Since Hearts of Iron IV requires you to play in “Ironman Mode” to receive achievements, you cannot save – you can only choose your path well, wisely, and early. Achieving them requires some of the most difficult – or downright outrageous – game choices you can make. The following are some of the best, trickiest, and weirdest HoI4 achievements you can get. And that’s just one of the 132 Hearts of Iron 4 achievements on offer. Despite doing everything right, I still could not bring Mexico to my side and spread the US forces thinly across two borders. In one game as Canada, attempting to sneak the “It’s 1812 All Over Again” achievement where you capture Washington, I fell prey to the RNG curse. Even with a perfect playthrough, you remain at the mercy of the random number generator. Many of these require expert knowledge of Hearts of Iron 4’s game mechanics, as well as a clear vision of what you are trying to achieve.
Besides the ‘standard issue’ set that you might expect to get over a single playthrough, there are a menagerie of unique achievements that require some truly ridiculous choices to receive.įrom Poland invading Iraq and Italy simultaneously to Australia dropping an atom bomb on itself, there really is no end to Paradox’s creativity in designing bizarre achievements that will force you to wring every bit of gameplay out of Hearts of Iron IV. We want to know what was going through Paradox’ collective noggins when it created the Hearts of Iron 4 achievements.