Victoria 3

Greetings Victorians, This is Lino, Design Lead on Victoria 3, with an update on the release date for State and Revolution. After some consideration, we have decided to delay the release of the Immersion Pack by two weeks, to Thursday…

Happy Bonus Dev Diary Wednesday everyone! Now that we’ve wrapped up the 1.14 Open Beta and are in the process of integrating it into 1.15, I wanted to post a dev diary to briefly summarize the more significant changes we ended up…

Salutations VictoriansWe have decided to push back the release of the Dev Diary focused on the content for non-Russian countries and cultures in State and Revolution which was originally intended to be released later today. We apologise for…

Hello, and Happy Thursday. Today, Mike and Victoria will be talking about the content for Russia contained within Update 1.15 and the State and Revolution Immersion Pack. There's a lot to go over, from Romanovs to Revolutions, so buckle up…

Hello again folks! We're here to talk about some of the new changes and additions that will be coming into the base game when the Update 1.15 releases alongside State & Revolution on October 22nd.Looking at the list, it turns out that we…

Привет, and happy Thursday. This is Victoria, Narrative Design Lead of Victoria 3, and today I will be talking about Communism.Please note, as ever, that any screenshots attached are from a work-in-progress build, and certain elements may…

There is a question in the air - I've heard it asked time and time again. It is the burning question of our time: What is to be played?Привет! Welcome all to the first dev diary for State and Revolution, the upcoming Immersion Pack all…

Happy Wednesday everyone! This dev diary was originally intended to come out last week, but sickness got in the way, so now you’re getting it as a bonus dev diary this week instead. Where the last dev diary was a deep dive of some of the…

Happy Thursday Victorians!This post will explain how to get involved with the 1.14 AI Update Open Beta!When the Open Beta goes live, you can opt in to the Beta by following these instructions:Navigate to your Steam Library.Right-click…

Happy Thursday everyone! We’re now properly back from the time of vacations and ready to share more about what’s coming next for Victoria 3, starting of course with the much anticipated 1.14 “AI Update”. This update was first mentioned in…

11 bit studios and Paradox Interactive have teamed up to bring you the Frostpunk 2 & Victoria 3 Bundle! This bundle will see you balance industrial needs, pass laws and engage in politics in an effort to see your society prosper, whether…

Happy Wednesday Victorians!Hotfix 1.13.10 is now live! With a wide array of fixes and other improvements, including; Improvements to naval mission UI and tooltips, fleet visibility now working as intended, a fix for naval invasions being…

Hello Victorians! We're posting something on behalf of our community today. The following is not organized or overseen by Paradox Interactive!---- Great tidings to all from PDX ModCon! We are a fan-organised three-day showcase and…

Happy Thursday Victorians!This is a larger hotfix for 1.13, containing a wide range of fixes with close to 200 separate issues fixed, improved or balanced. Including; Reducing output of Fruit Plantations by a bit, especially using slaves…

Happy Thursday everyone and welcome back, it’s been a little while. As I mentioned in the previous dev diary, we decided after the release of 1.13 and The Great Wave that we needed to put all our focus on the post-release hotfixes, and so…

Good day Victorians.Today we have a larger hotfix for you, with over 100 separate entries, addressing some of the key bugs, AI, balance and more. Notably AI GDP, from our internal tests, should now have returned roughly to 1.12 levels on…

Ahoy Victorians!Hotfix 1.13.5 has just released, featuring some key fixes and improvements to the experience of 1.13, including making the AI less gung-ho about supply ships and ruining their economy in the process, fixing MAPI not changing…

Happy Thursday, and welcome to a somewhat more somber development diary for Victoria 3 as I share my thoughts on the release of The Great Wave and Update 1.13, what went wrong, and what our next steps are.As you’ve likely already understood…

Good Day Victorians.In this Hotfix we aim to fix many of the most critical bugs reported by the community for Update 1.13 and The Great Wave. This time targeting such critical bugs as; MAPI not updating after switching from traditionalism…

Victorians,We just released a hotfix targeting some more key issues experienced by players, including some troop transportation improvements, some AI improvements, UX improvements, bugfixes and more.Moving forward, for the upcoming…

Good day Victorians. We have a focused hotfix today addressing critical AI issues, performance, bugfixes and balance changes. We are also working on more hotfixes with more issues being addressed. This hotfix should improve how the AI…

Hoist sails Victorians! The Great Wave and Update 1.13, ‘Matcha’, are now live! With checksum: 3c23. Command the waves in a time of ambition and upheaval. Design mighty warships, guard the world’s straits, and employ gunboat diplomacy to…

Ahoy there Victorians! Tomorrow we release The Great Wave and Update 1.13, to prepare you for the new changes coming we have prepared a number of videos for you today! Update 1.13The Great Wave Mechanics Breakdown with JavaThe Great Wave…

Ahoy there Victorians! Fortunate and Fairwinds Thursday!Commodore Pelly here, to take you through the changelog before the release next week Tuesday (28th) of The Great Wave and Update 1.13 ‘Matcha’. As always, this is the preliminary…

Happy Thursday, and welcome to the Art & Music dev diary. I am Karl, Nautical Aesthetics Officer, and the less I write, the better. Let’s get started.As The Great Wave and accompanying free update have a massive amount of art between them I…

Greetings, fellow gaijin. I am Rear Admiral Lufthansi, narrative designer on Victoria 3, and today we will look at some of the upcoming narrative additions coming with 1.13.Despite Japan now featuring some flashy new narrative content…

Ahoy, moin, and a happy Thursday Victorians!It’s First Lord of the Admiralty Cabin Boy Tunay here to introduce you to the ins and outs of naval combat today. Additionally, we will also talk about Gunboat Diplomacy, a paid feature of The…

Greetings Victorians,And a delightful Thursday to you!It’s Admiral Lino, speaking to you from the dockyards. Today I will go over the central mechanical feature of The Great Wave, the Ship Designer. Also we’ll talk about Flagships, a…

Happy Monday everyone, and welcome to a bonus dev diary for Victoria 3! In our last dev diary, Lino made a valiant effort on covering the entirety of free Update 1.13, but with so much to cover, he found that to do so would be simply going…

Greetings Victorians,And a rapturous Thursday to you! Today it is I, Admiral Lino, speaking to you, and I am going to try and walk you through everything that’s changing as part of the free Update 1.13 which releases alongside our expansion…

Good Day Victorians!The Victoria 3 Ultimate Bundle gathers the base game and many expansions in a most welcome package, with a generous bundle discount. A splendid way to broaden your ambitions.

Exultant Thursday! It is I, High Naval Commissioner Martin, bringing you the latest tidings from the admirals under my command. We’re about to embark on a year-long journey of updates and content that we have dubbed ‘Volume 3’ (or…

Happy Friday Victorians!Expansion Pass 2 will take its leave on March 12, but not before offering a double discount: save on the pass and all included content.A great time to grow your empire.

Exuberant Thursday! It is once again time for a Dev Diary, and once again time to revisit the ‘What’s next?’ plans, which we last did in Dev Diary #152. This time, however, we’re going to do a slightly different spin on the concept, as…

Hello Victorians.We have a small hotfix today addressing a few issues, including a crash which could cause save game corruption and some infamy related issues. We have also reverted one improvement from 1.12.2, where Iberia would inherit…

Happy New Year Victorians! Welcome to 2026! We have a hotfix fresh out of the developer forge today, featuring the contents of 1.12.3’s Opt in Beta and a variety of other fixes, improvements and other balance changes. Also, as we said in…

Seasons greetings Victorians! (And Happy Thursday for those that celebrate)As we head into the winter period, with ice and snow sprinkling across the Swedish shores, we’ll take a moment after the release of Iberian Twilight to do a small…

Happy Thursday Victorians!Iberian Twilight and Update 1.12 are now live! Welcome to Iberia Victorians, we hope you have a good time in the twilight era of the Spanish and Portuguese empires. Will you return them to glory? Through liberal…

¡Hola a todos! ¡Feliz jueves!Next week we release Iberian Twilight on December 11th around 16:00 CET, but before then we have the traditional changelog before release, going through all the features coming with both Update 1.12 and Iberian…

Good Day Victorians!It is time to stir your emotions with powerful anthems that capture the fervor of emerging national identities and the pride of a people defining their place in an ever changing world.Songs of the Homeland is now…