Europa Universalis 5 keeps putting me to sleep, but I really wish it didn't

Paradox Interactive? Here's a bloody paradox for you! I love the thought of expansive strategy games, possibly much than I tin perchance convey. I've spent countless hours poring implicit screenshots of Europa Universalis 4, Crusader Kings 3, and Victoria 3, mesmerised by those evocative maps and enigmatic numbers. Where immoderate mightiness spot drab undulations and a spreadsheet UI, I spot tantalising potential; the accidental to crook past to my whims with an robust fist, a cleanable codpiece, and twinkle successful my eye. And yet - and yet - erstwhile it comes to really playing the things, nary substance however determined my resolve, I'm beauteous overmuch guaranteed to motion disconnected wrong 10 minutes of starting the tutorial.

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