Meanwhile Reaper’s Due added more fantastical elements with the ability to play chess with death or seek immortality. Jade Dragon one upped that with a noble who turned out to have been a bear masquerading as a human this entire time. The Conclave DLC enabled a Caligula moment where an unstable monarch could fire their chancellor and replace them with a horse. CharlemagneĬrusader Kings started out as a relatively straight laced historical game, but over the years it’s gotten increasingly silly. The War focus allows you to challenge characters to a duel and kill them in single combat, while the Seduction focus lets you go all Double Indemnity and get a besotted lover to off their spouse for you. It’s not just fun little stories though, these foci can often have powerful in game effects. For example pick ‘Business’ and you might get an chain of events about funding a trading journey to foreign lands, while a Scholarship focus might result in you building an Observatory. This gives you a small stat boost and access certain themed events, often improving your skills in that area.

One of the ways Way of Life achieves this is by allowing your ruler to pick a ‘focus’. How much you enjoy this side of the game will determine whether you pick up this DLC or not, but I absolutely adore them, which is why I’ve rated this so highly. Way of Life is focused on the role playing aspect of Crusader Kings, specifically ‘events’, those little ‘choose your own adventure’ pop ups that appear as you play informing you that your ruler has taken up falconry, insulted a priest, or slept with their sister (that last one comes up a lot).

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