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4 games by Paradox Development Studio reviewed here.
4 reviews
The best character-driven strategy game ever made, and the clearest case in gaming of DLC that doesn't just add content but withholds answers. Its players log 117-hour medians and write four-hundred-vote reviews about the storefront.
7.5 / 10
A decade-old 4X space strategy game beloved enough to produce reviewers with 2,000+ hours logged — and, since 2024, a wave of those exact same veteran players turning against Paradox over DLC pricing, a specific performance regression, and player-reported AI-generated content.
7 / 10
A staggeringly deep grand strategy sandbox spanning nearly four centuries of world history, and the game most responsible for Paradox's reputation as the industry's most aggressive DLC seller — with thousands of hours logged by reviewers giving it a thumbs-down on principle alone.
6.5 / 10
A grand-strategy game brave enough to be about economics instead of conquest, four years and seventeen DLC later still arguing with its own players about warfare — and its newest expansion needed nine hotfixes in two months.
6.5 / 10
