Games like Victoria 3
If Victoria 3 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Europa Universalis IV, Imperator: Rome and Gilded Destiny — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its deep interest group interactions, atmospheric and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Victoria 3 is a grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studio set during the 19th century. It simulates the complex social and economic transformations of the industrial age through mechanics like class-struggle simulation, interest-group politics, economic-trade networks, historical materialism, colonial expansion, and legal reform systems. Players guide nations through dramatic changes, where competing social forces present difficult political decisions and economic theories drive historical outcomes. Reviewers highlight how trade relationships shape geopolitical situations and how interactions between various societal groups create engaging strategic gameplay. The game released in 2022 at $14.99 USD and is marked as playable on Steam Deck, with a 71% positive rating from over 20,000 Steam reviews.
About Victoria 3: Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.
Players who liked Victoria 3 also play
Steam players who put hours into Victoria 3 also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Europa Universalis IV
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Victoria 3.
Top pick for Victoria 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Victoria 3.
Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.
Imperator: Rome
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Victoria 3.
Second-strongest match for Victoria 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Victoria 3.
Dominate the classical Mediterranean in Imperator: Rome, a grand strategy game from Paradox Interactive. Navigate the dangerous waters of politics and diplomacy as you build up your provinces and conquer foreign lands. Now available with special content and the digital artbook.
Gilded Destiny
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Victoria 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Victoria 3.
Forge empires, incite revolutions, and reshape society in Gilded Destiny, the definitive grand strategy game of the Industrial Age. Take command of your chosen nation and lead it to glory through masterful diplomacy, sweeping industrialization, and decisive warfare.
Arms Race 2
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Victoria 3.
Ranked #4 for Victoria 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Victoria 3.
Arms Race 2 is a PC strategy game based on the historical conflict between the USA and the USSR that took place in the 20th century.
1992: Rasputie
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Victoria 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Victoria 3.
Take a place of a politician in the post-Soviet space and immerse yourself in the struggle for power amid the ruins of the former empire. Your decisions will determine the path of the young state's development.
Victoria II
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Victoria 3.
Ranked #6 for Victoria 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Victoria 3.
Carefully guide your nation from the era of absolute monarchies in the early 19th century, through expansion and colonization, to finally become a truly great power by the dawn of the 20th century. Victoria II is a grand strategy game played during the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country, guiding...
Hearts of Iron IV
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Victoria 3.
Ranked #8 for Victoria 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Victoria 3.
Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II; the most engaging conflict in world history.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Victoria 3
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Victoria II
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Victoria 3.
Reviewers of Victoria 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Victoria 3.
Carefully guide your nation from the era of absolute monarchies in the early 19th century, through expansion and colonization, to finally become a truly great power by the dawn of the 20th century. Victoria II is a grand strategy game played during the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country, guiding...
Stellaris
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Victoria 3.
Reviewers of Victoria 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Victoria 3.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
Suzerain
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Victoria 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?
SuperPower 2 Steam Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Victoria 3.
Reviewers of Victoria 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Victoria 3.
SuperPower 2 is the only global geopolitical simulation game which allows players to control entire countries. Players control countries in 3 major areas: political, economic and military, but this time, in a beautiful real-time 3D environment.
Evil Bank Manager
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Victoria 3.
Reviewers of Victoria 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Victoria 3.
What could be better than having a million dollars, a billion? This will not make you all powerful in the world, your goal will not only be to make lots of money, but to print money and become a Federal reserve system
Cities: Skylines
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Victoria 3.
Reviewers of Victoria 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Victoria 3.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Crisis in the Kremlin
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Victoria 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Victoria 3.
Don’t let the Soviet Union collapse, and fall in the darkness of history or lead the Union by a new path – democracy and free market! But before you decide something, think – wouldn’t it cause more harm than good?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Victoria 3 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Victoria 3 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Victoria 3.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Victoria 3 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Victoria 3.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Victoria 3 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Victoria 3.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Victoria 3 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Victoria 3.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Victoria 3 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Victoria 3.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Victoria 3 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Victoria 3.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Victoria 3 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Victoria 3.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Victoria 3 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Victoria 3.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Victoria 3.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Victoria 3.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Victoria 3.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Victoria 3.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Victoria 3.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Victoria 3.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
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More from Paradox Development Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by Paradox Development Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Hearts of Iron IV
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Victoria 3.
Another title from Paradox Development Studio, the studio behind Victoria 3. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Victoria 3.
Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II; the most engaging conflict in world history.
Stellaris
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Victoria 3.
Another title from Paradox Development Studio, the studio behind Victoria 3. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Victoria 3.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
Europa Universalis IV
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Victoria 3.
Another title from Paradox Development Studio, the studio behind Victoria 3. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Victoria 3.
Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.
Crusader Kings III
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Victoria 3.
Another title from Paradox Development Studio, the studio behind Victoria 3. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Victoria 3.
Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.
Crusader Kings II
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Victoria 3.
Another title from Paradox Development Studio, the studio behind Victoria 3. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Victoria 3.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
Imperator: Rome
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Victoria 3.
Another title from Paradox Development Studio, the studio behind Victoria 3. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Victoria 3.
Dominate the classical Mediterranean in Imperator: Rome, a grand strategy game from Paradox Interactive. Navigate the dangerous waters of politics and diplomacy as you build up your provinces and conquer foreign lands. Now available with special content and the digital artbook.
Victoria II
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Victoria 3.
Another title from Paradox Development Studio, the studio behind Victoria 3. Shares Strategy with Victoria 3.
Carefully guide your nation from the era of absolute monarchies in the early 19th century, through expansion and colonization, to finally become a truly great power by the dawn of the 20th century. Victoria II is a grand strategy game played during the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country, guiding...
Hearts of Iron III
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Victoria 3.
Another title from Paradox Development Studio, the studio behind Victoria 3. Shares Strategy with Victoria 3.
Hearts of Iron III lets you play the most engaging conflict in world history, World War 2, on all fronts as any country and through multiple different scenarios. Guide your nation to glory between 1936 and 1948 and wage war, conduct diplomacy and build your industry in the most detailed World War 2 game ever made.
Frequently asked about Victoria 3
- Does Victoria 3 run on Steam Deck?
- Victoria 3 is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Victoria 3 cost?
- Victoria 3 is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Victoria 3 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Victoria 3 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Victoria 3?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Victoria 3 are Europa Universalis IV, Imperator: Rome, Gilded Destiny.
- Who developed Victoria 3?
- Victoria 3 was developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive.
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