From an outside perspective, Paradox’s flagship titles, such as Europa Universalis IV and Hearts of Iron IV, appear as boring strategy games in which you paint a map in various colors.

Europa Universalis 4 has a huge variety of different countries to play as thanks to its many years of support and updates, but some fun nations are locked behind vassal release, while others aren ...

It has the global approximation of Flight Simulator, the networks of Victoria 3 and Europa Universalis, and plenty of decision-making. If that sounds like it’s for you, get it added to your ...