Europa Universalis V

worst game of all time i wish i could get a refund

There's a lot that can be said good and bad, but the bottomline is that the game play is really boring. I try to pick up the game again, but game play is like watching grass grow. And the province control system plus game economy are so broken. You can't earn money unless you control provinces and you can't control provinces unless you pay big money for roads.

All they have done since release is nurf the fun out of the game and remover things they had at launch. I came back to play a Greenland into Vinland for an alt history playthrough. And they removed the possibility from the game nurfing one of the already weakest starts in the game. Outside the devs removing the little fun you can have the game as a whole is juts boring.

I do this for the good of Europa.

Why do I need the "feudalism" institution to mine iron? Tell that to the iron age tribes that caused the bronze age collapse almost 2000 years before feudalism was invented. At least give me a way to independently develop feudalism if you're going to do that. Seems like a very cheesy way of gating technological progression and is unnecessarily Eurocentric. Maybe I don't want to have to be forced to play as Europe all the time in every game.

Non mais arrêtez de casser ce jeu. Il est tout bonnement extraordinaire, j'ai torché le 4 et celui ci je compte bien aussi le jouer jusqu'au suivant.... Je ne comprend pas cette envie de casser un jeu, juste parcequ'on ne comprend pas son fonctionnement. Il est complexe mais si on s'y intéresse un temps soit peu, s'ouvre devant vous un monde de possibilité énorme avec les nombre de pays à jouer et leur mécaniques. N'hésitez pas, cassez vous un peu la tête pour le comprendre et il vous offrira bien plus que des heures de bonheur. Merci paradox et toute vos équipes.

As a big fan of Paradox games in general, and especially EU4, I just feel sad about this game. It aimed to be deeper and borrows mechanics from several different Paradox titles, but whereas in EU4 I never got bored, always found a cool nation to play, and tried to hunt achievements, etc., well in EU5, let's be honest, I'm bored. I have absolutely no desire to chase achievements, try out different nations, or simply play the game. That was my opinion at launch last year. And now, HOLD ON, plot twist! (Not at all). I gave the game another chance with the release of the Byzantium DLC, and well, I find Byzantium way more fun to play in EU4 than in EU5. Long story short, a disappointment... I will probably give it one last chance in 2027 and will update this review (or not) depending on the changes made to the game.

The economic system does not work and there is no indication there are any plans to fix it