CRUSADER KINGS III

History won’t remember my tenure as Alba’s monarch fondly. A poisoned brother, nieces and nephews fed to woodland critters, political rivals turned into ‘art’ in my torture chamber – and let’s not go into all the STDs or that time I wanted to have sex with a shoe. Yeah, this is Crusader Kings all right.

After racking up a litany of misdeeds that would be far too long – and nauseating – to list here, I can report that Crusader Kings III still lets you play an absolute monster. You can be chivalrous and pious, too, but it’s not as fun to read about. Indeed, almost everything you can say about its predecessor is true here, but it doesn’t feel like a repeat.

Crusader Kings III starts where the last game left off. Not chronologically, of course, but in terms of its systems. Over the course