# Victoria 3 Victoria 3 - Dev Diary #161 - Songs of the Homeland out now! - Product: Victoria 3 (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/victoria-3) - Vendor: Paradox Development Studio - Date: 2025-10-16 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/529340/view/507342732569608227 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/victoria-3/releases/2025-10-16-victoria-3-dev-diary-161-songs-of-the-homeland-ou What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Added Songs of the Homeland music pack featuring 11 new tracks composed by Audinity, including A New Day Awakens, Walking Through Mist, Approaching Tempest, The Secret Glade, Old Ruins in the Forest, Sicilienne, Dance of the Shepherds, A Nap in the Fields, The Pride of People, Ode to the Night, and Evening Lights ## ##### Welcome to our newly released music pack _Songs of the Homeland_! With _Songs of the Homeland_, you step back in time to the transformative world of the Victorian Age where you are immersed in an era of bold national identity, the rise of modernism, and the birth of the truly international era! Now, I wonder which flag they are waving? Could it be a real one, or an imagined representation to be unspecific to a country? The German Unification flag at the Hambach Festival? Or is it just a horizontal Belgian? _Songs of the Homeland_ features the following evocative tracks: - _A New Day Awakens_ - _Walking Through Mist_ - _Approaching Tempest_ - _The Secret Glade_ - _Old Ruins in the Forest_ - _Sicilienne_ - _Dance of the Shepherds_ - _A Nap in the Fields_ - _The Pride of People_ - _Ode to the Night_ - _Evening Lights_ You can pick up the pack right now on Steam through [Expansion Pass 2](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3563050/Victoria_3_Expansion_Pass_2/) or (https://store.steampowered.com/app/3562810/Victoria_3_Songs_of_the_Homeland__Music_Pack/), [PDX Store](https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/victoria-3/add-ons/victoria-3-expansion-pass-2). Let us know which tracks were your favourite, mine is _Approaching Tempest_! And the people behind the music itself have some words to share about working on this pack, so I will hand it over to Robin and Yannick! --- Hello! We are Robin and Yannick from Audinity, we are the composers behind Victoria 3 – Songs of the Homeland. We have been in charge of the soundtracks for the main Victoria 3 game and Melodies for the Masses, as well as for many other Paradox games. But working on this music pack has been a really special ride for us. When we heard what this music pack was supposed to be about, we were really excited. Instead of writing music tied to specific gameplay content, we were able to write music much more freely alongside the overarching theme of „Songs of the Homeland“. So, first, we had to find answers to some pretty important questions: How can „Homeland“ sound, and what would be our approach for this theme? And how can we fit that into the existing soundtrack of Victoria 3? We looked at artists and composers from the era of romanticism and how they depicted their country, their homeland. There are a few outstanding examples in the musical repertoire from that time that are a musical interpretation of the composer‘s „Homeland“. Think for example of Smetana‘s wonderful symphonic poem „Má Vlast“ (My Fatherland), musically picturing many aspects of his home region Bohemia. Many musical compositions of the romantic era are themed around nature, the countryside, landmarks, legends and history, or wandering through your homeland. We also looked for inspiration in such typical romantic themes and tried to translate this into music that fits for Victoria 3. We are really thankful that our lovely partners at Paradox trusted us with a lot of creative freedom for this soundtrack! The song titles of this album might spark your imagination already, and we hope that, when listening to the music, you can as well hear the first rays of sunshine glancing over the mountain summits in „A New Day Awakens“, a wild boat ride on the river in „Approaching Tempest“, or the world and nature slowly coming to rest at nightfall in „Evening Lights“. Of course, this is still music written for the game, so it has to fit to the musical framework of the existing music in Victoria 3. The musical spectrum in Victoria 3 goes from string quartet pieces to symphonic music, usually with some kind of „soundtrack-classical“ vibe. We did not want to focus fully on one end of the spectrum, and rather decided to split the music for this soundtrack in two parts: one part of the music is composed for full symphonic orchestra, and the other compositions are for a smaller chamber ensemble. That allowed us to work with musical colours of different ensemble sizes and keep the variety of _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/529340/view/507342732569608227]_