From Press Release:
STOCKHOLM – OCTOBER 21, 2026 – Paradox Interactive and Abrakam today announced that Willpower, the next major expansion for their hit sci-fi grand strategy game Stellaris, will launch on PC on November 23. Focused on the evolution of Ethics into powerful ideologies, Willpower will expand the Stellaris experience with new game mechanics, content, and ways to play. The expansion is included in the Season 10 Expansion Pass, or can be pre-purchased separately today by players without the Pass for a suggested retail price of $24.99/£20.99/€24.99.
In the vast expanse of the cosmos, ideas can go farther than FTL drives. Rally galactic civilizations with evolved Ideologies in Willpower, or face the wrath of their rebellion. The galaxy is ready to believe. What will you teach?
Features of Stellaris: Willpower include:
- Ideologies: An Ethic backed with fanatic conviction can become an Ideology that crosses borders. Once you establish your Ideology, you can start spreading it across neighboring systems using Starbases, Hyper Relays, and Ideological Beacons into other Empires. Foreign populations may adopt your values, forming Fanatic Factions corroding your enemies from within. However, staying true to your values becomes critical as you spread your Tenets across the Galaxy. Without an eye for your Momentum, internal factions might start revolting as they demand you stay true to your values.
- Galactic Halls: A relocatable Galactic Hall gives your Ideology a visible place on the galactic map. Above a colony, it strengthens local output and Ideological Reach. At the frontier, it carries your message into contested space. Galactic Halls come with a design for every Ethic (yes, there is a biological one too!).
- New Ambition: Force of Will: Who says winning the galaxy requires conquering it? Discover a different route to victory: make the Galaxy follow you, and defeat all the Fallen Empires. Convert populations, draw other empires into your orbit, and sustain the Momentum that fuels your Willpower. As your Ideology spreads across the Galaxy, prove that yours are the ideas that will save everyone from the threats of the Fallen Empires.
- Ideological Diplomacy: Ideological power extends into diplomacy. Empires can adopt your doctrine, and Federation laws can establish an official belief for the alliance. The same struggle reaches the Galactic Community, where you can denounce rival doctrine. Espionage Operations can manipulate Ideological Reach, sow doubt, and incite revolt where your beliefs have already taken hold. If covert pressure fails, a new Casus Belli will allow you to impose your Ideology through war. It is still persuasion, only with more battleships.
- Three New Origins:
- Golden Generation: Educate a cohort of promising students at the Golden Academy, then recruit them as the next generation of leaders.
- Lost Makers: A Machine Intelligence searches the stars for its creators, whose story is tied to one of the galaxy’s existing Precursors
- Great Mosaic: Begin with an additional Civic and no prescribed narrative path. Shape the empire you want from the very beginning.
- And More: Willpower will also include new Civics, events, ideological Paragons and buildings, an inquisitor shipset and a city set, and a new advisor.
Willpower will launch alongside the 4.6 ‘Corona Borealis’ update, adding various bug fixes.
For more information about Stellaris and Willpower, visit the website.
About Paradox Interactive
Paradox Interactive is one of the premier developers and publishers of strategy and management games for PC and consoles. The players are located all over the world but some of the biggest markets are North America, Western Europe and Asia.
The game portfolio consists of popular franchises such as Stellaris, Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron, Crusader Kings, Cities: Skylines, Prison Architect, the Surviving games, Age of Wonders and Victoria. Paradox Interactive also owns the World of Darkness brand catalog.
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