Steam app 3450310 · updated 11 Oct 2026, 14:17 UTC
Use war, trade or diplomacy to satisfy your grandest ambitions and dominate five centuries of history in the newest version of Europa Universalis, Paradox Interactive's flagship historical grand strategy game.
717 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
12 months, November 2025 to October 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.
The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.
14 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
31 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
30 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 343 hourly samples from 16 Sep, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.
16 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 374 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.
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50 developer announcements, Apr 2026 to Oct 2026 · times in UTC
Welcome to Tinto Talks, the Happy Wednesdays, where we talk about what is happening with Europa Universalis V. Here one more week, your friendly Content Design Lead, Pavía. We will be talking for the second week in a row about the content…
PDX YukiAcross the Pillars Europa Universalis V: Across the Pillars is arriving October 28th, 2026. Shape the future of Iberia and North Africa as Castile, Morocco and Granada compete for dominion across the region. Contest the Straits of…
PDXRyagiWelcome to Tinto Talks, the Happy Wednesdays, where we talk about what is happening with Europa Universalis V. Here, one more week, your friendly Content Design Lead, Pavía. Today, we will be presenting to you the first sneak peek at the…
PDX YukiWelcome to Tinto Talks, the Happy Wednesdays, where we talk about what is happening with Europa Universalis V. Here, your friendly Content Design Lead, Pavía, is back on hosting duty. It’s been a while since April, but I’ll be with you for…
PDX YukiToday, we have a new update for our Grand Voyage Hello everyone, I’m Ryagi, Community Manager at Tinto. Today we’re going to give you an update on our Grand Voyage Roadmap. In case you’re out of the loop, we first revealed this voyage back…
PDXRyagiIt’s another Happy Wednesday! Bring out your spreadsheets and YouTube guides, this week we have some economy to talk about. To give us the rundown on what the economy looks like in 1.4 I’m passing this week’s baton to my good friend Jorge…
PDXRyagiA new institution has emerged. Welcome the Art of Bricks & Puzzles! Together with YouTooz, we've released our first Brickset and Puzzle inspired by Europa Universalis V Give your shipyards a rest, and construct your next Frigate one brick…
PDX MidgemanIt’s another happy Wednesday! I’m Ryagi, Community Manager for your two favorite games (EU4 and EU5 of course) and today we’ll be talking about a collection of things on everyone's minds, including performance in 1.4, complacency, and more.…
PDXRyagiHey again everybody! Happy Wednesday. Today we’re going to be sharing some miscellaneous quality of life features coming within 1.4, particularly with the user interface and usability. There’s a lot of small but fun bits and pieces to…
Habi NabiHello everyone! Ryagi here, your friendly neighborhood community manager. As promised, this week we’ll be taking an early look at expeditions. Before we get too deep into them though, we have a caveat to stress first. Expeditions are still…
PDXRyagiHappy Wednesday, everyone. Ryagi here once again! And today we’re talking about a small but exciting feature making its return from past EU games: Decisions. We’ll give you an overview of what role we decisions in EU5 to play, and then dive…
PDXRyagiPoliticsPolitical InfluenceMana is back on the menu boys!Seriously, though as you have noticed we had a lot of places in the game we end up with insanely varied gold costs for various actions, or weird usages of legitimacy or stability.…
PDXRyagiHello everyone! Happy Wednesday, today we’re excited to start going into more details on update 1.4. Last week we discussed some of the scope changes we made to 1.4, so we highly recommend you read that short but important Tinto Talk if you…
PDXRyagiHappy Wednesday Everyone, for Today’s Tinto Talk we have some important news and updates to share with you. Every Grand Voyage needs a course, and part of steering honestly is telling you when that course changes. Straight to the point…
PDXRyagiWhether you're new to the game, a returning player, or a veteran that's been with us from the start, We want to hear from you! 🫵 That's why we've published a new Community Survey for update 1.3. Surveys like these will continue to be a key…
PDXRyagiHello everyone! Today we're releasing patch 1.3.11, which seeks to primarily address Mercenary Spam and make some trading adjustments, along with a fix for imperial circle notification spam. You can find the full patch notes below…
Patch notesHappy Wednesday! I’m Ryagi, Community Manager at Tinto. We’re back with yet another Tinto Talk, and this time we’re taking a moment to give a retrospective on the 1.3 Open Beta, which concluded with the launch of update 1.3 July 9th, last…
PDXRyagiHello everyone,You can now get the official Europa Universalis V 1337 Europe Paper Map, made in collaboration with Kartenverk.If you want a physical version of the new starting setup for your wall, here are the details:Sizes: B1, A0, and B0…
PDX_KlemGood day everyone! Today we're happy to say Update 1.3 Pavia, has officially concluded it's open beta phase of development and is now available by default on Steam. Firstly, 1.3 would not be here without the help of those that opted into…
PDXRyagiHappy Wednesday everyone! I’m Ryagi, community manager, and it's time for another Tinto Talk. We have a short one this time, as we’re deep in preparation for 1.3 to hit live branches. And similar to last week, this touches on the things…
PDX MidgemanHello everyone! 1.3.10 is our final beta patch before 1.3 beta goes onto the stable branch. It makes some changes to diseases, as well as some further adjustments to institution spread. Checksum: c764Date: July 07, 2026Previous Patch: 1.3.8…
Patch notesHello everyone, Happy Wednesday, and welcome to another Tinto Talk. I’m PDX Ryagi and joining me for todays Tinto Talk are PDX Habibi Community Ambassador on EU5, along with content designers PDX Bigboss and PDX Pintu.This time rather than…
PDX MidgemanChecksum: 98b8Date: June 30, 2026Previous Patch: 1.3.7 ContentAdded 6 new Achievements based on 1.3 mechanics and Italian flavour content. InterfaceAdded filters to the mercenary captain hiring view. GovernmentFixed the bureaucracy removal…
PDXRyagiAmbitious Rulers and Franchise Fans! We’re delighted to announce that the Steam Summer sale is upon us, where there are plenty of deals across the Europa Universalis franchise to be had, as well as another upcoming collaboration with…
PDX MidgemanChecksum: e29fDate: June 23, 2026Previous Patch: 1.3.5 GovernmentUpdated Traditional Economy to now allow rural resource operations to grow up to 33% larger and removed the −10% building construction efficiency penalty. Reduced the penalty…
Habi NabiThe grandest strategy game leaves the screen.Join players from around the world at the EU5 Grandest LAN Party, where diplomacy happens face to face, alliances are sealed in real time, and a new global history is written together. Whether…
PDXRyagiHello everyone, happy Wednesday and welcome to another Tinto Talk. I’m Ryagi, Community Manager at Paradox Tinto. First a confession of my sins, last week I said: "Next week we'll be diving into the feedback we have received on the updated…
PDXRyagiChecksum: 3244Date: June 16, 2026Previous Patch: 1.3.2 GovernmentChanged estate culture/religion to now be weighted by acceptance and tolerance. Changed estate dominant culture/religion to only flip when the challenger beats the incumbent…
PDXRyagiHappy Wednesday! PDX Ryagi here, Today’s Tinto Talk is going to be a very short one, so that we can dive straight back into processing 1.3 Beta feedback itself. Still, we wanted to give a brief update on what’s coming up in the 1.3 Beta and…
PDXRyagiSome good news for those of you opting into the 1.3 open beta, as today's beta patch addresses some of the major issues found, including smallpox outbreaks causing mini apocalypses, as well as a fix to balance market stockpiles (Which will…
PDXRyagiHello everyone,Following our recent Tinto Talks and the release of the 1.2 update, we have gathered a wide variety of questions from across our official channels. The team at Paradox Tinto sat down to provide clear answers regarding our…
PDX_KlemHello all,Today we are releasing the Open Beta for version 1.3. It is available to anyone who would like to opt in and help us test.As with every Beta, your feedback matters a great deal to us. Please share it in the dedicated 1.3 Beta…
Habi NabiHello everyone! Happy Wednesday, and welcome to Tinto Talks 111. I’m Ryagi, Community Manager at Paradox Tinto. Today I wanted to give you a short rundown on what’s in store for 1.3, our plans for feedback collection in the Open Beta, as…
PDXRyagiHello everyone! You've been asking questions, and we've been listening. Today we wanted to give you the news that our Europa Universalis V Q&A video arrives June 9th 10:00 CEST/16:00 GMT on YouTube and Bilibili. Each question featured being…
PDXRyagi_____________________________Patch notes 1.2.5Checksum: cf2fDate: May 20, 2026Previous Patch: 1.2.4AllAdded missing localization for all languages Fixed various OOS issues OtherOptimized RAM usage for diplomacy BugfixesFixed CTD related to…
Patch notesHello Everyone, and Welcome to another Happy Wednesday. This is the place where we talk about Europa Universalis V. Today we released 1.2.4 which amongst other things did this. Fixed an issue where a 0-morale army could be auto-overrun by a…
PDXRyagiHappy Wednesday, today we're glad to say Patch 1.2.4 is out now. It primarily gives some buffs to population growth, fixes for unit morale which should hopefully lead to less frustrating stack wipes, and more. In addition to these changes…
PDXRyagiPatch 1.2 has been out for a while, and we know you have thoughts. We value all feedback equally, and we want to make this absolutely clear. The developers at Tinto are sitting down for a Q&A session, and we want your questions to lead the…
PDX Yuki_____________________________Patch notes 1.2.3Checksum: 6a4aDate: May 15th, 2026Previous Patch: 1.2.2 DiplomacyThe Enforce Landfriede diplo action has now proper AI weighting and can now be declined. If declines, the Emperor joins against…
Patch notesHello Everyone, and welcome to another Happy Wednesday, the day of the week where we at Tinto talk about Europa Universalis VToday's post is a little different from our usual format. Rather than previewing upcoming design work, we want to…
PDXRyagiHello! Today we have released patch 1.2.2, which contains a great number of fixes thanks to your bug reports. Including an issue that prevented the Rome tag to have access to Byzantium events. You can find a full list of patch notes below…
PDXRyagiHello! Today we have released hotfix 1.2.1 that seeks to address two primary issues: The first being a bug preventing players from joining multiplayer lobbies if they had mismatching DLC. Our DLC policy has always been if the host owns DLC…
Patch notesGuide the Byzantine Empire through crisis and transformation. New mechanics, unique historical paths, and the full weight of Byzantine legacy is yours to carry, or cast aside.Check out our release trailer here:Will you restore the Roman…
PDXRyagiEmperors! Today we're releasing Update 1.2 "Echinades" our biggest update yet. From a sweeping expansion of Balkan and Greek content, overhauled HRE and a system for AI Personalities, and the much requested event viewer. 1.2 touches nearly…
PDXRyagiToday, we share our Grand Voyage. Hello everyone, I'm Ryagi, Community Manager at Tinto, and joining me is EU5's Associate Game Director David, and the one and only Johan, Studio Manager at Paradox Tinto. Back in 2024, we revealed project…
PDXRyagiFate of the Phoenix Art, Health Traits & Achievements is now live on the forums! (Yet again just a bit too large for steam) This week we covered new Byzantine art and units, Health Traits, new music, accessibility improvements, and all the…
PDXRyagiHello everyone, and welcome to this Friday's special edition of Tinto Talks. Last Wednesday, Johan presented the first part of the Politics and Diplomacy update for version 1.2. Since it had reached a considerable size, he entrusted me with…
PDX MidgemanThe Empire Endures. Let history remember this day, May 6th, the day the Roman Empire reawakens in Europa Universalis V: Fate of the Phoenix. Master the intricacies of Byzantine Bureaucracies, navigate the deadly Fate of the Phoenix disaster…
PDXRyagiHello!This weeks Tinto talk is a massive post, covering Proximity, Topography, Estate Reductions, Revolts, Diplomatic Capactiy, Ai Disposition & Personality, Papal Authority, Trust, Territory Connectivity for Subjects, Subject Loyalty…
PDX MidgemanHello Everyone and Welcome to a Happy Wednesday, the day where we talk about what is happening to Europa Universalis V. Last week we dove into the economy changes coming in 1.2, and today we're continuing our journey through what this patch…
PDXRyagiEverything Steam lists as add-on content for this game, newest first. Prices are left out on purpose: the store answers this page in one currency and it is not the reader's.
| Name | Platforms | Released |
|---|---|---|
| Europa Universalis V: Across the Pillars | Windows | 28 Oct 2026 |
| Europa Universalis V: Fate of the Phoenix | Windows | 06 May 2026 |
| Europa Universalis V: Premium Upgrade | Windows | 04 Nov 2025 |
| Europa Universalis V: Sacred Sites | Windows | 04 Nov 2025 |
What Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
| Description | Executable | Arguments | Platform | |
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| Launch | binaries/eu5.exe | windows | branch previous 1.0.10 | |
| the game with DX12 | binaries/eu5.exe | -dx12 | windows | branch previous 1.0.10 |
| the game with DX12 Very Low Preset | binaries/eu5.exe | -dx12 -graphic_preset=very_low | windows | branch previous 1.0.10 |
| the game with Very Low Preset | binaries/eu5.exe | -graphic_preset=very_low | windows | branch previous 1.0.10 |
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