Europa Universalis III Complete
Fair · Strategy · 2009
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$4.4970% offFair
- Cost per hourS
- $0.24/hr
- Reviews▼
- 78% of 2,150
- Critics
- 83 players 5 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 16% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 62.6h
- To 100%
- 658.8h 10.5x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 111 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 October 2020
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 61 now
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 71% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 111 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 16 percent. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 71 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Victoria II ($19.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Victoria 3 ($49.99, scores 27).
More about Europa Universalis III Complete
This site sampled 442 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 194 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
62.6 hours to finish it, 659 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 11 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 19 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
Can't say much about the game but studio/community management/customer engagement is absolutely bonkers. Boycotting your biased racist bigot CMs. Take action Paradox
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Not worth it without the DLCs. Half of the important mechanics are locked behind DLCs that cost almost half as much as the game itself. Also created and supported by people who clearly lack the understanding or judgment to interpret history properly. Their own developers and community managers only reinforce that impression with their ignorant remarks about countries and their founding leaders. They spread...
I like it. Visually, the newer franchises are a lot better, but I do like this slightly more than EU4. There can be a steep learnng curve with combat, but the economy and tech are straight forward.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Europa Universalis III Complete includes the original Europa Universalis III as well as the expansions In Nomine and Napoleons Ambition Europa Universalis III delves deeply into the areas of exploration, trade, warfare and diplomacy.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128MB Video Card with Hardware T&L and support for Pixelshader 2.0 or better, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Europa Universalis III Complete scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/25800/europa-universalis-iii-completeReviews 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 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.