Hearts of Iron IV

[Csargo]

If you can get it on sale, definitely yes. However... a lot of base features are only in DLCs and if you love micromanagement like I do, the Man the Guns DLC for naval expansion and obsessive micromanagement is necessary.

I've got the base game just not installed anymore, somewhere around ~100 hours played. I stopped playing because I mostly liked playing minor nations, but it felt like some features just made it impossible to win without the production power of the major nations. I might install it again and see if I can get some of the DLCs when they're on sale.

[Hooahguy]

My issue with the game was that you couldnt do small wars because they would just bring in a bigger power at some point and make it impossible to win. For example I was playing as Greece with the aim of staying as a neutral regional power. I invaded one of my neighbors, might have been Albania. When I invaded they were not allied with Germany but quickly afterwards they joined an alliance with them and Germany entered the war on their side. I conquered my initial goal but it ground to a stalemate since nobody could make any gains. The most frustrating part was that there was no way to end the war except with either a white peace, me surrendering, or fighting my way through Germany to force them to capitulate which isnt going to happen as Greece. I eventually pushed Germany back to the point where I had conquered all of Albania but because Germany had not capitulated, the war wasnt going to end. Maybe this was fixed later, but I feel that if the main target country capitulates in cases like these then the war should have an option for a negotiated ending.

[edyzmedieval]

Playing as small nations, unless you have a dedicated tech tree (Romania fortunately has one, and a very detailed one too, if you get the DLC), it's not that fun to play as.

I played as Canada with a dedicated tech tree, and while it was fun, by 1945 the whole thing was a stalemate with 3000 airplanes on each side battling it out while the ground forces were locked down.