Hearts of Iron Series

Hearts of Iron is a strategy game that follows the gameplay of Europa Universalis to a certain extent. The game set around World War II. Most usually start roughly at pre WW-II around 1939. Game endings of the series vary.
Hearts of Iron has a top-down perspective, where gameplay is only on a world-political map level. No other perspectives in the series exist. The game is also “semi real-time” in gameplay, where you can “pause” or slower/faster the speed settings to adjust your strategy.
Gameplay mostly focuses on global strategy where you play as the supreme “dictator” of ANY chosen country at the selected time period. However, the “story” of the game revolves around the 3 major alliances during that Era: the Allies, under the leadership of United Kingdom, the Axis under the leadership of Nazi Germany and Komintern under the leadership of Communist Soviet Union.
The purpose of the game is “technically” to lead your faction (if you choose to do so) as the winning faction, represented by the number of “points” it scores at the game end.

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Action

Action RPG

Action-Adventure

Adventure

Arcade

Arena Shooter

Artillery

Auto Battler (Auto Chess)

Battle Royale

Beat 'em up (Brawler)

Biological

Boat and Naval

Breakout Clone

Business Simulation

Casual

Cinematic platformer

City-Building

Colony Management

Combat

Comical (Single Screen)

Competitive

Construction and Management Simulation

Digital Pets

Dungeon Crawl

Endless Runner

Escape the Room

Exploration

Extraction Shooter

Factory Simulation

Farming

Fighting

First-person dungeon crawl

First-Person Party-Based RPG (Dungeon RPG- DRPG)

First-Person Shooter (FPS)

Flight

Government Simulation

Grand Strategy Wargame

Graphic Adventure

Hack and Slash (Hack and Slay)- H&S

Hero Shooter

Hidden Object

Hybrid Adventure

Interactive Film

Isometric Platformer

Japanese RPG (JRPG)

Kart Racing

Life Simulation

Light Gun

Logical

Looter Shooter

Management

Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)

Massively Multiplayer Online First-Person Shooter (MMOFPS)

massively multiplayer online racing (MMOR)

Massively Multiplayer Online Real-Time Strategy (MMORTS)

Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing (MMORPG)

Massively multiplayer online Sport (MMOSG)

Massively Multiplayer Online Turn-Based Strategy (MMOTBS)

Metroidvania (Platform-Adventure)

Monster Tamer

Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA)

Multisport

Music/Rhythm

Narrative Adventure

Open World (Sandbox RPG)

Physics

Platform-Adventure (Metroidvania)

Platformer (Jump 'n' Run)

Point and Click

Point-and-Click Adventure

Programming

Puzzle

Puzzle Adventure

Puzzle-Platform

Racing

Racing Simulator (Sim Racing)

Rail Shooter

Real-Time 3D Adventure

Real-Time Strategy (RTS)

Real-Time Tactics (RTT)

Reveal The Picture

Rhythm

Roguelikes

Role-Playing (RPG)

Role-Playing Shooter

Run and Gun

Shoot 'em Up (Shmup-STG)

Shooter

Shooting Gallery

Simulation

Social

Sokoban

Spacecraft

Sports

Sports Game

Sports Management

Sports-Based Fighting

Stealth

Strategy

Survival

Survival Horror

Tactical RPG (TRPG)

Tactical Shooter

Tactical Wargame

Tank and Mech

Text Adventure (Interactive Fiction- IF)

Text-and-Graphics Adventure

Theme Park Management

Third-Person Shooter (TPS)

Tile-matching

Tower Defense

Train

Trucking

Turn-Based Strategy (TBS)

Turn-Based Tactics (TBT)

Vehicle Simulation

Vehicular Combat

Visual Novel

Walking Simulator

Wargame

Grand Strategy Wargame

Hearts of Iron IV

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