How is this similar to hoi 4?

[FoXi]

Looking for something new so wondering is there any similarities? Thanks!

[Elitewrecker PT]

Mmmm, you design ships instead of boats or tanks. You have pops instead of manpower. You have multiple buildings instead of just two types of factories.

[deathmoon]

I wouldn't say that there are really many similarities, besides booth being stategy games and being relatively complex to play.
There is no static world like in Hoi, the way production is handled is different, wars often end in white peaces, there is no management of a wide front but few small fleets which fight for you.

The similarities lay in the long gameplay and high replayability (and stupid bots :P)

[Chris]

Thankfully it's not very similar other than being a similar genre.

[Zorlond]

As others said, not very. About the closest the two come is that they both contain a lot of 'levers', settings that you can change about your empire that, individually, don't change much, but can pile up together into significant alterations in performance. Especially in the context of multiple decades or centuries of time.

[pauloandrade224]

Originally posted by deathmoon:

I wouldn't say that there are really many similarities, besides booth being stategy games and being relatively complex to play.
There is no static world like in Hoi, the way production is handled is different, wars often end in white peaces, there is no management of a wide front but few small fleets which fight for you.

The similarities lay in the long gameplay and high replayability (and stupid bots :P)

And the mid to late game lag as well!

[bri]

Both are made by Paradox and use the same basic engine so a lot of the ui features and controls will be a little bit familiar along with the update/DLC policy.

[HugsAndSnuggles]

EU4 would be the closest PDS game to HOI4, I think. Although, instead of managing frontlines it's managing diplomacy.

[mss73055]

Coming from EU4 Stellaris is quite different: open and sandbox. And I like that.
Man! EU4, HOI4, CK3 are so darn serious.

Stellaris relates to HOI like Garry's Mod relates to Battlefield 4.