

Of course, Europa Universalis IV is a very different game from Crusader Kings III, and so you won’t be playing as a dynasty once you shift to EU4. Characters, country histories, rulers and heirs, and national boundaries are all read from the end state of your Crusader Kings III save and turned into a mod for EU4, which you can either load manually or through the utility front-end. It’s a standalone utility, not technically a mod, so it won’t affect how either Crusader Kings III or Europa Universalis IV behave while you play. The CK3 to EU4 Converter sets out to do the same thing, as you might expect, using saves from Paradox’s latest strategy game. This allowed players to save the state of the world as it was at the end of Crusader Kings II’s timespan and roll directly into Europa Universalis IV starting in 1444 CE and letting you play all the way up to 1821. The ability to convert Crusader Kings games into Europa Universalis IV games was added to Crusader Kings II as a pre-order bonus for Europa Universalis in 2013, and later sold separately as a DLC add-on.

All good things must come to an end, and that includes your current Crusader Kings III campaign – or does it? Thanks to a team of enterprising modders, now you can carry on after the Fall of Byzantium by converting your Crusader Kings III savegame into a save for Europa Universalis IV.
