Recent reviews by Moat

One of the best titles to come out of the early 2010s wave of survival games, with the added twist of perma-death. You WILL go through trial and error to learn the game, you WILL die over and over from that one thing you swear you had accounted for, you WILL spend hours on a single save only to have it all ripped away from you over a single bad decision. And you will have FUN.

Absolutely still worth getting, even when Don't Starve Together, the "sequel of sorts" with additional content and multiplayer support exists. I recommend that game as well, but with all three DLC installed, this game remains the superior single player experience in my opinion. Overall, highly recommended.

Additionally, if you ever get stumped by the game, I recommend using unofficial wikis and tutorials only sparingly. It's usually more fun to figure things out yourself through analyzing hints given by character quotes, the way things are designed, et cetera.

Excellent, super smooth platforming adventure with charming visuals. Almost perfect but for the horrible, downright painful control scheme (Arrow keys to move) which the game does not let you change. This issue can be circumvented by installing keyboard remapping software or by simply plugging in a controller, but I still don't understand how a game released in 2017 doesn't allow you to remap controls.

Just because I recommend this game does not mean that it is good.

Victoria 3 suffers from a number of significant issues that negatively affect the game.
Many mechanics are buggy and don't work as intended, like immigration, civil wars and radicals. Many of the features that do work feel underdeveloped.

The diplomacy system is not very deep. Diplomatic plays don't allow for negotiations and always end in either all-out war, or one side conceding, which is very unrealistic. Warfare is also pretty boring, which would be fine if diplomacy didn't feel so shallow. Other than managing the economy, occasionally passing new laws, and random events firing every once in a while, there aren't very many ways to interact with the politics or the population of your country, which is really disappointing for a society building simulator. Also, many countries and regions lack flavour and aren't that interesting to play.

Despite these (pretty significant) flaws, I still enjoy Victoria 3. The world within the game is incredibly intricate, and the game not only allows you to observe how different countries rise and fall over the course of a campaign, but it also lets you peer into the lives of the individual people living within these countries and how their conditions change over time, which is really enjoyable. If the developers fix the major issues and flesh out the gameplay more, I really do think it has a lot of potential.

It's definitely not for everyone, and can be daunting at first (as grand strategy games often are), but I do recommend checking it out, especially in the future once the game receives substantial updates.