Strategy Game Fans Should Check Out Crusader Kings 3 on Xbox Game Pass

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Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass has gone from strength to strength in recent years. It's shone a light on lesser-known titles, given gamers easy access to old classics, ramped up its day-one releases, and even helped bring PC games to consoles like the strategy RPG Crusader Kings 3. PlayStation's own version of Game Pass in PlayStation Plus is attempting to leverage a similar offering, and it will be interesting to see how it compares to Xbox Game Pass' popularity.

The subscription service has been a great resource for gamers, with many different genres and styles of games to suit any player. While strategy games have traditionally been the domain of PC players, there are still plenty of brilliant examples on Xbox Game Pass that console gamers can enjoy. Now that Crusader Kings 3 has made the switch from purely PC when it was first released in 2020, to PlayStation and Xbox as of this week, console players have the chance to check out this critically lauded strategy dynasty simulation.

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The basis for a great strategy game is depth. Players want to feel like they're really in control of a multifaceted society, where their decisions make real changes and have actual consequences. In addition to a complex world of decision-making and responsibilities, the fighting needs to be fun and challenging, and there needs to be more to the world than just building an army and invading places. Crusader Kings 3 makes the most of its Middle Age setting, conveying all of that era's bizarreness, its challenges, and its delicate political situations.

The game also balances all of its many aspects so effectively, offering gamers a detailed world that is packed full of interesting nuance, but which still feels connected