Overview
- The game arrives on PC via Steam with a $59.99 standard edition, an $84.99 Premium Edition that adds two chronicle packs, one immersion pack and a cosmetic, and all preorders receive an MP3 collection of Europa Universalis IV’s soundtrack.
- Campaigns begin in 1337, the earliest start in the series, and cover roughly five centuries of history.
- A new pop system models societies by culture, religion, and social status to drive demographics, economics, and conflict.
- Paradox’s largest, higher-fidelity world map aims to deepen strategy through a more accurate global projection and finer provincial detail.
- New automation tools enable AI advisors to oversee exploration, governance and research, production and trade, and army organization.