Crusader Kings III: Tours and Tournaments Expansion Gets the Party Started in May

Crusader Kings III can be a dark game, what with all the plotting, backstabbing, and incest, but there’s no reason you can’t let your hair down a bit. I mean, what good is being king if you can’t have some fun? That’s the focus of the Crusader Kings III: Tours and Tournaments expansion, which introduces grand tournaments, lavish grand weddings, and grand tours of your lands. In addition to that, you can also look forward to new armor designs, clothing, a travel system, and more. You can check out a trailer for the Tours and Tournaments expansion, below.

Need to know more? Here are the Crusader Kings III: Tours and Tournaments key features…

• Grand Tournaments: Host a grand demonstration of feats of arms, attracting nearby nobles and wandering knights. Choose the events, set the destination and use the tournament to improve your social standing or military prowess.
• Grand Tours: Take a trip through your realm to take stock of your vassals, gifting them with your benevolence or extorting them for higher taxes.
• Grand Weddings: Save your gold for an elaborate ceremony that centers the real meaning of marriage - politics. Honor your in-laws, cater to your vassals and demonstrate your power.
• Travel System: Plan your route to these great activities, choosing safety through civilized lands or risking everything for a more direct route through dark forests or dangerous mountains. Ease your way with a large entourage that marks your importance or travel light so you can get down to business.
• Knightly Accolades: Honor your best knights with special titles and accolades that will give bonuses to them and the armies they lead.
• New Armor Designs: New historical armor designs from across the centuries, integrated with the new Tournament and Accolade systems.
• New Western Clothing: New art for clothing designs will show how fashions changed and evolved in Western Europe from the time of the Carolignians to the closing of the medieval era.

Tours and Tournaments will set you back $30, which may sound a bit hefty, but you can get a better deal if you shell out for the $35 Chapter II bundle, which includes Tours and Tournaments and three additional content packs, including “Wards and Wardens,” “Legacy of Persia,” and “Elegance of the Empire.”

Crusader Kings III can be played on PC, Xbox Series X/S, and PS5, but new content comes to the PC version first. The Tours and Tournaments expansion launches on May 11.

Written by Nathan Birch