The railroad and the telegraph. Steamships and the birth of flight. Mass conscription, emancipation and the campaign for women’s rights. The Victorian Age saw a world transformed by new technology, new philosophies and new ways of doing politics.

This tumultuous century springs to new life in Victoria 3.

After years of community requests and curiosity about the future of one of the company’s iconic games, Victoria 3 is one of the most highly anticipated grand strategy games in Paradox’s history. Victoria 3 is a society simulator set in a time of great change. Track the needs and desires of national populations, each group with its own political and material preferences. Conservative factions may resist political reform as growing numbers of tradespeople and intellectuals push for a greater say in how the nation is run. Trade a wide range of goods on a global scale to make sure that needs are met at home, because if people are hungry and disenfranchised, revolution beckons.

It is a century of trade, as technological innovation and imperial expansion unlock new goods for rapidly growing populations in a number of markets. Trade is both the reason for and the result of imperial growth, and can even be a weapon in the subtle game of diplomacy. Find new ways to use the promise and potential of market power in Victoria 3: Charters of Commerce.

Charters of Commerce is a new mechanics pack for Victoria 3, centered on the role of trade in a century of rapid transformation. Charters of Commerce adds more depth and detail to the trade system, including new interactions with national companies and new diplomatic deals. Charters of Commerce is also the first major piece of content in the Victoria 3 Expansion Pass 2, a bundle of add-ons scheduled for Victoria 3 over the next year.

Features of Victoria 3: Charters of Commerce include:

• Company Charters: grant charters to your nation’s companies to give them an advantage in the cutthroat game of international trade.
  • Trade Charters let companies trade their manufactured goods on the world market
  • Investment Charters allow companies to establish regional headquarters and invest in foreign markets
  • Colony Charters make it possible for companies to govern colonial regions
  • Industry Charters give companies permission to expand their field of business into other types of production.
• Monopolies: Encourage monopolistic industries in your country, whether it be a highly efficient but costly state monopoly, or a private company monopoly that crowds out competitors in the production of vital goods.
• Diplomatic Treaties: Sign new types of diplomatic agreements, including imposing uneven trade deals and setting limits on colonization.
• Prestige Goods: Let successful companies branch out into the production of high quality goods like champagne, establishing your unique cultural imprint on a good type and gaining an edge on your competitors.

Victoria 3: Charters of Commerce will be available on June 17, 2025 at $19.99/£16.75/€19.99. It is also available via the Victoria 3: Expansion Pass 2.

Victoria 3 Expansion Pass 2 is the second expansion pass for Paradox Interactive’s popular societal simulation of an era of dramatic change in technology, society and diplomatic affairs. Expansion Pass 2 includes one Instant Unlock, one Mechanics Pack, two Immersion Packs and one Music Pack, all available for a discounted price thanks to Expansion Pass packaging.

Victoria 3: Expansion Pass 2 includes:

• Trade Ships Bonus Pack: Immediately available to all who purchase the Expansion Pass, this art pack adds three new on-map ship models that cross the trade lanes of the world.
• Charters of Commerce Mechanics Pack: Use the power of trade and business to build stronger ties with friends or to bludgeon your rivals in this Mechanics Pack focused on the economic levers of power. Establish trade companies, manage monopolies and sign new types of treaties as you increase the wealth of your citizens at the expense of others.
• National Awakening Immersion Pack: Explore the complex and dynamic history of the Balkans. Rising nationalist energies and a fading Ottoman Empire offer new opportunities for the Austrian Empire, as well as smaller regional powers, but these same nationalist energies may threaten the very foundation of the Habsburg regime.
• Songs of the Homeland Music Pack: Expand your global empire to the accompaniment of new stirring songs to inspire national pride and celebrate the innovations of the modern age.
• Iberian Twilight Immersion Pack: Revive the fortunes of the Spanish and Portuguese empires. Choose sides in the great political debates of the day and rebuild the global reach that once made your nation the marketplace of the world.

The Victoria 3 Expansion Pass 2 is available for purchase now for the suggested retail price of $35.97/£30.32/€35.97. The cost of the expansion is lower than buying each included item separately, and exclusively includes the Trade Ships Bonus Pack, which will be available to buyers immediately upon purchase.

Key Features:

• Infinite Replayability: Rewrite history as any of dozens of nations from the Victorian Era, from industrial powerhouses like Great Britain and Prussia to populous giants like Russia and Qing China or powers in waiting like Japan or Colonial Canada.
• Deep Societal Simulation: Cultural, economic and ideological divisions compete for power and resources in one of Paradox’s most detailed historical worlds.
• Tend Your National Garden: Nurture your population, educating it and preparing it for the future, guaranteeing their prosperity and improving their happiness.
• Wonders of the Industrial Age: Scientific and social progress give you the chance to improve the lives of your citizens.
• Sophisticated Economic System: Import goods to keep costs low, export goods to enrich your citizens, and then tax that wealth to advance your plans.
• Challenging Diplomacy: Maintain harmonious relations with your neighbors or provoke a crisis to grab valuable resources or force open new markets.
• Political Dealmaking: Manage competing interests in your government, opening up new reforms but risking revolution if key voices are not heard.
• Detailed and Living World: Cities grow and factories darken the landscape on a beautifully drawn map of the 19th century globe. Play any of dozens of nations from 183 and try to claim your place in the sun.

Victoria 3 is available for PC (Steam), Microsoft Game Pass and the Paradox Store at $49.99/£41.99/€49.99.