Hearts of Iron III
Paradox Development Studio · 2009 · Grand Strategy, Strategy, World War II, Historical, Simulation
PC
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About Hearts of Iron III
✦ AI summary
Command any of 150+ nations through World War 2 from 1936 to 1948, managing military strategy, diplomacy, and industrial production across 10,000 hyper-detailed provinces. With historically accurate commanders, deep customization of divisions, naval and air combat systems, and unprecedented strategic freedom, it's the most intricate WW2 grand strategy ever created.
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.
Features:
Features:
- Play as any nation from 1936 to 1948, more than 150 countries to choose from.
- Control the oceans with aircraft carriers, submarines and battleships and use your air force to defend your skies, support your naval and ground forces, and to bomb your enemies
- Thousands of historically accurate real-world military commanders and politicians.
- Realistic military command AI with unprecedented levels of interaction
- In-depth diplomatic and political system.
- Historical accuracy combined with an unparalleled level of freedom of choice
- More than 10,000 land provinces makes the game five times more detailed than HoI2 and the most detailed depiction of World War 2 ever made.
- Customize your divisions in detail with more than 20 types of brigades
- New economic system makes it possible to buy weapons from abroad.
- Mobilization and reserves gives the option of surprise attacks, Blitzkrieg made real.
- Government-in-exile makes it possible to continue to struggle from abroad with underground movements and uprisings against the oppressing power.
- Strategic warfare system makes it more important to defend the skies and oceans against foreign attacks; leaving cities open to enemy bombing will now be devastating.
- A completely new intelligence system, with several types of intelligence sources, makes it possible to get information about enemy reserves and troop movements.
- Assign troops to "theatres" on the map to fight two-front wars more successfully.
- The new AI system and more detailed map will allow for more strategic decisions.
- Flexible technology system with hundreds of categories, where major powers get their own unique attributes.
DLC & expansions
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Base game + 6 of 18 DLC at today's best prices (some DLC unpriced).
$21.85
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Hearts of Iron III DLC: German II Spritepack
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Hearts of Iron III: US Infantry Sprite Pack
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Hearts of Iron III: Dies Irae Stars & Stripes Spritepack
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lowest tracked $0.49
Hearts of Iron III: Italian Vehicle Pack
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lowest tracked $0.49
Hearts of Iron III: For the Motherland
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lowest tracked $1.24
-10%Hearts of Iron III: Their Finest Hour
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lowest tracked $2.49
Hearts of Iron III Semper Fi: Dies Irae Götterdämmerung
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Hearts of Iron III: Axis Minors Vehicle Pack
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Hearts of Iron III: British Vehicle Spritepack
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Hearts of Iron III: German Infantry Pack DLC
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Hearts of Iron III: Japanese Infantry Pack DLC
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Hearts of Iron III: Japanese Vehicle Spritepack
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Hearts of Iron III: Mega German Spritepack
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Hearts of Iron III: Sounds of Conflict
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Hearts of Iron III: Soviet Infantry Pack DLC
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Hearts of Iron III: Soviet Music Pack DLC
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Hearts of Iron III: Soviet Pack DLC
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Hearts of Iron III: US Pack DLC
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
tl;dr this game doesn't work on modern systems, and is not worth buying unless you're willing to put in a lot of effort to make it run (if it's even possible). Even though Paradox should be ashamed for selling a product that doesn't work, the game itself is extremely fun albeit flawed. I actually enjoy the game itself, and have hundreds of in-game hours logged across other accounts. It's not everyone's cup of tea understandably - by default the game literally automates half the mechanics, there is a lot of emphasis around micromanaging your OOB, it's unbalanced, and extremely difficult to survive as a minor nation, frankly the representation of geopolitics isn't very good either. The biggest problem though, particularly for 'modern' (Hoi4) players is the railroading. WW2 is scripted to happen whether you like it or not. While you can do things such as invading Canada as the USA, the problem is it takes a ton of effort and the normal WW2 triggers still occur. For extra 'flavour', you get different start dates, or "scenarios". In spite of its glaring flaws, I still find it to be very charming. Despite the political mechanics being shallow at best, it is an extremely engaging, fun w…2 found this helpful
I simply cannot recommend ANY Paradox game. with their current business model of screwing the player while trying to milk as much money as possible.1 found this helpful
not recommending, for me it stayyed stuck at dowload in the middle for an hour and decided to refund. bad game!1 found this helpful
Capitulated Poland -> Game crashed 10/10 would play again
for some reason the game starts lagging after the start of ww2 and only a few months in the game becomes unplayable most likely due to my pc low specs if you have a low specs pc you should think about that
One of my favourite games ever but it has not worked in years. There are no updates and it won't run on a modern system.
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