There is no better feeling than conquering the world in Victoria 3. However, depending on the country you chose at the start, the game can be incredibly challenging and unforgiving. If you go into the game unprepared, you might be shocked when your economy explodes, or your armies get stomped on by countries with better technology. If you want to get an advantage and learn what Victoria 3 is all about, here is a list of all the console commands and cheats that you can use with the game’s debug mode.

How to enable cheats (debug mode) in Victoria 3

If you want to use cheats in Victoria 3, you will first need to enable them. To do this, players have to turn on the debug mode outside of the game. Here is how you can enable debug mode in Victoria 3:

  • Open the game Launcher.Select the “Game settings” option on the left.Scroll down until you find the “Open game in Debug Mode” setting. Select the “Launch” button next to the setting.

You will now open the game in debug mode, giving you access to the command console and allowing you to switch countries at any time (hold down Ctrl and click on any country to take control of it). If the instructions weren’t clear enough, you can also look at the image above. Players will also see special debug information when hovering over various provinces and countries, which is normally hidden in the normal game mode.

If you are on Steam and the game directly opens up, skipping the launcher, you can also enable debug mode for Vic 3 by doing this:

  • Right-click Victoria 3 in your Library.Open “Properties.”Add “-debug_mode” to the Launch Options at the bottom.

You should also know that enabling debug mode will disable achievements and will disallow you from playing your ironman mode saved games.

All console commands and cheats in Vic 3

  • Add an approval modifier to the given interest group

  • Add or remove clout of the interest group by changing their political strength

  • Add an ideology to a given interest group

  • Adds loyalists to culture

  • Adds radicals to culture

  • Change relations with selected country

  • Check AI goal

  • Annex a country

  • Annex all other countries

  • Shows current cpu usage

  • List audio event

  • Play audio event

  • Opens up an url

  • Load camera position

  • Save camera position

  • Change a law in a country

  • Change the pop size of the given pop type ( can be ‘all’ ).

  • Print out pollution for specified state region

  • Set all enemy provinces under your control

  • Cause the application to crash

  • Create AI for country or countries

  • Create a country

  • Create a political movement

  • Change the current date

  • Toggles debug mode

  • Enables a texture mode for debugging

  • Disable AI

  • Disable pop growth

  • Enable AI

  • Add escalation to your diplomatic plays

  • Executes an event

  • Enable fast build mode

  • Enable fast enact mode

  • Enable fast hire mode

  • Enable fast institutions mode

  • Enable fast interests mode

  • Enable fast mobilize mode

  • Enable fast research mode

  • Enable fast revolution mode

  • Enable fast secession mode

  • Enable fast travel mode

  • Find and report all unemployed pops

  • Make this client go out of sync in multiplayer

  • Print out all console commands or a specific command description.

  • Kill the named character

  • Toggle map editor

  • Save a png of the map for a specific map mode. The only map mode which is known to work is “countries”

  • Switch to a given mapmode

  • Add specified amount of money

  • Pause music

  • Play the specified track

  • Reset the music system

  • Stop the currently playing track

  • Enable no revolution mode

  • Enable no secession mode

  • start observing the game

  • Change the owner of specified province or state region

  • Print out the amount of active pops

  • Open the portrait editor

  • Toggles showing of province borders

  • Acquire technologies

  • Take screenshot

  • Set devastation level in specified state region

  • Set pollution level in specified state region

  • Show AI goals.

  • Enable skip migration mode

  • Reload localization files and switch language

  • Switch control to another country

  • What time is it?

  • Takes treaty port in state region

  • Get or Set a building’s wage rate

  • AI will agree to all diplomatic proposals & sway offers from players