A week ago, Warhorse Studios presented its ambitious development pipeline: a new Kingdom Come: Deliverance game and a Middle-earth open world RPG. The latter gained the most interest in press headlines, as you would expect, but the vague wording on the new KCD title worried fans a bit.
Was this going to be something entirely different, possibly in another genre? Well, in a subsequent community livestream, Warhorse Community Director Tobias Stolz-Zwilling confirmed that like its predecessor, the new Kingdom Come game will be an open world RPG, so there's nothing to worry about on that front. However, he stopped short of calling it KCD 3, so there's still a chance the game might feature a new protagonist. Zwilling also revealed that the team is currently targeting a launch window between April 2027 and March 2028.
We announced that we are working on two major projects. This is new for Warhorse Studios, because it is the first time we are fully developing two simultaneous projects at once. You can expect two open-world RPGs. One is a new Kingdom Come game, and the other is a Middle-earth open-world RPG.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance remains a passion project for the studio. The series was created by Daniel Vávra and is now being carried forward by almost 300 people at Warhorse. We are still expanding the Kingdom Come universe through comics, music, vinyl releases, and other projects. Prokop Jirsa, Lead Designer of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, will be leading the Kingdom Come team as creative director.
The new Kingdom Come game is planned for the next fiscal year. Phil Rogers (CEO of Embracer Group) said that if everything goes right, it could come in the next fiscal year, which means the target is not the current financial year but the one after it. We do not have more details to share yet, beyond the fact that it is an open-world RPG. We will reveal more when the time is right, and we plan to announce it properly and with impact when that moment comes.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 launched in February 2025 and received several updates and DLCs for nearly a year, so it would be quite surprising to see a new installment so soon. Either it's smaller than KCD 2, which would align with the spin-off theory, or it's been in the works even before the end of KCD 2's development.
Regardless, we'll keep a close eye on the development of both projects. Stay tuned.
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