Crusader Kings
Gather prestige and piety and the world will whisper your name in awe. Will you co-opt other monarchs, and the Pope, under your leadership to liberate the Holy Land? Do you have what it takes to become a…
Crusader Kings is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Paradox Development Studio, released 15 July 2004 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Crusader Kings is
Crusader Kings is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Paradox Development Studio and released in 2004. It was published by Auran Games. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Europa.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Crusader Kings is a grand strategy video game developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive in April 2004. An expansion called Deus Vult was released in October 2007. A sequel, Crusader Kings II, was released in February 2012, and another sequel, Crusader Kings III, was released on September 1, 2020.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are historical and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Crusader Kings holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 16 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Crusader Kings launched on 15 July 2004, within three weeks of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Doom 3, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky and ESPN NFL 2K5. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Doom 3, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, ESPN NFL 2K5.
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