After last year's celebrated Chapter Four expansions that extended Crusader Kings 3's map across Asia with systems for playing as Mongolian nomads, Chinese courtly bureaucrats, and god-kings of Indonesia, Paradox isn't resting on its laurels. Today, the studio unveiled its future plans in a Chapter Five reveal video, previewing a pair of major paid DLC aimed at overhauling CK3's religion gameplay and introducing new mercantile playstyles.
If you've been waiting to play Pope—and I'm sure you have—you'll be getting your chance later this year.
By God Alone, the first of Chapter Five's two major paid expansions arriving in Q3 2026, brings a rework to CK3's religion systems—particularly for Christian characters. In the reveal video, design lead Mikael Andersson said Paradox's is "fleshing out the Christian church to make the institution itself feel like a living entity."
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