Paradox Interactive’s highly-anticipated follow-up to Crusader Kings II hasn’t even been out for a month yet and already players are achieving some remarkable things. In a press release sent out by the developer, a list of absurd and impressive feats are listed. They range from genuinely quite impressive (40,591,268 children have been born in-game since its September 1 launch!) to, frankly, quite gruesome (18,212,157 successful murder schemes have been executed). Away from the binary function of life and death, we’ve seen some other odd situations, too: 1,543,790 prisoners have been cannibalized in players’ worlds, and one of them was a pope! Additionally, 716,369 stress breaks have been taken, whilst 370,305 people have petted pets – perhaps if those numbers were closer, there’d be less need to take stress breaks, eh? If stress/relaxation isn’t your style, and you’re more into the whole ‘holy war’ thing, then fret not: Paradox reveals that 1,451,427 holy wars have been started in-game since the game launched. That’s a lot of righteous justice. If you want to know how long it takes to get to these eye-watering numbers, the development team has disclosed that – to date – players have clocked up 25 million hours playing Crusader Kings III. That’s the equivalent of 2,800 years of in-game playtime. If you’re interested in the game, you can see our 5-Star review at the link, or head to the reviews round-up page to see what the wider industry thought of this hilarious historical sim. The new update for the game arrives tomorrow.
