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Game2011
Pride of Nations
Developer Ageod
Pride of Nations is a turn-based grand strategy video game set in the 19th century and 20th century (1850-1920) which allows players to play as one of the great powers (United Kingdom, United States, France, Prussia, Austria, Italy, Russia and Japan) to industrialize their nation, or expand their nation by military conquest and colonization. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
97 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Apr 2, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
55
Mixed
53 positive · 44 negative
95% range 45–64%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
69 of 137 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 97 · most liked firstThis game was designed for SINGLE-CORE processors only. So, unless you have an old Pentium4 still up and running it's almost impossible to play this game for it will utilize only 1 core of your dual/quad/octacore processor. Theirfore it will take up to 5 minutes to process a turn. And remember...there are 1500 turns in this game. That's a lot of waiting!!! Great design and idea, but terrible programming.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has interesting mechanics. They are not quick to learn as the interface isn't exactly friendly. The UI has its own logic. Once you realize what it is, it becomes easier to use. Yet, still not friendly at first. My main issue with the game is the considerable time between turns, becoming longer and longer quickly as the game progress, despite being above the recommanded specs. So, quickly, turns by the AI take ages. This problem is made worse by the limited number of actions you are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Stability That's quite possibly the most important issue here. This game used to be completely unplayable (a few years back), with turns lasting up to 10 minutes. Fortunately, the devs have fixed this entirely and the game runs really smooth, much better than many of the old AGEOD games do. Turns don't last more than 30-40 seconds for me which is very good, considering how many nations there are in the Grand Campagin. Features I haven't played this for quite a while, despite purchasing it a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Probably the most complex and rewarding grand strategy game I've come across. Brilliant detail in every level. Fully customizable. Not for the faint-hearted or the impatient!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not unlike other AGEOD games I've played in the past, the game mechanics for Pride of Nations look like they've got a lot of potential to be really good. However, also not unlike other AGEOD games, the user interface of the game is not up to the task of the mechanics. Lists of nations that you have to click to scroll down one at a time, clunky and variable scrolling speeds for a map (and you'll spend a lot of time scrolling across the map), a painfully limited messaging system (you have a new…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If were done technically better, that would be THE BEST STRATEGY GAME EVER. And yes, I played them all since 1985 :) Great concept, great freedom, great army building, Bad engineering, questionable user interface design. Still, I recommend it. And I beg Paradox to do a sequel, it will be a bomb if done with same care as HOI 4 is getting.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has tremendous potential. Unfortunately the wait times between turns are long enough to make it totally unplayable. Even using a good computer five years after release, it takes about two minutes for the AI nations to process their turns. Each turn is two weeks. A grand campaign 70 years. That's ~1800 times I have to sit and wait for two minutes. Most turns the player does very little. The game very quickly turns into 30 seconds of playing, hit end turn, and then sit and stare for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game runs very slowly and crashes often. Very frustrating and dissapointing as from what I saw of it there was great depth.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pride of nations is conceptually very good and for the right people I can give it a solid recommendation. However I will start this review with the bad and some of the cons are quite big. -Graphics look like they are from 1995. Not a huge problem, but honestly I expect even basic graphics to at least maintain the resolution of my screen and have writing not pixel out on counters. -Learning to play is terribly difficult. Interface is confusion and not self explanitory. Introduction tutotrial…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Runs like crap and the UI is terrible. Buy Victoria II instead.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've had this game for a long time, and have recently started playing it again. I still really like it. Yes, it is complicated, has a steep learning curve and takes some time to learn, unless you are familiar with AGEODs other fantastic strategy/simulation games. If you enjoy historical simulations/strategy games then you will enjoy playing this game, as long as you are prepared to learn how to play the game. The tutorials will teach you the basics, and there are some videos on Youtube that…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you like paradox games you know what to expect. Its a fun game when it works if you like nation building and micromanaging. Unfortunately its completely broken for me so I'm now unable to play it at all.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I strongly do not recommend this game - you'll lose both your time and nerves, no matter how much you would like the concept of potential of the game. This game had huge potential. But it is botched in so many ways, that it is just not worth it. Maybe only if you plan to develop similar game, go check it out. I have several pages of things that I dislike about Pride of Nations, here are few most important of them: - wait time between turns - on my i5-6600K running at 4.7 GHz, this game capable…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Turn times are way way way too long - unplayable as is. Great concept, detail, look, challange etc but is made unplayable with huge turn times. Also the game has a lot of turns, in many turns the player may do very little 20-30 seconds of planning and playing followed by 2-5 minutes of waiting. In a game with 100+ turns it is a joke. I want to play it, I keep checking in now and then to see if has been fixed. Will keep checking. Fix/improve it!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game with 5 or more minutes waiting between turns. WAY too long to wait with a turn based game. Buy this if you like staring at an uneventful screen, and want to play "Waiting Simulator".
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I recommend this game if you are fascinated with the era, with one caveat, the turn times. Pride of Nations is brilliant, and far and away the best video game adaptation of the Victoria era I have ever seen. It also has obscene turn times. You’ll be tricked, turns start out a minute or so long, and it isn’t so bad, then the next thing you know, they’re 20 minutes. I have a pretty decent computer, but it doesn’t matter. Trying to multitask at my computer while playing has led to crashes as…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fantastic game, must do say I enjoy playing it however I do not have many hours on it but it was super fun reminded me of my childhood years playing the Blue & The Gray version of this. Very entertaining.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Truly a great game that needs a second edition and maybe a earlier start date and end date... honestly one of a kind and for its time was very impressive. Yes slow turns but ultimately a deep and complex strategy game that needs to go deeper and more complex to be a viable successor(if they do PoN2).
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My NASA supercomputer can barely handle this 10+ year old game. A few hundred turns in, the AI needs about 20 minutes to resolve a turn. I'm afraid my power consumption has nearly outpaced bitcoin mining. It's that's bad and only getting worst and I'm only in 1860. Other than that, this game is excellent and truly makes you feel like a 19th century monarch. My mission to prepare France for its historical clash with Prussia took some meticulous planning: Ten years of industrial buildup and near…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game. Way better than Victoria 2 and Victoria 3. Unfortunately the game utilises an old and archaic engine so turn processing is really really long. Its basically its only major flaw.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Half-baked. The game only gives you half the information you ever need to get a good idea of what's going on in any given point of the game. It is meticulous and repetitive. You manage every sector of your country with no automation. Every turn is rather boring. This is nothing new for games of this genre, but imagine if every turn you had to manually manage every lousy thing most games of the sort allow you some rough automation for while you waited for something interesting to happen. Even…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →2021 short review: This is a good game, the UI is not so bad and the flavor of the day is there! Even the somewhat lenghty turns are not so long on a good machine (per '21 standards), however it started crashing repeatdely around 20h in and upon loading another save to see if that can help "unjam" the savegame, it just wiped out clean my 20h savegame...so yeah a thumbs down as technical limits we can deal with but not with technical showstoppers. Too bad cuz it's a gem...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Patience needed! If you can master your impatience, this game is as deep as the ocean (in PC game terms), very historical, very cerebral and very satisfying - if you are patient. The turns are slow, but you have to keep reminding yourself that this game in having to process an IMMENSE GLOBAL amount of information: remembering this will makew you more sympathetic and PATIENT! It's a tremendous game for history buffs like me who want to re-write history. The map and detail are rich, the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is about the most amazing game I’ve yet encountered. No other game has the scope or depth that this country simulator has. It’s a shame that due to that same complexity that AGEOD seems not inclined to make more of its type. If they were to make another game of this type, I think they could increase sales with more step by step tutorials and more detailed initial game play examples – to help folks get practical hands-on and see the results on the associated in-game systems (economics,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not recommended. Very colorful, good music, and lots of historical research went into this game, but I have to agree with other negative reviews. Seems overly complex to manage, the units and facilities on the map are very difficult to find and to get a hold of. Moving troops seems to duplicate their image icon on the map (not a good idea!) with a start and finish location but try doing this with a few units in one province and you just loose track of what you are doing to whom. The game has a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I could not play longer than 5 hours due to time it took to process the turns. The complexity is staggering and this game could be a lot of fun, but I just do not have the time nor desire to play a game where more than half the time is spent waiting for a turn to process (and there are a lot of turns in this game). Not sure what kind of single core monster you need to have to be able to play it properly. Great pity, because the potential was there.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty much one of the most detailed and best grand strategy games I've ever played so far.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →12/10 way better than victoria2 in terms of nation management
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There are some interesting mechanics, but the interface is horrible, the turns are very slow, AI assist is almost non existent, and generally the game does a bad job at conveying what important things you should be working towards at a given time. In a world where we have both Victoria 2 and Victoria 3, this is comfortably skip-able.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was unsure about getting this game due to all the negative reviews, however the game runs fine for me (Windows10), its been completley fixed since release, and i felt that id better give this game a postive review, since it is weighed down by outdated reviews. The game is brillant, but does require patience.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very good game with great depth. Quite slow pace, though and have issues with lagging latter in the game. There is also not too much variations in AI play, but having in mind that there are not many grand strategies about XIX century world - it's a must to try out if you like grand strategies.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Best waiting for turn to process simulator ever! Do not buy!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I read a few comments before I finally bought this game on special. Would not have bought it at the original price. I was pleasantly surprised when the game started. In some reviews people complained about being able to load the game. I had no problems and I am using Win 8.1 SL. The key is to leave enough time for the program to startup. It does take a while to load, but if you are patient enough, you will see there is no problem with the startup. Not on my system anyways ... Like the music,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Huge game. Favours the patient player. In multiplayer, you need your colleagues to stay within the spirit of the era - accept small wars that exchange provinces rather than playing total war.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really great game. Depth of your average AGEOD game (w/ even more elements to handle) but with gameplay that spans an era (as opposed a simple conflict) and a map that covers the entirety of the world (w/o the dreaded off-map boxes). Does it go well beyond the laymen's heads? yes, yes it does. But in their defense, it is by far the most difficult AGEOD game to understand and play.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really a shame how a design flaw in the game engine ruined This excellent victorian era turn based grand strategy game, if waiting 3 to 5 min for the AI to process its turn does not turn you off then this is an excellent game by all standards.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is still the worse game on the entire Steam store. Please do not support this company.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just terrible. One of the worst grand strategy games I have ever seen.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's just rubbish, I thought when I bout it that my old computer might be the problem, now with a new high-end gaming machine.... aaand.. still doesn't run properly
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →LOVE IT!! Amazing program ahead of its time in 2011. Now with newer and faster machine runs like a charm. IMHO the best AGEOD game on the market. The UI takes a little to get the hang of but within 30 min your playing decently. Review the manual and read a couple of AAR and you're off to the races. This game probably encompasses several AGEOD games within it. Definite buy!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This could be easily my favorite grand strategy game... its perfect in all senses but, it has one major flaw... the time a turn takes to be completed... if you have a lot of patience you could enjoy this gem.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a very involved and complex game. When you hit the turn button, be prepared to wait a bit until it is your turn again. It takes time to generate the turns for the other nations. This doesn't bother me, but some players don't care for it. I usually keep my mobile phone handy and surf the web while I wait. When your turn comes round again, you get a list at the bottom of the screen you can scroll through that alerts you to what other nations have done as well as what your nation traded…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Simply not very good. Quite complex and the UI is stagering. I find my self sitting there continually clickly next turn to gather enough capital to do anything. Any game that requires a 70 page booklet that starts with "how to read the booklet" (which isnt supplied in digital copies to my knowledge) to even begin to understand is simply going to cause you more headaches than $20 is worth.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It worked for about an hour and after that I could never get the game running again.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love AGEOD games, and I tried hard to like this one, but the turn processing times are just too long, especially considering that on many turns there is little to do before hitting the next turn button again. It's a shame, because there would be a great game here if it were optimized for modern computers.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is slooooooooow. There are many bugs and errors like images not showing. The interface is unspeakably complicated. The base idea of the game is good but they complicated it to the point where it is simply incomprehensible and unenjoyable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the precursor to Victoria and Victoria 2. It is not worth playing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Superb game but one must be patient, get up while the AI does its thing, and enjoy playing rather than being result-oriented. It is like being there. Great! One thing I don't understand is why not include Holland, Spain, and Portugal (as was done with Belgium) in the playable nations since they have colonies everywhere. I have found as I play that the game is biased in favor of the British and the Americans and very much against the Russians as if Russophobia has also reached the game world.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is essentially the ancestor of Paradox's Victoria series. Imagine playing those games, but turn-based and far more limited. Compared to modern games, it leaves much to be desired, especially due to the thing only using one out of your multi-core CPUs. But if you enjoy a slower pace and don’t mind waiting between turns, this is definitely the game for you. Personally, it’s nostalgic for me. This was my first real “PC gaming” experience, and it practically inspired the career path I’m…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really enjoy the strategic depth. Though the long time to process turns definitely makes it frustrating, I find that no other game captures the thrilling experience of rising from a lower-tier power to become the dominant empire of the 19th century.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought the game a while ago and found it incomprehensible and gave up. This time I gave it more time and found it initially rewarding, even though at 10-15 minute wait per turn was common. Eventually the frequent crashes, slowness and unrealistic game play has put me off. Nations can go rogue and conquer great swathes of the world, as everyone else sits by, enemy units float in place after being defeated and armies seemingly walk through your defensive positions. This game had great…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't even get it to start on a 5 years old laptop, let alone on a new generation pc. It arrives to one of the many loading screen and then becomes unresponsive. I hate this type of review, but I really can't say anything more, and I'm not wasting more of my time scouring the Internet and the game's forum in search of a solution when the producer can't be bothered with making the game playable - especially since I've seen several other reviews complaining about the same problem, so I'm not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, bad support, so the game sucks, crash ramdomly and freez. No decent updates, wast of hard earnd money
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'd really like to play this game since most of the players that liked it prefer the same kinds of games that I do. I find most titles in this genre (such as CK II) are totally dumbed-down. It's games like these that I really want. The problem with this game is no feedback and it is too slow. I just don't have the time. What somebody at Ageod needs to do is put together a real Lets Play. Not that crappy little 5-minute job they have on You-Tube right now. The only real Let's Play this…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A truly great game, not for play, but for your bookshelf, like the last days of SPI. pro: cheaper (than SPI's discontinued games) con: just unplayable
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is unfairly maligned, yes it is a bit outmoded and old but its actually probably the best game on the subject availible - the grand campaign is huge and the model of the economy and military operations is top notch. Probably not for people that are used to more modern games but for fans or enthusiast of the period, this game is a real love letter to the late 19th century itself.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I own the game, and all dlcs, 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 3e? for the whole pack back in the day, and yeah it never got performance fixed, AI is utterly braindead, it's 0 fun, a typical slitherine publishing game, over priced and low quality and absolutely horrible graphics, without any AI worth a darn
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If your into serious strategy, long games with the best realistic technologies and detailed (including pictures of allot of it) This game is one I have played off and on for years and I only wish they would make a PON II. It is turn based and you won't finish a game in one day, so patience and long term strategy is what your in for. Do you want to hop in the seat of the USA, British Empire, Japan, China etc when the industrial revolution started and guide your development, research and global…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game turns take 15-30 minutes!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very slow. Very detailed - too detailed in too many ways especially in things you cannot control. Very cumbersome and unhelpful interface.
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