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About Crusader Kings III: Starter Edition
About this game
Assume the throne with confidence as you take your first steps into Crusader Kings III, the award-winning role-playing strategy game that drops you into a rich medieval world of power, drama, and intrigue. Expand the power of your dynasty through warfare, diplomacy or underhanded scheming, assuring the safety and security of your realm through the generations across many centuries.
The Starter Edition gives you access to the base game, one Major Expansion, one Event Pack, and some cosmetic additions to make your first forays into Crusader Kings III a deep and filling experience.
The Crusader Kings III: Starter Edition includes:
- Crusader Kings III: Whether you start as a lowly count or a mighty emperor, no throne is safe as you compete for power against thousands of other nobles for prestige and dominance. Write your own histories, with a wide range of personality types, ambitions, and cultural preferences. Play as a haughty duke, a pious prince, or a cunning queen, and then play as their heir as the wheel of time grinds on.
- Tours and Tournaments: Host thrilling tournaments, grand feasts and splendid weddings to bolster your prestige or win new honours for your dynasty. Travel to distant lands on pilgrimage or inspect your vassals on a grand tour of your realm - whether to extort taxes or bolster loyalty.
- Friends and Foes: Deepen your relationships with those around you, forming lasting friendships with childhood companions, bitter rivalries with distant foes or eternal love with a beauty of your choosing.
- Garments of the Holy Roman Empire: Immerse yourself in the Holy Roman Empire with a collection of outfits for commoners, warriors and rulers of Central Europe.
- Elegance of the Empire: Based on the garments and regalia of Emperor Henry II and the Empress Cunigunde, this pack includes not only new robes and dresses but historically appropriate crowns and other items.
- Fashion of the Abbasid Court: Give your court a dashing new look with a set of outfits and cosmetic clothing options for the Middle East and North Africa.
Game Details
- Platform:
- steam
- Release Date:
- May 07, 2024
- Developer:
- Paradox Development Studio
- Publisher:
- Paradox Interactive
- Supported Languages:
- English
- Franchise:
- Crusader Kings
- Features:
- PvP
Online PvP
Singleplayer
Multiplayer
Product Requirements
Steam account is required for game activation and installation.
Windows Requirements
Minimum:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10 Home 64 bit
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-2120 / AMD® FX 6350
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 660 (2GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 7870 (2GB) / Intel® Iris Pro™ 580 / Intel® Iris® Plus G7 / AMD® Radeon™ Vega 11
- Storage: 8 GB available space
Recommended:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10 Home 64 bit
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4670K / AMD® Ryzen™ 5 2400G
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 1650 (4GB) / AMD® Radeon™ R9 390X (8GB)
- Storage: 8 GB available space
Mac OS Requirements
Minimum:
- OS: Mojave (MAC OS X 10.14)
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-7820HQ
- Memory: 12 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD® Radeon™ PRO 560 (4 GB)
- Storage: 8 GB available space
Recommended:
- OS: Mojave (MAC OS X 10.14)
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-7600K
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD® Radeon™ PRO 580 (8GB)
- Storage: 8 GB available space
Linux Requirements
Minimum:
- OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-2120 / AMD® FX 6350
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 660 (2GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 7870 (2GB) / Intel® Iris Pro™ 580 / Intel® Iris® Plus G7 / AMD® Radeon™ Vega 11
- Storage: 8 GB available space
Recommended:
- OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4670K / AMD® Ryzen™ 5 2400G
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 1650 (4GB) / AMD® Radeon™ R9 390X (8GB)
- Storage: 8 GB available space
Product Requirements
Steam account is required for game activation and installation.
Windows Requirements
Minimum:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10 Home 64 bit
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-2120 / AMD® FX 6350
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 660 (2GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 7870 (2GB) / Intel® Iris Pro™ 580 / Intel® Iris® Plus G7 / AMD® Radeon™ Vega 11
- Storage: 8 GB available space
Recommended:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10 Home 64 bit
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4670K / AMD® Ryzen™ 5 2400G
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 1650 (4GB) / AMD® Radeon™ R9 390X (8GB)
- Storage: 8 GB available space
Mac OS Requirements
Minimum:
- OS: Mojave (MAC OS X 10.14)
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-7820HQ
- Memory: 12 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD® Radeon™ PRO 560 (4 GB)
- Storage: 8 GB available space
Recommended:
- OS: Mojave (MAC OS X 10.14)
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-7600K
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD® Radeon™ PRO 580 (8GB)
- Storage: 8 GB available space
Linux Requirements
Minimum:
- OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-2120 / AMD® FX 6350
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 660 (2GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 7870 (2GB) / Intel® Iris Pro™ 580 / Intel® Iris® Plus G7 / AMD® Radeon™ Vega 11
- Storage: 8 GB available space
Recommended:
- OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4670K / AMD® Ryzen™ 5 2400G
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 1650 (4GB) / AMD® Radeon™ R9 390X (8GB)
- Storage: 8 GB available space
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Base Game
- Tours and Tournaments:
- Friends and Foes
- Garments of the Holy Roman Empire
- Elegance of the Empire
- Fashion of the Abbasid Court
- Base Game
- Expansion Pass Content
- All functionality is accessible when using the default controller configuration
- This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck
- This game's launcher/setup tool may require the touchscreen or virtual keyboard, or have difficult to read text
- This game sometimes shows mouse, keyboard, or non-Steam-Deck controller icons
- Entering some text requires manually invoking the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be difficult to read
- This game does not exit cleanly and may require you to manually quit via the Steam overlay
Steam account is required for game activation and installation.
Windows Requirements
Minimum:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10 Home 64 bit
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-2120 / AMD® FX 6350
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 660 (2GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 7870 (2GB) / Intel® Iris Pro™ 580 / Intel® Iris® Plus G7 / AMD® Radeon™ Vega 11
- Storage: 8 GB available space
Recommended:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10 Home 64 bit
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4670K / AMD® Ryzen™ 5 2400G
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 1650 (4GB) / AMD® Radeon™ R9 390X (8GB)
- Storage: 8 GB available space
Mac OS Requirements
Minimum:
- OS: Mojave (MAC OS X 10.14)
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-7820HQ
- Memory: 12 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD® Radeon™ PRO 560 (4 GB)
- Storage: 8 GB available space
Recommended:
- OS: Mojave (MAC OS X 10.14)
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-7600K
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD® Radeon™ PRO 580 (8GB)
- Storage: 8 GB available space
Linux Requirements
Minimum:
- OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-2120 / AMD® FX 6350
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 660 (2GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 7870 (2GB) / Intel® Iris Pro™ 580 / Intel® Iris® Plus G7 / AMD® Radeon™ Vega 11
- Storage: 8 GB available space
Recommended:
- OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4670K / AMD® Ryzen™ 5 2400G
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 1650 (4GB) / AMD® Radeon™ R9 390X (8GB)
- Storage: 8 GB available space
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