infinite loop. Lastly, For upgrading your leader twice to level 41+, finding the materials to upgrade the skills twice is a bit difficult ### 5/5 — quantum perspective *2024-09-26, version 0.2.44* helps me with basic structure as a part of gods journey reimagining ones godly stellar self. ### 5/5 — 143 *2024-08-16* I love this game 😂😂 Yes it can be extremely rewarding if you spend money, but there are events constantly. Plenty of options for free to play players to keep up with normal gameplay. If you have an extra 5 to 10 dollars a week to spend you can be a top player easy. It’s not as bad as some of these other people crying in reviews would have you believe. Yes there are some pay2win bullies… you just get a bunch of people together and jump them. Problem solved. ### 5/5 — Fun! A little too “busy” *2024-06-23, version 0.2.44* Tap this screen, tap that one, re-queue this research (four more taps), re-queue structure upgrade (five more taps), send a workship to collect salvage (four), check the daily goals (one), re-queue your shipyard build orders (four), oh look research is done… start again! Once you get past all the fiddly user interface juggling, the underlying game is neat! There’s a vibrant economy, cool ship design and officer customization, and some well-written sci-fi flavored recurring exploration events keeping you immersed in the world. But man, it’s a LOT of taps to keep up with everything. ### 5/5 — Frozen on Click to Start Jump *2024-02-21, version 0.2.43* Won’t let me start the game. Is frozen on click to start jump. Tried resetting app. ### 5/5 — Nice job Paradox *2023-07-23, version 0.2.38* good game, very fun --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-07.*