- Release Date: 1st September 2020
- Developer: Paradox Development Studio
- Platforms: Steam, Microsoft Store (also available at launch on Xbox Game Pass for PC), Paradox Store (Steam Key, but 100% goes to Paradox)
- Pricing: $49.99, €49.99, £41.99
- Genre: Freeform Grand Strategy/Role Playing Game
Play as anyone of thousands of noble and royal characters, stretching from the Arctic Circle to Central Africa, from Iceland to India, and control their fate, and the fate of their descendents.
Bring new lands and new titles under your control, and ensure your name lives down through the ages.
Starting in 867 or 1066, experience all the pageantry and glory of the Middle Ages, the Viking Raiders, the Crusaders, go on pilgrimages, be a pious and loyal feudal lord, or go out on your own and risk eternal damnation in the name of glory.
Adopt a lifestyle to perfect your skills in your chosen field, acquiring traits to develop your character, or stresses from acting out of character.
Manage your realm and deepen your interpersonal relationships with friends, rivals or lovers.
Deal with your heirs as you see fit, giving them the finest tutors possible or dealing with them yourself, and see if they're even up to the job of ruling once you're gone.
Control your scheming courtiers and decide whether it's better to feared or loved.. or risk betrayal.
Recruit peasant levies and loyal knights to your forces, and wage wars against any who would stand against you.
Raid your wealthy neighbours and ransom back captured prisoners to supplement your income, and hire mercenary bands and powerful holy orders to fight your major wars, including Crusades and Jihads.
What is Jerusalem worth, anyway?
Keep a loyal spymaster to hand to uncover plots against you and your realm, while striking in the dark against any who would block your way to victory.
Recruit, bribe or blackmail others into doing your dirty work, or even seduce them into whispering secrets into your ear. The world is yours, you need merely reach out and take it..
