There’s also plenty of new disasters and buildings to boot. New national ideas, mission trees, events, and national ideas go hand-in-hand with reworked existing features such as the Empire of China and the Rus. The official features list is quite insane: an extended timeline that goes back into the CK2 era (starting in 1054) and stretches towards the middle of Victoria 3’s timeline (ending in 1871) means your games will be long, but it looks like the creators have introduced new content to make it work.

This in euro-centric overhaul mod for EU4 that offers an insanely detailed map, increased historical accuracy, and plenty of new countries to try out. A word of caution – due to the commotion caused by the most recent EU4 patch and the Leviathan DLC, many EU4 mods are sticking to Version 1.30 in terms of compatibility – you’ll need to rollback your game to play with most of them. You might find some mods still host themselves separately but all of the popular ones at least will automatically be downloaded onto the launcher once you subscribe. Thankfully for EU4 getting mods has become as easy as shopping on Amazon Prime thanks to the Steam Workshop integration. In days gone by you’d have had to grab mods directly from the Paradox forums and get into the weeds of placing files here and there.

So instead of gawking at the sheer quantity and quality of mods, let’s look at how easy it is to enhance the vanilla game across a range of categories to get any megalomaniac started on a fuller EU4 experience. They’ve somehow managed to make an already replayable game even more replayable, if you can imagine that. Thankfully, it’s hard to go wrong with the quality of the modding community for Europa Universalis IV. With over seven thousand EU4 mods – the top one hundred of which having anywhere between 10K – 300K subscribers – trying to tweak your game can seem like an intimidating experience.

Ck2 extended timeline mod