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Europa Universalis V

by Paradox Tinto

  • Released Nov 4, 2025
  • $59.99
  • PC (Microsoft Windows)

65%positive reviews

20,150 positive10,642 negative

What players say

Pros

  • Deep, interconnected grand strategy

  • Ambitious and alive

Cons

  • Poor performance and broken at launch

  • Undercooked and bored by updates

Mixed

  • Some call it a masterpiece, others say it needs years to fix

Media

Announcement Trailer (YouTube)Trailer (YouTube)

System requirements

Minimum:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

OS: Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit

Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-8700K | AMD® Ryzen™ 5 3600

Memory: 16 GB RAM

Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 1060 (6GB) | AMD® Radeon™ RX 580 (8GB) | Intel® Arc™ A380 (6GB) | Intel® Arc™ 140V

Storage: 20 GB available space

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Use war, trade or diplomacy to satisfy your grandest ambitions and dominate five centuries of history in the newest version of Europa Universalis, Paradox Interactive's flagship historical grand strategy game.

Ratings

  • 81IGDB players16 ratings
  • 84Critics3 reviews
  • 83Overall19 scores

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Languages

LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
Chinese (Simplified)
English
French
German
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Russian
Spanish (Spain)
Turkish

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