This can lead to bizarre situations, such as when getting bumped off by your dwarf son is something you’re actively rooting for. This epic title from Paradox is a grand real-time strategy, where the twist is you play as a dynasty, rather than one character. Unlike most strategies, Crusader Kings 2 puts the military aspect of gameplay very much in the backseat to diplomacy: you can’t go to war on your neighbours simply because you dislike them, for example.

I am only slightly embarrassed to admit the first day I had the game I played it for 24 hours straight. Add in the base game, through which players can take part in everything from the iconoclast controversy to the Hundred Years’ War (for its whole duration), and the little historian in me was hooked. I was soon transfixed with this game that (through the use of a dedicated mod) allowed players to step into the world of Westeros so seamlessly.

Two writers, Robert James and Joshua Walker, review their favourite game: Crusader Kings 2, for Tutorial Level.Ĭrusader Kings 2 popped onto my radar about four years ago, while looking up bad Game of Thrones theories on YouTube. Image description: Two men dressed as knights wearing armour and carrying swords.