Game Overview: Crusader Kings II
ok so this one I obviously did not play as a teenager, haha. It is a historical based game though so it was interesting to me and was introduced to me via a friend as a game that while it had potential combat, that was optional. woo optional combat.
Crusader Kings II is a medieval dynastic simulation game with a focus (which is easily ignored) on the sorts of weird military alliances that came with the actual crusades, and includes occasional calls by religious leaders for holy wars against different faiths as well as plenty of normal territorial wars. The reason the combat is easily ignored is that there’s a lot else going on with marriages, inheritance, unexpected deaths, assassinations, the plague, etc etc etc. Lots goes into the simulation part of this. You begin as the ruler of some sort of territory, you can pick what level from count to king, and play through their life and then when they die you play as their heir so on until you either have something happen so that your family has no more title to land or your dynasty dies out for you hit the end date for the game (14-something). The goal of the game is largely self defined.
there’s plenty of DLC content as well as a lot of mods.
















