Paradox Interactive

Paradox Interactive are no strangers to the world of busy map games with their mainline titles like Crusader Kings III and Hearts of Iron IV already brimming with things to do. With HOI IV's latest expansion, Thunder At Our Gates, you can…

It's finally the turn of Australia, alongside Siam and the Dutch East Indies as Hearts of Iron IV: Thunder At Our Gates expands on the features in the South East with the new Theater Pack, launching on June 11th. The new expansion, which…

By now, you all know how much I love a console based management game — and Surviving Mars on Xbox is one such game that quickly gets under your skin. It looks, at first glance, like a fairly straightforward city‑builder with a sci‑fi coat…

Crusader Kings III is a grand strategy roleplaying game that's set in the Middle Ages. It's a very much enjoyed addition to the series, one which we have previously reviewed, but that's not why we're writing today. No, we're writing today…

There are always tons of different festivals and sales going on across Steam these days, with an absolutely massive one at the moment being the Steam Medieval Festival. This yearly festival has a  wide mix of games to purchase  as well as…

FOUNDRY is the epitome of automation and a factory simulation.

There are a few types of games that work really well in VR, but until this year it didn't feel like anybody had given bringing a larger-scale city-builder to VR a go. Cities: VR is a virtual reality take on Cities: Skylines, and is a really…

When Crusader Kings III launched back in August 2020 it launched more feature-complete than I had originally expected. Crusader Kings II had been an experiment in expansion-pack led, live-product redesign for Paradox... in fact, it was a…

Prison Architect's Perfect Storm expansion adds an Event System that promises to keep your attention. When it comes to city-building, management and tycoon games there are more than a few sub-genres. Prison Architect, for me, has always…

Approaching its seventh year Cities: Skylines is still going strong, the latest expansion — Cities: Skylines Airports — adds depth to an area that's been crying out for a little attention for a while now, and slots in perfectly next to the…

Paradox Interactive's long-awaited, medieval grand-strategy sequel is upon us. With Crusader Kings III the developer's face a challenge; how do they successfully build on a game which ran for 8 years and featured over a dozen expansion…

Alongside the long-awaited 1.30 Austria Update, Europa Universalis IV has received its next expansion pack in the form as Emperor, a DLC focusing on revolution, The Holy Roman Empire and reinvigorating the Catholic Church. For me, Europa…

The new DLC for Stellaris fleshes out the political machinations of the galaxy, revamping diplomacy, beefing up the gameplay of federations and introducing a Galactic Senate that can pass (or mothball) wide-reaching resolutions. Underlying…

Claim the mantle of Alexander as one of the dozens of states left in the wake of his sudden death in Magna Graecia, or just revisit an old friend in the wake of the massive changes brought to Imperator: Rome by the Archimedes, 1.4 update.…

Imperator: Rome's 1.4 Archimedes update is out now, as well as the Magna Graecia content pack. With it comes a bunch of fixes, tweaks and improvements to the core game. Let's have a little dive into them. The 1.4 Archimedes update, was…

With deep and meaningful strategy games making the leap onto consoles in unprecedented numbers recently, players have never been so spoilt for choice. Even so, relatively few strategy games have the same grand ambitions as Age of Wonders:…

Imperator: Rome is the latest grand strategy game from veteran design and publishing house Paradox Interactive. With a timeline beginning around 300 BC, players are tasked with managing the formation of the Roman Empire  — or one of its…

In 2456 they awoke. Whilst I had always known of their palpable hatred for humankind, I had never known the true wrath of the Bruggan Zealots, nor faced them in battle. For two hundred and fifty years they had watched, seething at us with…

Now, there's a Space Race to settle Mars. You not only have to survive, but you also have to contend with other, rival companies trying to do the exact same thing.