The game was released in a terrible state, generating a megathread on Reddit to catalogue an extraordinary pile of issues. This wasn’t just a number of crashes, but the release was clearly unfinished. For example: “The religion interface is straight out of the dev diary, half of the modifiers don’t even have names, and even the convert provinces prompt is improperly cropped.” Johan Andersson posted on the official forums, apologising for Leviathan and the general quality of other releases leading up to it. He said: Though the quality of the release won’t ever be forgotten, apologising and promising resources to both fix the bugs and changing future developments is a decent enough opening salvo. The good thing about games is they can always be patched. They’d better get to work.