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POPULOUS MECHANICS

The industrial revolution’s machines are in high gear. The coming century will change the face of the human world with a population explosion, a second industrial revolution, and more. In Victoria 3 you take control of a society attempting to ride this wave of explosive change to its end in 1936. What you do along the way, and how much fun you have with it, is up to you.

Victoria 3 tasks you with building a nation by shaping its laws, economy, people, and institutions. The developers at Paradox call it a “society-builder”. It wants you to care about the minutiae of political movements, distribution of power, population trends, economic organization, factory output, or global trade, and then to manipulate them.

That might be hard for some. boasts some of the most intricate game mechanics I’ve ever seen in a strategy game. They can be overwhelming. You can micromanage trade routes, chart paths for societal reform, tweak your nation’s build queue, or examine

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