Updated 23rd December 2017

Despite the massive species variation across the Stellaris galaxy, somehow everyone ends up building cities that look like one of seven varieties. Listed here are quality mods that increase the city variety in randomly-generated species, as well as for use on your own custom species.

Some of these mods were are already feature on the Stellaris Portrait Mods page. This isn’t a mistake – those same mods do more than just introduce the species! Some of these authors have Patreon or other artwork pages (linked where they exist). Please consider visiting and donating if you like their work and want more of it!

You can subscribe to any subset of these (or all at once) using my Steam Collection “Stellaris City Mods“. I’ll update this list periodically as the modding community continues to put out such high quality work – make sure you subscribe to Odin Gaming and follow me on Twitter to be notified of updates.

The list is sorted alphabetically below. The full list:

Alt Humanoids Cityset

Author: AlphaAsh

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This replaces the default humanoids city graphics.

Aquilese

Author: Sìlfae

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Roman-inspired architecture to grace your stellar republic.

Bloodelf Cityscape

Author: Twink315

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Carcharian

Author: Sìlfae

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CityScapes (5 city types)

Spiritual City Graphite City Industrial City Medieval City Militarist City

Author: AlphaAsh

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Patreon link

A diverse set of cityscapes for a diverse galaxy, from the creator of AlphaMod.

Corporatocratic City

Author: Twink315

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Cryptic Cityscape

Author: Twink315

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Cuelan Species

Author: Nicolas Sabo

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In-keeping with the author’s race concept, this city type might be suitable for a subterranean, insectoid, or otherwise “earthly” species.

Cyborg Species

Author: mnidjm

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Suitable for all your robotic/cybernetic/virtual species needs.

Demon Cityscape

Author: Twink315

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Eden Cityscape

Author: Twink315

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For the modern but nonetheless nature-loving society.

Elves of Stellaris

Authors: TheGrandN, Teneb Kel, and Princess Stabbity

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Empty City Type

Author: Robert Rotten

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Perhaps suitable for a nature-loving race, or otherwise ultra-militant environmentalist.

Flying City

Author: Twink315

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Hollow

Author: Sìlfae and Oskar Potocki

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For the more sinister amongst the galactic races.

Holosphere Rising

Author: Sìlfae

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Towers of server rooms to maintain those species embracing the virtual and cybernetic.

IIC – Revival – Extra Playable Races (6 city types)

Ancient City Android City Extradimensional City Fallen Empire City Pirate City

Author: Yorick

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Unlocks city art in the Stellaris base game for player use. Note that some of these are duplicated in other mods on this page.

Interesting Cities (14 city types)

Tau-inspired city Sangheili-inspired city Overgrown city Materialist city (red variant) Materialist city (blue variant) Authoritarian city Ancient city Advanced spiritualist city Techno Hive City Xenophile City Shipyard city

Author: Twink315

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The author has matched some cities to prominent ethics types, including xenophobe, xenophile, pacifist, materialist, spiritualist, and authoritarian.

The Lovers

Author: Nicolas Sabo

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More City Types (Legacy) (14 city types)

Spiritualist city Pacifist city Materialist city (yellow variant) Fallen Empire city (red variant) Fallen Empire city (human variant) Fallen Empire city (green variant) Fallen Empire city (good variant) Fallen Empire city (evil variant) Factory city Evil city Dirty city Covenant-inspired city Asari-inspired city Aquatic city

Author: Trace Projectile

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Includes a handful of Fallen Empire city-variants but also nine novel city types inspired by a variety of sci-fi civilisations and tropes.

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Author: Sìlfae

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Organic Cityscape

Author: Twink315

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Pirate City

Author: Twink315

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Pristine City

Author: Meltup

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Raptors

Author: Sìlfae

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Aztec-inspired city, fit for any dinosaur king.

Serpentoids

Author: Sìlfae

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Ancient Egypt-inspired city, pyramids, temples, and all!

Star Falls (5 city types)

Swarm City Ascended City Hannah City Krasian City Spherical Androids City

Authors: Miss Nobody and Crusader Vanguard

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Note that this mod also replaces the Avian city with an “Ilium” city (although they use the same graphics).

Synthetic Portraits – Expanded

Author: Sìlfae

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Viverrokan

Author: Sìlfae

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Patreon link

Xenon Sector – Race & Ship Only

Original author: Di Crash

Edited mod author: Dukhat

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(Original full mod Workshop link)

Welcome variety on the robotic-flavour front.

Xirmians

Author: Sìlfae

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Cyberpunk-esque neon cityscape.

Zeriphen

Author: Sìlfae

For those that can’t bear to live with the filth below.