Easily one of the most fun games I have played in a long time. No matter how long I play the same save file I keep coming back to it with hopes of turning my one provence Irish nation into a world dominating power, which is made easier by awkwardly gaining the whole of the Byzantine Empire due to some strange inheritance of marrying off my mother... This game is absolutely fantastic to play if you are into this type of grand strategy game. Each time you play it is almost completely different from the last. Go start a game as Portugal and once you've taken it a bit far try it again... you will have very different out comes ignoring your gained knowledge.

CK2 takes quite a bit of time to learn how to play it and even more time to figure out a half baked strategy to stay alive. This game is good on its own with no DLC but you are severely limited on how much you can do or who you can play. If you can get this game and the DLC on sale, and you have the $100+ to do that then I would strongly recommend it. You don't have to buy the picture packs or the music packs and I would not recommend doing so unless you have the extra $50 to burn.

Come on, what other game allows your daughter to turn into a polar bear, take control of the French Empire, and then declare a war on you because shes a bear and you're human and that's a good enough reason? Or makes it to where your 4 year old daughter decides you are unfit to rule the country, and over powers you with a small kinfe and kills the same man who lead an army single handedly to conquer all of Spain? Or even better, you get a small cold so your physician decides its a good idea to remove your left eye to cure you, which then he decides you have cancer and removes your testicles. THEN you have cancer again so he needs to perform some mystery surgery which he didn't get you quite sedated all the way so the pain made you a lunatic. THEN the cancer returned so he removed your leg... I'll wait... Oh yeah, I also made my Irish/Greek family some how connected to Alexander the great thanks to my weird inheritance so that was fun. Word of advice... don't play board games with the reaper... you're probably not going to like the out come no matter how good you are.

Easily one of the most fun games I have played in a long time. No matter how long I play the same save file I keep coming back to it with hopes of turning my one provence Irish nation into a world dominating power, which is made easier by awkwardly gaining the whole of the Byzantine Empire due to some strange inheritance of marrying off my mother... This game is absolutely fantastic to play if you are into this type of grand strategy game. Each time you play it is almost completely different from the last. Go start a game as Portugal and once you've taken it a bit far try it again... you will have very different out comes ignoring your gained knowledge. CK2 takes quite a bit of time to learn how to play it and even more time to figure out a half baked strategy to stay alive. This game is good on its own with no DLC but you are severely limited on how much you can do or who you can play. If you can get this game and the DLC on sale, and you have the $100+ to do that then I would strongly recommend it. You don't have to buy the picture packs or the music packs and I would not recommend doing so unless you have the extra $50 to burn. Come on, what other game allows your daughter to turn into a polar bear, take control of the French Empire, and then declare a war on you because shes a bear and you're human and that's a good enough reason? Or makes it to where your 4 year old daughter decides you are unfit to rule the country, and over powers you with a small kinfe and kills the same man who lead an army single handedly to conquer all of Spain? Or even better, you get a small cold so your physician decides its a good idea to remove your left eye to cure you, which then he decides you have cancer and removes your testicles. THEN you have cancer again so he needs to perform some mystery surgery which he didn't get you quite sedated all the way so the pain made you a lunatic. THEN the cancer returned so he removed your leg... I'll wait... Oh yeah, I also made my Irish/Greek family some how connected to Alexander the great thanks to my weird inheritance so that was fun. Word of advice... don't play board games with the reaper... you're probably not going to like the out come no matter how good you are.