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Crusader Kings III

Crusader Kings III - PC & Mac (Steam)

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Your legacy awaits. Choose your noble house and lead your dynasty to greatness in a Middle Ages epic that spans generations. War is but one of many tools to establish your reign, as real strategy requires expert diplomatic skill, mastery of your realm, and true cunning. Crusader Kings III continues the popular series made by Paradox Development Studio, featuring the widely acclaimed marriage of immersive grand strategy and deep, dramatic medieval roleplaying. Take command of your house and exp...
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Developer:
Paradox Development Studio,
Publisher:
Paradox Interactive,
Release date: 31 August 2020
Genre: RPG, Simulation, Strategy,
Recent Steam reviews: Mostly positive (679)
All Steam reviews: Very positive (50470)
User tags*: strategy medieval grand strategy simulation rpg historical management character customization life sim sandbox choices matter rts war economy moddable 4x real-time with pause sexual content ...

Visuals

Crusader Kings III screenshot 1 Crusader Kings III screenshot 2 Crusader Kings III screenshot 3 Crusader Kings III screenshot 4 Crusader Kings III screenshot 5

Game features

Single-player
Online PvP
Steam Achievements
Steam Trading Cards
Steam Cloud
Remote Play on Tablet
Family Sharing

Description

Your legacy awaits. Choose your noble house and lead your dynasty to greatness in a Middle Ages epic that spans generations. War is but one of many tools to establish your reign, as real strategy requires expert diplomatic skill, mastery of your realm, and true cunning. Crusader Kings III continues the popular series made by Paradox Development Studio, featuring the widely acclaimed marriage of immersive grand strategy and deep, dramatic medieval roleplaying.

  • Take command of your house and expand your dynasty through a meticulously researched Middle Ages. Begin in 867, 1066 or 1178 and claim lands, titles, and vassals to secure a realm worthy of your royal blood. Your death is only a footnote as your lineage continues with new playable heirs, either planned… or not.

  • Discover a sprawling simulated world teeming with peasants and knights, courtiers, spies, knaves and jesters, and secret love affairs. An extensive cast of historical characters can be romanced, betrayed, executed, or subtly influenced.

  • Explore a vast medieval map stretching from the snowswept Nordic lands to the Horn of Africa, and the British Isles in the west to the exotic riches of Burma in the east. Claim, conquer, and rule thousands of unique counties, duchies, kingdoms, and empires.

  • Each character is larger than life, with traits and lifestyle choices determining their actions and schemes. Prompt fear and dread as you rule with an iron fist, or inspire your subjects with magnanimous deeds. Genetics can be passed along to your children, be it the gift of genius or crippling stupidity.

  • Groom your heir with the appropriate guardians or educate them yourself. If found wanting, marry them off or despatch them through other means.

  • Customize your ruler and noble house, from appearance to attributes, and create a monarch worthy of all their inherited virtues and vices.

  • Govern an ever-evolving realm and grant titles to whom you see fit - or usurp your liege to claim their crown as your own. Be wary of rivals, from restless serfs to revengeful concubines.

  • The shadows stir frequently, and danger lurks around every darkened corner. Recruit agents and other unsavory elements to undermine, blackmail, or murder those who stand in your path. Or be inspired by the bard and ballad, and seduce your way to power and influence.

  • Blood will flow. Assemble men-at-arms units and powerful knights. Manage your battlefield tactics and armies. Raid and plunder nearby lands or hire mercenaries and Holy Orders for your major conflicts.

  • Be a pious king to invite the religious powers to your side, or design your own faith as you battle between everlasting fame or eternal damnation.

  • Bring novel innovations to your culture and construct mighty castles and bastions to increase the wealth, prestige, and security of your realm.

  • The paths to follow are limitless: experience thousands of dynamic events and life-altering decisions tailored to each and every conceivable situation and character. There are countless ways of securing and keeping your place in the history books.

Configurations

  • Windows
  • SteamOS + Linux
  • MacOS

minimum*

  • OS: Windows 10 Home 64 bit
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-750 | AMD FX 4300
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 | AMD Radeon HD 7870 | Intel Arc A310 | Intel Iris Plus G7 | AMD Radeon Vega 11
  • Storage: 20 GB available space

recommended*

  • OS: Windows 10 Home 64 bit or Windows 11
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 | AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
  • Memory: 16 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 | AMD Radeon RX 480 | Intel Arc A580
  • Storage: 20 GB available space

minimum*

  • OS: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-750 | AMD FX 4300
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 | AMD Radeon HD 7870 | Intel Arc A310 | Intel Iris Plus G7 | AMD Radeon Vega 11
  • Storage: 20 GB available space

recommended*

  • OS: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 | AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
  • Memory: 16 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 | AMD Radeon RX 480 | Intel Arc A580
  • Storage: 20 GB available space

minimum*

  • OS: macOS Sequoia v15 or newer
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-6500 or newer | Apple M1 or newer
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: AMD Radeon R9 M380 2GB or better (for Intel systems) | Intel Iris Plus G7 | AMD Radeon Vega 11 | Apple M1 integrated GPU
  • Storage: 20 GB available space

recommended*

  • OS: macOS Sequoia v15 or newer
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-7600K
  • Memory: 16 GB RAM
  • Graphics: AMD Radeon PRO 580 (8GB)
  • Storage: 8 GB available space

Reviews

9
Game review score based on 214 reviews, all languages included

Recent reviews

Best strategy game
  • You can restore the Roman Empire
  • You can marry your sister
  • You can steal money from the pobe
  • Your family hates you for some reason
0
best 4x i played
0
solid game that provides endless hours of fun. Lots of mods available too
  • enjoyable
  • customisable
0
cool
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  • Deep, emergent storytelling
  • Really rich strategy
  • Huge freedom and replayability
  • Complex, sometimes confusing systems
0
Perfect !
0
Grand strategy with role play mechanics. Very cool.
  • Nice medieval monarchy simulator
  • Role play like you’re Lennister
  • Can have favorite children
  • It crashed a lot until I tweaked it for a while
  • A lot of content locked behind costly af DLCs
0
I love CK3
  • Big Variety of things to do
0
Great Game
0
One of the best strategy games I've played, didn't expect it to have so much stuff without the DLCs. A great game.
0
Good game,key works.Instant delivery.
0
There is not much to say, this game is great and the historical immersion is something else. There are a couple of mechanics i don't really care about like half of the courtier system but everything else is just perfect
0
Came with all the dlc work in canada
0
It works perfectly! Thank you!
0
One of the better game i have ever played, if you hesitate to buy it, do not hesitate anymore
  • Strategy
0
10/10 never played a strategy game that good

literaly played all of paradox with +500h yet this is the best one
  • Customization
  • Super easy to learn
  • replayablilty
  • DLCs price
0
Masterpiece!
0
all round great game , has a bit of a learning curve but is incredibly fun when you get the hang of it .
  • in depth gameplay
  • many hours to sink into it
  • learning curve
  • complicated mechanics
  • not new player friendly
0
Hyper fixated on the game in the beginning and grinded really hard, also player with a friend but I think it need a lot of patience or not using the full potential of the game (speed running tricks or something) to play a round till the end
  • Cool game mechanics
  • Boring after a while
0
10/10 game - Base gameplay is great and you can get stuck into it for ages - Only pain is 90% of the DLC is poor, no where near as good as the OG gameplay, annoyingly it does add onto the baseline game but for the price it isnt worth it - buy basegame at any price but DLC on the cheap
  • All good
  • Bad DLC
0
This is one of the very few strategy games that mostly depicts most of what It was like to be living in the middle ages, where a roof can come crashing down and kill your current character, not before his good heir was assassinated by god knows who, and you're left with the inbred child that's already on his death bed by age 6, that's the beauty of the game. It's not meant to be easy, but you're capable of overcoming each challenge thrown at you. The world is your playground, although unlikely you'll make it out of your liege's rule alive. This game is also extremely fun with friends, whenever they're not actively trying to exterminate your entire blood line, or "influencing" it with their horrible traits. Allies, competitors, or enemies, all have one thing in common; it's going to be a lot of fun interacting with them!

Anyways, Great game, buy with discounts, if possible buy from instant gaming, I haven't had a single issue buying any of their games, and you'll probably save a lot more time and money than waiting for steam sales.
  • Rule a dynasty and die at every opportunity
  • Conquer The World (your neighbor's lawn)
  • have fun with friends conquering (them) the world!
  • Not the best optimization, seen better
  • Multiplayer system can use a rework
  • Paradox.
0
Very nice Game! It is a lot of fun even after hundreds of hours. You're very free in designing your houses and kingdoms. Sometimes the battles seem unfair or unlogical, so the way bigger army looses. But still a very nice game, there are a lot of mods and DLC's.
  • Very strategic
  • Mods
  • creative
0
Great game, but what a time thief - hard to put down! Recommended for all strategy fans, it has a massive role-play potential too. Super enjoyable and fun. The random events and flavour texts are super creative, glorious to see the bizarre outcomes. Failure is part of the journey!
0
A gold quality strategy-history game for those who really enjoy lots of options/ - in-depth game mechanics to explore and strategize on.

Been so far hybridizing the Viking culture with france and italy, creating an empire in central europe while making the old Asatru faith which still are in mostly Scandinavia and todays Scotland my allies. Now the eastern roman empire and the weak catholic countries left trembles.

In my other campaign i now have a Kingdom in India. Trying to breed my family into dwarfs being geniuses while really messing around with a lot of options of getting more influence and land.

92/100 GREAT GAME!
0
One of the best strategy games from Paradox!

Well made game and a decent upgrade from Crusader Kings 2 but in my opinion they could include in the base game more content that they plan to add with future DLCs!
0
one of the best grand strategy games out there. complex like all paradox (strategy) games and with great dlcs so far. not easy to learn all the mechanics but you get in to it quickly with the tutorial mission or just try and error
0
I love this game.

I did not know that it feels so good and it is so hard to be a king at the same time. This game helped me to thing outside the box. I mean I always thought that to be a king is just saying things and everything will be okay, but now I know it is a really hard logical thinking game. You have to plan and thing before making a move (a bit like in chess).

If you like harder, logic, simulation games try this (it is better with DLCs, but I will not think with your wallet).
  • Good graphics
  • Expensive DLCs
0
I was scared to buy this game just to try it out. I didn't want to pay what the asking price was on Steam. After grabbing it here...it was more than worth every penny. Do yourself a favor and get it.
  • In depth
  • Customizable
  • Hours of fun
  • Hard to learn
  • Very unforgiving game-play
  • Paradox loves DLC
0
DLC is way too expensive, and I only played the game to access the Middle Eastern campaigns, so that's a pretty big let-down for me. I guess I wasted 16 bucks for nothing. I wish I could be refunded but I already placed in the key.
0

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List of countries where this game is compatible:

a

  • Anguilla
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Argentina
  • Aruba

b

  • Bahamas
  • Barbados
  • Belize
  • Bolivia
  • Bouvet Island
  • Brazil
  • British Antarctic Territory
  • British Virgin Islands

c

  • Cayman Islands
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Costa Rica
  • Cuba

d

  • Dominica
  • Dominican Republic

e

  • Ecuador
  • El Salvador

f

  • Falkland Islands
  • French Guiana

g

  • Guadeloupe
  • Guatemala
  • Guyana

h

  • Haiti
  • Honduras

j

  • Jamaica

m

  • Martinique
  • Mexico
  • Montserrat

n

  • Nicaragua

p

  • Panama
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Puerto Rico

s

  • Saint Barthélemy
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Saint Lucia
  • Saint Martin
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
  • Suriname

t

  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Turks and Caicos Islands

u

  • U.S. Virgin Islands
  • Uruguay

v

  • Venezuela

Supported languages

Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English
French
German
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Russian
Simplified Chinese
Spanish - Spain