Paradox Interactive is set to expand the medieval world of Crusader Kings III for console players with its upcoming Tours and Tournaments expansion, launching November 18 on Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5.
This addition will immerse players in a vivid portrayal of medieval life, allowing characters to engage in grand events, journey across lands, and build strategic alliances. It is the 5th major expansion for Crusader Kings III, preceded by Friends and Foes.
Tours and Tournaments introduces several new features that transport players to the heart of medieval entertainment. Characters can embark on pilgrimages, conduct tours, and participate in various medieval events such as tournaments and weddings.
Players can use these gatherings as opportunities to strengthen their social standing, forge alliances, or even engage in intrigue with rivals.
The expansion brings several dynamic mechanics to its gameplay. If players can join these events, they can also host their own lavish tournaments, attracting nobles and knights from neighboring lands to bolster their characters’ social reputation and military prowess.
As for its tours and weddings, players may embark on grand tours throughout their realm, engaging with their vassals, showing benevolence, or collecting higher taxes to reinforce their massive treasury. The Dynastic Wedding, however, will enable players to create alliances by bringing together powerful families and displaying the might of their dynasties.
Other than weddings, tours, and tournaments, the expansion also has a newly added travel system that allows characters to plan routes to events. They could either choose between safe but lengthy paths or faster, riskier routes through forests and mountains.
4 years after its Windows release, Crusader Kings III was Paradox Interactive’s premier medieval fantasy simulation game. The Tours and Tournaments Expansion was released back in May 2023 for PC.
Compared to the PC version, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S versions are behind with its expansion releases, with Tours and Tournaments the fifth of its ten major expansions for Crusader Kings III.