Victoria I Complete

Victoria I Complete

Skip · Strategy · 2010

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 22, under the fair line, at $1.99.

Length
26.2h 422h to 100%
Value
$0.08/hr
Reviews
67% of 283 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Value$0.08/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews67% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 68% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 104 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Carefully guide your nation from the era of absolute monarchies in the early 19th century, through expansion, colonization and social upheaval, to emerge as one of the great world powers by the dawn of the 20th century in Victoria Complete.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory, 4 Mb Video Card DirectX Compatible, 604 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was October 2014. It has been discounted 64 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 4 weeks apart.

It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 78 percent. On the same math Victoria 3 ($49.99, scores 24) and Hearts of Iron III ($9.99, scores 30) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

More about Victoria I Complete

The main story runs 26.2 hours. Doing everything runs 422, 16 times as long.

Players

Players online
2 when we last checked, on Sep 30, 19:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I have played both Victoria 1 and 2, and of those two, I massively prefer Victoria 1. Yes some things are a little monotonous like selecting the specific territories you want to annex from a large nation, but overall, I think this game gives the time period a very solid representation of the time period. This game taught me what happened in our world almost 200 years ago, and I'd say this is where my love for...
cgcc.jenkinsbRecommendedafter 1803hMar 2026Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
It's old but not good i expect much but not that much there nothing to do and play.
76561198806228865Not recommendedafter 1.3h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Victoria I Complete scores 22/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/42980/victoria-i-complete
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Reviews 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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 14. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

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Details

DeveloperParadox Development Studio
PublisherParadox Interactive
GenreStrategy
Released2010
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate