Victoria 3 New Player's Choice Edition

Victoria 3 is Paradox's grand strategy game about the nineteenth century, and it is unusual for the studio in that armies are the least interesting thing in it. You take a country in 1836 and run it through a hundred years of industrialisation, and the game is mostly an argument about who benefits. The economy is simulated through population groups — pops — with jobs, wages, literacy and standards of living, feeding production chains and markets that respond to what people can actually afford. Politics runs on interest groups, landowners, industrialists, trade unions, the clergy, each with clout you have to build or break before a law will pass. Passing one takes political power you accumulate, and failing costs you time and legitimacy. Wars are fought at arm's length through fronts and generals rather than unit micromanagement. It supports single-player and multiplayer, competitive or cooperative, and it is not a gentle introduction to the genre. The New Player's Choice Edition bundles the base game with two of the more substantial expansions — Sphere of Influence and Charters of Commerce — plus the American Buildings cosmetic pack. On Kinguin it is stocked in the RoW regional version.