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
• Aquilese
• Bloodelf Cityscape
• Carcharian
• CityScapes (5 city types)
• Corporatocratic City
• Cryptic Cityscape
• Cuelan Species
• Cyborg Species
• Demon Cityscape
• Eden Cityscape
• Elves of Stellaris
• Empty City Type
• Flying City
• Hollow
• Holosphere Rising
• IIC – Revival – Extra Playable Races (6 city types)
• Interesting Cities (14 city types)
• The Lovers
• More City Types (Legacy) (14 city types)
• Octee-lan Cityscape
• Organic Cityscape
• Pirate City
• Pristine City
• Raptors
• Serpentoids
• Star Falls (5 city types)
• Synthetic Portraits – Expanded
• Viverrokan (New!)
• Xenon Sector – Race & Ship Only
• Xirmians
• Zeriphen

Alt Humanoids Cityset

Author: AlphaAsh
Workshop link

This replaces the default humanoids city graphics.

Aquilese

Author: Sìlfae
Workshop link

Roman-inspired architecture to grace your stellar republic.

Bloodelf Cityscape

Author: Twink315
Workshop link

Carcharian

Author: Sìlfae
Workshop link

CityScapes (5 city types)

Spiritual City

Graphite City

Industrial City

Medieval City

Militarist City

Author: AlphaAsh
Workshop link
Patreon link

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

Corporatocratic City

Author: Twink315
Workshop link

Cryptic Cityscape

Author: Twink315
Workshop link

Cuelan Species

Author: Nicolas Sabo
Workshop link

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
Workshop link

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

Demon Cityscape

Author: Twink315
Workshop link

Eden Cityscape

Author: Twink315
Workshop link

For the modern but nonetheless nature-loving society.

Elves of Stellaris

Authors: TheGrandN, Teneb Kel, and Princess Stabbity
Workshop link

Empty City Type

Author: Robert Rotten
Workshop link

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

Flying City

Author: Twink315
Workshop link

Hollow

Author: Sìlfae and Oskar Potocki
Workshop link

For the more sinister amongst the galactic races.

Holosphere Rising

Author: Sìlfae
Workshop link

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
Workshop link

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
Workshop link

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

The Lovers

Author: Nicolas Sabo
Workshop link

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
Workshop link

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
Workshop link

Organic Cityscape

Author: Twink315
Workshop link

Pirate City

Author: Twink315
Workshop link

Pristine City

Author: Meltup
Workshop link

Raptors

Author: Sìlfae
Workshop link

Aztec-inspired city, fit for any dinosaur king.

Serpentoids

Author: Sìlfae
Workshop link

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
Workshop link

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

Synthetic Portraits – Expanded

Author: Sìlfae
Workshop link

Viverrokan

Author: Sìlfae
Workshop link
Patreon link

Xenon Sector – Race & Ship Only

Original author: Di Crash
Edited mod author: Dukhat
Workshop link
(Original full mod Workshop link)

Welcome variety on the robotic-flavour front.

Xirmians

Author: Sìlfae
Workshop link

Cyberpunk-esque neon cityscape.

Zeriphen

Author: Sìlfae
Workshop link

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