How do players who really played Crusader Kings III rate it? TrueGG Rating 87.0%
Players who really played rate it lower than Steam overall. Early impressions are weaker, so the first few hours tend to decide whether it clicks. Recent reviews are falling.
Good for
- Players looking for hundreds of hours
Think twice if you are
- Players bothered by bugs (reports of crashes and bugs)
- Players wary of microtransactions and DLC
- Players buying on the promise of future updates (complaints about the developers)
A rule-based guide from review patterns (no AI). How
vs Steam overall
Positive among players with 50+ hours (last 180 days) · 3,997 reviews
- TrueGG, all time
- 90.5%
- Steam overall
- 90.4%
- Japanese, all time
- 89.0%
Early wall
Reviews written under 2 hours: 2.7% of all reviews. Their positive share is 67.7%.
This is not a drop-off rate; it describes who wrote reviews. Refund guide: within 14 days of purchase and under 2 hours of play (Steam refund policy).
Does the rating change the longer people play?
Positive share by playtime at the time of review (reviews from the last 180 days). Ranges under 50 reviews are pale and dashed (indicative only); “—” means no reviews.
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| Playtime | Positive | Japanese | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0–1 h | 39.3% | 0.0% | 84 |
| 1–2 h | 50.0% | — | 80 |
| 2–5 h | 74.4% | — | 270 |
| 5–10 h | 82.8% | — | 373 |
| 10–20 h | 87.3% | 0.0% | 559 |
| 20–50 h | 88.3% | 0.0% | 973 |
| 50–100 h | 86.9% | 75.0% | 786 |
| 100–200 h | 86.5% | 66.7% | 969 |
| 200+ h | 87.2% | 100.0% | 2,242 |
How long people play: half of reviewers had played 50+ hours. 73% had 20+ hours and 37% had 100+ hours (all time).
Summary
Crusader Kings III has a TrueGG Rating of 87.0%: the positive share among 3,997 reviews written in the last 180 days by players with 50+ hours, close to Steam's overall 90.4%. Players who really play it broadly agree with the headline number (all time: 90.5%).
Reviews written under 2 hours make up 3% of the total, and only 68% of them are positive. Some players bounce off early, but those who get past the opening rate it higher. Steam accepts refund requests within 2 hours of play and 14 days of purchase.
In the last 180 days, reviews at 2–5h are 74% positive versus 87% at 200h+: the more people play, the more they like it.
Negative reviews most often mention crashes and bugs, monetization and DLC, and updates and the developers (less than at launch). Positive reviews praise how fun it feels.
Among Japanese-language reviews, the TrueGG Rating is 89.0%, similar to all languages.
Re-weighting reviews by trust signals (playtime, length, how the game was obtained) barely changes the rating (89.5% adjusted), so Steam's number is not noticeably distorted by key giveaways or throwaway reviews.
All figures come from Steam's public review counts, and topics are counted with our published dictionary (no AI). Data as of 2026-10-19.
Why it is rated this way
Complaints center on technical quality (Crashes & bugs). These can be fixed, so check recent reviews too. It is also a game many people bounce off early (early reviews are much less positive than those of players who stuck with it).
− Most mentioned complaints
- Crashes & bugs20% of negative reviews (3% of positive) · most common among 2–20h players · ongoing since launch
- Monetization & DLC20% of negative reviews (13% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · ongoing since launch
- Updates & developers15% of negative reviews (6% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · less than at launch · 5 positive reviews say it improved
- Boring / repetitive9% of negative reviews (3% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · ongoing since launch
- Price8% of negative reviews (3% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · less than at launch
+ What players praise
- Fun & feel29% of positive reviews (19% of negative)
Counted from 346 recent negative and 586 positive reviews in Japanese and English, using our published topic dictionary. No AI is used. Topics overlap, so shares do not add up to 100%. Sarcasm and nuance are not detected, and this does not show cause and effect.How we count
Checking the numbers
Figures with a different scope, shown alongside the TrueGG Rating.
| Metric | Positive | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Official Steam rating | 90.4% | All time, all languages · 142,779 reviews |
| Adjusted rating | 89.5% | Weighted by trust (95% range 89.1%–89.9%), −0.9pt vs official |
| Japanese-language reviews | 86.1% | All time, Japanese-language reviews (−4.2pt vs overall) · 332 reviews |
Show the positive vs negative breakdown
Share of sampled reviews that meet each condition that lowers trust. When a condition is more common on the positive side, the adjusted rating falls below the official one.
| Condition | Positive reviews | Negative reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Under 2 hours played at review | 1% | 11% |
| Very short text | 45% | 20% |
| Key activated outside Steam | 27% | 28% |
| Received for free | 1% | 1% |
| Owns very few games | 18% | 10% |
| Over 100 reviews written | 1% | 3% |
| Average trust (1.0 = full) | 0.73 | 0.80 |
The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 106.1 hours. 400 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-19
When did the rating change?
Monthly positive and negative review counts since release, as published by Steam.
Reviews per month
Positive share per month
Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.Shaded months were detected as concentrated waves of negative reviews (2026-09).Detection rule
Updates and ratings before and after
| Date | Announcement | 2 months before → after |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-11 | Out Now: North Pacific Attire, East Asian Wonders, & Celestial Court Attire | 87% → 84% (−2.5pt) |
| 2023-11-09 | Legacy of Persia & 1.11 "Peacock" Free Update - Available Now! | 87% → 86% (−1.4pt) |
Picked automatically from the titles of Steam announcements by the developer (one per month, last 3 years, up to 10). The dotted lines mark those months. Before and after are the positive rates of the two months before and after (excluding the month itself); shown as "—" under 50 reviews or when the two months after are not complete. An update is not necessarily the cause of a change.
Reviews per day, last 30 days
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| Month | Positive | Negative | Positive |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-09 | 15,351 | 1,155 | 93.0% |
| 2020-10 | 2,948 | 273 | 91.5% |
| 2020-11 | 6,917 | 200 | 97.2% |
| 2020-12 | 2,309 | 155 | 93.7% |
| 2021-01 | 1,640 | 117 | 93.3% |
| 2021-02 | 1,165 | 105 | 91.7% |
| 2021-03 | 1,636 | 149 | 91.7% |
| 2021-04 | 985 | 89 | 91.7% |
| 2021-05 | 1,151 | 120 | 90.6% |
| 2021-06 | 1,120 | 90 | 92.6% |
| 2021-07 | 1,099 | 72 | 93.9% |
| 2021-08 | 977 | 107 | 90.1% |
| 2021-09 | 888 | 100 | 89.9% |
| 2021-10 | 752 | 91 | 89.2% |
| 2021-11 | 1,181 | 91 | 92.8% |
| 2021-12 | 1,008 | 102 | 90.8% |
| 2022-01 | 1,040 | 98 | 91.4% |
| 2022-02 | 1,770 | 255 | 87.4% |
| 2022-03 | 992 | 101 | 90.8% |
| 2022-04 | 870 | 82 | 91.4% |
| 2022-05 | 927 | 92 | 91.0% |
| 2022-06 | 925 | 112 | 89.2% |
| 2022-07 | 818 | 98 | 89.3% |
| 2022-08 | 734 | 121 | 85.8% |
| 2022-09 | 953 | 249 | 79.3% |
| 2022-10 | 692 | 94 | 88.0% |
| 2022-11 | 908 | 79 | 92.0% |
| 2022-12 | 836 | 86 | 90.7% |
| 2023-01 | 787 | 84 | 90.4% |
| 2023-02 | 544 | 82 | 86.9% |
| 2023-03 | 613 | 86 | 87.7% |
| 2023-04 | 661 | 94 | 87.5% |
| 2023-05 | 1,297 | 185 | 87.5% |
| 2023-06 | 733 | 107 | 87.3% |
| 2023-07 | 954 | 128 | 88.2% |
| 2023-08 | 719 | 91 | 88.8% |
| 2023-09 | 524 | 82 | 86.5% |
| 2023-10 | 529 | 71 | 88.2% |
| 2023-11 | 1,386 | 130 | 91.4% |
| 2023-12 | 752 | 105 | 87.7% |
| 2024-01 | 756 | 142 | 84.2% |
| 2024-02 | 668 | 94 | 87.7% |
| 2024-03 | 1,105 | 240 | 82.2% |
| 2024-04 | 559 | 122 | 82.1% |
| 2024-05 | 855 | 181 | 82.5% |
| 2024-06 | 650 | 104 | 86.2% |
| 2024-07 | 811 | 153 | 84.1% |
| 2024-08 | 692 | 99 | 87.5% |
| 2024-09 | 1,073 | 198 | 84.4% |
| 2024-10 | 802 | 128 | 86.2% |
| 2024-11 | 1,472 | 142 | 91.2% |
| 2024-12 | 1,222 | 129 | 90.5% |
| 2025-01 | 954 | 144 | 86.9% |
| 2025-02 | 734 | 540 | 57.6% |
| 2025-03 | 1,126 | 447 | 71.6% |
| 2025-04 | 708 | 177 | 80.0% |
| 2025-05 | 1,023 | 384 | 72.7% |
| 2025-06 | 654 | 143 | 82.1% |
| 2025-07 | 837 | 167 | 83.4% |
| 2025-08 | 771 | 128 | 85.8% |
| 2025-09 | 660 | 160 | 80.5% |
| 2025-10 | 938 | 232 | 80.2% |
| 2025-11 | 2,183 | 286 | 88.4% |
| 2025-12 | 806 | 135 | 85.7% |
| 2026-01 | 789 | 125 | 86.3% |
| 2026-02 | 572 | 80 | 87.7% |
| 2026-03 | 881 | 154 | 85.1% |
| 2026-04 | 816 | 158 | 83.8% |
| 2026-05 | 797 | 139 | 85.1% |
| 2026-06 | 638 | 82 | 88.6% |
| 2026-07 | 811 | 112 | 87.9% |
| 2026-08 | 809 | 154 | 84.0% |
| 2026-09 | 654 | 5,721 | 10.3% |
| 2026-10 | 538 | 363 | 59.7% |
Show daily data as a table
| Day | Positive | Negative |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-19 | 24 | 8 |
| 2026-09-20 | 20 | 1 |
| 2026-09-21 | 12 | 4 |
| 2026-09-22 | 12 | 8 |
| 2026-09-23 | 24 | 2,007 |
| 2026-09-24 | 62 | 2,696 |
| 2026-09-25 | 26 | 469 |
| 2026-09-26 | 24 | 197 |
| 2026-09-27 | 24 | 148 |
| 2026-09-28 | 17 | 61 |
| 2026-09-29 | 31 | 44 |
| 2026-09-30 | 27 | 42 |
| 2026-10-01 | 27 | 46 |
| 2026-10-02 | 22 | 24 |
| 2026-10-03 | 46 | 33 |
| 2026-10-04 | 42 | 27 |
| 2026-10-05 | 28 | 22 |
| 2026-10-06 | 32 | 25 |
| 2026-10-07 | 25 | 21 |
| 2026-10-08 | 30 | 11 |
| 2026-10-09 | 35 | 19 |
| 2026-10-10 | 26 | 24 |
| 2026-10-11 | 41 | 17 |
| 2026-10-12 | 26 | 13 |
| 2026-10-13 | 31 | 11 |
| 2026-10-14 | 27 | 6 |
| 2026-10-15 | 21 | 18 |
| 2026-10-16 | 24 | 14 |
| 2026-10-17 | 27 | 17 |
| 2026-10-18 | 28 | 15 |
Recent sentiment
| Period | Positive | Reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Last 30 days | 72.7% | 556 |
| Last 180 days | 85.3% | 6,325 |
| All time | 90.4% | 142,779 |
| Japanese, last 180 days | 61.5% | 13 |
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