Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a PC action game developed by Warhorse Studios. It centers on platform movement and landing judgment, enemy and hazard responses, and stage objectives, with controls and information arranged around keyboard and mouse, with a controller where the game supports one.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.8 / 10
About this game
Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a PC action game centered on platform movement and landing judgment, enemy and hazard responses, and stage objectives. Stages build pressure through routes, enemy patterns, and changing objectives, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Animation, hits, camera behavior, and readable hazards determine whether feedback remains dependable, while resolution, graphics settings, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio, text scaling, and hardware performance need to preserve action, state, and text readability together. The genre-specific limitation is that camera behavior, collision rules, input mapping, and repeated ground after failure can raise the entry barrier. Platform conditions also include OS and hardware requirements, installation media, patches, drivers, DRM and launchers, key binding and controller support, save locations, mod compatibility, servers, and era-specific OS compatibility affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in series
Kingdom Come: Deliverance follows Henry through medieval Bohemia in historical open-world RPGs. Explore towns and countryside, develop practical skills and choose how to handle quests, with demanding combat and consequences that make preparation matter.
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A deeply reactive medieval RPG limited by launch-era PC friction.
The 2018 Windows release of Kingdom Come: Deliverance follows Henry, a commoner navigating fifteenth-century Bohemia. Crime, clothing, cleanliness, hunger, and reputation all shape how people respond. Quests can involve investigation, stealth, conversation, or learned directional swordplay, making growth feel earned. Hunts, social disputes, and sieges give the long journey useful variety, while ordinary villages and daily routines create an unusually grounded setting. Its opening asks for patience, the main story can sound dry, and saving through beds or a consumable drink makes experiments and setbacks costly. PC Gamer documented stutter in towns even after reducing settings on its named 2018 PC test system, along with clipping characters and a quest that could stall when an NPC failed to act. Those are observations of the reviewed launch period, not claims about every later Steam build. The reactive role-playing design remains distinctive, but the technical and recovery friction in that version materially limits ease of use.
Strengths
- Reactive social systems and quests give choices consequence.
Weaknesses
- Steep learning and saving costs, plus launch-era stutter and bugs.
Who it is for: PC players willing to learn demanding rules and varied quest approaches.
Play notes: Technical findings concern a named 2018 test setup, not all later patches.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Varied quests hold interest, while restricted saving makes failures expensive. | Reviewed | 7.6 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Reactive systems reward considered choices despite a demanding opening. | Reviewed | 8.3 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Grounded locations and routines sustain a distinctive medieval atmosphere. | Reviewed | 8.2 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Launch-era PC stutter and quest bugs substantially undermine usability. | Reviewed | 6.0 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Warhorse Studios
- Publisher
- Deep Silver
- Release date
- 2018
- Platforms
- Windows PC
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Action · Primary genreRole-Playing
- Tags
- Solo-friendlyReplayableReal-time CombatPlatformingThird Person3D GraphicsDodgeLinear LevelsMain Story Under 10 HoursFast-paced
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Not provided
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- Windows PCWorldwide2018
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