Hearts of Iron IV

Hearts of Iron IV is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Paradox Development Studio and released in 2016. It was published by Paradox Interactive. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Clausewitz Engine. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are historical and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 293 achievements to unlock.

Hearts of Iron IV holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 82, across 229 votes.

The minimum specification calls for Intel® Core™ i5 750 | AMD® FX 4300, 4 GB RAM and Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 470 (1.28GB) | AMD® HD 5850 (1GB) | Intel Iris Xe G7 (Tiger Lake) | AMD® Radeon™ RX Vega 11. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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Hearts of Iron IV launched on 6 June 2016, within three weeks of Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Overwatch, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Overwatch, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine.

We have tested and published 38 cheat entries for Hearts of Iron IV — 38 console commands. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.

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