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Crusader Kings Complete cover art

Crusader Kings Complete

Paradox Development Studio · Paradox Interactive · 2012-02-14

SteamGOG

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Feb 14, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Europe is in turmoil. The lands are fragmented into petty fiefs and the Emperor struggles with the Pope. At this very moment the Pope has declared that those who go to liberate the Holy Land will be freed of all sins. Gather prestige and piety and the world will whisper your name in awe.

3
playing now
61%
positive of 245 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Crusader Kings is a grand strategy video game developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive in April 2004. An expansion called Deus Vult was released in October 2007. A sequel, Crusader Kings II, was released in February 2012, and another sequel, Crusader Kings III, was released on September 1, 2020.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 56% of 5,887 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.8k–20k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 245 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$1.99-80%
GOG$1.99-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.24 at GreenManGaming (2013-01-25) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 51 of 82 observed days · $0.75 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

602026-08-11 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 4 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 6 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 6 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 5 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 5 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.95$1.722015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $2.632015-04-21 — best price $1.992015-09-28 — best price $9.992016-02-10 — best price $7.882016-06-24 — best price $9.622016-12-09 — best price $9.992017-05-25 — best price $2.502017-11-02 — best price $9.992018-03-01 — best price $9.992018-06-15 — best price $9.992018-10-10 — best price $8.992018-12-20 — best price $2.492019-04-01 — best price $1.992019-06-27 — best price $2.502019-10-17 — best price $2.492020-01-09 — best price $2.492020-03-23 — best price $2.202020-06-23 — best price $2.392020-08-26 — best price $2.492020-10-22 — best price $8.812021-01-05 — best price $8.812021-04-29 — best price $8.602021-08-20 — best price $2.492021-12-01 — best price $9.992022-03-21 — best price $2.492022-07-07 — best price $9.992022-09-22 — best price $8.692023-01-03 — best price $8.392023-04-03 — best price $2.292023-08-11 — best price $8.992023-12-15 — best price $8.992024-04-18 — best price $9.992024-09-10 — best price $9.992025-01-20 — best price $1.992025-10-08 — best price $9.992026-03-29 — best price $9.992026-08-12 — best price $1.992026-08-30 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

11802026-05-31 — 5 pageviews2026-06-03 — 5 pageviews2026-06-06 — 0 pageviews2026-06-09 — 32 pageviews2026-06-12 — 72 pageviews2026-06-15 — 69 pageviews2026-06-18 — 78 pageviews2026-06-21 — 65 pageviews2026-06-24 — 107 pageviews2026-06-27 — 74 pageviews2026-06-30 — 84 pageviews2026-07-03 — 70 pageviews2026-07-06 — 69 pageviews2026-07-09 — 83 pageviews2026-07-12 — 62 pageviews2026-07-15 — 66 pageviews2026-07-18 — 67 pageviews2026-07-21 — 63 pageviews2026-07-24 — 70 pageviews2026-07-27 — 73 pageviews2026-07-30 — 118 pageviews2026-08-02 — 81 pageviews2026-08-05 — 74 pageviews2026-08-08 — 62 pageviews2026-08-11 — 63 pageviews2026-08-14 — 60 pageviews2026-08-17 — 86 pageviews2026-08-20 — 94 pageviews2026-08-23 — 84 pageviews2026-08-26 — 85 pageviews2026-08-28 — 44 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

MedievalStrategyHistoricalSingleplayerGrand StrategyReal-Time with Pause

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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