Knights of the Crusades

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Knights of the Crusades is a single player strategy game. It was developed by Reverie World Studios and was released on September 6, 2025. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Travel to the Holy Land with the First Crusades. Rise from a humble knight to the founding father of a world-spanning holy order. Lead through war, faith, diplomacy, and cunning schemes. Experience a unique blend of RTS, city-building, and sandbox gameplay, and shape history!

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76%

Audience ScoreBased on 113 reviews

gameplay4 positive mentions

stability8 negative mentions

Unique and immersive Crusades theme with a rich storyline and historical accuracy that many players find engaging.
Combines elements of Total War, Mount & Blade, and classic RTS games, offering satisfying real-time grand strategy and city management gameplay.
Developer is highly responsive, actively updating the game, fixing bugs, and engaging with the community, showing strong potential for future improvements.

Frequent and frustrating crashes, especially after battles and when transitioning between map views, severely affecting playability for many users.
The game feels unfinished and buggy with issues like save corruption, AI problems, UI sluggishness, and lack of some expected features or depth compared to similar titles.
Graphics and interface are outdated or clunky by modern standards, and some gameplay mechanics, controls, and tactical depth feel underdeveloped or unrefined.

gameplay
21 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
19%
67%
14%
The gameplay offers an interesting blend of total war-style battles, empire management, and light city building with intuitive controls and a nostalgic early 2000s vibe. While the mechanics like diplomacy, research, and economy are present and enjoyable, many reviews highlight repetitiveness, a lack of depth, outdated systems, and unfinished or unstable features that need significant polishing. Overall, the game has solid foundations and fun elements but requires improvement to justify its time investment and price.
- “Diplomacy, research, and economic gameplay are all present and well done, this game does not feel like a spreadsheet.”
- “You can command, administrate and grow a military order, switching focus between Europe and the Holy Land, move armies around the map in real time, and engage in low complexity economy mechanics.”
- “Controls for the game seem pretty intuitive compared to other RTS games, and the different blend of gameplay mechanics blends well together.”
- “Cool game with early 2000's vibe, but is largely unfinished, lacks basic mechanics, unstable, and very repetitive. Not worthless, but definitely not worth the price. Personally, I wouldn't pay more than 3€. Try to get it on sale, otherwise, it's a waste of money.”
- “There is a mechanic where you have 15 minutes a month to 'enter' individual towns in RTS mode and micromanage what is going on, basically like in Age of Empires. You can build new buildings and assign workers, but I don't understand the point of it when you can also build buildings from the world map, and there is no clear correlation between towns and world map storage.”
- “In terms of gameplay mechanics, they stuck with the predecessor from 2019, which I thought was already outdated back then.”
graphics
12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's graphics are generally seen as outdated and basic, resembling early 2000s visuals rather than a 2025 release, with limited control and occasional performance issues such as crashes during large battles. However, some users find the graphics satisfactory and nostalgic, and the developer's timely hotfixes improve overall stability. Despite not having high graphical fidelity or advanced animations, the visuals are adequate for enjoyable gameplay.
- “The graphics are actually really nice and the music is great.”
- “The graphics, soundtrack, and gameplay are all very nostalgic!”
- “Now yes, it doesn't have the highest graphical fidelity or animation work, but what is here works and is satisfactory.”
- “The graphics control is severely limited, not something you'd expect from a 2025 game but oh well.”
- “The visuals of the engine, map, units, and weather simulation need improvement; for a 2025 game, this feels like it came out in 2000.”
- “I would consider this to be a low graphic cross between Total War and the map play of Mount & Blade.”
music
11 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
82%
18%
The game's music is consistently praised for being immersive, enjoyable, and enhancing the overall atmosphere, with soundtrack and voice work adding depth to the story and setting a fitting mood. Players find the music fresh and nostalgic, complementing the gameplay and campaign effectively. However, occasional technical issues can disrupt the audio experience.
- “The soundtrack and audio effects are immersive and enjoyable.”
- “The soundtrack is very immersive and the voice overs when something major happens feels like I'm creating a rich history for my new world!”
- “Good music and voice work enhance a rich and engaging story.”
story
9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
56%
11%
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The game's story is praised for being immersive, engaging, and easy to follow, featuring a compelling quest and rich lore. The setting and storytelling are highlighted as strong points, enhanced by good music and voice work. Overall, the narrative provides an enjoyable and strategic experience for players.
- “The game itself is really good, not too difficult to play and has a great storyline.”
- “This game has a fantastic setting and story.”
- “The storyline and lore is phenomenal and was easy to grasp for a newbie.”
- “Starting you off as a no-name lord and sending you on a quest to the holy land.”
- “Well, the crusader armies are at strength 275-300, so your little army just stays out of the way and performs mop-up missions.”
- “So far, mission accomplished.”
stability
8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game suffers from frequent crashes and freezes, making it difficult to play consistently. While some find it promising and enjoyable, the persistent bugs and instability significantly hinder the experience, leading to frustration and poor overall reliability.
- “Constant game crashes and freezes, so bad I can't even ctrl-alt-del the game to close it.”
- “Good game but freezes every other battle.”
- “Releasing such buggy and apparently unfinished games is outright scam!”
optimization
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
25%
75%
The game's optimization shows mixed results: while initial performance and stability issues were improved promptly, users still experience problems with loading times, sound normalization, and overall stability. Additionally, some report that graphic performance and campaign scripting have deteriorated compared to previous versions.
- “Hats off to you for fixing performance and stability issues in a short amount of time, it runs way better than when I bought it.”
- “Like the previous game, Knights of the Crusades also has some issues with performance and loading times along with some issues with sound normalization.”
- “Graphic performance became worse, campaign scripting became worse, game stability became worse.”
- “Hats off to you for fixing performance and stability issues in a short amount of time, it runs way better than when I bought it, but the gameplay needs a lot of work for me to invest the amount of time it demands.”
atmosphere
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Users appreciate the game's unique First Crusade setting, which significantly enhances its atmospheric immersion.
- “I'm really into the First Crusade setting—it’s a unique theme that adds a lot of atmosphere.”

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Knights of the Crusades is a strategy game.

Knights of the Crusades is available on PC and Windows.

Knights of the Crusades was released on September 6, 2025.

Knights of the Crusades was developed by Reverie World Studios.

Knights of the Crusades has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked this game for its gameplay but disliked it for its graphics.

Knights of the Crusades is a single player game.

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