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Europa Universalis IV

Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.

Developer
Paradox Development Studio, Paradox Tinto
Publisher
Paradox Interactive
Franchise
Europa Universalis
Release date
Aug 13, 2013
Store page updated
May 8, 2026
Price
$49.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

84.7/ 100

Based on 398 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 86% of 236
All time 😄 Very Positive 88% of 137,414
“excellent game, 2000+ hours, never fails to impress”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+1.42
Strategy +3.59
“grand strategy mechanics at core are well-designed” (52)

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+2.47
World +3.20
“advanced historical strategy with rich thematic depth and world-building” (17)

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+3.04
Volume +4.45
“thousands of hours of content in base game” (25)

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+2.51

Not enough data — only 3% of reviews mention this.

Visuals +1.22

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
+3.04

Not enough data — only 6% of reviews mention this.

Community +2.08

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
-2.74
Monetization -3.12
“essential mechanics spread across various DLCs” (77)

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
-2.33
Developer support -2.00
“no more updates, other Paradox games broken by updates” (13)

🔒 3 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update DLC
30%50%70%90%
Aug 2013Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 236 reviews, peak 13/day
01020
Aug 19Sep 17

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 398 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English46%
  • Chinese16%
  • Russian9%
  • Turkish7%
  • Spanish6%
  • French5%
  • Other12%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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