Test your diplomatic skills with Sphere of Influence, the new expansion for Victoria 3. Bring other nations under your sway with diplomatic skills, economic influences, and even bribes. Forge a lasting international faction with like-aligned governments, defend your common objectives for a greater good and the glory of your power.

Paradox Interactive's grand strategy simulation game of the Victorian era introduces new ways for you to assert your will upon the world. A coalition of reactionary powers can form blocs to confront the liberal forces of other nations. Use your economic power to coerce or pressure other regimes and plant the flag of your ideology wherever your fleets may be. Resist or give in to internal pressure to change your foreign policy, as ideological influencers will urge you to forge new power coalitions.

Sphere of Influence brings various additions and systems to illustrate the rapidly shifting diplomatic relations of this dramatic era, including new content specific to the Great Game, the decades-long competition between the British and Russian empires for dominance over Northern India and Central Asia.
 

Highlights

Highlights of Victoria 3: Sphere of Influence:

• Fierce Competition: use your Prestige to become a Great Power and create your own Economic Bloc! Dominate other nations with a diplomatic organization and fight for a common economy or ideological goals, whether promoting free trade worldwide or spreading specific values to other nations.
• Economic Bloc Customization: choose the identity and principles of your temporary alliance, whether it's a group promoting ideological themes like the Communist International or an economy-focused bloc seeking the integration of international trades like the Zollverein. You can even customize your bloc's colors and emblems!
• "The Great Game": new events, journal entries, and decisions inspired by the rivalry between Russia and England in Central Asia, and a new Objective: you can play as any of the central powers in the conflict, including Persia and Afghanistan. A newly redesigned map shows the various tension points at the borders between empires.
• Foreign Investment: invest in economic development among countries outside your direct influence and profit from their financial success.
• Nationalization: initiate a Diplomatic Play to seize foreign resources in your country and prevent profits from leaving.
• New Interactions with Subjects: adjust the payments of your vassals and protectorates, interfere in their internal policies much more!
• Interest Group Lobbies: domestic interest groups and agitators will fight for foreign policy goals, promoting friendly relations with some countries and hostilities with others, potentially influencing the development of allied lobbies in some parts of the world.
• Economic Bloc Monuments: erect majestic monuments to emphasize your bloc's influence and control over world events.
• New Historical Elements: new historical characters and companies, mostly focused on Great Game content, along with more events, journal entries, Lobby content, new outfits, and event art.