Need to remember the release date for Europa Universalis 5? Just recall this handy rhyme: In two-thousand twenty five, Europa Universalis sailed the ocean… five. Or you could just look below, I guess, because EU5 finally hits on November 4, 2025, 12 years on from the original release of Europa Universalis 4.
In other words, it's nerd Christmas. Still your breathing and strain your ears, and you can hear, on the wind, a million people with history degrees and jobs completely unrelated to those history degrees getting incredibly excited (no shade: I'm one of them). This is Paradox's flagship grand-strategy series—its early-modern history sim that sees you guide one of a whole bunch of countries out of the late middle ages and into modernity, with almost certainly a whole lot of atrocities along the way.
