Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 PS5 PlayStation

The eagerly anticipated Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is expected in February and, like the first game, is laser-focused on the life and times of one Henry of Skallitz, 13th-century Bohemia's biggest badass. It's also shaping up to be the all-consuming, open-world WRPG to beat, a subgenre still largely overshadowed by 2015's The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, also the work of an Eastern European dev (coincidence?). Whereas the original Kingdom Come clocked Henry's ascent from peasant blacksmith to noble knight, the sequel will track his journey from a "man to a warrior", with multiple endings to reflect your morally grey decisions.

In an extensive dev livestream hosted by IGN, Warhorse Studios showed off the game, and it looks like incredible stuff—provided you are down for a hardcore survival RPG so granular that it tracks how stinky you are. The devs mention that the game will feature multiple endings, as opposed to the single canon ending of the first game, which as one Reddit wit put it, likely means: "Henry will kill innocent peasants. Got it."

Are you looking forward to Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2? Warhorse claims that the second game will be more forgiving, but with all the hype behind the sequel, do you think we will see a wave of players on day one bouncing off of the series' surprisingly involved, agonisingly realistic mechanics? Make sure you wash the blood off your hands before venturing into the civilised comments section below.

[source youtube.com, via reddit.com]