Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Review

Warhorse's 2025 sequel keeps everything difficult about the original and removes almost everything that was merely annoying. Henry continues through 15th-century Bohemia across two large maps - the Trosky region and the city of Kuttenberg, the latter the most convincing medieval city in a game - with the same commitment to historical plausibility: no magic, no dragons, real politics, and a combat system built on directional attacks and master strikes that still requires a trainer and several hours to become competent with. The improvements are structural. Combos are simplified into something learnable, the save system is far less punitive, stealth and lockpicking are legible, and quests branch more widely, with several major questlines resolvable entirely through persuasion or sabotage. Crafting is expanded with genuinely involved blacksmithing. It shipped in a far better technical state than its predecessor, sold over a million copies in its first days, and settled the argument about whether the first game's success was a fluke.