Victoria 3 Starter Edition

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About the Game Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.

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Developer:
Paradox Development Studio
Publisher:
Paradox Interactive
Release date:
25 October 2022
Recent Steam reviews:
Mixed (528)
All Steam reviews:
Mostly Positive (20297)

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Description

About the Game

Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.

  • Lead dozens of world nations from 1836-1936. Agrarian or Industrial, Traditional or Radical, Peaceful or Expansionist... the choice is yours.

  • Detailed population groups with their own economic needs and political desires.

  • Reform your government and constitution to take advantage of new social innovations, or preserve the stability of your nation by holding fast to tradition in the face of revolutionaries.

  • Research transformative new technology or ideas to improve your national situation.

  • Expand your industry to take advantage of lucrative goods, taxing the profits to improve national prosperity.

  • Import cheap raw materials to cover your basic needs while finding new markets for your finished goods.

  • Secure vital goods to fuel your advanced economy and control the fate of empires.

  • Balance employing available labor force with the needs for new types of workers.

  • Use your diplomatic wiles to weave a tangled global web of pacts, relations, alliances, and rivalries to secure your diplomatic position on the world stage.

  • Employ threats, military prowess and bluffs to persuade enemies to back down in conflicts.

  • Increase your economic and military strength at the expense of rivals.

  • Accumulate prestige and the respect of your rivals as you build an industrial giant at home or an empire abroad.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

OS:
Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit
Processor:
Intel® Core™ i5-3470 | AMD® FX™ 9370 (AVX support required)
Memory:
8 GB RAM
Graphics:
Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 660 (2GB) | AMD® Radeon™ R7 370 (2GB) or Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics or AMD® Radeon™ Vega 8
Storage:
10 GB available space

recommended*

OS:
Windows® 10 64 Bit or Windows® 11
Processor:
Intel® Core™ i5-6600K | AMD® Ryzen™ 5 2600X (AVX support required)
Memory:
16 GB RAM
Graphics:
Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 1660 (6GB) | AMD® Radeon™ RX 5600 XT (6GB) | Intel® Arc™ A580 (8GB)
Storage:
10 GB available space

User reviews

KaiqpKain
Not recommended | 28 May 2026
1241h played

The recent updates are a perfect example of what is wrong with modern Paradox. They drop massive, sweeping mechanic overhauls that arrive buried under a mountain of game-breaking bugs, followed by a frantic rush of

Helpful: 116
Darkchil
Not recommended | 31 May 2026
3336h played

As someone else put it- The recent updates are a perfect example of what is wrong with modern Paradox. They drop massive, sweeping mechanic overhauls that arrive buried under a mountain of game-breaking bugs, followed

Helpful: 6
Saoshyant
Not recommended | 30 May 2026
1002h played

The new DLC just doesn't work properly. It has a lot of great ideas and in theory it's very cool, but everything navy is insanely broken. Hate to do this, but it's disgusting that PDX releases a completely broken DLC

Helpful: 3
CPT-Ward
Not recommended | 31 May 2026
552h played

Rollback to 1.12.5 if you want to play the game right now, 1.13 simply isn't working it use's 99% of my GPU for some reason causing a crash instantly.

Helpful: 4
intilli4
Recommended | 02 Jun 2026
53.0h played

HOLY COW... This game is DEEP. What an amazing game. So much detail and the economy system is VAST. The treaties are an amazing touch. I am very impressed. The ONLY thing I can say that I do not like is the loading

Helpful: 0
RawrMoo
Not recommended | 03 Jun 2026
1015h played

This is an economic strategy game that attempts to not be Eurocentric by people who don't understand economics and can't help being Eurocentric in the most painful way imaginable. The developers started from the premise

Helpful: 4