Hearts of Iron II

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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

Availability

A free demo is available on Steam. Use this direct link (allow Steam client popup): steam://install/22170.

Name	Notes
Doomsday
Armageddon

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

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

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

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

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

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Japanese				Japanese retail release.

Type	Native	Notes
LAN play
Online play

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

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	2000	XP
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

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/22130/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (22130) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
↑ 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).

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