Having experienced the stunning (and extremely time-consuming) Crusader Kings (CK) addiction, I've tried another Paradox gem.

And I couldn't pick any other but the single most hard and complicated Paradox game, a game with about 10X more detail than CK, which is alrady 10X more complicated than MTW

I must say, this game ain't for the faint at heart. It takes time and lots of reading to get accustomed to, so it's quite not stuff for the casual gamer. I bought it, installed it and began to play. A quarter of an hour later, I resigned the game, grabbed the manual and read it. Then I d/lded several guides, tables, manual addendums, charts and other stuff from Paradox forums and a couple fan sites. Read them all for a couple of days... after understanding what's going on, I came back to Vicky. And I got hoocked on.

If you are looking for a tough, intelligent, mind-bogging, time-consuming, impressive game, then you got to try it out. The most perfect and realistic economic-political-social model in a game ever.

And it's tough too. And overwhelming.

But I love it already (having played only a few hours).