The Kings' Crusade (2010)

Developer: NeoCoreGames
Platforms: Windows
Genres: Strategy
Rating: 2.0 of 5, 175 player ratings
Typical playtime: about 2.6 hours
Where to get it: Steam

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How it feels

A deliberate and methodical real-time strategy game where commanding medieval armies feels like orchestrating a historical campaign.

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What players say

Players love the premise and RPG-tinged RTS gameplay, but nearly everyone reports crashes and runtime errors that require manual patching to run on modern systems. The developer never fixed these issues, leaving the game in a broken state.

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