Europa Universalis V

This is the first review and comment I ever wrote on steam. Why do I do it? Simple: I am afraid this project will lose momentum and be abandoned like Imperator: Rome. Why do I care? It is the most ambitious strategy game I have ever played. As someone who has for many years been short on cash and lived through a lot of FOMO regarding Paradox's DLC and business policy, I certainly understand any annoyance and pain. But I have to be honest, too: of my top 10 games ever played, 5 are Paradox Titles. And that is for good reason. The sheer ambition and complexity of their games are generally truly enjoyable. They are living pieces; the upside from their business policy is continuous development and following-through on visions and ideas. And I think this game in particular stands out, despite a strong benchmark. - 500 years of slow-paced, detailed historic gameplay? check. - simulation of more or less EVERY SINGLE INDIVIDUAL of every country's population? including economics, food & growth, literacy, culture, religion, migration? check. - a well-thought-out, complex and quite realistic economic base for everything happening in this game? check. - internal politics, classes (estates), diplomacy? check. - few direct, but hundreds of indirect levers to do anything (like in real politics)? check. - addicting exploration & colonization mechanics? check. I might be biased toward economic simulations (as I'm an Economist myself). But it's still different in scope from Victoria 3 (a top-notch economic sim). It "simply" uses a deep economic system as basis, which is extremely ambitious for a project with a somewhat different main idea. I hope ambitious is the right word, not insane. The incredible ambition is also what causes many of the concerns that you can read in the comments. It certainly cannot be easy to build all these layers into a game and then not have frequent balancing issues - especially, if you think about the historical timespan of 500 years leading up to industrialization and modern societies. And if you look closely, many of those negative comments come from players with hundreds of hours minimum. That should tell you at least one thing: money was not wasted on this at all. It's mere a very high standard this game is held to (which is a good thing, too). I also want to be clear: this is not a game that you understand after 5 hours and master after 20. It can also be quite frustrating in the beginning. And I definitely think there is still quite some room for improvement on the in-game explanation of deeper mechanics and even calculations. But please, dear reader, give this game a try if you enjoy complex grand strategy games or want to get into it. If only to support the grand vision behind this game. And please, dear paradox team, keep on the amazing job you've been doing, creating what are essentially all of my favorite games. This game especially has huge potential.

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has the potential to be the best paradox game. it does not live up to this at all. in its current state, eu4 is a lot better

oyun inanilmaz derece kötü 2015 yılından itibaren eu4 oyuncusuyum bu oyuna yıllarımı verdim eu5 i bır heves bir umudla satın aldım ama eu serisiyle hiçbir alakası yok ♥♥♥ basıt kardesım eu4 temel alınıp yok kontrol yok bilmem ne olayı olmadan devam edip genisletilmiş ticaret nufus ve diplomasi görev agacı ve tek bir tarih odaklı degil eu4 gibi tarih odaklı olmalıydı

They deprecated support for my system because they toggled a flag to block my generation of CPU. Beyond that and after emulating a new instruction set, the game is half baked and worse than eu4 by a large degree.

Not worthy of your time and money as of version 1.3

rezalet

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ass game

This game has so much potential, but all of that is outweighed by baffling design decisions, lack of basic functionality in some core aspects like diplomacy, AI behavior and historicity, and an inability or unwillingness on the part of the devs to address any of these issues. Maybe I'll give a positive review in 5-7 years (bruh)

Not great