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Europa Universalis V

Paradox Tinto · Paradox Interactive · 2025-11-04

Steam

Strategy

Franchise: Europa Universalis · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Nov 04, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Use war, trade or diplomacy to satisfy your grandest ambitions and dominate five centuries of history in the newest version of Europa Universalis, Paradox Interactive's flagship historical grand strategy game.

67%
positive of 30k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
2,670
twitch viewers (latest)
84/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
82/100
IGDB user rating (14 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$59.99
steam price (US)
Europa Universalis V is a grand strategy game developed by Paradox Tinto and published by Paradox Interactive. It is the sequel to the 2013 game Europa Universalis IV.

Health check

Cooling
  • · 950 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~119/week).
  • · Review velocity down 48% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (9,856 reviews).
  • · Top 3% of 5,887 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 607k–1.4M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 30,370 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $42.55 at GameBillet (2026-03-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $59.99 · on sale 18 of 56 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7.5k7.5k20252026Week of 2025-11-04: 7,485 positiveWeek of 2025-11-04: 2,371 negativeWeek of 2025-11-11: 2,030 positiveWeek of 2025-11-11: 563 negativeWeek of 2025-11-18: 1,215 positiveWeek of 2025-11-18: 417 negativeWeek of 2025-11-25: 3,202 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 441 negativeWeek of 2025-12-02: 472 positiveWeek of 2025-12-02: 252 negativeWeek of 2025-12-09: 274 positiveWeek of 2025-12-09: 177 negativeWeek of 2025-12-16: 263 positiveWeek of 2025-12-16: 248 negativeWeek of 2025-12-23: 181 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 159 negativeWeek of 2025-12-30: 188 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 198 negativeWeek of 2026-01-06: 124 positiveWeek of 2026-01-06: 199 negativeWeek of 2026-01-13: 122 positiveWeek of 2026-01-13: 144 negativeWeek of 2026-01-20: 120 positiveWeek of 2026-01-20: 155 negativeWeek of 2026-01-27: 90 positiveWeek of 2026-01-27: 96 negativeWeek of 2026-02-03: 126 positiveWeek of 2026-02-03: 113 negativeWeek of 2026-02-10: 75 positiveWeek of 2026-02-10: 103 negativeWeek of 2026-02-17: 86 positiveWeek of 2026-02-17: 103 negativeWeek of 2026-02-24: 68 positiveWeek of 2026-02-24: 76 negativeWeek of 2026-03-03: 79 positiveWeek of 2026-03-03: 102 negativeWeek of 2026-03-10: 59 positiveWeek of 2026-03-10: 60 negativeWeek of 2026-03-17: 76 positiveWeek of 2026-03-17: 76 negativeWeek of 2026-03-24: 73 positiveWeek of 2026-03-24: 80 negativeWeek of 2026-03-31: 51 positiveWeek of 2026-03-31: 61 negativeWeek of 2026-04-07: 36 positiveWeek of 2026-04-07: 52 negativeWeek of 2026-04-14: 46 positiveWeek of 2026-04-14: 44 negativeWeek of 2026-04-21: 55 positiveWeek of 2026-04-21: 52 negativeWeek of 2026-04-28: 57 positiveWeek of 2026-04-28: 56 negativeWeek of 2026-05-05: 136 positiveWeek of 2026-05-05: 223 negativeWeek of 2026-05-12: 89 positiveWeek of 2026-05-12: 230 negativeWeek of 2026-05-19: 89 positiveWeek of 2026-05-19: 216 negativeWeek of 2026-05-26: 57 positiveWeek of 2026-05-26: 167 negativeWeek of 2026-06-02: 57 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 140 negativeWeek of 2026-06-09: 57 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 102 negativeWeek of 2026-06-16: 41 positiveWeek of 2026-06-16: 93 negativeWeek of 2026-06-23: 56 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 83 negativeWeek of 2026-06-30: 48 positiveWeek of 2026-06-30: 83 negativeWeek of 2026-07-07: 76 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 87 negativeWeek of 2026-07-14: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-07-14: 80 negativeWeek of 2026-07-21: 53 positiveWeek of 2026-07-21: 57 negativeWeek of 2026-07-28: 39 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 49 negativeWeek of 2026-08-04: 58 positiveWeek of 2026-08-04: 49 negativeWeek of 2026-08-11: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-08-11: 32 negativeWeek of 2026-08-18: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-08-18: 14 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$59.99$37.492025-08-192026-08-102025-08-19 — best price $59.992025-11-04 — best price $49.992025-11-06 — best price $55.792025-11-08 — best price $59.992025-11-25 — best price $53.952025-12-05 — best price $57.082025-12-12 — best price $58.792025-12-19 — best price $57.082025-12-30 — best price $57.082026-01-05 — best price $55.192026-02-16 — best price $53.902026-03-05 — best price $59.992026-03-19 — best price $37.492026-03-23 — best price $43.792026-03-29 — best price $59.992026-04-07 — best price $53.992026-04-16 — best price $59.992026-04-20 — best price $47.492026-04-24 — best price $53.992026-04-28 — best price $48.952026-05-04 — best price $53.992026-05-07 — best price $47.412026-05-13 — best price $56.992026-05-22 — best price $59.992026-07-09 — best price $59.992026-07-21 — best price $53.992026-07-23 — best price $48.562026-07-27 — best price $50.392026-08-10 — best price $47.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Twitch viewers

3.0k1.5k2026-08-18 08:12 — 1,489 viewers2026-08-18 09:12 — 1,469 viewers2026-08-22 09:12 — 1,845 viewers2026-08-24 09:12 — 1,752 viewers2026-08-26 10:12 — 3,017 viewers2026-08-26 11:12 — 2,534 viewers2026-08-26 12:12 — 2,593 viewers2026-08-26 13:12 — 2,670 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
37%
earned "Rule of Law"
4.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam Cloud3 DLC

11 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,6900%75

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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