victoria 3 [Victoria 3] Shadows of Progress - SoP

[EctoBukkake]

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[Victoria 3] Shadows of Progress - SoP

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 Shadows of Progress

Version 0.02.07

 

 

Description                                             

Designed to be a lewd expansion to Victoria 3, Shadows of Progress is the first of this scale for the game. It takes many of the base game systems and expands upon them, adding plenty of NSFW content for players to enjoy. Keep in mind that this is a very early version of the mod, developed primarily by a single person.

Disclaimer: Not everything is complete or polished, but I am getting there slowly. Please report an bugs or incomplete content here https://forms.gle/kSTvBHWzTrjXuoWn9

 

While making Shadows of Progress, I have taken many considerations towards the potential for submods, and any are welcomed. Localization Versions are also welcome! For any questions, requests or assistance, join my Discord server through the link below. 

 

 

Features                                                  

The Dregs 

This is a new Interest group and currently the primary driver of enacting lewd laws for your nation. Comprised of criminals, prostitutes and minorities. 

New Laws

16 New Laws in 3 lawgroups, and one additional added for Women's Rights.

New Pops

5 New Pop to represent degenerates and criminals in your nation.

Lewd Ideologies

23 New Ideologies, for characters and interest groups. Explain Copulism

Character Traits

28 Character Traits! A long list of unique traits, some lewd and some chaste, designed to randomly occur in most adult characters. 

Goods

3 Goods. Prostitution, Illicit Wealth, Marijuana

Buildings

9 Buildings.

Minor Reworks of Vanilla Buildings to lewdify them and use new goods.

New Technologies

2 Branches on the Tech Tree. 13 New Techs. Compensated for by events.

State Decrees

5 Decrees. 

GFX

All Completed GFX are designed to be Vanilla Friendly.

Army Mobilization Options

6 Mobilization Options. Reward your troops with pussy or keep them stoned.

Companies

7 Companies, allowing you to expand the powers of the underground empires. 

Prestige Goods 

7 Prestige Goods, including variants for prostitution, illicit wealth, marijuana, furniture, luxury furniture, and luxury clothes.

Religions

3 Religions and a Rework of Current Religions. Your nation may slowly succumb to lewd religions such as Futa or Tentacles, giving unique modifiers. Currently, conversion must occur via events and revolution, but other methods are planned.

Lewd Random Events

A Handful of Lewd Events that occur randomly at the state and national levels.

Game Rules

10 Groups of Game Rules, Enabling you to remove kinks entirely. This is a groundwork for submods created by myself and other authors.

Journals

5 Journals Allowing you to Embrace copulism or decide which sex truly is the superior!

Political Movements

Two Political Movements

 

 

Planned Content                                    
- Milking Economics

- A Fleshed Out Corruption System
- World Corruption Objective

- Improved Religion System and Conversion.

- Dynamic Events and More Random Events

- More Laws

- Better Rule Implementation

- End Game Content

- Battle Conditions

- New Wargoals

- Sexpionage and Diplomacy

- Lewd Content for Specific Regions of Nations

- Improved Political Content

- Kleptocracy Government Type

- Formable Nations

- Exploration Journals

- Progressive Depravity Journals

- Narrative Journals "Quests"

- Dynamic Character Trait System

- Expanded Dregs Features

- Ruler Focused Additions

 

 

 

Installation                                             

How to Install the Mod
    See  NOTE 2 below if you are updating the mod.
    1. Unzip the contents of the downloaded file. It will contain a file called "Shadows of Progress" and a few other .txt files. 
        The .txt files are not necessary to install the mod and just contain documentation.

 

 

    2. Place the "Shadows of Progress" folder into your Victoria 3 mod directory.
        Documents\Paradox Interactive\Victoria 3\mod is the default directory for mods.

    3. Launch Victoria 3 through Steam.

    4. In the launcher, select "Playsets"

 

    5. Add a new preset and enable "Shadows of Progress", or add "Shadows of Progress" to an existing preset. The mod may or may not be compatible with other mods. The buttons are in the upper right of the launcher ("ADD MORE MODS" and the Dropdown left of that.)

    6. Go to the "Home" section of the launcher.

    7. Activate the Playset by selecting it in the dropdown directly below the "Resume" and "Play" buttons in the center of the launcher. If you do not activate the playset, the mod will not be active.

    8. Press "Play".

 

 

    NOTE 1: You can verify that the mod is active from the main menu of the game by the DLC icon in the lower left of the screen.

    NOTE 2: If you are updating the mod, delete all of the old files before adding the new ones. You will get errors and things will break if you don't.

    

Compatibility                                         

Extensive compatability testing hasn't been done, and this section will be updated as I learn more. Please report any incompatablities you find.

 

Community Submods and Add-Ons                                        

Here is a list of submods and add-ons for SoP made by members of the community:

Other NSFW Victoria 3 Mods

I want to support the Victoria 3 NSFW modding community as much as I can. These are links to any NSFW mods that I know of. 

 

Languages and Localizations                

English is the only language the I will personally support. Contact me if you speak another language and would like to create a localization set for the mod. I can upload it here on this page and credit you for your work, both here and on my Discord Server. Some localization files may already be available on my Discord Server.
 

FAQ                                                          

Ask questions frequently and they will be added here.

 

Credits                                                     

Main Developers

Created by: EctoBukkake

Writer: ladyfia

Writer: TashOwO
 

Community Credits
Thanks to Kim Chen In for the Russian Localization

 

External Resources

This mod contains some work that was done by other people, which may or may not have been altered by me. 
- Brothel Icon and Prostitutes Icon from "Prostitution & Brothels by Konig

- Event art based on art from various artists, Including Po-Ar

- Mod DLC icon based on art by InCase

- Includes code from Modded DLCs Framework by 1230james

- Religious Modifiers Inspired by Victoria Universalis IV.

 

Also made with the support and suggestions of the Gooners on my Discord Server!
 

Support The Mod                                   

If you like my work or want to support the creation and expansion of this mod, there are multiple ways to do so! Follow and like the mod, download my other mod on nexus.com so I can get donation points there, or even contribute to my Patreon! Anything you can give is appreciated, and downloading my other mod on the Nexus is free and only take a minute of your time 😊

https://www.nexusmods.com/victoria3/mods/33

 

 

Discord                                                    

Join my Discord to get more info about future update, suggest content and interact with the NSFW side of the Victoria 3 community! Click the image below to open the link.

 

 

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• Submitter
  EctoBukkake
• Submitted
  12/17/25
• Category
  Misc
• Requirements
  None
• Install Instructions

    
  How to Install the Mod
      See  NOTE 2 below if you are updating the mod.
   1. Unzip the contents of the downloaded file. It will contain a file called "Shadows of Progress" and a few other .txt files. 
          The .txt files are not necessary to install the mod and just contain documentation.

  
   2. Place the "Shadows of Progress" folder into your Victoria 3 mod directory.
          Documents\Paradox Interactive\Victoria 3\mod is the default directory for mods.

  
   3. Launch Victoria 3 through Steam.

  
   4. In the launcher, select "Playsets"

  
   5. Add a new preset and enable "Shadows of Progress", or add "Shadows of Progress" to an existing preset. The mod may or may not be compatible with other mods. The buttons are in the upper right of the launcher ("ADD MORE MODS" and the Dropdown left of that.)

  
   6. Go to the "Home" section of the launcher.

  
   7. Activate the Playset by selecting it in the dropdown directly below the "Resume" and "Play" buttons in the center of the launcher. If you do not activate the playset, the mod will not be active.

  
   8. Press "Play".

   

      NOTE 1: You can verify that the mod is active from the main menu of the game by the DLC icon in the lower left of the screen.

  
      NOTE 2: If you are updating the mod, delete all of the old files before adding the new ones. You will get errors and things will break if you don't.

 

[Mister_Wake]

Absolute cinema
This mod might actually bring me to play (and learn) Victoria 3 Singleplayer. I've only ever played it multiplayer with friends, yet it never grasped me like other paradox games have. You singlehandedly might do it! 
If I may ask: how many events / artworks are currently in the mod? I might give it a play this early!

[EctoBukkake]

Most of the random events have placeholder images and some have placeholder localization. There are currently 13 random events that occur on a random basis, but mostly yearly. There are also 8 random events that occur for religious conversion. I had the mod in private testing for about a year, and a lot of the content is still incomplete. I'm going to focus a bit on making what is already in the mod better and more complete before I add more content. 

Today is the two year anniversary of when I started working on this mod, so I wanted to post it today to make it easier to track development 

[Mister_Wake]

I'll wait a little bit before playing then! Thank you ❤️

[Tyrranus]

Been testing it for a while, its a solid add to the game

[TarDust]

on_game_start events broken, seem to be giving Matriarchial laws by default.

[maybe_gg]

For a bit this mod was available in other -> Paradox Games, since you updated it it disapeared from there. It would be nice if you could somehow still have it be available from there, it makes it easier to check for updates.

[TarDust]

Fractured Gender Dynamics ending events don't seem to grant Neo- ideologies to IG's

[EctoBukkake]

19 hours ago, TarDust said:

on_game_start events broken, seem to be giving Matriarchial laws by default.

This should have been fixed in the most recent verison, along with a mistake made in the file upload. 

 

5 hours ago, maybe_gg said:

For a bit this mod was available in other -> Paradox Games, since you updated it it disapeared from there. It would be nice if you could somehow still have it be available from there, it makes it easier to check for updates.

I noticed that too, but I don't think I have any control over where it gets moved. It started in Paradox but now it is in Downloads - Adult Games. I messaged the Admins about it, so hopefully they make a category under Paradox for Victoria 3. 
 

2 hours ago, TarDust said:

Fractured Gender Dynamics ending events don't seem to grant Neo- ideologies to IG's

 

I have been trying to fix this issue for a while now. I thought it was resolved, but I will give it another look.

[maybe_gg]

Minor bug report:

Some buildings like nefarious alley, ganglord's hideout,... and their building groups have lens = infrastructure(which doesn't exist) it should probably be lens = development. This causes them to not appear in any tab of the production lens(they can still be build, but you have to go province by province, which is quite annoying).

[TarDust]

20 hours ago, EctoBukkake said:

I have been trying to fix this issue for a while now. I thought it was resolved, but I will give it another look.

 

The ending event is the issue. I looked through the code and it doesn't actually have the Neo- ideologies in the add_ideology section.

[EctoBukkake]

9 hours ago, TarDust said:

 

The ending event is the issue. I looked through the code and it doesn't actually have the Neo- ideologies in the add_ideology section.

Yeah, it looks like an mismatch in the way I wrote it all. It has been a while since I made the journals, and I think I meant to have middle journals that introduce the neo ideologies. I honestly can't remember though, like a lot of content in the mod, it needs a rework.

 

[Natsu_Zirok]

I don't know why, but when I try to start the game with the mod, it just crashes.
There are no DLC icons in the bottom left, even though the mod is clearly active (debug log).

[JohnLewdModder]

Nice to see this officially released.

[qwedc1115]

On 12/23/2025 at 9:40 AM, Natsu_Zirok said:

I don't know why, but when I try to start the game with the mod, it just crashes.
There are no DLC icons in the bottom left, even though the mod is clearly active (debug log).

I think I'm in the same situation. I don't know what the problem is.

[Anglamark Musli]

I know it's been mentioned on the Discord as well, but I'll make a note here too: the streetwhore den building needs balancing. On laissez-faire captitalists will spam build it, and the ai never switches off the first pm with the per-level fertility bonus. I discovered how out of hand this can go in the lategame when suddenly everyone became radicalised because the world ran out of food, because there were a couple hundred billion people in south cameroon creating infinite demand.

[Hydralcolique]

It's a nice addition to the game whitch allows new roleplay build. Even with placeholders and some elements that still needs a few adjustments (the dregs for exemples who randomly hates or loves women at the start of a game and makes it impossible to pass sex-related laws without starting a new game), there are a lots a things to do and enjoy.
A shame that only CK and stellaris are featured in the paradox category.

[Tyrranus]

small new update for those interested in this but not in discord

[george41]

Just found this mod, absolutely loving it. Can't wait to see what else you're cooking up.

[mmmmacaroni111111111111111]

On 12/23/2025 at 1:40 AM, Natsu_Zirok said:

I don't know why, but when I try to start the game with the mod, it just crashes.
There are no DLC icons in the bottom left, even though the mod is clearly active (debug log).

Same here
Could someone clear help us with this ?

[hoodedfigure13]

Could someone clarify which DLC if any is needed for this?

[Natsu_Zirok]

On 1/2/2026 at 2:41 PM, qwedc1115 said:

I think I'm in the same situation. I don't know what the problem is.

 

On 4/5/2026 at 7:13 PM, mmmmacaroni111111111111111 said:

Same here
Could someone clear help us with this ?

Ah, I see, the problem turned out to be with my system.
For those interested, the path to the default mods folder (Documents) is somehow loading incorrectly. This happens with all mods in any Paradox game, which is why it crashes in Vic3. In CK3, the mod simply doesn't load, and in Stellaris, it doesn't update them even if you update the files.
Simply change the mod path using the Paradox or Irony launcher.

I decided to figure out what the problem was by deleting some of the mod files that would most likely cause problems, but the part that was guaranteed to load without problems didn't load. So I remembered the peculiarity of systems that are initially installed using non-Latin alphabets (Cyrillic or hieroglyphs, for example).

After a break, I decided to return to the game, so I decided to figure it out at the same time.

[Platinphoenixx]

On 4/20/2026 at 6:59 PM, hoodedfigure13 said:

Could someone clarify which DLC if any is needed for this?

None

[iliz]

New DLS and Update's is hire , game just crushing after some months\years with this mod, i cant countinue after gamecrush
deveeloper make something pls🙏

Edited May 1 by iliz

[maybe_gg]

1 hour ago, iliz said:

New DLS and Update's is hire , game just crushing after some months\years with this mod, i cant countinue after gamecrush
deveeloper make something pls🙏

The mod isn't updated to the new version yet, either wait a couple days for it to update or play using a previous version of the game. (right click on the game in steam -> properties -> Game Versions & Betas -> 1.12.5)
Also learn how to spell