Victoria 3 will be Paradox’s next strategy game, and it’s not mucking about
There is a running joke, every time Paradox Development Studio says it will announce a new game, and it goes like this: “Vicky 3!” That’s the joke. You see, Paradox maintains a quartet of big, complex historical strategy series – Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis, Victoria, and Hearts Of Iron – which each abut each others’ time periods in an extremely satisfying fashion, so that players can experience a full millenium of human history in excruciating, day-by-day detail.
But while Crusader, Europa and Hearts have all had new versions in the last few years, their poor idustrial age cousin has been languishing since the release of Victoria 2 in 2010, without even any DLC since 2013. And needless to say, fans of the series don’t like to let Paradox forget this. Hence the shouts of “Vicky 3!”, which have gotten more and more memeified as the odds of Victoria 3 actually getting made have dwindled. Only now… um… Victoria 3’s coming out?
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