Summary
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2’s success highlights the need for a remake of the first game.
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 continues where the first game left off, but first game’s story provides essential context.
- The improved accessibility and quality of life in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 could make audiences more receptive to the original.
It feels like 2025 has only just begun gaining momentum, and Warhorse Studios’ Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is already a massive hit, attracting more players to its faithful recreation of medieval Bohemia than its predecessor has been able to over the last six years. Much of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2‘s success is likely on account of its increased accessibility from the first game, as its refined gameplay mechanics and improved quality of life offer a much lower barrier to entry than the first game did. In fact, this all helps confirm all the more the need for a remake of the first Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and it’s arguably something that Warhorse should capitalize on sooner rather than later.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 was developed as a standalone game, primarily because Warhorse wanted to ensure more newcomers were drawn to it than the first game encouraged. However, despite being a standalone game, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is technically a sequel. And while the sequel does put some effort into recapping the events of the first game, Kingdom Come: Deliverance could still benefit from a remake with the improvements its successor has introduced — and the sequel’s success is proof of that.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Review
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2’s Success Needs to Lead to a Remake of the First Game
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2’s Story Picks Up Where the First Game Left Off
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 spends plenty of time during its story retelling key moments from the first game’s narrative, and while it does so in a very informative way, newcomers are likely to be detached from the emotions surrounding those events. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 certainly has its own story that players need to focus on, but there are valuable elements to the first game’s narrative that need to be experienced firsthand.
While the sequel does put some effort into recapping the events of the first game, Kingdom Come: Deliverance could still benefit from a remake with the improvements its successor has introduced.
The strong bond Henry shares with Hans in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, for example, wasn’t always so, and the first game spends a significant part of its story investing in their relationship. Of course, there is also Henry’s origin story to consider, which is covered in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 but can only be felt and experienced in the first game. Henry’s vendetta with Istvan Toth is also reflected on in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and is even given a resolution, but the fuel for that fire was ultimately added in the first game. In other words, the first game’s story alone makes it worth a shot if players want proper emotional context for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2’s Improvements Could Make Audiences More Receptive to the Original
Unfortunately, one of the biggest issues with the first Kingdom Come: Deliverance was (and still is) its difficulty and inaccessibility. Like its predecessor, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 still relies on realism to flesh out its world and tell its story, but it is the sequel’s ability to refine the first game’s gameplay that made it more approachable. As such, were Kingdom Come: Deliverance to be remade with Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2‘s quality-of-life and accessibility improvements, it might make players more keen on giving it a try. Currently, going back to the first game after playing the sequel would feel like a significant slog.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance would indeed need a remake, not a remaster, as far more than its visuals need an overhaul.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 does plenty to improve the formula of its predecessor, like decreasing the difficulty of its combat and making its NPCs and world more reactive to the player, on top of being a massive visual improvement as well. Were these changes and more incorporated into a Kingdom Come: Deliverance remake, it would likely give the first game the attention it deserved in the beginning but didn’t end up with on account of its high barrier to entry. It would also allow players to properly experience the story of the first game in more than just flashbacks, thereby adding more emotional weight to Henry’s story in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.
RPG
Action-Adventure
Open-World
- Released
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February 4, 2025
- ESRB
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Mature 17+ // Use of Alcohol, Blood and Gore, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Intense Violence, Partial Nudity
- Developer(s)
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Warhorse Studios