Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

It's easy to get lost in KCD1, swept away by the world, the people in it, it's story and interacting with it. It was incredible. KCD2 is somewhat more of the same, with a mix of improvements and sidegrades, so the first half was amazing. It was stable, with only a few minor bugs, and most changes from the first game worked well. 5/5. But then it kept going and going. The story went from charming and egaging to increasingly predictible or faceplamingly implausable. The number of people involved kept growing until it was hard to care about them and the history you had toegether. The landscape went from fascinating and fun to explore to plain, with travelling becoming a chore. The technique for fighting stagnated, managing inventory a bore, and any skill improvement went unnoticed. Getting to the end was a grind. 3/5. So I've averaged the parts to 4/5. Games of this scale rarely exude passion of it's creators, but this does. It's still very much worth playing, but when you start to lose interest put it down and come back later because it doesn't get better. Maybe wait until the DLC expands the late game with some variety.

After 30 hours in, only thing i feel is boredom. Story is worse than KCD 1. Graphics i don't care about so nothing plus/minus to say on this. Grind is more tedious then KCD 1, not in a way that its hard just reset time for vendors/sleep to recover (basically time sinks). Most quests are so tedious with go x, go y withouth any special merit or sense of accomplisment after you do them. For fans of part 1 and lot of time on hands get it on discount sale. For those who can play limited amount of games per year, skip this one. Its not a bad game , its just a bad game for its price.

Contrary to the "most helpful" review on this site currently, the game is DRM-free, and I can say that with some certainty. It runs well for as good as this game looks, even running on a Steam Deck on low settings. It works on Linux via Heroic Games Launcher with no fuss. And if you were bothered by the tedium that came along with the first game, the quest design and game feel have been improved immensely. There's still more room for them to improve on the formula in their next game, but I was absolutely hooked on this game for about 90 hours, most of that being side quests.

The first immersive rpg I played in ages that leaves me addictive and excited. They pulled off what bethesda didn't in ages, also a huge improvement to the first game, everything feels more polished. Runs very well in my opinion: rtx 3060 12gb 5600x 32gb configuration: all settings to ultra, shadows high dlss 4, quality resolution: 2560×1440 fps: around 45 Without any special tweaking stuff, just editing the settings for 5 min.

Game which makes us play with very limited amout of save games should be pretty much bug free, but in my case the game crashes evry hour or two. Until now I've lost nearly half of my gameplay. Some other irritating bugs like I'm being treated as a trespasser in a place where I've bought permanent room which makes me a criminal there every time I'm visiting it. Controls are just frustrating. I can only assume the game was designed for consoles and someone mapped all the functionalities with some key combinations requiring third hand. A lot of fighting is not really explained, it's clicking and hoping for the best, probably again this system makes some sense on console controllers, but not with a mouse and a keyboard. I'm really sorry to say that, but for now KD2 is a big disapointment :(