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