Victoria 3: National Awakening, the latest in a long line of expansions to the popular grand strategy game, has been announced and will be released in September.
Victoria 3: National Awakening adds new content related to Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Yugoslavia, The Great Eastern Crisis, and more, along with new historical characters and new building/art sets. The pack is scheduled for launch on 23 September 2025 on PC and retails at $9.99/£8.50/€9.99.
The announcement comes after the director of the game, Martin Anward, confirmed earlier this year that the game is ‘absolutely’ getting more expansion passes in the future.
Victoria 3 launched back in 2022, and in our review, we called it “a game not to be approached lightly”.
“It’s a simulation in a very real sense, rather than a traditional strategy game with win conditions and clear paths to victory. You have to fully commit to get the most out of it, and that means finding your own ways to invest yourself in and derive meaning from its otherwise cold, uncaring simulation,” our reviewer wrote.
Victoria 3: National Awakening has new historical content related to:
- Austria: Guided by the bureaucratic and diplomatic genius of Metternich, Austria starts in a strong position – but social and technological revolutions threaten to undermine the absolute Habsburg authority. Transform the Empire into a cosmopolitan state under bureaucratic leadership, or try to harness the national aspirations of its many peoples towards reform.
- Hungary: Once freed from Austrian rule, Hungary has a chance to be a crucial weight in the balance of power in Eastern Europe.
- Serbia: Take sides in the rivalry between the Serbian royal houses of the Karadjordjevic and Obrenovic dynasties.
- Bulgaria: Establish freedom from Ottoman rule and establish the reputation of Prussia of the Balkans.
- Montenegro: Lead this tiny theocratic state to secular monarchy and potential expansion.
- Yugoslavia and Illyria: Form a new southern Slavic state, based on the historical Serbian led model or an alternate Croatian-Slovene nation.
- The Great Eastern Crisis: The rise of nationalism in Southern Europe deals an almost fatal blow to Ottoman power in Europe as formerly subject peoples rise up in rebellion,
- National Awakenings: New narrative events tied to National Fervour to better model the historical rise of nationalism in the Balkans.
- The Balkan Wars: New content to encourage a united Balkan front against the exhausted Ottoman Empire in Europe.
- New historical characters
- New art and regional building set
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