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Europa Universalis III Complete includes the original Europa Universalis III as well as the expansions In Nomine and Napoleons Ambition Europa Universalis III delves deeply into the areas of exploration, trade, warfare and diplomacy.

Europa Universalis III Complete is a grand strategy, strategy and historical game developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive.
Released on February 04th 2009 is available on Windows and MacOS in 2 languages: English and German.

It has received 1,967 reviews of which 1,642 were positive and 325 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Europa Universalis III Complete into these genres:

Grand Strategy Strategy Historical Political Sim Real-Time with Pause Political Sandbox Simulation Singleplayer Multiplayer Addictive RTS War Co-op Alternate History Medieval Logic 4X Great Soundtrack Moddable

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows® 2000 (with Service pack 1 or higher) or Windows® XP (Home/Professional/Media Edition) with Service Pack 2, or later Windows versions.
Processor: 1.9GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor or equivalent
Memory: 512MB RAM (1.0GB RAM is highly recommended)
Graphics: 128MB Video Card with Hardware T&L and support for Pixelshader 2.0 or better
DirectX Version: DirectX9.0c
Hard Drive: At least 1GB of free hard drive space to accommodate game files and saved games. This does not include any space used by the Windows® swap file.
Sound: DirectX7 compatible sound card

MacOS

OS: OS X version Leopard 10.5.8, Snow Leopard 10.6.3, or later.
Processor: Intel or PPC G5
Memory: 64 MB VRAM, 512 MB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 700 MB hard disk space
Video Card: GeForce 5200, Radeon 9600 or GMA950
Internet: Broadband connection for Internet play
Registration: Internet connection for registration

User reviews & Ratings

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April 2025

Game have a lot of mechanics that slows down your expansion(great thing, makes conquest more satisfying and uniting japan is hard). Tech work much better and logical than in EU4. dynamic missions are also very pleasant addition compared to EU4. Somehow diplomacy feels much more realistic, cuz AI can accept your diplomatic proposal even if game says that it is very unlikely, or decline when game says that they will definatly accept it. Spies have much more actions compared to EU4. BUY DLC without them game sucks hard

Feb. 2025

solos EU4 anyday, even better with death and taxes and MEIOU mod.

Dec. 2024

Amazing game. Learned about history more than in school.

Nov. 2024

Europa Universalis 3 (EU3) is not just its sequel (EU4) with less features as it its core mechanics are completely different. Changes like having sliders instead of idea groups to define nations, more technology groups, more tech levels, and harder to manage expansion make it a much deeper game. Having sliders to define a country makes for a more interesting experience. In EU3 things like innovation and tradition are on a slider. Being a really innovative society improves technology, but at the cost of stability cost and being able to quickly convert people. In its sequel there is no trade-off because one can pick both an idea group that favours tech and one that favours conversion/stability. Another good example is that EU3 uses a slider system for its military so choosing between a quality army and quantity army is a meaningful decision made over the course of a game. In EU4 one can have both an idea group for quantity and quality at the same time. There is an opportunity cost due to a limited number of idea slots, but that is not as meaningful as spending literally centuries steering one’s country towards having the greatest soldiers in the world at the cost of being only able to focus on a couple of fronts. EU3 also does technology in a more interesting way. Perhaps the biggest difference between the two games is that EU4 has what many call the “mana system”. Over time countries get admin, diplomatic and military points based on the attributes of their leader and advisors. These points are spent on technology and upgrades. This system makes technology all about leaders, but EU3 has a more nuanced system where rich countries with good institutions have the edge on technology. In EU3 technology comes from dedicating a larger % of the economy to certain research trees. It is a more active process, and a countries technological development can be interrupted if it has to invest more of its economy towards a major war. EU3 has 5 research branches for different types of technology, instead of just 3 that each have their own investment pools. This means that having a technological advantage in one area comes at the cost of other areas. Another major difference between the two games favoring EU3 is that the earlier game does a better job at punishing expansion. Having more provinces raises the cost of technology and stability so mindlessly painting the map is more difficult. A country that has painted the map but is filled with poor undeveloped provinces will be technologically backwards. Likewise, the process of painting the map also pushes one to becoming technologically backwards as the sliders favoring conversion and stability are the ones that harm technological progress. In EU3 cultural conversion and religion conversion are based on % chances instead of mana point spending so building a large empire means dealing with ethnic minorities that cannot just be instantly evaporated away. EU3 is still a game worth playing. It makes playing as a country more like steering a ship that has to adapt to the world around it rather than a just game of min-maxed optimization.

June 2024

getting the hang of it i guess. getting two expansions along with the game is great but it shouldnt be called complete when its missing two other expansions. still a good game though.

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14.99€

8.0

1,642

325

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Developer

Paradox Development Studio

Publisher

Paradox Interactive

Release 04 Feb 2009

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