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Europa Universalis 5, as it's been posted to YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Music. Composed by Håkan Glänte, the music spans a lot of history and a lot of Europe in an impressive 26 tracks lasting nearly two hours.As you might imagine, it's a suitably grand soundtrack for a game that will encompass nearly 500 years of human history, from the medieval world through the early modern period. It focuses on a lot of orchestral pieces, with recognizable inspirations from medieval, renaissance, and baroque music.There's even a fitting bit of Bach in there, with an added vocal track above it—Gloria Patri On Bach's Cello Suite No.1 in G major, BWV 1007: I.Prélude. How pleasantly iconic. (Not sarcasm—trust me, you'll probably recognize the tune if you hear it. It's at 38:08 in the YouTube video.)For hardcore fans of grand strategy games there may have been a little apprehension over the upcoming soundtrack. Andreas Waldetoft, the composer behind the brilliant soundtracks of over a decade of Paradox Development Studio releases, left his exclusive arrangement with Paradox in 2023. Waldetoft's soundtrack for previous Paradox games were much-beloved.However, like Håkan Glänte's previous tracks with Paradox for Victoria 3, this one's pretty dang good. I'll let you give it a listen before you decide if it lives up to the legacy, fellow strategy meganerds, but for me it's another good set with a few true standouts that're going right on my "good game music" playlist. No, I won't give it a better name, it has been named that since 2005 and I am now completely set in my ways.In a hands-on preview earlier this year, PC Gamer's Fraser Brown said that Europa Universalis 5 might well be "the ultimate grand strategy game." I spent time with the same build of it, and I'm inclined to agree.You can find the Europa Universalis 5 soundtrack on Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube. Europa Universalis 5 itself, however, doesn't yet have a release date.

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