Hearts of Iron IV

Hearts of Iron IV.

Hearts of Iron IV, sometimes just called HOI4, is a real-time grand-strategy video game made for sweaty Wilhelm the II larpers, youtubers who smoke in the back alleyway, and mindless folks. It has received several DLCs, making the game cost the GDP of Slovenia. In fact, it has been reported that after downloading HOI4, a Swedish spy is sent to your house to take all your money to be spent on DLCs. As a game made by Paradox Interactive, most of its player base rely on people who modify the game for any form of fun.

Despite the game coming out in 2016, more and more people keep playing. It has been confirmed, however, that the ~60,000 people currently playing the game are not people, and are mostly Russian bots. It is unknown if this is true however.

Gameplay

It has been fact checked that every German player (except you, of course) can conquer the entirety of Eastern Europe. Can you?

As stated before, Hearts of Iron IV is a game. Therefore, it has gameplay. You play as any country in 1936, from Germany to Yunnan. Each country has a focus tree, which is like a skill tree, but with 90% more filler gameplay. It also either does fuck all, or WW4. You can build infantry divisions, change their templates, train them, create a navy and air force, and many others. Each country is made out of states, and each state is made out of provinces. Hearts of Iron 4 also has a complicated political system, with there being 2 ideologies: Non-Nazism and Nazism.

The Money-Printing Machine

In total, the amount of money being printed directly to Paradox Interactive is batshit insane. In total, there are 6 expansion DLCs, 3 skin packs, and 3 radio packs. That is insanity. Only buy them all if you have no life.

Mods

Not to be confused with mods, as in moderators, but instead modifications.

• Kaiserreich - Has a Wikipedia article. Pretty funny, eh? Germany won the first world war in this one.
• The New Order - Not to be confused with Wolfenstein's TNO, Germany won the second world war.
• Cold War - Do I have to explain this one?
• Old World Blues - Fallout. Yes, that fallout.

Reception

Pretty good, I guess.