| curl-6 said: Similar to Boffer, I'm a history buff, so games with settings like the World Wars or the Victorian Era I enjoy from that perspective; the WW2 COD and Sniper Elite entries, Wolfenstein, etc. I'm also a big fan/collector of Kaiju (Japanese Giant Monster) movies which led me to spend countless hours on Godzilla Save the Earth on OG Xbox back in the day. |
Victorian era?
If you like historical grand strategy and economics, the game Victoria 2 or 3 might be for you. Just a fair warning, it’s kind of esoteric as far as game franchises go. Warfare isn’t as big as other strategy games, it mostly focuses on population/politics and political movements, and forging economies, growing those economies, establishing trade deals.
Unlike games like Civ where money poofs into existence just because you have a building that grants +5 gold per turn, Victoria games require you to mine materials, manufacture them, and perhaps even further develop them into products. People in the world have to demand those products. If the world is flooded with booze, your alcoholic drinks won’t sell well. Trade deals expand marketplaces and such. However, if you’re the first person to develop the tech to make radios, and you manufacture all the components, you can make a ton of money by pushing those out into the world because you’re the only one making them. Usually, though, if you get the jump on any tech, many other countries will have it soon after… tech growth is a little different from other games.
A lot of the game covers the history of developing from a monopoly-based mercantile economy (the economy of empires where colonies sent raw materials to the mother country for manufacturing) to a more globalized capitalist economy (manufacturing centers were everywhere and competition became the driver).
Your pops (basically the people in various regions that represent a cultural type, political type, economic class type, and religious type) might push in some political direction while others push in other political directions. The dominant political system is how you get to run your country. So, for a more absolute Monarchy, you’ll be much more hands on than say anarcho-liberalism (small l liberalism, so capitalism). The game runs right up to World War 2, so you see the rise of Sovietism and Fascism.
But yeah, it’s an esoteric game kinda like Dwarf Fortress… it’s not for everyone. But you might enjoy it based on your interests.
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