Recent reviews by 3xlneet

A really fun game with lots of fun inside, but Valve has let it rot with its rampant cheating/bot problem.

Endless replayability, as many challenges as you want, each game being unique and different, and it has gotten TONS of love from the devs and community. There are a lot of DLCs, yeah, but at least you can use their subscription plan.

I'll never get tired of playing this game.

It's a fun and chill collectathon full of life and you can tell that it has a lot of love and effort put into it, can't wait to see more of it ^

sorse 2

All good things have to come to an end

Although the game has received a nice revamp, they now force you to use an Epic Account, agree to their EULA, handing over some extra data regarding you and/or your Steam account (via vinculation), and installing some extra software/services in order to use that account and probably fetch some extra data about you.

There literally was no need to, and reasons such as it avoiding exploits through usernames should not even be why. This addition is just as much of a nuisance as was owning a Microsoft account (to simplify it) to play games back in the days. It also forces players that do not trust the company due to legitimate reasons to hand over their data.

In addition, the store is just... garbage. Before, if you won, you'd get crowns, which allowed you to buy cool cosmetics for your bean. Now, 99% of things cost show-bucks, which you can mostly obtain by paying with real money. The pass also lets you get a couple, but it's rarely anything worthwhile. It's a grind.

TL;DR: Using an Epic account should be optional and they ruined the store by making you pay with real money 99% of the things it offers.

Tl;dr It's a fun strategy game, but it can get quite repetitive, with some late-game lag frustration and/or stalemate.

It is way simpler than other Paradox Games (such as EU IV, VIC II, and CK to an extent), and the focus trees can spice your game a bit. It also has great mod support for when you get bored of playing the usual countries and trying the random and weird OP strategies, allowing you to play on custom maps, alternate scenarios, and even universes.

The late game is pretty mind-numbing, mostly because of the lag and stalemates that you can only mostly solve with nukes. Although recent updates have helped diversify it a bit with more support in your battles, it still can be a pain in certain areas where the AI has built a wall of human corpses that you cannot invade.

That said, the late game isn't that much important if you only care about your usual WW II scenarios.

The multiplayer mode can be somewhat fun too, but honestly it's not for me and I'd rather watch people play it instead. I can't commit what feels most of a day to a HoI IV multiplayer game.

Honk

Old time classic with plenty of surprises to discover for new players. Glad to have played it again and remember all the funny nonsense in it

Game as legendary as Bad Rats, made all of my friends have it

Faithful to the original game, with life-changing improvements such as automatic farms and automatic fishing net renewal or whatever that's called, putting an end to the dreaded sound of one of your farms going dry in the late game.