Crusader Kings III is massively, powerfully alive. You can almost feel it pulsing when you play it. Often, deep into the third, fourth, fifth hour of play, I'd realize I wasn't so much playing it as watching it develop. The streamlining of its user experience and the accessibility of the wealth of information it collates for each and every citizen of it's stunning rendering of Europe, continental Asia and northern Africa has not just made this a game that's legible to more kinds of players; it has opened up new dimensions in its sense of character.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgx4b4/crusader-kings-iii-is-a-world-of-complexity-that-feels-powerfully-alive