Posted on: May 16, 2025
Kwachu1701
Verified ownerGames: 12 Reviews: 4
Great game
Great and complex game but intimidating at times. Perfect for strategy lovers.
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Hearts of Iron III
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Hearts of Iron 3 lets you play the most engaging conflict in world history, World War 2, on all fronts as any country and through multiple different scenarios. Guide your nation to glory between 1936 and 1948 and wage war, conduct diplomacy and build your industry in the most detailed World War 2 game ever made.
- Play as any nation from 1936 to 1948, more than 150 countries to choose from.
- Control the oceans with aircraft carriers, submarines and battleships and use your air force to defend your skies, support your naval and ground forces, and to bomb your enemies
- Thousands of historically accurate real-world military commanders and politicians.
- Realistic military command AI with unprecedented levels of interaction
- In-depth diplomatic and political system.
- Historical accuracy combined with an unparalleled level of freedom of choice
- More than 10,000 land provinces makes the game five times more detailed than HoI2 and the most detailed depiction of World War 2 ever made.
- Customize your divisions in detail with more than 20 types of brigades
- New economic system makes it possible to buy weapons from abroad.
- Mobilization and reserves gives the option of surprise attacks, Blitzkrieg made real.
- Government-in-exile makes it possible to continue to struggle from abroad with underground movements and uprisings against the oppressing power.
- Strategic warfare system makes it more important to defend the skies and oceans against foreign attacks; leaving cities open to enemy bombing will now be devastating.
- A completely new intelligence system, with several types of intelligence sources, makes it possible to get information about enemy reserves and troop movements.
- Assign troops to “theatres” on the map to fight two-front wars more successfully.
- The new AI system and more detailed map will allow for more strategic decisions.
- Flexible technology system with hundreds of categories, where major powers get their own unique attributes.
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quickstart guide
strategy guide
behind the scenes video
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Time to beat
13.5 hMain
69.5 h Main + Sides
245.5 h Completionist
49 h All Styles
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Posted on: December 26, 2024
Bogoletti
Verified ownerGames: 14 Reviews: 1
The game itself is a classic BUT...
sadly it CRASHES ALWAYS after a couple minutes of playing. No matter if DLCs installed, compatibility mode set or whatever. The game crashes a couple minutes into playing. The fact Paradox bundled Bugfixes with DLCs is a scandal too.
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Posted on: June 11, 2025
tlevi05
Verified ownerGames: 105 Reviews: 3
Horthy's Soldiers
No! No! Never! Long live Greater-Hungary!
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Posted on: August 15, 2025
Ivan__tacko
Verified ownerGames: 47 Reviews: 11
Crashes and freezes often
Not a terrible game but it crashes, freezes and lags pretty often
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Posted on: August 23, 2025
debonz
Verified ownerGames: 21 Reviews: 3
Super and complee wargame
Not so hard to play, but for real and first time wargamer. Manage a main or minor country from pre WWII till the very of the conflict and the dawn of the 50's. Your strategical and tactical skills will be seriously challenged.
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