Crusader Kings III

Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.

Crusader Kings III is a strategy, medieval and grand strategy game developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive.
Released on September 01st 2020 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 8 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Korean and Polish.

It has received 117,617 reviews of which 107,524 were positive and 10,093 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam and has a 70% discount.

The Steam community has classified Crusader Kings III into these genres:

Strategy Medieval Grand Strategy Simulation RPG Historical Management Character Customization Life Sim RTS Sandbox Choices Matter War Singleplayer Economy Political 4X Moddable Multiplayer Real-Time with Pause

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows® 10 Home 64 bit
Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-2120 / AMD® FX 6350
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 660 (2GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 7870 (2GB) / Intel® Iris Pro™ 580 / Intel® Iris® Plus G7 / AMD® Radeon™ Vega 11
Storage: 8 GB available space

MacOS

OS: Catalina (MAC OS X 10.15)
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-7820HQ
Memory: 12 GB RAM
Graphics: AMD® Radeon™ PRO 560 (4 GB)
Storage: 8 GB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-2120 / AMD® FX 6350
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 660 (2GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 7870 (2GB) / Intel® Iris Pro™ 580 / Intel® Iris® Plus G7 / AMD® Radeon™ Vega 11
Storage: 8 GB available space

Reviews

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Oct. 2024

80 hours in this game and just scratch the surface. Still so much to learn. The first 40 hours in-game time I didn't know what the fuck I was doing. I spend hours watching youtube guides but didn't really understand because it was packed with so much information. I later found this one below and this was a huge help: Beginner's Guide to CK3 Even Grandma Would Understand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujHYkZ0Ba_A&list=PLtLh7oY6l6_85up88dosi7Ih49MHCR0RX&index=1 This video was right video

Sept. 2024

This is the best video game I've ever played. Gamers who love medieval history and storytelling - this is it. I've played countless games over years and I remember every single one vividly. Perfect blend of character-driven roleplaying and grand strategy. THE game.

Aug. 2024

Game's great. You play not as the country, but as the ruler of the country's family. No other game does it as well, not even close. Ignore the haters. the game rocks.

Jan. 2024

Ck2 had better sound design, the world felt more active and alive with the unique sounds of every torture technique to the sounds of the dying on the streets, and let's not forget DEUS VULT. Every time a character related to you died it played a death sound related to the cause of death. The ui sounds were especially great with sharper effects. I cannot stress this enough, sound design makes a huge difference and i miss the ck2 effects. UI is easier to navigate but some events feel really dumbed down like fighting and simple walking through corridors, ck2 sounds were just so magical, louder and sharper. Still ck3 is a great game and feels like an upgraded version from the previous game. I just wish there was a way to get the audio of ck2 in to this game.

Jan. 2024

I do recommend this game, but, to be honest, it's quite a soft recommendation. Crusader Kings 2 is my most played game. I spent countless hours having fun in it. I've already spent over 120 hours playing this one, and I've had fun. Compared to CK2, I find this game much more playable. I'm not sure I'd say it's easier, but it's certainly a smoother playing experience. The objectives your character should be aiming for are much more obvious, and it's a lot easier to do things like fabricating claims. I think the game is very playable, and quite arcadey, in this respect. Unfortunately, I also think this game lacks a LOT of the things that made CK2 great. Granted, many of those things came in the form of DLC, but still, I don't think this game improves on anything enough to be worth buying if you own and love CK2. I suppose my review boils down to this: I do recommend this game. It is a lot of fun and you can whittle away the hours playing it quite nicely. However, when compared to CK2, it lacks a LOT of content, a LOT of depth, and it's missing the spark that CK2 has. CK3 adds 3d character models to replace CK2's portraits, but these models seem lifeless. Where a portrait in CK2 was a glimpse into what a deep character would have looked like, CK3's models feel like caricatures. The art is nice, but they pull silly poses, and all the characters in CK3 are predictable and boring. Everyone feels the same. Or, rather, it feels like there is three or four characters perpetuated over and over again. Because of this, when you play CK3 you will play roughly 3-6 characters before realising you're repeating yourself, and the game very quickly loses any charm it had. Every mechanic in this game is like a shallow but pretty version of a system in CK2. I wholeheartedly recommend this game to someone who is quite a casual gamer, who wants something smoother, easier to get in to, and with less depth. If you want a deeper experience, then I recommend CK2 instead. The characters in CK2 feel living, and because of that, the world feels living. You never know what is going to happen. It's like a simulation of a medieval world. This game is like a bundle of relatively fun minigames. It's fun, but it's missing the heart and soul that made CK2 so good.

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