it was a great game, but now, it is just crash after crash

really good game for gooners that like people from a thousand years ago. i like imprisoning william the conqueror and torturing him because the french are demons

After a long and bloody war, I finally successfully sieged the enemy capitol, capturing the enemy King and various members of their family. Went right to the prisoners page - torture, execute. torture execute. torture torture execute. I had 100% war score, the war was over, but... torture, execute... This is what this game does to you.

700+ hours in CKII (which is great) I would say CKIII is a more user-friendly version of CKII. It's not quite as difficult and you don't have some options like supernatural events, but I think the modding community does a good job. A frustration with any Paradox game is the amount of DLC and knowing which ones are good, but I just do a good search through forums and reviews when deciding on which are worth it. If you're new to this type of game, I'd suggest you watch a tutorial on youtube or something. It can be a little hard to get the hang of but once you do it's got a ton of replayability. There are no storylines but whatever you've concocted in your head.

Crashes have become very bad. The game is essentially incompatible with Windows 11. Unplayable for me. The only fixes are community suggestions from more than a year ago to alter registry files. Paradox seems uninterested in their own fix, and is borderline defrauding users at this point by selling a product that simply won't run on a modern OS.

Takes a while to get your head around how it plays but once it starts to click, hours of your life just vanish as you get engrossed in your family line and planning your future. An excellent game that plays different every time I start a new game.

This is the only game I've played in decades which can consistently freeze your entire computer when you launch it. When you contact customer support, they tell you it's a Windows issue. Guess what buddy, most of your users on Steam are Windows users... Beyond that the game regularly crashes to desktop. When it does it gives you the opportunity to submit a crash report, which always fails. How can they keep releasing more and more paid DLCs for a game that doesn't even run reliably? If they fix this, I'm happy to edit the review, but for now all I can advise is to stay away. There is a truly amazing game under there which I used to actively enjoy, however these game breaking bugs have not been fixed despite two major releases and endless other game fixing patches. Either provide players with a fix or fix your game, you can't blame it on Windows for over a year, Microsoft clearly doesnt care even if it is a minor bug on their end. No other game of mine has this issue, i...

Constant crashing, unbelivably laggy in the lategame, basically nonexistent optimization or support from Paradox cause it makes more money to sell crappy DLC. I cannot in good faith recommend a game that is unplayable 50% of the time.

At the start CK3 was promising. At the moment of review the game is still very shallow, is not really being developed in-depth, instead it is sprinkled with content here and there. Never got optimized alongside the content which was added, so will chug on RAM. At release i was playing on steam deck no problem, now you can't even run it for an hour whereas Vic3 is running flawlessly. The best thing about ck3 is mods, esp. Princess of Darkness mod. Haven't played vanilla in like 200 hours. Overall will not recommend this unless you want to play mods, and given the "live service" game development trajectory probably won't ever.

really good game, one of the best paradox games imo but recently I have started getting a lot more crashes that have ruined my gameplay and experience. I would usually recommend this game for any roleplay lovers or any history lovers like myself. But with the current state of the game, it is almost unplayable. In its current state CK3 is fun yet frustrating because of the recent performance issues. I hope these issues get fixed allowing for me and other players whom have experienced this to have fun and enjoy the great game that is CK3.