Crusader Kings II: Charlemagne

 PC
Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. CalmDownTom
    Nov 30, 2014
    100
    Forget your One Million Years Dungeons, Charlemagne DLC really does add 100 years to the game, adding the total up to almost 700 years of historical gameplay.
  2. Softpedia
    Oct 31, 2014
    85
    Crusader Kings II is the most complex title that Paradox Interactive, a company known for the depth of its releases, has ever created and the already impressive mods released for it, the best of which is the one based on A Song of Ice and Fire, will certainly find new ways to expand it in the future.
  3. PC Gamer
    Dec 24, 2014
    76
    It's good, but yet another dramatic tale of intrigue in a game already packed with them. [Feb 2015, p.77]
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User Score
6.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 13 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 13
  3. Negative: 4 out of 13
  1. wojtekoxx
    Apr 25, 2017
    1
    THE addition that broke the game for many, many people. Let's start with good sides. Additional start date (that not many people like due toTHE addition that broke the game for many, many people. Let's start with good sides. Additional start date (that not many people like due to abbasids out of control). Zunist religion.
    What sucks:
    >Making custom empire or kingdom funnily wrecks dejure borders of predefined kingdoms and empires, because you WILL want to eventually destroy your title and use neat dejure predefined one - NOPE. Charlie events are ultimate noob scenario ones. You get half of europe + saxony + italy just by decisions. From then convert to religion of your choice adn the world is your oyster!
    >Retinues are completely butchered. They become drain on your economy for hardly any benefit. Barely better than normal troops, they are ridiculously expensive and will die during marching through your own territory. Most of viable retinues became butchered with this patch, and now you are stuck with pikemen for like 3 years now. Horse archers, cataphracts, knights? Forget them, they are useless. Addition of cultural retinues to the game (at least for many new cultures) killed diversity, because now you are stuck with horrible things unless you convert to different culture which is gamebreaking.
    > Tribals. So you want to be pagan. Peaceful pagan, just sitting in your country and minding your business untilyou are ready to expand? nope. You are tribal now. Everyone around you gets 2500 troops for 500 prestige, so you will waste all your prestige defending from backward peasants. If you decided defending is boring, you can look at your 0.3 g/month income or BLOB, because there is nothing else to do. If you are stupid enough to have at least 2 kids, they will automatically create kingdoms after your death and good luck attacking your brother. So you are forced to blob even more to make empire OR stop any conquest whatsoever the moment you are 40 years old, because you are too old to create empire. Good times.
    To sum up, retinues as bad as they are now, will never again allow you to just mind your business with strong, professional army EARNED by big tech. You will feel weak from the first to last year of your game. Good luck.    … Full Review »
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