Arsenal of Democracy: A Hearts of Iron Game on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Taking place from 1936-64, Arsenal of Democracy lets you play as any nation during the era of WW2, complete with detailed models for economics, diplomacy, research, and intelligence. Warfare is also fully represented with all three branches of operations: land, sea, and air.

Arsenal of Democracy: A Hearts of Iron Game is a strategy, grand strategy and world war ii game developed by BL-Logic and published by Paradox Interactive.
Released on February 23rd 2010 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 372 reviews of which 315 were positive and 57 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.

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System requirements

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Windows

OS: 2000/XP or better
Processor: 1.0GHz Athlon/Pentium 3 or better
Memory: 256MB RAM
Hard Drive: 1.5GB free hard drive space
Graphics: Windows/DirectX Compatible videocard
Sound: Windows/DirectX compatible soundcard
DirectX®: DirectX 9.0 or higher

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April 2025

I played this game for hundreds of hours as a CD long before Steam. This is a fully updated HoI II with many mods from the community added. HoI 4 has thrown me off of that series. I fully prefer darkest hour, which includes WWI and there is a mod that allows the player to connect the two war eras, which in the vanilla game are seperated. In AofD there are far fewer provinces, making the map too simple. The tech tree is simpler than Darkest Hour. With my MS 11 computer the window is just too small to play. All that aside, what I do like are the hypothetical scenario campaigns like the US divided by a victorious Confederacy among others. But not being able to see more than a very small screen prevents me from playing it. Back to Darkest Hour. I give it a positive review for what it was back in the day.

Feb. 2025

While this game will always hold a special place in my heart and I do recommend it as an overall experience, in my mind Darkest Hour is simply a better version of AoD. THAT BEING SAID, this game is part of my childhood and honestly incredible. Might be on the more dated end but credit must be given where it is due. ALSO it's leagues better than Hearts of Slop 4.

Oct. 2024

One of the best WW2 strategy games, extremely in depth and high detail and has that old school feel that newer versions of this game (HOI) don't offer

July 2024

I really enjoy the detail on most things. I can choose among dozens of real Generals which is something that really cannot do on HOI4. there are some bugs here and there but nothing that will destroy the experience. This is the game I play to relax and "waste" my weekends.

June 2024

if you have played any hoi game this wouldnt take to long to learn keep in mind they MIGHT still be updateing (please correct me in the comments)

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9.99€

7.9

315

Online players

Developer

BL-Logic

Publisher

Paradox Interactive

Release 23 Feb 2010

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