More than 2 years after the release, I think the game suffers from a critical lack of genuine content, the overall experience is, in comparison with its predecessor, watered down and klunky. AI is almost unexistent, you can play as any random count and become a god emperor in 2 generations, without any doubt or difficulty.

Warfare is still mostly broken, with viking invasions & crusades being the most affected events, combined with the already mentioned lack of AI. About content, in more than 2 years, they barely shipped proper content in my opinion, artifacts & a lackluster "iberian struggle" system, that's it. No republics, no plagues, no Carolingian consolidation, no system enhancement, nothing.

As of the time of this review, the project is in a skeleton crew, so I won't get my hopes so high for the future of the franchise.

We'll always have CK2 though.

More than 2 years after the release, I think the game suffers from a critical lack of genuine content, the overall experience is, in comparison with its predecessor, watered down and klunky. AI is almost unexistent, you can play as any random count and become a god emperor in 2 generations, without any doubt or difficulty. Warfare is still mostly broken, with viking invasions & crusades being the most affected events, combined with the already mentioned lack of AI. About content, in more than 2 years, they barely shipped proper content in my opinion, artifacts & a lackluster "iberian struggle" system, that's it. No republics, no plagues, no Carolingian consolidation, no system enhancement, nothing. As of the time of this review, the project is in a skeleton crew, so I won't get my hopes so high for the future of the franchise. We'll always have CK2 though.