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Arsenal of Democracy: A Hearts of Iron Game

BL-Logic · Paradox Interactive · 2010-02-23

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Feb 23, 2010 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

24
playing now
84%
positive of 392 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.49
steam price (US)

24 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Arsenal of Democracy: A Hearts of Iron Game is a 2010 grand strategy video game developed by BL-Logic and published by Paradox Interactive for Microsoft Windows. It is based on Hearts of Iron II - Armageddon and developed on Paradox's in-house Europa Engine. It is developed by BL-Logic, a development studio made up by fans of the Hearts of Iron series and active members of the modding community. Arsenal of Democracy was announced on 8 September 2009 and released on 23 February 2010.

Health check

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  • · Top 48% of 5,900 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 16k–31k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 392 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.49 at GamersGate (2015-03-14) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 3 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

41102026-08-11 20:00 — 22 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 24 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 13 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 20 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 26 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 20 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 41 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 19 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 19 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 27 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 22 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 18 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 28 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 16 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 19 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 30 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 30 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 20 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 30 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 10 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 18 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 16 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 14 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 10 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 14 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 17 players2026-08-29 01:00 — 19 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 34 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 24 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$12.00$1.972015-01-012026-05-072015-01-01 — best price $1.972015-05-12 — best price $9.992015-09-02 — best price $1.992015-11-09 — best price $2.402016-02-05 — best price $2.492016-09-01 — best price $2.492017-01-03 — best price $9.992017-06-22 — best price $2.492017-11-20 — best price $9.992018-02-12 — best price $2.502018-04-04 — best price $9.992018-07-23 — best price $2.492018-11-27 — best price $9.992019-03-18 — best price $2.492019-06-14 — best price $2.492019-10-18 — best price $2.492019-12-03 — best price $8.592020-01-22 — best price $2.492020-03-06 — best price $9.992020-04-13 — best price $2.492020-05-30 — best price $8.292020-07-24 — best price $2.102020-09-07 — best price $2.492020-11-01 — best price $9.992020-12-23 — best price $2.492021-05-01 — best price $2.492021-11-23 — best price $9.992022-05-05 — best price $2.202022-08-16 — best price $2.492022-10-25 — best price $2.492023-02-16 — best price $2.492024-04-23 — best price $8.492024-11-05 — best price $8.492026-05-07 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

StrategyHistoricalWorld War IIGrand Strategy

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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