2013 · Grand Strategy · Historical · 4X
How long isEuropa Universalis IV?
by Paradox Development Studio & Paradox Tinto
245 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 51 hours and 680 hours
Europa Universalis IV among the 37 grand strategy games here
The whole tier list#10
of 37
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 57%
- got past 2 hours
- +7 on the kind's 50%
- 28%
- past 20 hours
- +7 on the kind's 21%
- 80%
- launched it
- +15 on the kind's 65%
- 226
- libraries own it
- 1 in 11 of the 2,483 read here
Next to it in the ranking
The cheapest hour of all 53 grand strategy games here: 20¢.
54% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
76% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
82% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
86% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
88% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
89% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
89% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
89% recommend it at 200 to 500 hours
90% recommend it past 500 hours
Does Europa Universalis IV hold up?
Grows on people
76% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at 2–5 hours played, and 90% past 500 hours played.
Earned when the share recommending a game rises 8 points or more from its first stage past the two-hour mark to its last, never falls 5 points on the way, and at least 80% of all its Steam reviewers recommend it. Every game that holds it.
Do the first two hours of Europa Universalis IV tell you?
In the first two hours54%recommend it
After that88%recommend it
13 in 100 said no: 11 after the window had closed, 2 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 245 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 51 hours and 680 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 135,000 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It grows on people: 76% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 90% past 500 hours.
4% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 54% of those recommend it. After the window, 88% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 87% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 130 hours in.
When would you get there?
35weeks
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 245 hours on Saturday, July 17, 2027.
Half of its reviewers had played between 51 and 680 hours: Jan 4, 2027 to Sep 24, 2028 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Is Europa Universalis IV worth it?
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One hour, at list price
Europa Universalis IV
- Steam list price, US
- $49.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 245 h
- grand strategy game rate
- $1.25/h
- 245 h at that rate
- $306
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Europa Universalis IV worth it? Yes.
A steal
6.1× the hours of a typical grand strategy game, for the same money
Liked
88% recommend it after the refund windowmost grand strategy games: 83%
Gets played
80% of owners here have played itmost grand strategy games: 68%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $49.99, the typical player's 245 hours come to 20¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 88% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 20¢ an hour, Europa Universalis IV is the cheapest hour of all 53 grand strategy games here: the typical one of 53 grand strategy games here charges $1.25, so the same $49.99 buys 6.1× the hours.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (grand strategy games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Where can I play Europa Universalis IV today?
In a collection
Europa Universalis IV: Ultimate Bundle, out on PC in 2021.
- todayPC2021in the collection
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Europa Universalis IV came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like Europa Universalis IV?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Europa Universalis IV, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Europa Universalis IV would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
@le-venin-noir holds this page
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with Europa Universalis IV?
1 in 91
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.
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Europa Universalis IV, but medieval, and a quarter of the hours
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Crusader Kings II
Europa Universalis IV, but free to play, and a third of the hours
Loved · 91%Games like Crusader Kings II
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Europa Universalis IV, but a tenth of the hours, and more divisive
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How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Europa Universalis IV: a kind of game it is that Europa Universalis IV is not, a feature its tags carry that Europa Universalis IV's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.