Summary
- The team behind Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has claimed its script is 2.2 million words long.
- If true, it will be the longest video game script of all time.
- Baldur’s Gate 3 is the current record holder with a script that clocks in at just over two million words.
We’re currently in that post-holiday down period for video games where studios take a break from releasing new games, but that comes to an abrupt end in a couple of weeks. February is set to be one of the busier months in recent memory for new games and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 will kick it off on February 4. It might break a very impressive record when it gets here too as its director believes it might have a longer script than any other video game in history.
YouTuber ESO_Danny shared a photo of himself on Monday standing next to a physical copy of the Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 script, revealing it to be 1.7 million words long, more than twice the length of the first game’s 800,000-word script. Warhorse Studios, Kingdom Come’s developer, replied to the YouTuber’s post claiming the script is even more impressive, noting that it’s actually 2.2 million words long.
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The game’s director Daniel Vavra has since added to that claim. Also replying to the original post from ESO_Danny, Vavra stated that he believes it’s the longest video game script ever, noting that the record currently belongs to Baldur’s Gate 3. According to VGC, Baldur’s Gate 3 is indeed the current Guinness World Record holder of the game with the longest script, and that record clocks in at a little over two million words.
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If Warhorse and Vavra’s claims are proven to be correct and Guinness can verify as much once Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is released, then the new game will snatch the record from Baldur’s Gate 3 less than two years after it was set. Considering the story possibilities and the seemingly endless characters there are to meet and converse with in 2023’s Game of the Year, it’s hard to imagine a game in which there will be even more dialogue options.
There doesn’t appear to be much risk of Larian adding more content to Baldur’s Gate 3 should it lose its longest script crown a few weeks from now either. The studio noted that its next game now has its “full attention” and it was previously confirmed Baldur’s Gate 3’s next patch, patch eight, will be its last major update.
As for what February has in store, if you don’t plan on hearing as many of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2’s 2.2 million words as you can, there’s also Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii, Monster Hunter Wilds, and Avowed to look forward to. Not Assassin’s Creed Shadows, though, Ubisoft has, perhaps quite cleverly, moved its release date into the second half of March.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance II is an exhilarating Action RPG, set amidst the chaos of a civil war in 15th Century Bohemia. You are Henry of Skalitz – an ordinary man doing extraordinary things – caught in a gripping tale of revenge, betrayal, and discovery as he embarks on an epic journey, ‘from a humble blacksmith’s forge to the court of Kings’, searching for purpose in this beautiful but brutal medieval world.
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Baldur’s Gate 3 is the long-awaited next chapter in the Dungeons & Dragons-based series of RPGs. Developed by Divinity creator Larian Studios, it puts you in the middle of a mind flayer invasion of Faerûn, over a century after the events of its predecessor.
