Country Pack - Hearts of Iron IV: Graveyard of Empires

It's not that bad. As of June 2025, I think the focus trees are decent - if anything, India is on the bloated side. Like all country packs, it only affects a specific area, so if playing something like 1936 Afghanistan or fascist Iraq doesn't strike your fancy, there is no reason to take it. But if you are interested in playing in the Middle East, it does the job as a flavor pack for a theater of WW2 that gets overlooked almost everywhere else.

Months later the DLC is still not worth buying, even on sale, and following extensive reworks. Focus trees can still be finicky, nations even with non-historical toggled on do nothing interesting. I don't remember if this mod came with music, which in itself is a reason not to buy; either it has no music, or it is extremely forgettable. It's like paying for a windows 11 dlc, random developers leave little messages in the code saying sorry for being bad at their job instead of using their fingers to type better code, and half the event descriptions and focus tree descriptions are AI generated. Portraits of people like Gandhi are unnaturally smooth whether it be the result of AI or taking a new style, which stick out alot and make the game... UNPLAYABLE!!!! DLC also adds new british & french led puppets in syria, lebanon, palestine, jordan, and burma. these are historical but have no content, and if you have a dated or lower end PC it could slow your game down needlessly. In some rare cases the older focus trees can mean nations like Turkey, Britain, & Russia get weird borders when expanding into the Middle East If you truly want a middle east rework or thing or whatever try Road to 56 or one of the many many mods over the past decade

I waited a while to buy this because of all the negative reviews. However, I figured I would pick it up when it went on sale for the Summer Sale. Could not possibly be that bad... Holy crap, this is by far the worst DLC. Every country is unplayable and none of the paths are even remotely fun. It's like the developers took a bunch of ideas from other DLCs that they threw out and made this one out of them. Complete garbage and I seriously regret buying it.

I usually do not write reviews but I nearly forgot but this is a Hard Pass. Probably the worst DLC released - If I didn't have the pass I would've skipped this one Entirely. I played Afghanistan and it was utterly boring and suffers from the fact most of the National Focuses are the most Generic uninspired Join Germany, Form your own Axis powers, Join the Soviets, form your own communists with all of those ending with you fighting an endless war against the allies. Democracy is boring as usual, and Neutrality also puts you at a endless war with the allies.

This was honestly the worse DLC i had ever come across, you cant do anything and wait until pretty much the end of the game to do anything... honestly not even worth it and i deeply regret paying for this... do yourself a favor and save your money for something else

Does not really worth price. Boring, not fun focuses, and there is not a lot of them.

Love the game, I'm easy to please but there are known bugs that were reported and confirmed since launch that are still not fixed. There are several focuses on the Iran tree that just don't work, and Paradox QA knows they don't work. It's been almost four months at this point. The DLC was sold before it was ready.

This was pure trash.... I do not normally leave reviews, but this has to be the worst thing Paradox has ever signed off on..... Imagine naming a DLC after a country and then barely giving that country any decent content..... Just shameful.

I played as Persia for a bit, the only good tree is the imperial tree. the fact that the Communist tree not only lacks the basics of a Pan-Iranic-Union from Kurdish to Tajik & from Azeri and Armenian to Pashtun and Baluchi lands, but specifically balkanizes Iran from it, is... a choice... i guess... so is the whole playing into the recently declassified american Project TP-Ajax fantasy the tree realizes with the Tudeh and the other communist branch being not ok with mossadegh... the communist trees in most countries in general in the game should be very democratic and none-revolutionary, instead of just reprints of the fascist trees...... as it was actually counter-revolutions that ended the democratic rise of many of them... all in all, i think the trees are trash tier for Iran, but they are better for Afghanistan (that river event is really cool, and so is the requesting of the northern half of greater Iran from the soviet union... honestly i feel like communist Iran and Afghanistan should share trees as far as the expansion process goes... just reunite all of Greater Iran... into a Pan-Iranic-Union), VERY CONFUSING, but awesome, for india, and makes my eyes fully crossed for Iraq... But, i think with heavy amounts of modding that basically overwrites 50%+ of this... then this xpack could be ok... ideas exist. Neat and not even far fetched ideas for national focus's include... a knowing the future/preventing the future move.. like... oil development to prevent allied invasion and the resulting famine that killed 2 million. a knowing the future/present and using its humanitarian multicultural crossroads past to justify action inviting/saving refugees from the reich... of Romani with flavor about the flight from the Mongolian Conquest, and like always being welcome... and Jewish with flavor about the bible and Xerxes the Achamenid Empire... both focuses could boost your population and development in mobilization, there could even be an event about making Bear Artillery forces, like an army with Wojtek style setups or something... maybe even Bear Cavalry, have fun with it because history is crazy, and alt history can be over the top, idk... why do i recommend this xpack? not sure... maybe... because of the region... any content is better than what paradox gives on launch. gives a nice leg up for modding a better system in?

AI generated slop. Just when I thought paradox couldn't stoop any further into laziness and greed, they go and do the impossible and somehow bring my expectations even lower. I'm serious about my AI comment. These knuckleheads thought they could get away with using AI generated descriptions for events and focuses and AI generated leader portraits and that we wouldn't notice. There is no reason to own this except if you already have the expansion pass which I do. Thankfully, it only adds content for countries that did basically nothing during WW2 and it doesn't interfere with the content and gameplay of countries that actually matter.

look i think it isn't that bad on its own, but when compared to other dlc like not a step back, or by blood alone, it's not that great. like if you have enough money to buy any other dlc for this game, buy any other dlc besides this one. iraq is mostly boring and not very interecting, the path worth mentioning is problely the democratic path, besides that no reason to play iraq. iran is just trying to invade afghanistan, and end up getting stuck in mountains. iran is so boring, touching grass outside is better than playing iran, that's coming from a person that doesn't go outside. afghanistan is just boring, with only one interecting event for each path. british raj is the only one i enjoyed, because every time i would play the british raj before the dlc, was completing everything, but never reaching full power, which always bothered me, but this dlc makes it where india can become powerful. now the trees do have a issue of just giving you everything, and most are 70 days, meaning by the time, you become a powerhouse, the game is over. oh yeah afghanistan is way to hard to invade, i get it supposed to be hard to invade, but it is to a point of ruining the game. if you can buy any other dlc, don't buy this one.

Add-on broke India and UK fascist tree, and probably non-aligned, Ceylon focus in UK tree now bypasses, India won't break free when playing fascist UK even when they have enough autonomy and PP. Also broke Saabadad pact in Turkey tree. Might be the first DLC I've ever had to disable so I can actually have a smooth run. Clearly PDX didn't bother to check other trees to make sure it wouldn't break them.

This DLC is very bad and the fact that you have to pay 15 euros for it, it should be free at this point. Broken focuses, bad focuses, the devs expecting you to fight the allies as Iran with 50 stability and barely any guns and divisions also no supply.

Even with the patches, I regret purchasing this. It continues to have bugs. Not only that, but it's overpriced for the content included. Regardless of price, it's still bad. Large focus trees that serve to do nothing but waste time. It makes the game incredibly boring as any nation in the DLC. I don't usually post reviews, but this DLC is genuinely bad. TIA was far better even.

Congrats on fucking the game up! Crashes crashes and more crashes

Got this for free xD (No one I know plays hoi4 too, prob just a mistake) Still a shit DLC even after all this time but I like the elephants :p

If you know who I am, you'd know I'm a professional paradox and HOI4 shill. I was one of few who pre-ordered the DLC season pass, AKA Gotterdammerung. So, imagine my disappointment from buying the best DLC in the game's history (besides NSB) and seeing THIS horror. I remember the way I heard about the errors of it was when I read an article or something about how one of the developers called this the "worst line of code I've ever written." Let's talk value. 4 focus trees for 15 bucks. For example, BFTB was about $10 for three focus threes. TOA, while disliked, had five focus trees for 15. But this DLC? Three new focus trees and a rework for about 15 bucks. That's fucking awful. I have only played the East India Company, and while it was fun and well made, it's a meme path, and should've been a secret path. Iraq's army spirit is just called "Army," I rest my case. Oh, and for you non historical players (like me), this really fucks up your game. 5/10. I expected more considering the recent DLCs. Do better.

$15??? For this??? Content for Iraq Iran and Afghanistan with a touch-up for India... in a world war II game... costs $15??? Just by the shear mass quantity of output the modding community makes the fact paradorks has the audacity to charge money for "content packs" is sick and twisted

Well, I'm so f_king glad to see Paradox offend everyone that they can and fail their product. Hopes it would make they realize somethings more important and return their focus on main nation like US, UK, and Japan (and their rival RoC.)

Not bad, but overpriced for country pack

I was really looking forward to this DLC, it was right up my alley, but oh god did it let me down. A boring mess that flows like it was playtested exclusively by wine-drunk sloths. Usually I keep away from writing reviews but having paid full price for this, seen the mess it came out as and then having waited for the inevitable post-release fixes, I'm just too disappointed by it all. Just don't get this DLC. Even if you're a middle eastern history enthusiast like me. Not even on sale. Note: To be fair I want to add that I have not played as Afghanistan yet. I left it for last but after the other three trees I just gave up.

Don't listen to the haters..... Anybody who has rated this mod negatively have never played vanilla Iran, Iraq or Afghanistan or properly looked at the middle east before this dlc... It gave 4 countries updated focus trees (3 of them never had one in the first place), added resources to provinces (not just oil), added new provinces that actually make sense, and added more colonies of the allies into the middle east making the map look more historical...... all in all, get this mod if you would like to play in the middle east, especially Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. Thank you Paradox for making an Iran dlc and focus tree.

Another lazy DLC from greedy game developer

Shit dlc first time i fell almost asleep playing this shit

A solid add on to this massive game! I've thoroughly enjoyed it.

this dlc added nothing of value the ai doesnt even do anything

Add Turkish language support.

should be a free update. You know why? Rt56 and mods like that add more and are free.

Garbage what were the developers thinking?

i have never played any of the besides Raj before. and i still will never

Untested broken DLC

THEY GAVE LUXEMBURG SOMETHING

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