Knights of the Crusades
Medieval strategy with holy orders, town building, and real-time battles
Reverie World Studios · Published by indie.io · Released Sep 6, 2025
- Reviews
- Mixed
- 69% of 183
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Playing now
- 0
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 1 month ago
- Aug 5, 2026
What is Knights of the Crusades?
A single-player strategy game set during the Crusades, combining a world map with settlement building and real-time battles. You lead the Templars or a custom holy order toward the Holy Land, capturing hamlets, managing resources and armies, and fighting sieges. After the campaign, play continues with open-ended expansion and alliances.
For you if...
- +you like switching between world-map strategy and real-time battles
- +you want to build settlements while managing a holy order
- +you prefer open-ended expansion after a campaign
Not for you if...
- −you want multiplayer strategy matches
- −you prefer battles without resource or settlement management
What players say
69% of 183 reviews are positive
Players praise the Crusades setting and the mix of world-map strategy, settlement management, and real-time battles. They frequently report crashes and freezes; some also call the mechanics unfinished or repetitive and compare the game to the developer's earlier titles.
Screenshots and trailer
Knights of the Crusades system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 7
- Processor
- 2.4 GHz Dual Core
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 530 / ATI Radeon HD 6570
- Memory
- 3 GB RAM
- Storage
- 5 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 11
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 10
- Processor
- 2.4 GHz Dual Core
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti / Radeon HD 6790
- Memory
- 5 GB RAM
- Storage
- 7 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 11
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 41
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing
Steam Deck: Playable
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- Default configuration is not performant
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Full audio: English. Text only: French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal.
Tags
- Sandbox
- Grand Strategy
- RTS
- City Builder
- Strategy
- Simulation
- Wargame
- Action RTS
- Medieval
- Base Building
- Singleplayer
- Indie
- 4X
- Action
- Real Time Tactics
- Crafting
Recent updates
- Aug 5, 2026 · Update #13 – Stability, Visuals & Gameplay
- Jul 22, 2026 · Update # 12 - Resuming Work & Crash Fixed
- Nov 18, 2025 · Update # 11 - Major Improvements
- Nov 8, 2025 · Update # 10 - Stability and Late Game
- Oct 18, 2025 · Update # 9 - All Crashes Fixed!
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