Crusader Kings III
Worth it · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $49.99.
- Length
- 72.6h
- Value
- $0.69/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
September 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $14.99. It has been discounted 45 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Crusader Kings II (free, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats The Guild 3 ($29.99, scores 10).
Steam's global achievement data puts 31 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 1,996 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic, finite spend); the score docks it lightly for that.
72.6 hours to finish it, 586 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 8.1 times the campaign.
6 years after release it still had 14.3K people in it at once.
The drop-off
61% start to 31% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
14.3K players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
As wide as the Atlantic and as deep as a puddle, CK3 is basically a 80's-style text-based game with intense graphics. Once you've mastered the mechanics, there's really nothing left to it. Incredibly repetitive and, like all Paradox titles, dependent on expensive DLCs to add flavour.
Game is fantastic but the expansions and addons are exhorbitantly expensive. They offer a subscription service to get them all but i prefer to own the game and for that reason im giving it a -
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Crusader Kings III scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1158310/crusader-kings-iiiThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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