{"id":9591,"date":"2013-08-08T11:40:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T15:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/?p=9591"},"modified":"2013-08-08T11:40:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T15:40:40","slug":"europa-universalis-iv-demo-now-available-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/europa-universalis-iv-demo-now-available-on-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Europa Universalis IV Demo Now Available on Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9593\" title=\"Europa Universalis IV | Paradox Development Studio, Paradox Interactive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/europa_universalis_iv.jpg\" alt=\"Europa Universalis IV | Paradox Development Studio, Paradox Interactive\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/europa_universalis_iv.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/europa_universalis_iv-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Europa Universalis IV playable demo is <a  href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/236850\/\" target=\"_blank\">now up on Steam<\/a>, just a few days before the game&#8217;s official release. Pre-release demos are, unfortunately, a rare commodity these days. So, it&#8217;s always nice to see one for EUIV. It could be interpreted as a sign that the developers and the publisher, Paradox Development Studio and Paradox Interactive in this case, are confident about their historical real-time 4X strategy game.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the demo release, Paradox also <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.paradoxplaza.com\/press\/2013\/8\/sample-the-feeling-of-conquest-in-the-europa-universalis-iv-demo\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> that EUIV will support Steam Workshop and that multiplayer will be cross-platform, which should allow players across Windows, Mac and Linux to play together.<\/p>\n<p>Paradox says that the demo they&#8217;ve just released allows you to play with one of four available nations: Venice, Ottoman, Portugal or Austria. It will last for the 28 in-game years and includes a tutorial. There&#8217;s no multiplayer and you can&#8217;t save\/load.<\/p>\n<p>Europa Universalis IV will launch officially on August 13th for PC, Mac and Linux, but pre-orders are already open for the brave souls. The rewards for those being the 100 Years War Unit Pack DLC and Purple Phoenix DLC as well as a free copy of Crusader Kings II and a saved game converter to allow you to play CKII saves in Europa Universalis IV.<\/p>\n<p>Expect a review soon, hopefully still in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Europa Universalis IV playable demo is now up on Steam, just a few days before the game&#8217;s official release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[74],"tags":[86,601,1076,1074,1056,817,278,121,1122,188,117,231,120],"class_list":["post-9591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements-and-rumors","tag-4x-game","tag-demo","tag-europa-universalis-4","tag-grand-strategy-game","tag-historic","tag-linux","tag-mac","tag-multiplayer","tag-paradox-development-studio","tag-paradox-interactive","tag-pc-game","tag-real-time-strategy","tag-single-player"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}