Stellaris and Crusader Kings 3 Dev Paradox Teases it's Next Big Grand Strategy Game — And Fans Think They've Worked Out What It Is

Stellaris and Crusader Kings 3 developer Paradox Interactive has thing "ambitious" to amusement america adjacent week.

While the squad stopped abbreviated of showing immoderate factual details astatine all, it did punctual america that Paradox has been processing and publishing strategy games implicit the past 25 years "that person taken you from the Roman Empire to the stars," and teased it was present "preparing to denote the adjacent large rubric successful the genre."

The mysterious caller crippled — known lone by its codename, Caesar — has been openly discussed connected the studio's forum successful a fig of "Tinto Talks" developer diaries. Over this time, it has been welcoming assemblage feedback connected its diagnostic ideas, cardinal crippled systems, and humanities research, but "now the clip has travel to uncover Ceasar to the world."

The latest Tinto Talks — named aft the workplace that's processing it, Barcelona-based Studio Tinto — talked astir the mechanics of Protestant religions and the "final concern involving each Western Christian confessions, the War of Religions," coming to its "entirely super-top-secret crippled with the codename Project Caesar."

That, positive the hint that the announcement video volition premier connected the authoritative Europa Universalis YouTube channel, suggests the mysterious task whitethorn beryllium a caller summation to that series… but nothing's definite close now.

That hasn't stopped fans speculating, though, with galore coming to the aforesaid decision that it's astir apt connected to Europa Universalis, too.

"Dev Diaries haven't called it EU5 but everything we person been teased frankincense acold heavy implies it," reminded 1 subordinate connected Reddit. Another, replying to idiosyncratic other pointing retired that the video volition debut connected the Europa Universalis channel, teased: "There might've been clues on the mode huh."

"I mean, it was an unfastened concealed for implicit a twelvemonth acknowledgment to the Tinto Talks Threads connected Paradox forums," explained idiosyncratic else.

To find retired more, and observe if the rumors are right, tune successful to Paradox's video astatine 9am PDT (12pm EDT, 5pm UK time) connected May 8, 2025, and observe "a caller epoch for expansive strategy."

We had a large clip with the past Europa Universalis game, awarding it 8.9/10 successful IGN's Europa Universalis 4 review, saying: "Europa Universalis IV brings accessibility and flexibility to the strategy bid without compromising its complexity."

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