Victoria II

pretty good, have no clue what i´m doing 99.9999999% percent of the time. Oh, and it ruined my sleep schedule.

This is the PEAK of Paradox's Grand Strategy Games. It's both a classic and a game that always feels like there's more to learn. Somehow, it always stays fresh while at the same time feeling like a classic.
The sheer amount of things you can do even in the base game is MASSIVE, and with the DLCs, it's even more incredible.
If you love Grand Strategy games, History (especially Politics and Economics), and Alt-History scenarios, this is a must-have.
And if the base game isn't enough for you, there's a HUGE collection of mods available online, ranging from alt-history mods, flavor expansions, and total overhauls to small QoL improvements and fun gimmicks.
If you're truly into this genre, I highly recommend buying it with all the DLCs. It's worth EVERY SINGLE PENNY.

Peak ass game

Contrary to literally every other paradox game, the AI in this game is absolutely retarded and cannot think for themselves whatsoever. Why the FUCK does the UK NOT have transports?????????????????????????????????? Like hello, the biggest navy in the history of the world, has no fucking troop transports????????????????????? Genuinely don't waste your money on this piece of shit game lmao

steam dışında yüzlerce saat oynadığım, oyun eski olsa bile hala gideri var victoria 3 den iyi olan yönleride var ayrıca savaşlar daha gerçekçi ve victoria3 ten çoğu konuda daha ayrıntılı daha komplike bir oyun gerçekten devlet yönettiğinizi hissettiriyor size bence bu oyunu oynamadan ölen eksik yaşamıştır

Yup, it's good!

Come out ye black and tans, come out and fight me like a man
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra

Old but gold. Better than Victoria 3 in terms of warfare, otherwise it's garbage in comparison to everything else. Send a small 10 stack to china and solo the entire country's 1 million peasant army. Machine guns and poison gas attack cut through primitives like butter. The economy is completely broken: build a few random factories and max out taxes and tariffs and you'll never worry about money ever again. Your people can be starving and riot but your faithful army is ready to massacre their surprise party every time. It's funny how the Jacobins, anarcholiberals, communists and fascists love taking turns to rebel every few months like it's harvesting season. Millions and millions of pops can die but the west will never fall. The only exception is Russia who transitions between Tsarists and Soviets faster than a gender dysphoric teenager. Besides, high militancy allows me to pass health care to breed more soldiers for the meat grinder. Only weak betas emigrate to the Americas. Devs were far more based during this era. Just reading the racist, xenophobic and misogynistic pop up events would make the Paradox HR karen have a seizure.

Prussia is the best country ever, the british are my best friends and screw the russians and the french

Its good game for its time but I scream and cry when I play this I can not be bothered to learn its mechanics

Great and immersive GSG!

It good alright its a classic

Imperialism and Capitalism is amazing.

i found it difficult and somewhat frustrating but still a good game

tab unfriendly and crashes frequently. the map looks garbo

I do recomend this game but the Ai country’s will dog walk you so don’t go to crazy. Ex: you can be at war with a country in Africa or the Caribbean then a great power would declare a containment war and then the rest of Europe will join

dopamine dispensing game !

Muito bom

this game sucks ass. 10/10

I love you Victoria II

Great game, detailed economy and political system, a little dated and the combat system can get a little micro-managey, get all of the DLC's for the best experience.

It's a very good strategy game and way more people should play it.

Love this game bro, I did nothing as Japan for a century and France somehow became Communist and the USA lost New England.... 10/10 would westernize Japan again

My favorite game of all time. It's a mess but I cannot praise it enough. You need the DLCs and the tutorial takes forever but it is SUPER worth it.

Better then Vicky 2

Game is growing on me

I like this game more then the sequal, The combat is just supperior and thus this game is better then victoria 3

unplayable in 2025. Tried the tutorial to refresh my understanding of the game play and it repeatedly crashes to desktop over and over just trying simple things like moving a ship or landing an army. I cannot recommend this and give it a thumbs down. Do not buy it is like fruit left rotting in the sun. Tasty when fresh but now will just make you sick.

If you do decide to buy, I suggest trying immediately and keeping you time to under what is needed for a refund.

good game, actually has interaction required from the player unlike it's sequel

I love being able to play as Texas in this game

One of Paradox's best games overall. It's not a perfect game but it's quite unique and the pop mechanic is very interesting, making a nice change to the standard map-painting. I play only with the Historical Project Mod whenever I play now days.

Beautifully crafted strategy game as long as you use one of the main mechanics mods (HPM) HFM)

Greatest game ever made. At least to me. 4.5/5

I would argue it is the Paradox game that is the easiest to get into, where you can tell what is going on the majority of the time. If you are losing, you can usually see what is going wrong, same the other way around. endless replays. DLC needed, but its practically nothing.

Fuck the Reactionaries (:

Better than Vic 3

Amazing game with both DLC. Far better than Vic3 and doesn't leach your wallet.

fun

Great game

better than vic3

very fun and wholesome game

Lots to master but hours of fun

This game taught me why countries actually banned slavery.

in my opinion, this is the best pdx game (although it probably objectively isn’t). it takes a while to actually understand how the game works, but once you do its amazing. however, game is kinda dependent on mods such as GFM to be good.

Chinese people raging about hoi4 in an entirely separate game that is a decade and a half old, steam needs to do better at moderating reviews, especially when it is about an entirely different game.

THE Classic Paradox game, I love it dearly even if 2 million fucking Jacobins spawn right before the 2nd Great War over Alsace-Lorraine.

One of my favorite Paradox games, albeit with AI and multiplayer support that has not aged so well.

If this game got longer support and some of the features that made it into EU4, I think this could've been Paradox's best game ever.

I highly recommend anyone try this game. It's one of the best GST's, especially for low-end systems.

Trash. If you add political factors to a game, you will spoil it. Paradox not only do this, but also never listen to players. If you buy this game, you can do nothing, including refund, when Paradox add something you don't like to it. Paradox Interactive should close down.

fun game i invade my neigbhors as france i invade belgium and the netherlands i lose war i invade small german state prussia joins war then i realized im cooked after that i rage queit a throw my pc out of the window 10/10 would recommended would play again if i could afford another windows 98

I'm on a mission to play and review the over 700 games in my Steam Library. Vicky 2 still holds up today as when released. Raising empires and map painting until your hearts content!

Best Excel version in the world ever published

Game doesn't run well on Windows 10 anymore. Neither it does run in a window.