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Europa Universalis IV: Starter Edition (2024)

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Europa Universalis IV: Starter Edition (2024)
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Take your first steps in Europa Universalis IV with the Starter Edition, a package specifically curated to give players a strong starting point with one of the most celebrated historical strategy games of all time. The Europa Universalis IV Starter Edition includes the base game, a content pack and...
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2024, Paradox Development Studio, Paradox Tinto, ...
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Windows® 10 Home 64 bit, Intel® Core™ i3-2105 / AMD® FX 4300, 4 GB RAM, Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 460 / A...
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Expansion - Europa Universalis IV: The Cossacks, Expansion - Europa Universalis IV: Res Publica, Exp...
Description
Take your first steps in Europa Universalis IV with the Starter Edition, a package specifically curated to give players a strong starting point with one of the most celebrated historical strategy games of all time. The Europa Universalis IV Starter Edition includes the base game, a content pack and eight major expansion packs that add greater depth and more strategic options to the game.

Europa Universalis IV is Paradox Interactive’s flagship historical grand strategy game, set in the early modern era from the Renaissance to the Napoleonic Age. Choose any nation and dominate the world through a mix of diplomacy, trade, exploration and war.

The Europa Universalis IV Starter Edition includes:

Europa Universalis IV: Rewrite history in the grandest way possible, as you rule any nation from 1444 to 1820. Discover new lands, control key trade routes, fight wars of conquest or religion, and make the world your own.

Europa Universalis IV - Digital Extreme Edition Upgrade Pack: This pack includes new events and flavor content for the Byzantine Empire and major Muslim nations, new units for the armies of the Hundred Years War, special content for the United States, original music composed for the Byzantine Empire and more. (Available in Europa Universalis IV base game purchase.)

Europa Universalis IV: Art of War: Experience the pitched battles for religion in Europe in this pack with a new system for the great Religious Wars of the Reformation. Give your vassals’ armies instructions in wartime, fight for their claims and launch or combat the power of Revolution in the endgame. (Available in Europa Universalis IV base game purchase.)

Europa Universalis IV: Rights of Man: This expansion adds more flavor to the ruling of your realm, with monarch personality traits, consorts, abdication, unique diplomatic options for Great Power, more control over subject nations and more. (Available in Europa Universalis IV base game purchase.)

Europa Universalis IV: Common Sense: This expansion focuses on diplomacy and the internal development of nations. It allows you to peacefully develop your nation and build a 'tall' empire, whilst also giving you the tools to execute grand diplomacy. Game changing religious features add depth and intriguing complexity to the gameplay. (Available in Europa Universalis IV base game purchase.)

Europa Universalis IV: Conquest of Paradise: This expansion allows you to send your ships off to the west and discover a new world, unlike any you've seen before, with the ability to play with a randomly generated New World. New rules allow pre-colonial American nations to better prepare for the coming European invasion.

Europa Universalis IV: Wealth of Nations: Lean on the power of trade to strengthen your empire, with colonial Trade Companies, improved inland trading systems, hiring privateers and selecting a Trade Capital to accumulate the wealth of the world.

Europa Universalis IV: Res Publica:  This expansion introduces new gameplay elements for Republics and Dictatorship. Res Publica elevates the art of governance and exploration by allowing the player to experience new ways of receiving bonuses, whilst expanding on their trade empire.

Europa Universalis IV: The Cossacks: This expansion adds more depth to Horde based nations, including the Tengri religion, and the Horde Unity mechanic, as well as improved espionage and diplomatic feedback.

Europa Universalis IV: El Dorado: This expansion focuses on Central America and South America, including introducing new religions to Mesoamerican and South American powers. As the Aztecs, subject the Mexican plain to your rule but be sure to have enough vassal kings to sacrifice to your angry gods. As the Europeans, push deeper into the jungles of the Amazon, following rumours of lost cities and magical fountains.

©2023 published by Paradox Interactive AB. EUROPA UNIVERSALIS IV and PARADOX INTERACTIVE are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Paradox Interactive AB in Europe, the U.S. and other countries

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Posted on: July 27, 2025

Andrzej762

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Don't buy, please

It's a 180 degrees turn from previous Europa Universalis games. Technology spreads in a way that when first colonizers meet tribal societies, those tribal societies have star forts, cannons and everything. It doesn't make any sense, unless it's multiplayer-only game (which it isn't). Cultures doesn't matter at all. Everyone and everything is the same. Somehow, developing a province makes you... lag behind in technology. Large countries only get larger, with no signs of internal strife nor anything that happened in real history. Countries that historically were swimming in gold are poorer because you can only earn serious money by having trade node nearby. Two good things: 1. Trade and trade protection system (navy patrols) require much less micromanagement. 2. You can't just walk over fortifications ignoring them. Forts do work as barriers. There are numerous nonfunctional or imbalanced game mechanics because the predatory DLC system is all about cutting out content from the game (instead of adding it). EU3 with some DLCs is much better experience unless you want to conquer the world as high-tech Maori or something similar.


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Posted on: September 10, 2025

crogonint

Games: 1021 Reviews: 42

Most Celebrated..?!

I don't think a game I've never even heard qualifies as the "Most celebrated historical strategy game of all time". I can name a dozen series of history based games, starting with Sid Meyer's Civilization. This one isn't even on the list. Going by the above review regarding the absolute travesty of historical accuracy.. I'm going to say that it's either woke crapola, or the devs just don't give a crap, and they're too busy churning out DLC to rake in cash, to care if the gameplay makes any sense.


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