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Crusader Kings

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Crusader Kings
Crusader Kings cover
Developers
Paradox Development Studio
macOS (OS X) Virtual Programming
Publishers
Paradox Interactive
Engines
Europa
Release dates
Windows April 23, 2004
macOS (OS X) October 28, 2005
Reception
Metacritic 73
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Top-down view
Genres Strategy
Themes Europe, Historical, Medieval
Series Crusader Kings
Crusader Kings on HowLongToBeat
Crusader Kings on IGDB
Crusader Kings on MobyGames
Crusader Kings on Wikipedia
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Crusader Kings is a singleplayer and multiplayer top-down view strategy game in the Crusader Kings series.

General information

Official forum
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
macOS (OS X)
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Complete Edition.
Windows
Steam
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Complete Edition.
Windows
Mac App Store (unavailable)
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Complete Edition.
macOS (OS X)
Publisher website (unavailable)
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Complete Edition.
Windows
See here for other shops.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Deus Vult
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch for the base game is v1.05.
The Japanese release of the Deus Vult expansion received the v2.1.1 patch.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/204940/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/204940/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Widescreen resolution

Set resolution in settings.txt[1]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Open settings.txt.
  3. Change 1024 and 768 to the desired resolution.
  4. Save the changes.
Menus are offset at the top-left corner of the screen but gameplay scales correctly.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Retail only.
German
Retail only.
Italian
Retail only.
Japanese
Retail only.
Polish
Retail only.
Spanish
Retail only.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
Online play
8

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
ExecutablePPC 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 450 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 600 MB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/204940/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (204940) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References