Europa Universalis IV

Europa Universalis IV is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Paradox Development Studio and released in 2013. It was published by Paradox Interactive. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Clausewitz Engine.

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical and warfare. It supports multiplayer for up to 256 players online. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 373 achievements to unlock.

Europa Universalis IV is the first of 7 entries we hold in the Europa Universalis series. The next entry was Europa Universalis IV: Extreme Edition in 2013.

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Europa Universalis IV holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 83% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 15 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 86, across 263 votes.

The main story runs about 170.5 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $4.99, that works out to about $0.03 per hour of the main story.

The minimum specification calls for Intel® Core™ i3-2105 / AMD® FX 4300, 4 GB RAM and Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 460 / AMD® Radeon™ HD 5850. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 6GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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The cheapest verified price right now is $4.99 at GOG, 90% below its usual price.

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Europa Universalis IV launched on 13 August 2013, within three weeks of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Rayman Legends and Saints Row IV. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Rayman Legends, Saints Row IV.

We have tested and published 39 cheat entries for Europa Universalis IV — 39 console commands. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.

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