Hearts of Iron 4 is a great game. It allows you to create your own narrative. There is a deliberately sterile warfare that the majority can press past.

The New Order: Last Days of Europe's narrative deliberately twists and distorts reality into something far more disturbing, awful, terrible and genuinely insane. Mechanics surround it, the game puts it in your face, there is no way around it while playing this mod.

It is not alt-history, it is fetishistic irreality.

What COMPLETELY put me off of it is the addition of a SERIAL KILLER as one of the playable leaders. This step alone showcases how large the gap is in the cognitive dissonance of the developers.

It's not just bad taste, it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ horrendous.