Victoria 3 could never

I love looking at a map for hundreds of hours.

Honestly, I like this game, even if not as much as other Paradox titles. I don't even know how I got all the way to 182 hours in it, and I know I can get even more fun out of it, I believe the game has a ton of potential and is well worth the price.

I've got some complaints of course. The base game, frankly, sucks. You need some mod to expand upon it, HPM, GFM, Crimea mod and a bunch of alt-history mods, Divergences of Darkness being my all time favourite. Even then, I think playing small nations in this game sucks, there's a lot of focus on being a great, or at least a secondary power, not much flavour for nations weaker than top 16 worldwide except reaching the status of a great/secondary power. Finally, the game is incomprehensible. Nobody really truly knows how some of these systems work, especially in terms of the economy, it's so damn complex no guide really explains it fully, you just play the game and hope for the best.

Nonetheless, despite all the jank, I found the game enjoyable enough to spend almost 200 hours in it, which proves it's still enjoyable. And there's apparently still a multiplayer community playing it, but I don't have experience with that. Still, if you really got into the game, it can be thousands of hours of potential.