Paradox has announced Europa Universalis V, satisfying my bizarre psychological need for grand strategy games so hellishly overcomplicated that they give me anxiety
May 8, 2025 16:54Get a load of the skill tree in Path of Exile.
It launches with twenty dlc packs. Wanna play Wales? That'll be $5.
Never got the hang of the one I have (3 I think?). Maybe time to wheel that one out of retirement and give it a real go like I did with Humankind.
Oh, hell yeah! Love this complicated mess
I don't remember the name, but when I was a kid I watched some middle aged guys int he local comics shop play a WWI dogfighting simulation that was so complicated you had to roll like 40 dice each turn to figure out where bullets were going based on the wind conditions.
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Oh.
I just realized I’m not alone in being enchanted by a system so complex it makes my brain pain.
It’s like some neuro-masochism.
This is the one where you can send your idiot nephew away to serve as a hostage / diplomat?
I adore their games. Crusader Kings swallowed months of my life
PUT IT DIRECTLY INTO MY VEINS