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Europa Universalis: Rome

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Europa Universalis: Rome
Europa Universalis: Rome cover
Developers
Paradox Development Studio
macOS (OS X) Virtual Programming
Publishers
Paradox Interactive
Engines
Clausewitz
Release dates
Windows April 15, 2008
macOS (OS X) July 4, 2008
Reception
Metacritic 73
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, DLC
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Point and select
Genres Strategy, Simulation
Themes Classical, Historical
Series Europa Universalis
Europa Universalis: Rome on HowLongToBeat
Europa Universalis: Rome on IGDB
Europa Universalis: Rome guide on StrategyWiki
Europa Universalis: Rome on MobyGames
Europa Universalis: Rome on Wikipedia
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Europa Universalis: Rome 2008
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Europa Universalis: Rome is a singleplayer top-down view strategy and simulation game in the Europa Universalis series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Paradox Plaza forum

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Gold Edition
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Gold Edition
Windows
Mac App Store (unavailable)
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Gold Edition
macOS (OS X)
Publisher website (unavailable)
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Gold Edition
Windows
A free demo is available per direct link on Steam: steam://install/22160.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Vae Victis
Windows

Game data

Game settings.
Game settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/23420/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save games\[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/23420/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Borderless fullscreen windowed

Set with debug console[citation needed]
  1. Open the debug console (ALT + 21, ALT+0167 or §).
  2. Type fullscreen
  3. The game window will appear on-top of other windows, requiring a third-party utility to adjust.

Input

Input settings.
Input settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Camera sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, Effect, Music, Ambient
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Russian
Fan translation by «EURome.ru Team»

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
Online play
32 Co-op, Versus

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Shader Model support 2.0
ExecutablePPC 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
The Gold Edition release does not support PowerPC Macs.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 1.9 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 3D Accelerator
128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 2.0 support
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.3.9
Processor (CPU) PowerPC G5 series
Intel x86
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 3D Accelerator
64 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References