Control Europe is a Roblox strategy game by Hidden Studio. You pick a country, upgrade cities, research technology, and fight until your country is the one still standing. A public server holds 14 players. Private servers add Save and Load.
Before the first match
Join the ShkatulkaGames group before you spawn. Membership is the documented free permanent bonus: +5% tax income, +5% manpower, and +2 damage. The experience itself is published by the Hidden Studio group. There is no code box, so a pasted promo code has nowhere to go. Details are on the codes page.
Camera and orders
On PC the camera is free and most orders are the mouse.
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| W A S D | Slide the camera |
| Mouse wheel | Zoom |
| Left click | Select a country, city, or army |
| Right click | Move or attack with the selected army |
| E | Economy and management |
| R | Recruit panel |
| M | Full map |
| Esc | Pause and settings |
On a phone or tablet, drag to pan, pinch to zoom, tap to select, and tap the destination to move or fight.
The on-screen layout matches the same loop. The top bar shows your flag, treasury, manpower, diplomatic power, and the in-game date, which ticks forward from the real date you started. Hover the treasury to see troop expenses against tile income. The right bar opens Diplomacy, Support, and the technology tree. The left bar opens the shop, the country swap, leaderboards, and settings. Recruiting can also be done by selecting a city you own and using the spawn-army control, then picking a unit and a size.
First hour
- Confirm the group bonus is on your account, then pick a country from the map rather than from memory of the flag. Choosing a country covers why China and the United States are the forgiving starts.
- Open city management and queue tier upgrades. A tips walkthrough shows a multi-upgrade control under Diplomacy, then the cities view, so you do not click every city by hand.
- Leave the starting infantry on the border while those upgrades finish. On modern Europe maps that starting stack is 30,000 infantry. Do not spend the opening 60,000 manpower on a second stack before you know who is next to you.
- Read the money panel. Tile Tax Income should stay ahead of Military Expenses. A red Summary means the army is larger than the empire.
- Research a unit your neighbours do not have. Research is described as taking about one to two minutes, and the price rises with the size of your country.
- Bank political power before you justify a war. The Europe map charges 50, the world map charges 17, and declaring is another 10. Production is only +0.25 per day.
What the first cities allow
Each city has a tier from 1 to 10 and a defense rating from 1 to 10. Both show X at the top. Tier raises income and manpower. Defense makes the attack expensive. Airports exist only on capitals, so planes stop if you lose the only airport. Ships need a port. A captured city is not a finished city: tax is lower, it cannot spawn units, and you annex it only while you are at peace with the owner, or by eliminating that country. The city rules are in cities and economy.
Settings worth knowing
Five toggles are documented, with these defaults: music off, shadows on, the default Roblox player list off, quick soldier movement on, and in-game pop-ups hidden. None of them change combat numbers.
Where to go next
Raise the opening army from military units. Spend political power using alliances and war. Chase a named country only after you can hold its cities; that checklist is formables.