Hearts of Iron IV or HOI4 for short is a grand strategy game from Paradox Interactive AB. Right now on Steam, I have 822.7 hours played of the game. The game is very fun and captivating as it was able to hold my attention for so long. I have found the gameplay to be very satisfying, but it can sometimes be annoying when the AI decides not to cooperate with you.
Gameplay is very complex, but also very enjoyable to master. You pick a nation during WW2 and have to naviage it through the war by managing the politics, military and economy of your nation. Countries have "National Focus" trees that let you pick a path for your nation to go down and improve yourself. Most are unique to each country. Factories can be used to build infrastructure, railways, other factories and an assortment of buildings like forts, airbases, anti-air towers and fuel silos to improve the capabilities of your nation during warfare. War is where the game really gets interesting. You move around individual units, but can assign frontlines. Warfare is dynamic and complicated as you can customize almost every aspect of your armies like your division composition and creating your own tanks. Visually, the game does not stand out, but is by no means bad. The graphics are detailed and pretty but aren't anything to be impressed by. Animations are smooth but not complicated and the map is clear so it's easy to see everything going on. The UI can be a bit challenging for new players as there are a lot of menus to naviage through, but once you learn where everything is, there isn't any issues with it. Controls are simple and the game can be played entirely with a mouse although keyboard shortcuts make things faster. Options for graphics and audio are on the more basic side but are perfectly servicable and fuctional. There is a tutorial but I suggest for players to jump straight into the game because learning from experience is more fun and fulfilling to me rather than using the tutorial. You can't play the game if you're blind but I don't think that video games are really on the agenda for blind people in general. People who struggle with hand movements might struggle with the mouse but most things are easy to click. Text is legible and the UI has a scaling slider to make it as big as you want. There were not any typing errors that I could see. The game is stable and does not crash often, but mods can be an issue sometimes because they are fanmade so quality cannot be verified. The base game though is very stable. There aren't any dead ends since the game can be saved and loaded at any times and no stalemate truly lasts forever. My rating for the game is Five stars because it is a quality game with infinite replayability. Also I sold my sould to be good at the game and cannot say otherwise.
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