Crusader Kings II
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Grand strategy RPG set in a medieval historical political sim framework, developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive. Released in 2012, Crusader Kings II has 30,860 Steam reviews with 91% positive, marked very positive.
Overview
Crusader Kings II is a 2012 RPG game developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive. On Steam it has gathered 73,645 player reviews, 91% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the RPG category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and is free to play. The pairing of developer Paradox Development Studio with publisher Paradox Interactive is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how RPG projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 4.4 million to 10.3 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Crusader Kings II can be compared against similar RPG titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
73,645
Positive
91%
Steam appid
203770
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.04.4M to 10.3M
units (median: 7.4M)
≈ $37.9M to $88.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2012 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_91% | +10 |
| genre_RPG | +10 |
| final NB | 100 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Crusader Kings II at roughly 4.4 million to 10.3 million copies, with a median around 7.4 million, derived from its 73,645 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $63.1M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $10.99Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $10.99 to $19.99, averaging $18.94 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $10.99 on 2026-05-26.
Synthetic series for demo. Real ITAD price history loads after Day 3 ingest.
Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
Grand StrategyStrategyMedievalHistoricalPolitical SimSimulationRPGSandboxMultiplayerPoliticsDiplomacySingleplayerReplay ValueReal-Time with PauseModdablePoliticalFree to PlayCharacter CustomizationRTSGreat Soundtrack
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Crusader Kings II sold?
- indielist estimates Crusader Kings II has sold between 4,418,700 and 10,310,300 units (median 7,364,500), derived from its 73,645 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Crusader Kings II?
- Crusader Kings II was developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive.
- When was Crusader Kings II released?
- Crusader Kings II was released in 2012.
- How many reviews does Crusader Kings II have on Steam?
- Crusader Kings II has 73,645 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Crusader Kings II within the RPG segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Paradox Development Studio's other releases and Paradox Interactive's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Crusader Kings II sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Crusader Kings II page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next RPG game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.