Crusader Kings II
Worth it · RPG · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
PLAY IT.
Worth it, and it costs nothing.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 73,950
- Critics
- 82 players 8 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 3% RPG
Holding it back: Recent reviews
Recent reviews trending down: 47% over the last 30 days against 90% all-time.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 66.6h
- To 100%
- 463.8h 7.0x the story
- Finish
- 1% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 161
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,095 now
- Recent reviews
- 47% 30 days
- Better reviewed
- 94% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
15% start to 1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Its score puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Crusader Kings III ($49.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Victoria 3 ($49.99, scores 27).
It is still busy. 1.1K players were online when we last checked, on Nov 2, 23:45 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks.
More about Crusader Kings II
Critics scored it 82. Players sit 8 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 66.6-hour game, that is a lot of evenings the rest never spend. Players rate it 90 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 47 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 913 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
66.6 hours to finish it, 464 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 7.0 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Great game, despite what the relentless wave of negative reviews from Turks might claim.
2 more reviews
I had absolutely no clue what I was doing, but had fun anyways. If you have time to kill, and/or an interest in history, I recommend this game.
This is a great game. It is very in depth and it has a good scale of difficulty, some places are hard to play in, some places are easier and more open to new players.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 or ATI Radeon X1900, 512mb graphics memory required., 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Crusader Kings II scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/203770/crusader-kings-iiReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 4. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.