10 Video Games That Take A Genius To Beat

3. Victoria II

Developer Paradox Development Studio have a reputation for creating impossibly deep and elaborate strategy experience that make most real-time strategy games look like playing army men in the sandbox.

Victoria II is their complicated masterpiece. In most strategy games, you simply direct and manage your available resources in order to meet some kind of victory scenario. Victoria II is similar to that, but here your actions are only made after you've analyzed hundreds of screens of data.

Even then, it's not always easy to know just what the consequences of your actions are. The tiniest statistic can undo even the best-laid plans. Even if you are able to somehow absorb the wealth of information available to you and analyze it perfectly, you are really only giving yourself a better chance in a game where victory is never certain.

If you have years of real world military or global politics experience with a dual-degree in global history and statistics, then it's still unlikely you'll be a master of Victoria II.