The developer studio Paradox Interactive creates complex historical strategy games on Steam such as Europa Universalis, Crusader Kings, or Victoria. With their new game currently titled “Project Caesar,” they live up to their reputation. A map of Europe is incredibly detailed and elaborate.
What is Paradox Interactive known for? The developer’s strategy games are extremely complex and consist of nested game mechanics to recreate historical processes and events, such as the increasing decadence of the Ottoman Empire or something like the overindebtedness of a state.
The games are so complex that a meme has emerged that Paradox is proud of:
In Sweden, people make games that consist only of cards. No one knows how to play them, and people just stare at the maps for hours, watching them change colors.
Because from the outside, it seems as if nothing happens in a game, only the colors of the detailed maps change when a province changes hands. This “map obsession” is now taken to a new level by Paradox.
Europa Universalis IV is one of the biggest strategy games on Steam, and apparently a successor is on the way soon:
Paradox unveils extremely detailed map for Europa Universalis V
This is the new map they show: In a developer blog about “Project Caesar,” which will likely be Europa Universalis V (via paradoxplaza), Paradox now presents a map of Europe that appears extremely detailed and shows the fragmented Europe of 1337, meaning players will start around 100 years before the time where Europa Universalis IV begins.
Especially Germany is still divided into countless small states here.
On reddit, it is already being said that it seems like Europa Universalis V will be the most complex game from Paradox Interactive – in both a good and a bad sense.
What do you do in the game? The games by Paradox Interactive are sandbox games: players set their own goals. There are two main ways to play:
- If you “build up high,” you limit yourself to a small amount of land and develop it as strongly as possible.
- If you “build a blob,” you aim to conquer as much land mass as possible and “color the map,” thus establishing a large empire.
What do we know about this new game? Officially, nothing yet. The project is currently called “Project Caesar” and has not yet been officially introduced as Europa Universalis V.
However, there are already extensive developer blogs for the game.
Europa Universalis IV is a huge strategy game on Steam that has received countless DLCs over more than 10 years to recreate the historical world: A strategy game on Steam costs €370 – I have played it
