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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.
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31 August 2020
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Royal Edition includes
- Crusader Kings III
- Crusader Kings III: Fashion of the Abbasid Court
- Crusader Kings III: Royal Court
- Crusader Kings III: Northern Lords
- Crusader Kings III: Flavor Pack 2
- Take command of your house and expand your dynasty through a meticulously researched Middle Ages. Begin in 867 or 1066 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.
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Game's latest news
Crusader Kings 3 will receive its Tours and Tournaments expansion on May 11th
Announced last March, the DLC for the strategy game by Paradox Interactive has just found a release date. Indeed, Crusader Kings 3: Tours and Tournaments will arrive on May 11, 2023. The expansion will be sold for about thirty euros and will offer a whole series of new features to discover.
This additional…
Crusader Kings III is soon getting an expansion called Tours and Tournaments
There will be something new in the third installment of Crusader Kings! Indeed, Paradox Interactive has officially announced the upcoming release of a new expansion. Entitled Tours and Tournaments, it will allow our rulers to meet their subjects across the kingdom. It will also be possible to take part…
Paradox Interactive will announce three new games on March 6th
The Paradox Announcement Show will take place on March 6th at 6 pm (Paris time). In partnership with Xbox, the publisher will take advantage of this event to announce three different games. Behind these projects, we will find the studios Colossal Order, Harebrained Schemes, and Paradox Tectonic. Finally,…
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Best reviews
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
2023-01-20T16:58:07-0500
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
2023-11-18T21:16:21-0500
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.
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.
2023-11-09T03:42:00-0500
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!
2023-05-08T10:27:04-0400
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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
2024-06-28T16:55:45-0400
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
2024-01-28T16:17:32-0500
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
2023-08-07T08:27:51-0400
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