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March of the Eagles
Developer Paradox Development Studio
March of the Eagles is a grand strategy video game developed by Paradox Interactive and released on 19 February 2013. The game centres on the time period of 1805–1820. It started life as a sequel to AGEOD's Napoleon's Campaigns, and was originally titled Napoleon's Campaigns II. As AGEOD was bought by Paradox, they developed and retitled the game. Virtual Programming released a Mac OS X version of the game on 9 May… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
178 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Sep 28, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
63
Fresh
110 positive · 64 negative
95% range 56–70%
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| Steam reviews | 110 | 64 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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4 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
262 of 418 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 178 · most liked firstI loved this game so much I bought it instead of pirating it. Wait what. March of the Eagles, much like Sengoku, was a glorified demo that Paradox used to test new concepts before launching a game they actually intended to support. Sadly, it isn't very good and its limited scope makes it lose on replayability. I wouldn't recommend it unless you really really want a Paradox game that focuses on the Napoleonic wars. As a big fan of the Napoleonic era though, I bought it, played it and loved it.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly, MARCH OF THE EAGLES might be the best Paradox game in terms of historical realism, because it throws out all attempts at balanced play and just makes the Royal Navy unbeatable at sea and the Grande Armée invincible on land.
unlabelledView post →Maybe it's something to do with the way everything is presented but something about this strategy game completely turned me off. Seemed boring and tedious to me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Similar to Imperator Rome. Meaning an unfinished game that is good, had the potential of being great, and was dropped for no reason.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This opinion probably won't be popular, and that's fine.. but in my humble opinion, this is one of PDX's best games. Why? Because they abandoned it right after release and didn't go "full paradox" on it. It doesn't have 5634 DLCs which add nothing to the game. It doen't have a new tab/window for each financial quarter since release. It's just a straight up wargame set in the napoleonic era. Now. Does it have bugs? Yes. There is a bug where AI generals will occasionally go back and forth…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got a job and a girlfriend after buying this amazing game!! 10/10 recommended!!!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →March of the Eagles is a very good computer opponent that is versatile and even does dirty tricks like hiding British forces under Spanish Units to play hide-and -seek evasion from the French, disappearing when chased and reappearing when the French pursuit halts due to the British units' "disappearance". Timing of dispersion and concentration and rapid marches are crucial. You must pick your technology and tactical advances carefully. The different capabilities of the leaders are…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So there are many promises to what "Crusader Kings: Napoleon" could have been. Sadly this game falls short on almost all of those promises, even if you get the game at 80% off the way I did 1 - Britain is stupidly overpowered in terms of navy... Yes their navy was powerful, but in the game Britain can easily have twice as many ships as all other playable nations COMBINED. If you try to go to war with them, there is literally no way it can be done because of how much naval spam there is. This…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you actually know about the Napoleonic wars and want to play a strategey game with them then this is good. If your looking for a sandbox game and dont have any knowledge of the time period skip it. DO NOT listen to all the idiots that say this is a bad game. Also please someone make a darkest hour type mod for this i will totally buy it. Too many pply sleep on the Napoleonic Wars it was like 5 world wars in 25ish years so cool and crazy.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think we can all agree this is the best Paradox game out there, much better than that trash eu4 or ck2
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →March of the Eagles is one of the two games Paradox notoriously stopped development on shortly after release, the other being EU:Rome. Unlike Rome, March of the Eagles isn't getting an imperator, so it stands as the only representation of the Napoleonic Era besides late game EU4. I saw the bad reviews and videos and figured the game was garbage, but still wanted to give it a chance, if only for the meme. Surprisingly it is very enjoyable. Gameplay March of the Eagles is situated in the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A letdown compared to other Paradox games. Lacking complexity, depth and also direction.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →unironically the best paradox game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A game company that calls Turkey's founder, a man of virtue, a genocider and bans the use of his portrait, saying it is against community rules, doesn't deserve our money, our commitment to their games, or our love. As someone who used to be a big fan of Paradox grand strategy games, I will no longer support, buy, or play their games unless they back down, apologize for their misconduct, and fire the people who disrespected him.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would rather get exiled to an island and get stomach cancer than play this again.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it's like drugs but better
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is not for you if: you think it will be crusader kings in napoleonic times you want a game where you can build your empire for many years This game is for you if: you want little and fast game you want something like crusader kings but only the army and war part in napoleonic times This game is - little - fast - good - about the combat and battles and war in interesting way only people who think this game is bad are people what were expecting bigger game - so everything you need…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →why does this exist
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →rulebook claims this is old-school board game inspired - but the gameplay is really just managing spreadsheets and organizing troops. so while it may be board game inspired, the actual gameplay is overly complicated and fiddly for what it is. game doesn't give you direct control of battles, but also doesn't provide enough tools to do meaningful diplomacy - KOEI games from 35 years ago had better systems and were more fun. raise the best army you can, smash it to pieces, sue for peace -…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great Game 10/10 loving it. Help me please. The paradox devs have trapped me and forced me to make good reviews. Hellppppppp
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Transforming Europe into map-gore through spectacular battles. MOtE is truly a strategic battle royale. It's like "Always War Mod" for Europa Universalis III but as an individual game. You have to fight everyone and backstab them suddenly. Be sure they will do the same to you. Pros: - Epic! Cons: - Too short timespan - Too little nations to set free as puppets - France - Diplomacy is lame, nevermind what you do, they will backstab you anyway I'm giving it 9/10.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →too old try new Paradox games instead
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's difficult to find a Napoleonic game that lies between eye candies like NTW, with great visuals but little deep and realism, and the insanely complex and chunky AGEOD titles. I think March of the Eagles partly succeeds in this. It's a pity they haven't developed further the tactical phase with more control on the battles for the player. Moreover there is no road system on the map, however this is partly compensated by the minute subdivision of the map in provinces. All in all I'd recommend…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →March of the Eagles is very niche and goes all-in on the military side. There is no big economy to handle, taxation to manage or all kinds of interior policies other games offer. The military option are very in-depth though. You can appoint generals to different flanks and give them specific battle orders. There is also the supply system and castle/fortress system later games such as Europa Universalis IV has taken inspiration from. From what I have heard, many players also praise the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →10/10 a great game better then eu4 or hoi4
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Napoleonic HOI except paradox dropped support for it about a month after release.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is panned by Paradox fans, and I can kinda see why. It's not very complex and a full game can go by in just an hour and a half. When compared to other paradox games it is very small. That is why I recommend it to players who just want to conquer stuff or players who are new to paradox games who have no idea what to do in a game like Europa Universalis IV.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Idiot company. Piece of ♥♥♥♥ game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →March of the Eagles is a shallow, half-baked Napoleonic slog that strips away nearly everything interesting about Paradox strategy and leaves only repetitive army-stacking and broken AI. The economy is nonexistent, diplomacy is threadbare and pointless, historical events fire randomly without logic, and the AI routinely flees battles only to bounce around the map like pinballs while your units sit idle. Ugly recycled sprites, overcomplicated recruitment menus, and constant micro-management…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i feel like this game deserves a remaster or sequel. the community for it is small but i feel like thats due to paradox seemingly shelving it before it could really spread its wings and come into its own. if it were to be revived im sure it could succeed, even if the success comes at the cost of dlc peddling like the rest of their games. if you can catch this game on sale then i really recommend giving it at least a try, especially if youre into hearts of iron.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →took 30 minutes to load when hoi4 and eu4 load in less than 5 minutes. had constant lag spikes while playing war system is boring no flavor tiny idea trees tl;dr play eu4 instead
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandoned so its barebones as hell
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Feels like a demo of EU4 where you have nearly no political actions and no way of developing your country except through war and dont forget! you have around the time Arumba takes to explain his firsts steps of a new EU4 campaign until the game is already over. No real replayability but such a interesting time i would recommend it to people who want to get into Paradox Games but are for the moment too overwhelmed by the depth of EU4 or VIC2. I bought the game on sale and with a ratio of 1€…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Paradox Interactive sure seem to love stamping out endless grand strategy games. This is a turn based strategy set in the period of the Napoleonic wars. Build and manage armies, conquer territories, muck around with diplomacy, all the features you would expect from a grand strategy are here. Also, like Paradox tends to do, the game is incomplete and you need to pay $3 to get British or French armies, in a needless and flagrant display of greed. The base game here is $28.95 and it's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It had decent potential but paradox just abandioned it
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I busted a nut so hard my eagle started to invade Russia 11/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"It was fun....... i probably have the most amount of time wasted on this game....." March of the Eagles is a rather fun concept from Paradox, yet compared to usual Paradox games, March of the Eagles focuses on a specific time with the set goals to either be the most dominant land power or the most dominant sea power, or both if you can be quick enough... Which in all my playthroughs neither the ai or myself have managed to accomplish without having to click the "just one more year" button.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly, when you compare it to other Paradox Interactive games, you feel really bad this game didn't sell. Gameplay is awesome, performance is smooth and incredibly optimized, visually it is beautiful, the time period is one of the most fascinating in history, and the UI is clean and easy to navigate. Some love like hotkeys, more releasable and playable nations, deeper mechanics for diplomacy and internal politics, and an expansion of the time period would've done this game wonders. A…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →March of the Eagles is seriously underrated and I’ll defend this weird little Napoleon game forever. Yeah, let’s be honest first: it’s rough. Graphics are kinda bland, the whole thing feels less polished than other Paradox games, and you can tell this was probably a fast project they pushed out quickly. There’s random jank, weird bugs here and there, and sometimes the UI feels like it’s held together with old paper and gunpowder. But man… I had a stupid amount of fun with it. There’s…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It was a complicated development, but the final stages of development and design were under the direction of Paradox Development Studio, largely Chris King IIRC. I hold that March of the Eagles is a poor single player game, but an outstanding stab-thy-neighbor multiplayer game.
unlabelledView post →My answer to this is always March of the Eagles as a multiplayer game. It plays very fast, victory conditions for each power do not collide so alliances change, there can be incentives to dip out of a losing war and nurse your wounds.
unlabelledView post →March of the Eagles isn't bad. I'd go as far to say it's actually a tad underrated. The "grand strategy map painter" genre is over saturated, and this game in a way does add to that saturation. Especially when compared against other paradox titles like EU4 and Victoria 2.... and 3. But this game is a novelty and while those previous games do have much more content March of the Eagles has something no paradox game has had before or after "A COMPLETE BASE GAME". Yes this game while having…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Probably one of the most underrated Paradox Games. No, you aren't going to be able to spend hundreds of years shaping a civilisation. But you'll have a lot of fun if all you're looking for is a war game based in the era.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →good game wish I had someone to play agaist
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Love the Game I wish that you could start in 1789 and wish that the Grande Armee Started with around 100,000 (I mean like stright up starting with Napoleon)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Paradox has an amazing lineup of great strategy games. Best there is to be found. This game... is not one of them. I cant't believe they are willing to keep their name on this piece of junk. It has great potential but there are obvious major bugs and game design issues that make it feel like a beta rollout still waiting to be tweaked.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abysmal title released by Paradox. Let's start with that game is WAAAY too short for what it's priced. Your time frame is from 1805 till 1820 but once you reach this limit game will let player know and then there is option either you "Quit" it or "One more year" which basically repeats itself every year. Playing minor nation in that time frame is useless no one will help you to conquer land, you just do it on your own by choosing mediocre nation that can handle wars, another thing to point out…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Idk how to review this game, I woke up drunk and suddenly my playtime hour jumped from 2 hours to 5, I revisited the autosave and just saw prussia owning half of austria and the balkan parts of the ottoman empire.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Despite the memes, its actually not as bad as you might think. Its on sale at time of writing, so give it a whirl, you very well may find something youll enjoy here Superficial Stuff: Music: I really like the music here. While it doesnt have many tracks, the few it does have are really great. They fit very well with the game, and the battle tracks are very, very good. Give the OST a listen on YouTube, if you like the style, you wont be disappointed, 8/10 grafix: On par with other games…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am a big fan of Paradox games in general when they are in the same vein as the EU, CK, or HOI series. Unfortunately, this game is not one that I can recommend based on my personal preferences. It is a very short time frame compared to the others, but unlike say HOI which is in a similar length of time, there just is not anything I found to keep me playing. Graphically, it is quite nice, using the same engine as the most recent entries, but as strange as it is the primary focus being combat…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The most 6/10 game Paradox have ever released.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →March of the Eagles is a strategy wargame. You play one nation during the napoleonic wars. The game is very simple concerning the mechanics. You gather armies and assign them Generals, but it is very important how the structure of the army is and what generals you assign. Other than fighting you have some national ideas that are not too well balanced and you may build some structures on your lands like forts and depots and buildings for cash. Beside your organization of the army it is very…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good but unfinished game. Pluses: +++ Minuses: ------
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Literally the best paradox game of all time. Its very fun and enjoyable specially in multiplayer!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A smaller game by the creators of the Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron series. Decent enough. Tricky to succeed however. Useful to those who are interested in the time period and such wargames.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Digital Suicidal Thoughts
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →great game for fans of the napoleonic era
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Despite having similar interface to the Europa Univeralis franchise, March of the Eagles is nowhere as deep as EU4 and is much more war-focused. If you want proper grand strategy stick with EU4. If you want the satisfaction of conquering the whole map in Napoleonic era (which March of the Eagles does allow you to do) you're better off with something like Total War Napoleon which has tactical battlefields rather than a fancy version of Risk. . .
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If boredom had a name, it would bear this game's name.
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