Victoria 3 Arrives October 25 for PC and PC Game Pass - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 30 August 2022 / 2,470 Views
Publisher Paradox Interactive and developer Paradox Development Studio announced Victoria 3 will launch for PC via Steam and Microsoft Store on October 25 for $49.99 / £41.99 / €49.99, as well as for PC Game Pass.
Pre-orders for the game will include remastered music from Victoria 2. The game will be available in a standard edition, as well as a Grand Edition that includes the base game, Expansion I, American Buildings Pack, Immersion Pack, and Radio Pack.
View the pre-order trailer below:
Read details on the game below:
The railroad and the telegraph. Steamships and the birth of flight. Mass conscription, emancipation and the campaign for women’s rights. The Victorian Age saw a world transformed by new technology, new philosophies and new ways of doing politics. This tumultuous century springs to new life in Victoria 3, a grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studio.
After years of community requests and curiosity about the future of one of the company’s iconic games, Victoria 3 is instantly one of the most highly anticipated grand strategy games in Paradox’s history. Victoria 3 is a society simulator set in a time of great change. Track the needs and desires of national populations, each group with its own political and material preferences. Conservative factions may resist political reform as growing numbers of tradespeople and intellectuals push for a greater say in how the nation is run. Trade a wide range of goods on a global scale to make sure that needs are met at home, because if people are hungry and disenfranchised, revolution beckons.
Deep Societal Simulation
Cultural, economic and ideological divisions compete for power and resources in one of Paradox’s most detailed historical worlds.
Tend Your National Garden
Nurture your population, educating it and preparing it for the future, guaranteeing their prosperity and improving their happiness.
Wonders of the Industrial Age
Scientific and social progress give you the chance to improve the lives of your citizens.
Sophisticated Economic System
Import goods to keep costs low, export goods to enrich your citizens, and then tax that wealth to advance your plans.
Challenging Diplomacy
Maintain harmonious relations with your neighbors or provoke a crisis to grab valuable resources or force open new markets.
Political Dealmaking
Manage competing interests in your government, opening up new reforms but risking revolution if key voices are not heard.
Detailed and Living World
Cities grow and factories darken the landscape on a beautifully drawn map of the 19th century globe. Play any of dozens of nations from 183 and try to claim your place in the sun.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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PC and Game Pass... and Game Pass will soon support keyboard and mouse... I wonder if some day we'll be able to stream PC games to our Xboxes via xCloud? This is an example of a PC game I'd give a go to on my Xbox, with a keyboard and mouse if necessary.
If you wanna check out the Paradox grand strategy games that did get console versions, you can download Crusader Kings III and Stellaris on Xbox Game Pass :) the former being their most recent title prior to Victoria 3 and it released on console back in March of this year. Idk if they have mouse n keyboard support though.
I'd be fine with controller, so I'll check them out for sure, thanks for the tip!
Though a big part of my comment was my growing curiosity whether, just as Xbox One systems can play Xbox Series games through cloud streaming, whether Xboxes will get to play select PC games through xCloud as well.
I’ve been looking forward to this one. Victoria 2 is my favourite PC game of all time (that, or Sid Meier’s Civilization 2 which I played a ton of as a teen).
