Invoking Wagner, Paradox Interactive announces Götterdämmerung, an expansion coming on November 14th to Hearts of Iron IV, its World War II grand strategy sequel. This focuses on Germany, and is said to include alternate history and the chance to "revitalize socialist resistance to the Fascist regime." This seems farfetched unless that's a scenario where there's no World War II in this World War II game. Far from it, the Official Announcement Trailer shows a The Man in the High Castle scenario where the Germans prevail in the war. The announcement stays in character, taking an unusually neutral, if not propagandist, approach to the conflict between Nazi Germany and its "ideological foes":

Thought crippled by the settlement of the last war, a strong Germany has returned as the axis of power in Central Europe. This strength only heightens the resentment for what is thought to have been a historic injustice. But history is not written in stone. What path will Germany take in your hands? Can you revitalize socialist resistance to the Fascist regime? Will German might take its shape under a revived monarchy? Brace yourself for the gathering storm and write a new history of the world’s most dangerous years in Götterdämmerung, a new expansion for Hearts of Iron IV, coming on November 14.

This addition to Paradox Interactive’s popular strategic wargame focuses on the key player of the Second World War - the Germany Reich. Through new National Focus Trees, people can steer this great power through years of armed struggle against ideological foes. This expansion also revises special research projects - like rocketry and atomic weapons - and offers new combat options.