4X strategy giant Victoria 3 is free to play for a limited time as Paradox release the latest DLC - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/4x-strategy-giant-victoria-3-is-free-for-a-limited-time-as-paradox-release-the-latest-dlc #MultiplayerCompetitive #ParadoxInteractive #Birdview/Isometric #SinglePlayer #Simulation #Victoria3 #Strategy #PC
Paradox announce Victoria 3: Expansion Pass 2 with Charters of Commerce expansion arriving in June https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/paradox-announce-victoria-3-expansion-pass-2-with-charters-of-commerce-expansion-arriving-in-june/
#Victoria3 is hard because every country has a conservative faction — either authoritarian, racist, theocratic, or landowning — that constantly works to stop you doing anything that helps your people, your economy, or improving society somewhat.
Even if you have a nice and bloody revolution, a few years later they spring up again, opposing everything good, trying to drag you back to a worse form of society.
I think about this a lot.
Another achievement down on my quest to 100% #Victoria3 after, err, 863 hours of playtime.
That's the last of the economic achievements. Time to get started on the crazy stuff.
Hey ihr #Linuxgamer da draußen, habt ihr mitbekommen das #OxygenNotIncluded und #Victoria3 gerade auf #Steam im Free Weekend sind? Ideal um einen Titel vor Kauf anzutesten (oder eben im Anschluss zu wissen dass man dafür kein Geld ausgeben möchte).
https://store.steampowered.com/app/457140/Oxygen_Not_Included/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/529340/Victoria_3/
In diesem Sinne, frohes zocken allerseits.
Victoria 3: Pivot of Empire arrives in November and free update 1.8 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/victoria-3-pivot-of-empire-arrives-in-november-and-free-update-18/
Two years and 777.6 hours in, I finally got this elusive achievement for getting a national GDP of at least £1bn.
I can finally rest now!
Paradox respond to the accusation that they fix games with paid DLC - "we try to find a middle ground" - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/paradox-respond-to-the-accusation-that-they-fix-games-with-paid-dlc-we-try-to-find-a-middle-ground #Strategy:Real-TimeStrategy #ParadoxDevelopmentStudio #MultiplayerCompetitive #EuropaUniversalisIV #ParadoxInteractive #Birdview/Isometric #CrusaderKingsIII #SinglePlayer #Simulation #Victoria3 #Strategy #Text #Mac #RPG #PC
In my defence, this was to overthrow the conservative landowners and to establish a presidential republic.
Spending my downtime while sick playing my most played background game and noticed I've just passed a milestone...
Victoria 3's first major expansion Sphere of Influence is out now https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/victoria-3s-first-major-expansion-sphere-of-influence-is-out-now/
Victoria 3: Sphere of Influence delayed, Europa Universalis IV: Winds of Change on May 8th https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/victoria-3-sphere-of-influence-delayed-europa-universalis-iv-winds-of-change-on-may-8th/
April 3, 2024 - Day 459 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 488
Game: Victoria 3
Platform: Steam
Released: Oct 26, 2022
Installed: Apr 3, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 21m
Victoria 3 is a grand strategy game from Paradox Interactive. It's the first game in the April Humble Choice bundle, and if you're a Paradox fan who doesn't already own it, would probably make the whole bundle worth the purchase.
Strategy games are not my go-to choice for gaming. It took me a long time to connect the dots between my general lack of enjoyment, and my ADHD.
The number of things a strategy game requires me to keep on top of simultaneously, is inversely proportional to how much I enjoy the game.
Then there are games with a steep learning curve. If a game requires me a drop a dexy to stay focused long enough to learn the game systems, that generally doesn't go well.
Paradox Interactive's games tend to be both of these things at once. They are deeply complex games, with steep learning curves, that require patience, tenacity, focus, and the ability to multitask.
I already have a day job, I don't need a second unpaid one at night.
21 minutes is not enough time for me to make a fair objective judgement of Victoria 3, but this project was never about objectivity. It was about whether I enjoyed a game enough to keep playing it.
Victoria 3 seems to be a well developed, and incredibly deep grand strategy game. Will I play it again?
1: Nope
@SleepyChi sounds like paradox gaming in a nutshell.
like losing all your heirs to war and plague in #ck3 and dooming your realm to chaos.
like falling into a debt spiral in #victoria3 or #eu4 when at war.
like throwing every body you have at the war machine in #stellaris and still losing the war.
now that i think about it, it's mostly wars going wroing.
it's fun, though.
#Victoria3 est finalement décevant… vous avez testé ?
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#VictoriaIII #game #games #videogames #paradoxinteractive #victoria
When I bought this game, I regretted it immediately. It seemed shallow, simple, lacking any interesting gameplay, and had nothing unique, interesting, or fun about it.
It's now my most played game. I'm addicted. My current obsession is launching communist revolutions, fostering them in other countries, and invading when the aristocrats revolt.
Gorgeous 19th century grand strategy game Victoria 3, from genre masters Paradox, is a free Steam game this weekend, and 50% off to keep. #Victoria3 https://gamesense.co/game/victoria-3/news/discuss/victoria-3-is-a-free-game-this-weekend-and-cheap-to-keep/
Paradox announce the Victoria 3: Colossus of the South expansion https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/paradox-announce-the-victoria-3-colossus-of-the-south-expansion/
I just love games like #victoria3 Things can get wacky weird sometimes.
Currently, in my Vic 3 session I am playing as communist France, led by Karl Marx himself (yes, really. He moved to France and got elected). Currently together with socialist Germany, aiding the swedish communist revolution in 1899.
Opposing us, is a dictatorship USA and ironically a socialist Italy.
And there is now a huge trench warfare battle in Svealand (eastern sweden) between the french and americans.
Ahh history.
Retour sur la voie de l'émancipation, la grande saga Victoria 3, c'est déjà l'épisode 10 et c'est maintenant : https://www.twitch.tv/cekterdown
