Victoria II

Pick a small country. Get eaten by a big country after hours of playing because no one wants to be your friend. Good game.

I played a bit and i dont recomend it

GOOD GAME

我操你妈个嘴儿啊P社，钢铁雄心4的新日志真有你的，印度是你祖先还是瑞典的祖先啊，是跟蜥蜴交配生出来的P社么，还帝国坟场？这事搞不好就是瑞典坟场了，意图分裂中华人民共和国？给印度核心不给中国核心真有你的，还丝绸帝国，印度跟丝绸有什么关系？你们是印度阿三打胶时射出来的？他们是你爹？妈了个逼的狗东西，中国玩家花了那么多钱支持你们，你们就这么戏耍是吧，是中国的经济能力和军事能力太弱了还是中国人口太少了，怎么敢挑衅中国？妈的畜生公司
Paradox Interactive，♥♥♥♥ U！ The new log of Hearts of Iron IV really has you. Is India your ancestor or Sweden's ancestor? Did they mate with lizards to give birth to the P Society, or even the Imperial Cemetery? Could this be a Swedish cemetery with the intention of splitting the People's Republic of China? What is the relationship between India and silk? If you give the core to India or not to China, then return to the Silk Empire. What is the relationship between India and silk? Did you shoot it out during the gluing process of Indian Asan? Are they your fathers? Damn it, Chinese players have spent so much money to support you. You just play games like this. Is it because China's economic and military capabilities are too weak or its population is too small? How dare you challenge China? Damn animal company

I wanted to write sth about the game, but my comment falls to rebels

One of the best grand strategy game I have ever played but with mods it makes the experience 10x better.

Best grand strategy game ever

Sadly better than victoria 3 with real combat.

Without mods, the game isn't that spectacular. A lot of the content/favor that is available to you in the base game could be fully completed in around a decade of in game time (which would be around an hour in real time probably.) And while a sandbox-like strategy game does sound fun in concept, it eventually gets boring when you realize that almost every nation plays the same. If I was reviewing Victoria 2 for it's base game contents only, I wouldn't recommend it. But with mods, this game is amazing. Victoria 2's dedicated community turned this into a neat old paradox title from around a decade ago, to probably the most addicting thing I've ever played. HPM, HFM, and GFM alone completely revamp the entire experience. Also, installing mods for is extremely easy.
overall, I'll give it a 7/10

"The militant socialists have risen up against your militant socialist government" Ah yes, we were not militant socialist enough

is good i can subjugate people

make this a hoi4 mod

the best game paradox ever made
fuck this gen z dumbasses that cant handle complexity

very good

Buaidh airson Ìmpireachd na Gearmailt!

One of the best games ever for strategists- and it still is, despite it's age.

Literally Peak, sure I got my ass beat in almost every war I engaged in but when I didn't focus on conquering all my neighbor I actually thrived and had a decent run, so uh pretty good. 10/10 would modernize Persia again

Still better then vicky 3

Japan very fun, love game - Indan Man

Love the game as well as the lotr mod!

É um bom jogo, mas enjoa rápido.

This game in a nutshell - "There are 400.000 artisans that are starving to death, but it's not necessarily a bad thing"

Now the old king is dead, that was when I ruled the world.

Great game; really interesting and simple war and population system.

The game can easily be learnt but is really hard to master.

Our Dixie forever! She's never at a loss, down with the eagle and up with the cross!

Simply a perfect game for people that enjoy complex strategic games. My only objection is that statistics for wars is lacking. But otherwise just perfect.

Classic.
But If you want to really enjoy the game, you'll need mods like HPM

its a pretty cool game, i would recommend the steam guides instead of yt cuz you can read at your pace and theres a lot of guides, but if ur starting out then i would recommend just to play through like 5 games all the way until 1936 or u get conquered, then go to the guides. ik its a run on sentence but the game is good, so i would recommend to play it

It was probably a new and novel game for its time, but completely pales in all regards to victoria 3.

This allows for the dream of colonial empires that never were. Modding is great as well.

great game i like it better than EU4

Victoria 2 is a grand strategy game that places players at the helm of a nation during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Covering the transformative years from 1836 to 1936, the game challenges players to manage politics, economy, diplomacy, and warfare while navigating historical events and shaping their nation’s destiny. With its intricate mechanics and deep strategic gameplay, Victoria 2 offers a compelling experience for history and strategy enthusiasts.

Key Features:

Complex Political Systems: Victoria 2 features a detailed political simulation where players must manage government types, parties, and policies. Balancing the needs of various social groups and political movements is key to maintaining stability and achieving national goals.

Economic Depth: Players oversee their nation’s economy, including industrialization, trade, and resource management. The game’s intricate economic model challenges players to balance supply and demand while fostering growth in their nation’s industries.

Population Management: The game introduces a unique "POP" system, where population groups are categorized by profession, culture, and ideology. Managing these groups effectively is crucial to addressing social issues and fostering national prosperity.

Diplomacy and Warfare: Players engage in complex diplomacy, forming alliances, negotiating treaties, and waging wars. The balance of power system ensures that aggressive actions can have far-reaching consequences, requiring careful planning and strategy.

Technological Advancements: Research and development play a vital role in modernizing a nation. Players can unlock new technologies and reforms that impact military strength, economic efficiency, and social progress.

Dynamic Historical Events: The game incorporates historical events and decisions, offering players the opportunity to rewrite history or follow its course. These events add depth and immersion to the gameplay.

Modding Community: Victoria 2 boasts an active modding community that has created extensive modifications, enhancing replayability and allowing players to customize their experience.

Conclusion:
Victoria 2 stands out as a deep and rewarding grand strategy game that combines intricate mechanics with historical accuracy. Its emphasis on political, economic, and social management provides a unique and immersive experience, making it a must-play for fans of complex strategy games. Whether you’re uniting nations, industrializing economies, or shaping global diplomacy, Victoria 2 offers an unparalleled journey through one of history’s most transformative eras.

looks like some game, exactly same

Make Prussia Great Again!

Early Meiji Basedtoration

paradox how hard is it to add a workshop to this game.....

Better then Victoria 3

Buggy, takes three times to open/start the game, impossible to understand how it works in the background at a 100%, Still better than Victoria 3. GG.

game good. play game. game fight back. tagswitch. game break. think about game. regret.

Having played Victoria 3 before this, it's really interesting to see the "DNA" of this game that went into its successor. There's a lot more to enjoy here in some regards, but one thing Victoria 3 does better is giving you information. For example, it's a lot easier to see how to move through forms of government in V3 though its elaborate tooltips -- here in V2, a lot more information is hidden, harder to find, or unexplained outside of the manual. For lack of a manual on my desk, I even had to look up what combat stats like "support" are doing on the wiki. (nb, the game does come with a PDF manual, which can be found on the store page and in the game's installed files)

Speaking of combat, the combat system seems a little less sophisticated than EU4, one of the other historic Paradox titles I'm used to. This is a maybe a good thing, but I did kind of find it funny that the AI was only ever going to circle the Ivory Coast to land on exactly the closest tile to its homeland, over and over. It made setting up a defensive stack as Sokoto and just wiping out wave after wave of Danish troops pretty straightforward. I managed to hold on for surprisingly long at 31 infamy until I was at war with both Spain & Italy at the same time, when I decided that history had run its course for my little broke nation and quit my save.

Anyway, do NOT go over 25 infamy, do not trust laissez-faire as a tertiary power, and DO have fun!

i finished the game in 5 hours 5/5

ignore the playing time. i have been playing this game for 4 years on a disc and ive only bought it now LMAO but this game is very good. the best game paradox has made. just get HOD and AHD and you're good. mods help the experience vastly aswell

There are a lot of positive things about this game. However, the biggest minus is that the game is interesting only if one plays as a superpower. For small countries, there is not much to do, they are only spectators.

4 hour map bust challange complete

Don't waste your money another paradox game that needs the DLCs to work.

Uno de los juegos más interesantes e increíbles que he podido jugar, si le metes mods es muchísimo más interesante, le recomiendo a aquel que quiera disfrutar aún más meterle mods, es fácil y hay tutos en Youtube

When i first played this game, i didnt play vanilla i played with GFM and HPM and others. The game was so buggy it crashed every 3&1/2minutes and the farther i got in the game the shorter that time was.
I played vanilla and realized it was one of the worst things ive ever played
This game also gave me a pop up when i first opened it saying "You need software you dont have to run this"
10/10 would play again

Like most paradox games its either for you or not at all, i can see where the appeal is though i could never get the hang of it as it's too convoluted.

You can gas the french.

10/10

Trash. If you want to play this, you must have all DLCs because the mods and many crucial features arent in the base game. This trash It always bugs, especially with ships disappearing. Sometimes I'm not at war with anyone, but just because I've put a bunch of troops on several cargo ships (WITH CAPITAL BATTLE SHIPS!) the game decides they're going to disappear halfway, never reaching their destination. No pop-up appeared saying that there had been a battle or that they had died, which is impressive because this happened about 3 times in less than an hour, and it was so bad that I lost several won wars thanks to this, because I had the opportunity to win, but the troops never arrived for me to declare war with an advantage. Now, apart from that, the game has too many pop ups, it's impossible to have peace, every hour even in war the game will play more than 10 pop ups a minute, AND IT'S NO JOKE!!! You can't play micro because every time there's a pop up that gets in your way, even sometimes to pause time! As if that weren't enough, it's practically impossible to play Uk without having anarchist revolts all over your country, because even if you support the liberals, the game will fill you with pop ups giving debuffs and militancy, non-stop.

Game crashes on boot unless you disable SAM and Resizable Bar. This just shouldn't be an issue.