In order to figure out Crusader Kings II, you were pretty much required to spend hours watching and reading fan-made guides and explainers, but thankfully, CK3 offers up a well-done tutorial and descriptions of all the game’s terms and concepts can easily be accessed by hovering your mouse over them. That said, the folks at Paradox also did their best to make their array of complex systems as accessible as possible this time around. If you’ve taken even a passing glance at a Medieval history book, you know the machinations of the aristocracy could get very convoluted, and Crusader Kings III attempts to capture that. Play your cards right, and your treacherous, inbred extended family will sit on thrones from Iceland to India, but your entire legacy can also be easily wiped out by a convenient carriage accident or arsenic-laced feast if you don’t watch your back.
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If these games can be said to have any sort of end goal (the series has never had traditional “victory conditions”) it’s to build up the holdings and prestige of your dynasty over generations. In Crusader Kings, the death of your leader isn’t the end of your campaign – as long as you’ve produced an heir, the game continues. Sure, those things are still a part of Crusader Kings, but they take a backseat to the stuff most Medieval rulers truly cared about, namely scheming, sex, and amassing family power. For those who have never played a Crusader Kings game, they take place during the middle ages (Crusader Kings III lets you start in either 867 or 1066) and differentiate themselves from the pack by not focusing strictly on war and city/land management like most historical strategy games do.