Paradox (the studio) has been going downhill recently. Of the games they’ve released since 2016, Imperator: Rome struggled at launch and has since been complete

Paradox (the studio) has been going downhill recently. Of the games they’ve released since 2016, Imperator: Rome struggled at launch and has since been completely abandoned and Victoria 3 was a massive disappointment. That leaves Crusader Kings 3, which is good but still lacks a lot of stuff from Crusader Kings 2. Paradox (the publisher) has had a couple of rough launches recently too. I was really looking forward to Cities: Skylines 2 except it launched with absolutely unplayable performance issues. Meanwhile, Star Trek: Infinite is little more than a half baked reskin of Stellaris. Paradox is also one of the worst offenders when it comes to DLC. Actually buying the full version of any single Paradox game could cost upwards of a hundred dollars. That was fine when the base version of the game at release time was already good but recently that’s not consistently the case.