Crusader Kings III

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• Recommended Posted August 26, 2025 on Steam Its a realy good game but they should lower their dlc price because its way too expensive for the content.
• Not recommended Posted September 8, 2025 on Steam I have been playing the base game a lot lately, but I can't recommend the game for anyone who doesn't want to spend the cost of the game again in DLC. I've been trying to figure out why my vassals have an opinion modifier about court grandeur, turns out my character needs to spend income on court amenities to improve this, but I don't have the Royal Court DLC so I can't do that. I have an in-game penalty I can't get rid of without spending £25 real world pounds on a DLC. I'm playing on easy, but on harder difficulties negative modifiers will add up quickly. Pay to win in a largely single player game is bad enough, but pay not to lose is something I don't think we should be rewarding publishers for. As for the 'Starter Edition' that comes with some of the DLC I say no Paradox, the 'Starter Edition' should be the base game! And as said above, there shouldn't be penalties applied to it for not spending on DLC.
• Recommended Posted June 29, 2025 on Steam So you think you're ready for Crusader Kings III, huh? You fired up Steam, saw the words “grand strategy,” and thought you were about to play a nice little game of Risk with knights and castles. No. You’re not ready. Nothing can prepare you for the generational hellscape of betrayal, incest, witchcraft, and passive-aggressive Pope drama you’re about to unleash. This isn't a strategy game. This is a medieval chaos simulator, duct-taped to a family tree that looks like it was drawn by a spider on meth. You don’t play a character—you play their entire bloodline, across centuries of bad decisions, aggressive inbreeding, and mysterious “hunting accidents.” You start off with a decent ruler. Charismatic. Just. Beloved by their vassals. Naturally, they die choking on a chicken leg during a feast. You’re now playing as their 6-year-old heir who’s terrified of birds, has a lisp, and is somehow already an alcoholic. From here, it’s a slow-motion dynastic car crash. Your vassals hate you. Your siblings are plotting against you. Your aunt is trying to seduce your husband. Your court physician keeps suggesting “leech therapy” for everything, including syphilis, cancer, and a stubbed toe. And yet... you love it. The actual gameplay? It’s a paradox of emotions. One moment you're reforming the kingdom’s laws, carefully arranging alliances through strategic marriages. The next, your rival queen has called you a “naked coward” during a feast, and you're now plotting her murder with your court jester and a bag of bees. Stress mechanics? Amazing. Every time you go against your character’s nature—say, executing a heretic when you’re compassionate—you gain stress. Enough stress, and you start snapping like a medieval rubber band. This means your noble ruler could spiral into full-blown depression because someone insulted their embroidery skills. You’ll spend hours trying to create a pure bloodline of genius warrior-poets, only to realize your heir is an obese lunatic who believes he's literally descended from a bear. Oh, and he's married his first cousin. Twice. Wars? You can fight them. But why do that when you can simply marry someone with a claim to the kingdom, murder half their family, and “inherit” it in what historians will politely call “a series of unfortunate events”? Also, let’s talk about religion. You can literally invent your own. You can create a faith that encourages cannibalism, nudity, and human sacrifice, and then demand everyone take it seriously. The Pope hates you. You love it. You are the Pope now. Multiplayer? Oh yes. Want to play with friends? Prepare to witness the absolute worst sides of humanity. One friend will seduce your spouse, another will excommunicate you, and a third will “accidentally” press a claim on your kingdom and burn your capital down. The good news? You can stab all of them. It’s the CK3 way. Final Verdict: Crusader Kings III is not a game. It’s a medieval family drama written by a drunk raccoon with a PhD in backstabbing and no understanding of genetics. It’s confusing, ridiculous, and often downright cursed—but once you start, you can’t stop. It’s digital crack for history nerds with god complexes. 10/10. Would marry my sister to a lunatic duke, steal his title, imprison her for “treason,” and then die of stress while possessed by demons again. Long live House Dumpsterfire.
• Not recommended Posted November 15, 2025 on Steam The team needs to take a break from new content and spend time being custodians of the game they've created. The old DLCs need to be polished and brought up to the current standard, they need to fix the near-constant desync'ing in multiplayer and take a hard look at the current state of the game before adding new content.
• Recommended Posted November 1, 2025 on Steam I wrote a love letter to the pope. I murdered my own uncle for making fun of me at a feast. I slept with my sister. I then sat down to play some Crusader Kings 3, it's a pretty good game.
• Recommended Posted February 27, 2026 on Steam [h1] 8/10 [/h1] Should have been called Crusade for your Wallet if you wanna get all the dlcs but, Great game for medieval power fantasy where you seduce rivals, abduct princesses, murder siblings, and turn your family tree into inbred spaghetti.