All good things must come to an end, and that includes your current Crusader Kings III campaign - or does it? Thanks to a team of enterprising modders, now you can carry on after the Fall of Byzantium by converting your Crusader Kings III savegame into a save for Europa Universalis IV.
The ability to convert Crusader Kings games into Europa Universalis IV games was added to Crusader Kings II as a pre-order bonus for Europa Universalis in 2013, and later sold separately as a DLC add-on. This allowed players to save the state of the world as it was at the end of Crusader Kings II's timespan and roll directly into Europa Universalis IV starting in 1444 CE and letting you play all the way up to 1821.
The CK3 to EU4 Converter sets out to do the same thing, as you might expect, using saves from Paradox's latest strategy game. It's a standalone utility, not technically a mod, so it won't affect how either Crusader Kings III or Europa Universalis IV behave while you play. Characters, country histories, rulers and heirs, and national boundaries are all read from the end state of your Crusader Kings III save and turned into a mod for EU4, which you can either load manually or through the utility front-end.
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Nearly a year after it was initially announced, Crusader Kings 3 released on September 1st, 2020. The reviews are all in now (more or less) and the word is good. Our own Crusader Kings 3 review mentions that it's the most polished Paradox strategy release ever, and if you browse any of the 46 critic reviews that have dropped to date (none of which, currently, are lower than a eight) then you'll see we're not alone in our praise. I mean, we can't all be wrong...
Crusader Kings 3 doubles-down on the RPG elements that made the previous game so accessible, and allowed it to break out of the assumptions people had of these kinds of games. Combined with a ground-up approach to design at all levels and a specific focus on how it presents information it wants players to know, this new entry has been propelled to new heights. It is, without a doubt, one of their most accomplished launches to date, and the true successor to the legacy of grand strategy as we know it today.
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