What is the Kingmakers release date? Were you ever told you should never bring a longsword to a gunfight? Well, ye olde folke of medieval England must certainly regret never learning this lesson as they’re mercilessly mowed down by rifles, grenades, and an F-16 strike. Welcome to Kingmakers – there’s lots to digest here.
Kingmakers is a strategic sandbox shooter that answers the ultimate question: how would a modern soldier fare against the armies of yore? Judging from what we’ve seen of the co-op game, ‘pretty well’ is the answer. Imagine GTA with every possible cheat enabled and the added chaos of armies of medieval soldiers on horseback. Below we’ve got all the info you need about Redemption Road’s explosive isekai adventure, including the latest on the Kingmakers release date, early access period, and its excellent trailers. Lock and load.
Kingmakers release date estimate
The full Kingmakers release date will arrive in Q2 2025 at the absolute earliest, based on its current Steam Early Access schedule. Kingmakers will launch exclusively on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store.
The original announcement trailer slapped a 2024 launch window on Kingmakers, but there’s been a slight delay. Though it was never specified if this was intended to be an early access or full release window, the extra dev time has been well-utilized judging from the regular progress updates.
Kingmakers isn’t even out yet and it’s already locked in a live-action movie adaptation with Tomb Raider and Sonic production maestro Story Kitchen. So not only do we have the game itself to look forward to but a big screen banger, too.
Kingmakers early access launch
Kingmakers will enter Steam Early Access in Q1 2025. Redemption Road confirmed the window during the 2024 OTK Winter Games Expo, where the studio also debuted a new trailer for the game.
Having amassed over a million wishlists on Steam, Kingmakers is easily one of 2025’s most-anticipated upcoming PC games. Though the game was initially set to launch in 2024, the hype train isn’t quite ready to depart from the station.
Fortunately, it’s not long now until you can get to the chopper, fire up the Quattro, or hop into whichever vehicle of mayhem you decide to maraud the English plains in.
Kingmakers trailers
Kingmakers’ official announcement trailer made waves when it dropped in February 2024, as our player character goes back in time Back to the Future-style. Trading a sci-fi city for roving fields of 1400s England, the lone hero (?) wastes little time getting into the action, mowing down hordes of knights in the process.
Snipers, grenade launchers, and even a classic AK-47 are on show as the player finesses their way around the battlefield, littering the environment with bodies. Their job seemingly done, they zip back to the future where a utopia awaits.
The ‘Wreak Havoc’ trailer aired at the May 2024 tinyBuild Connect publisher expo. This time around, our noble hero is galavanting atop his noble steed (a dirt bike) while dishing out lead. At the minute mark, the player calls in something a little bit more robust in the form of a tank. Chaos reigns supreme.
Meanwhile, the latest OTK Winter Games Expo trailer makes a similarly flashy entrance to the announcement trailer, though this time the player’s tapped into the Age of Empires 2 cheats to summon themselves a zippy blue coupe – how do you turn this on?
Here we can see more of the strategic elements at play, as the player zooms out to an army control UI in one clip, before creating a stone staircase up to the ramparts in another. This time the player arsenal includes RPGs, combat crossbows, and air strikes.
Kingmakers gameplay
Kingmakers slaps modern warfare into a 15th Century setting, specifically the Welsh Rebellion led by Owain Glyndŵr. As previously noted, Kingmakers is a sandbox strategy shooter, so you’ll get to dish out orders to your platoon and create new defensive structures while living out your best power fantasy.
As Gears of War once noted, variety is the spice of death. Kingmakers packs in a huge arsenal of weapons and vehicles to get the job done – the job being to rewrite the outcome of the uprising, saving the future. From what we’ve seen so far, motorcycles, cars, tanks, helicopters, and planes are all on the cards. Handheld options include rifles, crossbows, grenade launchers, shotguns, and sniper rifles – you know, the basics.
And that’s everything you need to know about the Kingmakers release date for now. While patiently awaiting its arrival, check out some of the best free PC games you can get your hands on.