It's also notable for being one of the first Paradox Interactive games to rely on Random Events with complicated triggers rather than chains of Scripted Events to drive the game, which would go on to become the staple of the company's later games.Ī sequel, Crusader Kings II, was released on February 14th 2012 the base game is now free to play on Steam. The focus on individual characters and the dynamics within your dynasty gives the game a quality that is almost The Sims-like. The vassals have their own personality traits and ideas (some of which make them butt heads with you, or each other).

While you can raise armies, form alliances and so forth the most important aspect of the game is management of your family and estates: The amount of land you can directly control is limited by certain factors, and thus you have to parcel out land to your vassals. The gameplay itself is somewhat original in concept: Rather than playing a particular nation you play as a dynasty (with direct control being vested in the head of said dynasty) in medieval Europe starting in 1066 and ending in the early 1400's. Some furious activity both by the community (via modding) and Paradox Interactive itself (via both patching and the Deus Vult expansion) has rendered the game significantly more stable and fixed many of the gameplay mechanics. The game was originally developed by Snowball, who abandoned it in a very unfinished state, forcing Paradox to do some last-minute fixes before release this makes the game exceedingly buggy and all but unplayable in its post-release state. It's set chronologically before its sister series, Europa Universalis, and uses a variant of the Europa Universalis II engine. Crusader Kings is a historical grand Grand Strategy / Real-Time Strategy 4X game produced and published by Paradox Interactive.

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