Europa Universalis 4

Europa Universalis IV is the fourth outing in the long-running global domination grand strategy game from Paradox. This game features a major emphasis on historical settings, locations, and characters. The game is about balancing peace, warfare, diplomacy, and more throughout different time periods.

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Europa Universalis 4 Tag Page Cover Art
Strategy
Released
August 13, 2013
ESRB
T For Teen due to Drug Reference, Mild Language, Mild Sexual Themes, Mild Violence
Publisher(s)
Paradox Interactive
Engine
clausewitz engine
Multiplayer
Online Co-Op
Franchise
Europa Universalis
Number of Players
1-12

Paradox Development Studio is back with the fourth installment of the award-winning Europa Universalis series. This classic grand strategy game gives you control of a nation through four dramatic centuries. Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.

Deep Historical Setting: Start before the Renaissance on a map of the world as it was then. Choose from any of hundreds of nations and then rule up to the Age of Revolutions. Or, if you wish, start your game at any date in the span, with historical monarchs and other leaders.

Experience history coming to life: Hundreds of dynamic historical events are yours to experience, from merely troubling civil wars to world changing moments like the Protestant Reformation. Discover and settle the New World, or resist European conquest.

Fill Your Pockets: Control the flow of trade by developing your trade power in key provinces, using ships and governmental policy to bring the wealth of the world to your own ports.

War and Peace: Build alliances into iron bonds, cemented by royal marriage or play a flexible hand, keeping your options open. Strike when your enemies are weak, using your armies to grab new land and new potential riches.

From grand voyages of discovery to religious wars to revolutionary governments, the entire history of the early modern world waits for you to rewrite it in Europa Universalis IV.

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