Europa Universalis IV
Worth it · Strategy · 2013
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$49.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9990% offWorth it
- Cost per hourS
- $0.52/hr
- Reviews▼
- 87% of 135,164
- Critics
- 87
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews, Recent reviews
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 39% over the last 30 days against 87% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 96.7h
- To 100%
- 1626h 16.8x the story
- Achievements
- 373
Price and sales
- Sales
- 105 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $4.99 November 2024
- Sale every
- 37d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 10,102 now
- Recent reviews
- 39% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 91% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
28% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 105 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 4 percent. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Victoria II ($19.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Terra Invicta ($39.99, scores 58).
More about Europa Universalis IV
Players rate it 87 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 39 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 3,197 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
96.7 hours to finish it, 1626 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 17 times the campaign.
135,164 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $4.99 (90% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Why is still play this game, you asked? Me, start as Burgundy with the plan of weaking France early. see France is strong with strong allies, England is opposed to me so i cannot join their war. decided on a new plan, decide to weaken the HRE by dismanteling it. see i stand a chance on becomming emperor. rethink my plan, new plan, become emperor. i am winning, austra gets one of their buffs, they are winning, i rush...
2 more reviews
Loans and Turks have done horrible things to me Safe to say I got my revenge and the Balkans are mostly Hungarian, awesome experience
>Play Muscovy >Consolidates all Russian states >Novgorod vassal >Great Horde turns into Mid Horde >PU and Vassal Georgia + Circassia > Offer vassalization to Trebizond >Rename Konstantiyye to Tsargrad >Destroy Turkey Days later look irl >Paradox destroys Turkey
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 / AMD Radeon HD 5850, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Europa Universalis IV scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/236850/europa-universalis-ivReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.