Warhorse Studios has announced that the sequel to its historical RPG will be released this year.
In an astonishing move, the sequel will be titled Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. Truly, a daring choice. Once again it’ll follow the adventures of Henry of Skillitz in 15th-century Bohemia, a locale for which Warhorse Studios drew some criticism owing to them choosing to portray it as predominantly white. This, of course, is historically accurate and thus makes complete sense in a game trying to be quite historically on-point, but that didn’t stop a lot of people from getting angry about it. Humans can be strange.
The trailer depicts a slightly older Henry but doesn’t give much away about the plot which is nice to see. But while we might not know the story, we did get a few snippets of information regarding the gameplay. For example, the new game will feature two maps, as well as early gunpowder weapons.
Overall, Warhorse reckons the new game is twice the size of the original, which is why they now have 250 people working on it.
“Now it’s 250 people working very hard for years to bring you the ultimate medieval RPG adventure,” said Creative Director Vávra. He later continued, saying: “What we are making now is what it was supposed to be in the beginning, but we were not able to do it because we didn’t have enough resources and experience and all that stuff. We’ve proven that the concept works and now we can take it to another level.
The first game did extremely well for the studio. Released in 2018 it managed to sell a million copies in just a few weeks, a great result considering it was Warhorse Studio’s first game. Earlier this year the company confirmed that the game had managed to sell over 6 million copies, a very impressive feat.
Following the success of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Warhorse was bought by Koch Media, now known as Plaion, in 2019 for €42.8 million
The trailer ends by revealing that Kingdom Come: Deliverance will be out sometime this year for PS5, PC and Xbox Series S/X.