Having sunk 32 hours into this game over a number of years I can still, even in 2020, justify buying it (especially if you can get it and the DLC for a good price on sale.)( We often talk about the "replayability" of video games and I can absolutely guarantee that you can reply and replay this game a thousand times over and have an utterly unique experience on every single occasion! Whether you start at the lofty heights as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, start as a small viking leader, strike out to become King of Ireland from one of the smaller petty kingdoms (my favourite start) or whatever else, you're guaranteed to find a host of friends, allies, villains and often hilarity. You will find yourself getting attached to certain rulers, very invested in their affairs and developing substantial and unjustifiable levels of animus towards characters who are fictional lines of code on your PC.

The game becomes even more replayable if you and a friend join forces or face off on multiplayer, and if you explore the huge expanse of mods that are available (the Game of Thrones mod is particularly impressive!)

Enough gushing, all I can say is I would thoroughly reccomend it, it's given me years of fun and memories.

Having sunk 32 hours into this game over a number of years I can still, even in 2020, justify buying it (especially if you can get it and the DLC for a good price on sale.)( We often talk about the "replayability" of video games and I can absolutely guarantee that you can reply and replay this game a thousand times over and have an utterly unique experience on every single occasion! Whether you start at the lofty heights as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, start as a small viking leader, strike out to become King of Ireland from one of the smaller petty kingdoms (my favourite start) or whatever else, you're guaranteed to find a host of friends, allies, villains and often hilarity. You will find yourself getting attached to certain rulers, very invested in their affairs and developing substantial and unjustifiable levels of animus towards characters who are fictional lines of code on your PC. The game becomes even more replayable if you and a friend join forces or face off on multiplayer, and if you explore the huge expanse of mods that are available (the Game of Thrones mod is particularly impressive!) Enough gushing, all I can say is I would thoroughly reccomend it, it's given me years of fun and memories.