Victoria 3: the Russian Empire expansion comes out on 22 October

The grand strategy game Victoria 3 gets the State and Revolution expansion on 22 October. It is about the Russian Empire: the tsar, the revolution, and a civil war that grows out of how the country was run.

When the empire gives way

The journal entries are not the same for every run. They shift with which tsar is in charge and how tightly he holds the country. You can appoint favorites, exile dissidents to Siberia, and push russification, and that same pressure can feed a revolt. The revolution and the civil war do not follow a single script. After the state collapses you can put a communist government in place or build a very different regime. There is also story content for Poland and other lands that want out of the empire, plus separate threads on Ukrainian and Belarusian culture.

About the game

Victoria 3 is a grand strategy game set in the 19th century. Factories, laws, and social classes matter as much as the front line, and a country either holds together or splits. The expansion puts the Russian Empire at the center at the point when autocracy no longer looks permanent.

Reviews

Steam has more than 60,000 reviews, and about 70% of them are positive. People praise the economy and the politics: it feels good to pull a country out of a hole and rewrite the laws as you like. They complain about crashes, a war system that still works poorly, and how similar a run as a great empire feels to a run as a small country. They also say the holes in the base game still have not been fixed, even as new expansions keep arriving.

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