It's kind of what it advertizes. Map painting strategy game from the point of european expansion. The way it handles colonization is fairly wack and you can tell content development is very unbalanced, but it is a game, not an encyclopedia.
Is there anything to read on Europa Universalis IV? I hadn't heard of it until recently, but a sizeable number of students end up in my modern Europe survey course because of this game, and I'm keen to understand its worldview.
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For sure, I'm just shocked by the proliferation of this game so am curious what exactly is being spread by it.
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I play it a lot, if that helps
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imho it has the best representation of the global early modern trade system I've seen in any game (but that is a low-ish bar)
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The only way to do that, is to 'dip your toe, just for a couple of hours' and emerge bleary-eyed 8 days later with a Novgorodian Republic that just colonized Borneo...
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Yes that's the trap to be resisted, I felt perhaps someone had written something about a world-creating software that 2 million people (!) have purchased as of this year. Seems the kind of number where a review might emerge.
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It's more Wallerstein than Brenner.
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2 million world-systems theorists all working together
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There was an outbreak of EU IV at the European University Institute between 2014-2017. Across departments. One Historian I know was able to conquer almost the entire planet with Florence. Another created an Aztec empire in Europe. This is really infectious, relentless material.
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Sounds like a rigorous exercise in the study of historical contingency!
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