You can find an exhaustive list of them all on the game’s official wiki.īut, turns out you don’t actually need to use any of them. Some testers played the game for thousands of hours to make sure the elaborate simulation of the medieval world held together for consumers. They call them “debug codes,” which speaks to their origins as the workarounds used to test the game before it was released. They don’t call them cheat codes, though. That’s why developer Paradox Interactive programmed in dozens of very specific cheat codes. Did you accidentally murder the wrong sibling 15 hours ago? Are you extremely broke after a poorly conceived (yet weirdly successful) march on Rome? It could happen to anyone. But, sometimes you mess things up so badly that there’s simply no going back. The complex strategy role-playing game will eat up as much of your gaming life as you’re willing to feed it. Crusader Kings 3 is an amazing experience, but also an incredible time sink.