Victoria 3: New Player’s Choice

Dominate a century of rapid technological progress and social change with the best package for new players starting their adventure, with Victoria 3: New Player’s Choice! It is an ideal combination of titles to get you on your way to building your own empire under the Sun and shape a grand tomorrow.

The Victoria 3: New Player’s Choice gives newcomers to the game a robust starting point to begin their exploration of a detailed simulation of the world’s societies in the Victorian Age and beyond. Build a strong industrial base to satisfy the needs of your people, a robust political culture to advance your population's well-being, and an advanced military to fend off hungry rivals.

The Victoria 3: New Player’s Choice includes:

• Victoria 3 Base Game: Choose any one of over a hundred nations, large and small, and build a rich and strong society. Research new technologies and unlock new social, industrial and military ideas as you lead your country through the age of steam and coal. Nurture alliances and build a trading empire as you colonize distant lands, bringing their natural resources to your factories.
• Sphere of Influence: This expansion pack for Victoria 3 deepens the diplomatic side of the game through the addition of power blocs - groups of nations that come together under the aegis of a great power to advance specific economic or political goals. Domestic lobby groups will advocate for new alliances, and foreign investment treaties offer new ways to make money and leverage influence over other nations.
• Charters of Commerce: With this Mechanics Pack you will be able to build a massive financial and trade conglomerate to enrich your nation and dominate the world market. Regulate expansion of your private companies, meddle with the economy of other nations by imposing uneven trade deals, set up powerful monopolies and establish your own brand of prestige goods.
• American Buildings Pack: This art pack includes on map models for major American landmarks, including the American Capitol, the seat of political power in the rapidly expanding United States.

Highlights

THE ULTIMATE SOCIETY SIMULATOR

• Lead multiple nations of the world from 1836 to 1936. Agrarian or industrial, traditional or radical, pacifist or expansionist... the choice is yours.
• Include detailed population groups with their own economic needs and political desires.
• Reform the government and the constitution to embrace social innovations or preserve the nation's stability by firmly protecting tradition from revolutionaries.
• Research new technologies or transformative ideas to improve the national situation.

DEPTH IN ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

• Expand industry and capitalize on lucrative goods, taxing the profits to boost national prosperity.
• Import cheap raw materials to fulfill basic needs while seeking new markets for finished products.
• Acquire vital goods to stimulate your advanced economy and control the fate of empires.
• Balance the hiring of available labor with the need for new types of workers.

PLAY ON A GRAND STAGE

• Use diplomatic strategies to create a global web of pacts, relations, alliances, and rivalries, and consolidate your diplomatic standing on the world stage.
• Use threats, deception, and military might to persuade your enemies to withdraw from conflicts.
• Increase military and economic power at the expense of rivals.
• Build an industrial giant in your land or an overseas empire to accumulate prestige and earn the respect of rivals.