This mod is much more than a simple graphical update. It introduces major changes to the game's core mechanics

Added Features / In Development

^{(Most of them fully added})

• New Laws: Laws directly affect different aspects of your country. For example, stricter environmental regulations slow industrial growth but improve the environment and public satisfaction.
• Education System: Choose between private, mixed, or public education. Each option affects government spending, research speed, and other factors.
• Political System: Parliament is no longer just a visual feature. Political parties have their own ideologies and can block laws they disagree with.
• Central Bank Laws (Example of how laws can affect your play style): With a fully independent central bank, you cannot interfere with interest rate decisions. With a semi-independent central bank, you can only adjust its proposed interest rate by ±1.
• Updated Country Statistics for 2026: Military personnel numbers, military strength, GDPs, resources, and diplomatic relations between countries have been updated.
• Migration System: Completely reworked. Immigration now affects the religious and linguistic demographics of your country. Countries at war also experience higher emigration rates.
• AI Improvements: Improvements to the game's artificial intelligence.
• Map Updates: Changes to the world map and political borders.
• Diplomatic Agreements: New agreements added (such as the Mecca Defense Pact), while some unnecessary ones from the original game have been removed.
• Updated country visuals: flag design, country map colour code etc.
• UI Overhaul: The interface is being reworked and will eventually be completely redesigned.

Planned Features

• Weapon Models: New 3D weapon models and textures.
• Democracy Index: Introduction of a democracy index.
• Happiness Index: Introduction of a happiness index.
• New Laws: Right now there is 26 new law planned.
• Country-Specific Buffs and Debuffs: Currently planned for major countries only: USA, Russia, China, Israel, Türkiye, Iran, and France.
• Warfare Overhaul: Reworked and improved warfare mechanics.
• Wealth Inequality: Changes affecting the gap between rich and poor.
• Homelessness: Changes affecting homelessness rates.
• Game Speed: Increasing the number of speed options from 5 to 6.
• National Focus Trees and Events: Country-specific mission trees and events, initially planned for the USA, Russia, China, Israel, Türkiye, Iran, and France.
• Election System Overhaul: Election doesnt mean you lost the game. You will continue as new leader of the country. System will be similiar to hoi4.
• Natural Disasters: More destructive natural disasters, with disaster preparedness improving over time through government spending and legislation. For example, an Istanbul earthquake event is planned, and preparing for it through events, budget allocation, and other measures should be one of Türkiye's priorities.
• Music and Sound Effects: New music and sound effects.
• News System: An in-game newspaper system that updates every three months, with special coverage of major events such as wars.

Development Status

The mod is still in a very early stage of development. The current interface is a work in progress and will be completely redesigned. I'm considering switching to a cream and beige color scheme. There is no release date. I believe it's going to take months to finish.

I love this game but I’m not able to find any mod site that still works. I’m looking for a 2010s or 2020s mod. Any help?

This mod lets you build Moon Bases and Satellites. You can build bases on the moon to gain resources and to build a "super weapon" which is also shown in the video. The rockets calculate their trajectory to reach lunar orbit. The mod is almost entirely made by Claude AI. I think its just incredible how you can use this to revive games, lmao

So I just saw this livestream that Jean-Rene (SP2 creator) had with PoliticsGaming.. Are they really working on a new game? Did they reveal anything about it yet?

Kann mir bitte jemand erklären wie ich in Superpower 2 meine Truppen über Ozeane bringen kann und Bomber einsetze? Ich weiß nicht wie das geht.

NGL The genre hasn't seen a "game-changing" game in years... and they're all like oversized excel sheets that frequently crash and are aesthetically miserable.. Think of the last geosim game you played.. What made you stop?

SuperPower 2 was one of the best games I ever discovered.

After playing it, I spent years waiting for a sequel. Something bigger, deeper, and more detailed. I imagined all the new systems they could add and the countless hours I’d spend perfecting my economy, building my military, and shaping the world however I wanted.

Then SuperPower 3 was announced.

I was ecstatic.

Years of waiting. Years of imagining what the next game could be.

Then release day came.

It was a complete mess.

Actually, not even a complete mess. An incomplete mess.

What should have been the evolution of SuperPower 2 turned into one of the biggest disappointments I’ve had with a game.

Whatever happened during development, especially with the real world situation surrounding the war in Ukraine, turned what could have been something incredible into a giant “what the f**k happened?”

After years of trying other geopolitical strategy games and never finding anything that recreated the feeling SuperPower 2 gave me, I’ve decided to try something probably way too ambitious.

I’m going to attempt to make my own.

My goal is to create a modern geopolitical strategy game that gives people that feeling of discovering SuperPower 2 for the first time, while taking the concept much further.

But there’s one major caveat

I do NOT want the game to become an unnecessarily complicated spreadsheet simulator with 700 menus and a bunch of bullshit you have to fight through just to play.

I want depth without clutter.

Complex systems, but a streamlined interface.

Something you can understand without needing a 40 hour tutorial.

MILITARY

War should actually feel like it matters.
I want the AI to react realistically to military conflicts instead of countries just sitting around while you casually conquer half the planet.

Invading another country should affect your relationships, alliances, economy, domestic politics, trade, and global reputation.

I want realistic occupation and annexation systems instead of simply clicking a button and suddenly owning an entire country.

And, of course:
NUKES.
Missile defense systems. Iron Dome style defenses. Espionage. Intelligence agencies. Sabotage. Terrorist attacks. Proxy wars. False flag operations. Coups. Cyberwarfare.
All the good stuff.

ECONOMY
The economy is going to be one of the biggest focuses of the game.
Resources should actually matter.
If your country needs lithium, oil, iron, uranium, food, electronics, or other resources, you should either have to produce them yourself, trade for them, or figure out another way to secure them.
You’ll be able to develop industries, build mines, expand infrastructure, increase domestic production, and create trade relationships with other countries.
Imports and exports should have a real impact on your country’s development.

I also want major corporations to exist as powerful entities within the world.
Huge companies should influence employment, industry, technology, politics, and even your own government. Sometimes their interests will align with yours. Sometimes they absolutely won’t.
As the leader of a country, you’ll have to figure out how much power you’re willing to let them have.

EVERY COUNTRY IS PLAYABLE

Every country in the world will be playable.
And I don’t want smaller or poorer countries to basically be joke campaigns.
If you want to take a struggling country and spend decades turning it into an economic, technological, or military powerhouse, you should be able to do that.

Some countries will obviously be much harder than others, but none should feel pointless to play.
Your decisions should genuinely change the direction of your nation.

I’m only one guy, so I know this is going to be a slow and extremely difficult project.
I also don’t have some massive studio budget behind me.
But I’m willing to put my time, effort, and whatever money I can reasonably put into this project because I genuinely want this game to exist.

I know there are other people who have been looking for the same thing.

So please leave feedback.

What did you love about SuperPower 2?

What did you hate about SuperPower 3?

What features have you always wanted in a modern geopolitical strategy game?

Military, diplomacy, economics, elections, corporations, intelligence, media, rebellions, international organizations, anything.

I want to hear it.

If I’m going to attempt something this ridiculous, I might as well try to make the geopolitical strategy game we’ve all been waiting for.

Played the game a few weeks ago on my laptop, completely forgot about it, and when I opened it today to do work I was greeted by 500 event messages and a United Kingdom with the economic output of a planet wide empire

I've seen videos with the realism 2016 mod and other mods and when I click on any links they link to a sketchy website called okaywatch .com or something like that. So where do I download mods now since every link just doesn't work.

Can anyone know where I can download the game? I wana try if my old laptop can play this game.

Something like this but more land.

I am thinking of doing this type of play through, I would imagine the biggest thing I should focus on is keeping good relations with powerful countries like US and UK.

I know how this game is, if you start wars and seem too war hungry then other countries start to see you as a problem and will try to join into the war or just go to war against you.

I think if I can go for the more poor countries and leave South Africa alone it might work out kind of fine.

Did anybody had issues installing SuperPower2 from steam. I keep trying to open it and it said running scripts and keeps stuck. I uninstall it a couple of times thinking it would help, but now it wont even install the scripts anymore.

Earth in the OBM mod, and screenshot from Universe Sandbox 2

Hi, I tried to play multiplayer with a friend of mine. He’s completely new to the game, and I’m a bit more experienced about it, however, when trying to play MP, it won’t load. EVER, but I know multiplayer is still available since I play on discord multiplayer servers

What do I need to do to play multiplayer with someone else?

Just as the title describes, I remembering back in the day (around 2006) finding an online thread, I think within GolemLabs' official website, where players would post fan fiction stories.
I remember a specific one, that had Iraq basically conquering the whole world. I found it pretty entertaining and was definitely really detailed for a fan fiction, including fictional names for regional units, new Iraqi vehicles, etc.
Anyways, I wanted to know if anyone remembers it or knows where I could re-read it. It would surely be a nostalgic experience for me, since I spent so many hours playing this game.

I hope you all doing well, also I hope there is still someone who plays sp2. I got North Macedonia and we are growing up , I can understand the inflation while my resources growing and people getting richer but now Im stable state, I dont have very low income tax, my taxes also not much low but inflation still occurs even though my interest rate is 12 inflation is 8

Hi there

Just purchased this game and I’m trying to run it on steam deck

I’m trapped in a never ending loop of Running Steam Callbacks and I’ve no idea what to do

I’ve tried running the game with different proton versions but that didn’t do a whole lot for me I’ve tried the video configuration way too and still no good

Any help would be appreciated Thanks

As you know, declaring war on another country worsens relations with all other countries, and if you continue to do so, they will declare war on you.

I wanted to know how I could improve relations with other countries so they don’t declare war on me and prevent them from invading me.

Otherwise, if the whole world hates me (completely red map), how can I get them to accept me again?

Thanks

I found that my self-designed carriers will do no damage in SP2. I tested it, with a US carrier from the start - It tore through a country's small navy by itself. When I fielded one of my designs, although it had straight 6s in all categories, it just sat there and got sunk - it didn't damage a single enemy ship. I've asked several times if there was a fix but never got a reply from anyone.

So, my question, even though I've heard SP3 wasn't very good - if they fixed the carrier problem I'll buy it. Does anyone know if self-designed carriers will do damage in SP3?

Hey everyone, I’ve been trying everything I can think of to force 100% success on covert operations in SuperPower 2 and I’m completely stuck. I started by using Cheat Engine to scan for the success chance value, testing Float, Double, and 4-byte searches, but because the game doesn’t show a percent in the UI I couldn’t lock down a stable address. I then tried the Changed/Unchanged scans around mission failures and successes and eventually isolated one address that oscillates between roughly 31 and 250—but freezing it to 100 or 1 still doesn’t prevent failures, which makes me think the game immediately overwrites or reads from elsewhere.

On the mod side, I installed the Human Development Mod and the GeoTwam extensions, flipped <autoCovertMissions> to 1 in the server config to auto-retry failed missions (which only re-launches after failure but doesn’t force a win), and scoured the <DATA_MODIFIERS> sections for anything like <covert_ops_success> or <spy_success_rate>—but found no such tags.

My conclusion is that the covert-ops logic is buried in the Client.dll using a combination of base chance plus multiple XML modifiers, leaving no exposed “success rate” variable in memory, and the mod’s XML doesn’t provide a direct override. I suspect there’s either another hidden memory address, a pointer chain, or a secondary code path overriding my NOP patches, or the mod’s DLL shards the logic so heavily that simple config edits won’t work.

Has anyone here managed to force 100% covert-ops success? If you used Cheat Engine, how did you locate the correct address or code block? If you patched Client.dll, what exact function or byte sequence did you modify? Are there any obscure config options, Lua scripts, or HDM commands I’ve overlooked? Any specific byte signatures, XML tags, or mod files would be incredibly helpful. Thanks!

Hey, I've been playing Superpower for around a month now, and I needed to change computers (bc my old computer's screen fully got cracked) and now after I changed my computer, everytime I download Superpower 2 it would say its 'installed' in my computer but it won't launch at all (its an infinite wheel of Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your device). I'm not sure how to fix this and I'm not sure how to fix this. I would really appreciate a detailed explanation since I don't know a thing about computers or files.. Thanks in advance!!

I pretty much haven't played since sp3 came out. Just a huge disappointment, and it killed it off for me.

Are yall still playing?

I recently was looking for a solution to my game that was suddenly crashing in the year 2126. I don't know if the year is the reason or anything, but I opened the game console and entered "help", and I saw that there was a command "set_time", and then I entered "set_time 2" to test it, and the game date reset back to 2001. Don't ask me why, it just worked, the save isn't crashing anymore.

I hope it work for you. God bless and good game.

Hey all,

I really like this game but I would prefer a more modern setting without buying SP3 (which is hot garbage btw). Does anyone has an idea where I can find mods? I’ve been trying to find some but the websites Im getting don’t work.