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Pride of Nations

If youve got the patience to penetrate this game, and to put up with its dawdling, youre in for a treat.
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58%Game Brain Score
gameplay, music
graphics, optimization
54% User Score Based on 102 reviews
Critic Score 79%Based on 1 reviews

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Pride of Nations is a single player and multiplayer turn-based strategy game with a historical theme. It was developed by Ageod and was released on June 7, 2011. It received mostly positive reviews from critics and neutral reviews from players.

Pride of Nations is a turn-based historical strategy game set in the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country and guides it through industrialization, military conquest, and colonization.

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gameplay5 positive mentions
grinding2 negative mentions
  • Extremely deep and comprehensive grand strategy game with great historical accuracy and detail of the late 19th century era.
  • Impressive economic, military, and colonization systems that offer a rich, multilayered gameplay experience.
  • Strong replay value for history enthusiasts who enjoy complex, slow-paced strategy and grand campaigns.
  • Turn processing times are excessively long, often several minutes per turn, making the game slow and sometimes unplayable.
  • User interface is clunky, confusing, and not very intuitive, making the learning curve steep and frustrating for new players.
  • Technical issues including frequent crashes, poor optimization for modern multi-core CPUs, and incomplete or buggy game features.
  • gameplay
    12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay features deep, detailed mechanics with significant potential and a broad scope, but is heavily hampered by a cumbersome interface, slow turn pacing, poor AI assistance, and unclear objectives. While the core mechanics are solid and engaging, the overall execution—including bugs and UI issues—detracts from the experience and may require considerable patience and effort to appreciate.

    • “Depth of your average Ageod game with even more elements to handle, featuring gameplay that spans an era rather than a simple conflict, and a map that covers the entirety of the world without off-map boxes.”
    • “The mechanics look great, with attention to detail in set-up situations and a decent number of extra scenarios as well as a grand campaign, providing a substantial amount of game content.”
    • “If you can look past the user interface to the game mechanics, there really is potential for a gem here.”
    • “Very interesting and developer-wise neglected topic with detailed and deep gameplay, but sadly, the execution falls quite short.”
    • “Still has some bug issues and some mistakes in event coding but the overall gameplay works.”
    • “However, also not unlike other Ageod games, the user interface of the game is not up to the task of the mechanics.”
  • graphics
    7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The graphics are widely regarded as outdated and low quality, resembling visuals from the mid-1990s with pixelated text and poor resolution. While some appreciate the aesthetic style and detailed unit artwork, the overall visual presentation is seen as a significant drawback, especially given the game's price.

    • “The simulation of the time period is well-done and evocative, the AI is a credible opponent, and I particularly like the lovely board game-like unit cards and artwork.”
    • “There are a lot of possibilities including the different kinds of expeditions - anthropological, geographical, natural society, military expeditions, etc. Even things such as gunboat diplomacy and naval demonstrations of force are included, which is amazing.”
    • “Not a huge problem, but honestly I expect even basic graphics to at least maintain the resolution of my screen and have writing not pixelated on counters.”
    • “Absolutely horrible graphics, typical low quality.”
    • “Graphics look like they are from 1995.”
    • “Basic graphics do not maintain screen resolution and text appears pixelated on counters.”
  • optimization
    6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Optimization reviews are mixed, with some users noting significant performance improvements and multitasking capabilities, while others criticize persistent slowdowns, frequent crashes, and unfixable code inefficiencies that hinder playability. Although the game has strong mechanics and potential, its outdated optimization limits smooth performance on modern systems. Some delays, like turn processing times, are tolerated due to complex calculations involved.

    • “Not only can I multitask while playing now, but I have had significant performance improvement.”
    • “It's a shame, because there would be a great game here if it were optimized for modern computers.”
    • “And to top it off, all these units' appearance and performance change throughout the years.”
    • “For the whole pack back in the day, and yeah it never got performance fixed, AI is utterly braindead, it's zero fun, a typical Slitherine publishing game, overpriced and low quality and absolutely horrible graphics, without any AI worth a darn.”
    • “And because it has so many great mechanics and so much potential... no, sorry, it is unfixable without great effort. I was just typing out a list of easy fixes, but many of them are not easy, and yes there are many of them, and just the code optimization is not feasible to make it at least 10x faster to be playable.”
    • “Other reviewers mention the game runs slowly and crashes often - I haven't encountered this problem to be honest, but yes, it does take a couple of minutes when you click 'end turn,' but when you think of how much the computer needs to calculate and execute, I find it understandable and don't mind the wait.”
  • music
    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The music is well-crafted, historically researched, and fitting for the game's time period and genre, with a memorable and appropriate soundtrack that enhances the overall atmosphere.

    • “Music is really great and certainly fits the time period.”
    • “Like the music, fits with the genre.”
    • “Very colorful, good music, and lots of historical research went into this game.”
  • story
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The story aspect is praised for its detailed and immersive historical progression, allowing players to engage in extensive strategic planning and diverse activities like diplomacy, trade, infrastructure development, and colonization. This depth enhances the narrative experience by simulating a rich, evolving geopolitical landscape.

  • grinding
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Grinding in the game is seen as tedious and overly complex, yet some players find the management and strategy elements satisfying despite the repetitive nature. However, others criticize it for being unnecessarily complicated and overwhelming.

  • replayability
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Users find the game's replayability very poor, citing unengaging systems and slow turn times that diminish the desire to play again. Despite owning all DLCs, they see little value beyond the low purchase price.

    • “I own the game and all DLCs, but it's just utter bad. Bad systems, very bad turn time, very bad replayability. There is just nothing good at all about it, except that I only paid like 3€.”
  • stability
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game suffers from significant stability issues, frequently freezing upon launch, which severely impacts the user experience despite the developer's reputation.

    • “It freezes up every time I try to open it... I love Paradox, but this is a total bust!”
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Pride of Nations is a turn-based strategy game with historical theme.

Pride of Nations is available on PC, Windows and Linux.

On average players spend around 30 hours playing Pride of Nations.

Pride of Nations was released on June 7, 2011.

Pride of Nations was developed by Ageod.

Pride of Nations has received mostly positive reviews from players and mostly positive reviews from critics. Most players liked this game for its gameplay but disliked it for its graphics.

Pride of Nations is a single player game with multiplayer support.

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