Screw over political groups, bully other nations and get filthy rich in Victoria 3 this year

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If you're craving some complex grand strategy and have already lead your dynasties to glory in Crusader Kings 3(opens in new tab), there's some good news from the PC Gaming Show(opens in new tab). Victoria 3, which Paradox unveiled last year, is now expected out in 2022. 

As I'm sure you noticed when watching the trailer, Victoria 3 offers plenty of map porn, something it shares with Europa Universalis and Crusader Kings. But the paths you take to dominating the Victorian era and beyond are very different. Victoria 3 is a game of politics and demographics, with class struggles, ideological clashes and social and technological upheavals. 

«Victoria 3 follows in the footsteps of its predecessors, but takes the franchise even deeper into society building and management gameplay,» game director Mikael Andersson tells me. If you've played Victoria 2, you'll probably have a good idea of what to expect, but Paradox has been busy tweaking its pillars to hopefully give us a few surprises. 

With capitalism tightening its grip on the world during this era, naturally the economic system is a headline attraction, but everything in Victoria 3 is interconnected. 

«Its overhauled economic simulation models thousands of industries in various levels of technological development, across many dozens of distinct regional markets interlinked by trade routes,» Andersson says. «This player-shaped economy determines the livelihoods and consumption of tens of thousands of different demographic segments, which now include not only workers and owners but also their dependents, simulating the economic and political activities of every person on the planet.»

Individual politics are reflected by interest groups, like royalists or industrialists, and