Victoria 3 PC Trainer and Cheats
- Developer options, switched on
- Grow the city past its bottleneck
- Single-player only, always
Twenty of the 44 cheats here are developer codes, and eleven more set construction and research for you or for the AI. Victoria 3 is a game you lose to an economy, not an army.
All Victoria 3 cheats
44 cheats in 7 groups. 4 free, 40 with a premium plan.
Money/Resources
- +500k Gold reservesfree
- The treasury goes negative by the 1850s in most campaigns, and construction, the engine of everything, needs money you don't have yet. This adds a large reserve directly.
- -500k Gold reservesfree
- -100M Gold reservesfree
Miscellaneous
- Enable Debug Mode
- Disable Debug Mode
- Lowers the bar for absorbing a rival state, instead of the diplomatic and military buildup that normally forces it.
Construction
- Construction is the actual bottleneck of the whole economy. This speeds it up for your own country.
AI
- The trainer carries a matching set of switches for AI-controlled countries, not just yours, for testing the game's pace rather than just your own.
- The reverse of the AI construction cheat, for handicapping a rival's growth specifically.
- Fast research (AI)
- No research (AI)
Systems
- Fast research
Dev Codes
- One of many paired on/off developer console switches the trainer exposes directly, without typing the console command.
- Instant build OFF [PCC]
- Fast enact ON [PCC]
- Fast enact OFF [PCC]
- Instant research ON [PCC]
- Instant research OFF [PCC]
- Fast hire ON [PCC]
- Fast hire OFF [PCC]
- Fast institutions ON [PCC]
- Fast institutions OFF [PCC]
- Fast travels ON [PCC]
- Fast travels OFF [PCC]
- Fast mobilize ON [PCC]
- Fast mobilize OFF [PCC]
- Fast colonize ON [PCC]
- Fast colonize OFF [PCC]
- Fast lobbies ON [PCC]
- Fast lobbies OFF [PCC]
- Fast incorporate ON [PCC]
- Fast incorporate OFF [PCC]
Cities
- Add Employees (hover pop)
- Sub Employees (hover pop)
- Add Dependents (hover pop)
- Sub Dependents (hover pop)
- Neutralizes a population group's political lean entirely, rather than pushing it toward either side.
- Radicals destabilize a state and loyalists don't. This sets a population group to the stable end of that scale directly.
- All Radicals (hover pop)
- Radicals become loyalists (sel. state)
- Loyalists become radicals (sel. state)
- All people become loyalists (sel. state)
- All people become radicals (sel. state)
Why cheats make sense in Victoria 3
The treasury goes negative in 1848 and by 1852 the country is in permanent debt with no way to build its way out. Construction is the engine of everything, and construction needs money you do not have yet. All four free cheats move gold reserves, in both directions and at two scales, because that is where a Victoria campaign actually breaks.
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Gold reserves, four free switches
Plus and minus 500k, plus and minus 100 million. A Victoria 3 economy either compounds or collapses, and the difference is often one decade of deficit spending you could not afford. -
Construction is the whole engine
Fast construction, and a separate switch for the AI. Every industry, railway and port comes from construction capacity, which itself has to be built first. -
The AI can be slowed down
No construction, no research and no innovation for the AI. In a game where great powers compound their advantages, the alternative to catching up is holding them back.
Make Victoria 3 the game you actually want to play.
More about the Victoria 3 trainerWhere are you stuck in Victoria 3?
Every cheat sorted by the problem it solves.
How game trainers work
When Victoria 3 gets in its own way, a trainer is the shortest way around it.
- 1Install the PLITCH trainer and start Victoria 3.
- 2Pick the cheats you want. Free ones are included, premium ones need a plan.
- 3Switch them on and off with hotkeys while you play Victoria 3, in single-player.
Cheats work in single-player only. They do not change your game files, and you can turn every one of them off again. Independent trainer page for Victoria 3. Not affiliated with the publisher or developer.
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Which Victoria 3 cheats are free?
Four of the 44, all gold reserves: plus and minus 500k, plus and minus 100 million.
What are the AI cheats for?
Several switches apply to AI nations rather than you, including no construction and no research, which is one way to keep a runaway great power in check.
Can cheats be used in multiplayer?
No. The trainer works in single-player only.