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"Victoria" redirects here. For the unrelated tile matching game, see Victoria (2019).

Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun
Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun cover
Developers
Paradox Development Studio
macOS (OS X) Virtual Programming
Publishers
Paradox Interactive
Engines
Europa
Release dates
Windows November 18, 2003
macOS (OS X) 2003
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Point and select
Genres Strategy, Simulation
Themes Victorian, Historical
Series Victoria
Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun on MobyGames
Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun on Wikipedia
Victoria
Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun 2003
Victoria II 2010
Victoria 3 2022

Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun is a singleplayer and multiplayer top-down view strategy and simulation game in the Victoria series.

General information

Official forums
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
StarForce DRM
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Complete Edition.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Complete Edition.
Windows
Steam
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Complete Edition.
Windows
Mac App Store (unavailable)
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Complete Edition.
macOS (OS X)
Origin (unavailable)
Origin
Complete Edition.
Windows

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Revolutions
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Move, delete or rename video files[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\avi.
  2. Move, delete or rename the files in the folder.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/42980/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Victoria Revolutions\scenarios\save games[Note 2]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/42980/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin
Steam Cloud

Video

Input

Audio

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound Effects, Music
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
32
Online play
32

Other information

API

ExecutablePPC 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 450 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 600 MB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
  2. 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).

References