"deep systems"

2013 · Grand Strategy · PC / Steam

Europa Universalis IV is the most ambitious historical sandbox ever shipped to a mainstream audience, and it earns that reputation through sheer depth. The learning wall is real, and so is the DLC problem, but players who commit find something that rewards them for hundreds of hours in ways no other strategy game can match. If you have the patience to push through the first ten or twenty hours, there's a rare experience waiting on the other side.