#Crusader kings 3 series#

I just had a playthrough in CK2 AGOT (A Song of Ice and Fire mod), where I role-played as a lunatic obsessed with religion, burning people, sleeping with other people's wives and having incest relations to expand my bloodline while keeping it pure. At it's core, you scheme, you wage war and you play the diplomacy game by marrying and allying. This means that the game is less of a grand strategy title, and more of a role-playing game.

#Crusader kings 3 series#

The Crusader Kings series focuses primarily on individuals, their traits, their dynasty, managing your court and vassals, rather than focusing on nations. Instead you focus on conquering and has the most in depth war mechanics where you are really managing a lot of minutae of battle lines. But its also relatively simplified economy and ruling of a country. Hearts of Iron you also play a country but in WWII. The war is usually a bit more simplified, but the economy is a lot more in depth with resources being consumed to create new resources for production. You play a country and Its about industrialization and colonization and trade. Victoria is an 1800s victorian era game that is really focused a lot more on technologies, ideology, and economics. Imperator is a Roman era game that is a mix of these two ideas, more character interactions but more focused on the country. You might change the country you are playing, say if you start as the Duchy of Milan, and you conquer Italy and crown yourself the Kingdom of Italy. But you just play a country, you can change dynasties or change to a republic. There is more focused on trade routes, and developing your nations provinces. The combat, trade, province development, etc is much lighter.Įuropa Universalis is much more focused no war and map painting, its basically a complicated game of Risk. You can have a character that starts as a count in say Germany, and because of inheritance and marriage you set up your son to inherit Poland so when you die you are now playing the king of poland and your brother is ruling that county in Germany. As a big Paradox GSG fan, I can safely say that despite visual similarities between Hearts of Iron, Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis, Imperator and Victoria, the games are entirely different.Ĭrusader Kings deals a lot with individual characters, their relationship, and has a lot more roleplaying in it.