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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 · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

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.

Europa Universalis V is a 2025 Strategy game priced at $59.99, with a Mixed review sentiment (61% of 33,204 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-27

61%
positive of 33k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
1,909
twitch viewers (latest)
1909.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
84/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
82/100
IGDB user rating (14 ratings)
16
Nexus mods (1.1k downloads)
87/100
opencritic · mighty · 100% recommend · from 32 critics
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$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.

Trailer

Europa Universalis V trailer thumbnail

Europa Universalis V - Official Gameplay Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

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 2% of 14,241 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 664k–1.5M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 33,204 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).

Attention

3241952026-06-02 — 281 pageviews2026-06-06 — 274 pageviews2026-06-10 — 227 pageviews2026-06-14 — 218 pageviews2026-06-18 — 242 pageviews2026-06-22 — 251 pageviews2026-06-26 — 253 pageviews2026-06-30 — 247 pageviews2026-07-04 — 224 pageviews2026-07-08 — 243 pageviews2026-07-12 — 269 pageviews2026-07-16 — 252 pageviews2026-07-20 — 253 pageviews2026-07-24 — 257 pageviews2026-07-28 — 229 pageviews2026-08-01 — 226 pageviews2026-08-05 — 215 pageviews2026-08-09 — 265 pageviews2026-08-13 — 202 pageviews2026-08-17 — 244 pageviews2026-08-21 — 259 pageviews2026-08-25 — 244 pageviews2026-08-29 — 238 pageviews2026-09-02 — 233 pageviews2026-09-06 — 234 pageviews2026-09-10 — 217 pageviews2026-09-14 — 231 pageviews2026-09-18 — 233 pageviews2026-09-22 — 211 pageviews2026-09-26 — 242 pageviews2026-09-30 — 324 pageviews2026-10-04 — 271 pageviews2026-10-08 — 254 pageviews2026-10-12 — 236 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

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

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2025-11-04, latest 2026-05-06 (Steam store data)

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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