Crusader Kings III

Crusader Kings III: Starter Edition

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Assume the throne with confidence as you take your first steps into Crusader Kings III, the award-winning role-playing strategy game that drops you into a rich medieval world of power, drama, and intrigue. Expand the power of your dynasty through warfare, diplomacy or underhanded scheming, assuring the safety and security of your realm through the generations across many centuries. The Starter Edition gives you access to the base game, one Major Expansion, one Event Pack, and some cosmetic ad...
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Developer:
Paradox Development Studio,
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Paradox Interactive,
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Genre:
RPG, Simulation, Strategy,
Recent Steam reviews:
Very positive (867)
All Steam reviews:
Very positive (74892)
User tags*: Steam Deck playable strategy medieval grand strategy simulation rpg historical management character customization life sim rts sandbox choices matter war economy political 4x moddable real-time with pause ...

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Crusader Kings III

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Crusader Kings III: Starter Edition

Starter Edition

  • Crusader Kings III
  • Crusader Kings III: Elegance of the Empire
  • Crusader Kings III: Fashion of the Abbasid Court
  • Crusader Kings III: Friends & Foes
  • Crusader Kings III: Garments of the Holy Roman Empire
  • Crusader Kings III: Tours & Tournaments
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Crusader Kings III Royal Edition

Royal Edition

  • 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
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Game features

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

Description

Starter Edition includes

- Crusader Kings III
- Crusader Kings III: Elegance of the Empire
- Crusader Kings III: Fashion of the Abbasid Court
- Crusader Kings III: Friends & Foes
- Crusader Kings III: Garments of the Holy Roman Empire
- Crusader Kings III: Tours & Tournaments

Assume the throne with confidence as you take your first steps into Crusader Kings III, the award-winning role-playing strategy game that drops you into a rich medieval world of power, drama, and intrigue. Expand the power of your dynasty through warfare, diplomacy or underhanded scheming, assuring the safety and security of your realm through the generations across many centuries.

The Starter Edition gives you access to the base game, one Major Expansion, one Event Pack, and some cosmetic additions to make your first forays into Crusader Kings III a deep and filling experience.

The Crusader Kings III: Starter Edition includes:


  • Crusader Kings III: Whether you start as a lowly count or a mighty emperor, no throne is safe as you compete for power against thousands of other nobles for prestige and dominance. Write your own histories, with a wide range of personality types, ambitions, and cultural preferences. Play as a haughty duke, a pious prince, or a cunning queen, and then play as their heir as the wheel of time grinds on.
  • Tours and Tournaments: Host thrilling tournaments, grand feasts and splendid weddings to bolster your prestige or win new honors for your dynasty. Travel to distant lands on pilgrimage or inspect your vassals on a grand tour of your realm - whether to extort taxes or bolster loyalty.
  • Friends and Foes: Deepen your relationships with those around you, forming lasting friendships with childhood companions, bitter rivalries with distant foes or eternal love with a beauty of your choosing.
  • Garments of the Holy Roman Empire: Immerse yourself in the Holy Roman Empire with a collection of outfits for both commoners, warriors and rulers of Central Europe.
  • Elegance of the Empire: Based on the garments and regalia of Emperor Henry II and the Empress Cunigunde, this pack includes not only new robes and dresses, but historically appropriate crowns and other items.
  • Fashion of the Abbasid Court: Give your court a dashing new look with a set of outfits and cosmetic clothing options for the Middle East and North Africa.

Configurations

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  • 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

recommended*

  • OS: Windows 10 Home 64 bit
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-4670K / AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 (4GB) / AMD Radeon R9 390X (8GB)
  • Storage: 8 GB available space

Game's latest news

Crusader Kings 3 will receive its Tours and Tournaments expansion on May 11th
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
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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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
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
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.
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!
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

Recent reviews

It is what it is.
  • All in family.
  • Make it out with your mom.
  • Find out, that your cousins rule most of nations around.
Masterpiece!
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
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
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
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!
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!
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
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.
My wife and I just had our best CK3 campaign yet. We began as lowly chieftains and rose to dominate all of Eastern Europe with a magnificent empire, its borders stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, from the Caspian to the Mediterranean! We forged two glorious dynasties, all filled with perfect specimens of the human species. Our rulers were virtuous paragons of their reformed Slovianskan faith, which now spread to encompass all of the non-Christian parts of Europe. Better yet, our Ruthenian culture took all the best traditions of our Norse neighbors to the north and Greek to the south, blending with our Slavic roots to create a technological superpower of formidable military might. Kyiv, the crown jewel of our empire, was matched in its glory only by Constantinople and Cordoba, the other great cities of the world far eclipsed by our beauty and majesty.

Better yet, all Russian rulers were removed from power, their peoples relegated to the Siberian frontiers of our empire to serve as a cushion for our core territories against raiders from the steppes. It's a nice catharsis for us, as people who had to leave our home in Ukraine to seek shelter and safety this year.

Exactly as a strategy title should be, these accomplishments were the result of us learning the game's many systems and playing our best game, planning and investing in our lands and our people so we could best weather the bad rolls of the dice along the way. "Blessed is he who plants trees under whose shade he will never sit." This was the mantra of our rulers. As a result, each succession grew easier; civil wars became stories for the history books. Things that would once be a crisis became merely bothersome, such as viking adventurers or even crusades. Powerful vassal kingdoms and rival empires went from being existential threats to merely places on the map.

Eventually, our power became unchecked. There were essentially no threats to our empire, and no pressing matters to attend to. While others might see this as an excuse for conquest, our religion was one of peace. We invested even more into our lands, intent on creating a golden age of peace and prosperity for all our people. Our Ruthenia became a land of vast cities, high castles, and rolling wheat fields as far as the eye could see beneath the bright, blue open sky, as perfect a place to live as one could find in the middle ages. It was a joy to create.

There's no other game like Crusader Kings, and CK3 is the best version of it yet. I say this as an old-school player with nearly 500 hours in CK2, and hundreds more hours in other Paradox strategy titles across Steam and other distribution platforms. They somehow nailed making the game more accessible and attractive to new players while still having plenty of stuff to master over time. My wife always liked watching me play CK2, but the better graphics, character customization, and the lower skill floor in CK3 finally converted her into a player. Playing this game cooperatively with her is some of the most fun I've ever had playing games.
So I have around 500hrs on this game and I don't know why so many people are complaining about "bare bone mechanics" compared to CK2.

CK2 is a game from 2012 and has around 30+ expansions, so of course it would have more content than CK3

The game is great and I enjoyed every single one of my playthroughs, I have played from the base game all the way to the Fate of Iberia and it's been really fun.
game does not work for windows 11 any body who wants to buy don't. it just a money grab. if you are using windows 11 do not buy it.

(this installation package could not be opened. verify that the package exists). that's the problem you will get.
  • non
  • non
  • non
  • waste of money
  • does not work
  • learn from me and don't get it. they don't give refunds here.
Very bare-bones in comparison to CK II. The best thing this game has going for it are its ambitious overhaul mods. Glad I got it here for $21.00, and not on Steam for $40.00: a ridiculous asking price for such a diluted and empty entry in the Crusader Kings series! The formula has been largely simplified to feel more like an RPG, and less like the unique Grand Strategy game CK II was. Paradox has upgraded the graphics, lighting and other related visuals, but has somehow managed to downgrade the overall medieval, political experience in turn. In essence: this is a Skyrim vs Morrowind situation, and like with Stellaris post 1.9.1 patch, it's not a good sign.
  • Great modding scene.
  • Disappointing sequel to CK II
Cheap and code worked with no issues. I was a little suss at 1st because these sites tend to worry me a bit but this service worked right away with no issues at all. 10/10 would use service again - A New Zealand Customer
really liked it great game well made lots of good features.

just sad that there are so many dlc's buth thats because paradox.

i really recommend this game and if you want it i recommened getting it on instant gaming.
  • lots of replayablitiy
  • every game is different
  • to many dlc's
From my point of view it is the most complete strategy game ever. It is rich in every aspect, you can do everything. If we also add the dlc the level of costum becomes exaggeratedly fantastic. Compared to other Paradox titles, I would say that it is one of the best, moreover even without dlc it has a great maneuver unlike other titles that without dlc are incomplete.
its a very fun game to play alone or with friends, would recommend to buy with the dlc´s but if a friend has the dlc already just ask him to host the game so u can both play the game even if u dont have all the Dlc´s
  • can play with the dlc´s if the host has the dlc and u dont
  • can´t play ironman mode (aka get achivements) in online games
Le jeu est génial, c'est juste dommage que le jeu soit trop simple. De plus, malgré notre large supériorité, l'ennemi peut gagner la guerre s'il contrôle un duché complet (environ 4 comptés) de notre Empire et que nos troupes sont trop loin (à l'autre bout de l'Empire) pour arriver à temps pour se battre. On ne peut donc pas avoir un Empire trop grand et donc conquérir le monde.
  • tout
  • manque de difficultés
  • impossible d'avoir pour objectif de conquérir le monde entier
very tricky at first, but one of my favourite games ever.

takes a long time to understand everything and at first ur just wondering "wtf how did that happen" however as soon as you learn how everything works this is one of the best games i have ever played. the graphics are also incredible.
  • i have 500 hours on this game
  • hard to learn even the basics
The most understandable of the most detailed. To be a commander for a darling motherland causes interest in the history gaps. Disclaimer, after an hour of the game, the player's posture straightens and megalomania appears. Sitting on a gaming throne, you pronounce the names that you see for the first time. The game got a more pleasant presentation and has become easier to understand, which makes it possible to have fun and arrange a harem even for Putin.
  • History
  • Understandable
  • Fun
  • Music
Great game! This game came with a bang on the release day. I haven't played a game with almost no issues on release day for a long time! Very impressed! It runs great, has a new player friendly UI, so the tutorial is not needed. Immersion guaranteed.
I'm writing this review not because of the game, that itself is great, but because this site deceived me as a costumer. The site indicates that the DLC comes with your purchase, and it doesn't.

Worse of all, they refuse to acknowledge their mistake. So others aren't deceived. Take that as you will.
  • Never had any kind of issue with this site...
  • ...until now.

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