About Victoria 3

Victoria 3 invites you to shape a grand tomorrow, as Paradox Development Studio hands you the tumultuous, transformative 19th century to build your ideal society. Balancing the competing interests within your nation and earning your place in the sun, it stands as one of the most anticipated titles in the studio's history, positioning itself as the ultimate society simulator.

You lead any of dozens of world nations from 1836 to 1936, choosing whether to be agrarian or industrial, traditional or radical, peaceful or expansionist. Detailed population groups carry their own economic needs and political desires, and you can reform your government and constitution to embrace new social innovations or preserve stability by holding to tradition against revolutionaries. Research unlocks transformative technologies and ideas to improve your national situation.

A deep economic system lets you expand industry around lucrative goods, tax profits for national prosperity, import cheap raw materials, secure vital resources and balance your labor force against demands for new kinds of workers. On the grand global stage, diplomacy becomes a tangled web of pacts, relations, alliances and rivalries. Blending simulation and strategy on PC, it is a sweeping exercise in guiding a nation through an age of upheaval.