Crusader Kings III
Release Date: 1 Sep, 2020
About the Game
Paradox Development Studio brings you the sequel to one of the most popular strategy games ever made. Crusader Kings III is the heir to a long legacy of historical grand strategy experiences and arrives with a host of new ways to ensure the success of your royal house.
Choose a royal or noble house from a number of realms on a map that stretches from Iceland to India, from the Arctic Circle to Central Africa.- Guide a dynasty through the centuries, ensuring the security and power of each new generation. Gather new lands and titles to cement your legacy.
- Be a pious king to bring the religious powers to your side, or strike out on your own, designing your own splinter religion and earning everlasting fame or eternal damnation.
- Knights, peasant revolts, pilgrimages, Viking raiders... experience the drama and pageantry of the Middle Ages.
- Adopt one of five different lifestyles, perfecting your skills in military strategy or kingdom management.
- Acquire character traits that will guide your actions, but beware if you act against your nature! The stress from denying your truest self could bring a new host of troubles!
- Choose appropriate guardians for your heirs, or train them yourself. But what do you do if the legal heir is not quite up to the job?
- Violent characters may develop a fearsome reputation, cowering your timid subjects into obedience with the dread you inspire.
- Recruit men-at-arms units and powerful knights to supplement your royal levies.
- Research new technologies to increase the wealth and military might of your realm.
- Hire mercenaries and Holy Orders for your major wars.
- Supplement your income with ransomed prisoners or raiding parties on neighboring realms.
- Use your spymaster to discover plots against your dynasty and your rule.
- Recruit agents to assist your schemes to undermine or murder anyone who stands between you and power.
- Seduce other characters for love or political power.
- Gather information for blackmailing purposes or call in favors whenever your plans need an extra bit of influence.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Windows
Minimum:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 8.1 64 bit / Windows® 10 Home 64 bit
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-2120 / AMD® FX 6350
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 460 (1GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 7870 (2GB) / Intel® Iris Pro™ 580 / Intel® Iris® Plus G7 / AMD® Radeon™ Vega 11
- Storage: 8 GB available space
Recommended:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- 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
Mac OS X
Minimum:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Mojave (MAC OS X 10.14)
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-7820HQ
- Memory: 12 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD® Radeon™ PRO 560 (4 GB)
- Storage: 8 GB available space
Recommended:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Mojave (MAC OS X 10.14)
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-7600K
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD® Radeon™ PRO 580 (8GB)
- Storage: 8 GB available space
SteamOS + Linux
Minimum:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Ubuntu 18.04
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-2120 / AMD® FX 6350
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 460 (1GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 7870 (2GB) / Intel® Iris Pro™ 580 / Intel® Iris® Plus G7 / AMD® Radeon™ Vega 11
- Storage: 8 GB available space
Recommended:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Ubuntu 18.04
- 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
Until Death Do Us Part
Marry another character
Stressful Situation
Suffer from a Mental Break
Moving up in the World
Increase your Rank
Fine Print
Use a hook to modify a feudal contract
Know Your Place
Defeat a faction in a war
Celebrity
Reach the highest possible Prestige Level
Non Nobis Domine
Found a Holy Order
Bad Blood
Go to war with one of your siblings over a Claim
The Succession is Safe
Have ten living children
Dreadful Ruler
Have the maximum amount of dread
For the Faith!
Take part in a successful Great Holy War, on either side
Followed by Shadows
Know ten secrets simultaneously
An Unfortunate Accident
Inherit a title from someone you murdered
Prolific
Have one hundred living dynasty members
Saint
Reach the highest possible Piety Level
Turning to Diamonds
Reach the highest possible Stress level
A House of My Own
Create a Cadet Branch of your Dynasty
The Emerald Isle
Starting as an Irish ruler, hold the Kingdom of Ireland
It's not a Cult!
Create a Faith
Way of Life
Complete an entire Lifestyle (all three trees)
Death Did Us Part
Murder your spouse
From Rags to Riches
Starting as a Count, lead your line to rule an Empire
A Legacy to Last the Ages
Complete an entire Dynasty Legacy
Not So Feudal System
Use the Claim Throne scheme successfully
Monumental
Fully upgrade a duchy capital building anywhere in your personal domain
Beacon of Progress
Have your culture unlock all innovations, excluding regional and culture-specific innovations
A Name Known Throughout the World
Have your dynasty reach the highest possible Level of Splendor
Paragon of Virtue
Have three or more virtuous traits
Keeping it in the Family
Have a child with the Inbred trait
The Things We Do for Love
Murder your lover's spouse
Going Places
As Haesteinn of Montaigu in 867, hold any Kingdom tier title
Rise from the Ashes
Restore the Roman Empire
Álmost There
As Álmos Árpád, form Hungary and convert to Christianity
The Emperor's New Clothes
While holding any empire title, be naked
Trapped in the Web
Have strong hooks on three direct vassals
Kings to the Seventh Generation
Starting as Count Eudes of Anjou in 867, lead your Dynasty to rule the Kingdom of France
Seductive
As any one character, successfully seduce ten people
Last Count, First King
Starting as Duke Nuño of Portucale in 1066, form Portugal
Sibling Rivalry
Starting as any of the Jimena siblings in 1066, become Emperor of Spain
End of an Era
Play until 1453
Carolingian Consolidation
Starting as a Karling, be the only independent Karling to hold a landed title
Land of the Rus
Starting as Rurik the Troublemaker in 867, lead your dynasty to rule the Empire of Russia
What Nepotism?
Have your Dynasty rule ten independent realms of at least Kingdom tier simultaneously
Reconquista
Starting as an Iberian Christian, convert all of Iberia to Christianity
Royal Dignity
Starting as Vratislav Přemyslid in 1066, lead your Dynasty to rule Bohemia and the Holy Roman Empire
Blood Eagle
Starting as any child of Ragnarr Lothbrok, conquer all of the British Isles
Above God
Have a strong hook on your Head of Faith
Give a Dog a Bone
Starting as Matilda di Canossa in 1066, rule Italy, have 50 Dynasty members, and found a Holy Order
Seven Holy Cities
As a Hindu ruler, hold all seven Hindu Holy Sites at the same time
The Things Love Does for Us
Have a lover save you from a murder attempt
Norman Yoke
Starting as William in 1066, win the Invasion, become English, and have only English vassals
Al-Andalus
Starting as an Iberian Muslim, control Iberia and take the Avenge the Battle of Tours decision
Frankokratia
As a French Catholic, hold the Kingdom of Thessalonika without being vassalised to Byzantium
A Perfect Circle
Have only two distinct parents, grandparents, and great grandparents
Wily as the Fox
Starting as Robert the Fox in 1066, rule Sicily, hold a Greek Kingdom, and convert it to Catholicism
Mother of us All
Starting as Daurama Daura, have your line reform an African faith, and convert all of Africa to it
Völva
Starting and staying as a North Germanic Asatru of any kind, take the Found Witch Coven Decision
Canute the Greater
As an unreformed tribal, form the North Sea Empire
Far from Home
As a Norse-Asatru ruler, have your capital on any island in the Indian Ocean
Faster than the Fox
As a Norse tribal, control the entirety of Sicily
Miklagarðaríki
As an Asatru, hold all of the original Thessalonika, and any empire title other than Byzantium
First of the Crusader Kings
As a Christian North Germanic, participate in the very first crusade from the start
A Dangerous Business
As a dwarf, win a Varangian Adventurer war anywhere outside of Europe
Vladimir's Second Choice
As a North Germanic or Russian Asatruan of any kind, convert to any Islamic faith & convert all of Russia
Saga in Stone
As any one dynasty, commission a hundred rune stones
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