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Hearts of Iron II
Hearts of Iron II cover
Developers
Paradox Development Studio
macOS (OS X) Virtual Programming
Publishers
Paradox Interactive
Release dates
Windows January 4, 2005
macOS (OS X) November 4, 2005
Reception
Metacritic 83
IGDB 84
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Menu-based, Point and select
Genres Strategy, Wargame
Art styles Stylized
Themes Interwar, World War II, Historical
Series Hearts of Iron
Hearts of Iron II on HowLongToBeat
Hearts of Iron II on IGDB
Hearts of Iron II on MobyGames
Hearts of Iron II on Wikipedia
Hearts of Iron
Hearts of Iron 2002
Hearts of Iron II 2005
Hearts of Iron III 2009
Arsenal of Democracy: A Hearts of Iron Game 2010
Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game 2011
Hearts of Iron IV 2016

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.

Hearts of Iron II is a singleplayer top-down view strategy and wargame game in the Hearts of Iron series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com
DRM-free
Complete.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Complete.
Windows
Mac App Store (unavailable)
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Complete.
macOS (OS X)
A free demo is available on Steam. Use this direct link (allow Steam client popup): steam://install/22170.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Doomsday
Windows
Armageddon
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/22130/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>/scenarios/save games/[Note 2]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/22130/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Set desktop to 16-bit color and use command line parameter "WINDOWED". Can also force with DxWnd.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

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

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Japanese
Japanese retail release.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

ExecutablePPC 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Only the individual main game and expansions support PowerPC; the Complete edition does not.

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 1200.00 MHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 600 MB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0 or higher compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
  2. 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).

References