Creator of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Daniel Vavra, has stated that the reason the game came to be was because he was “pissed” that there were no historical video games.
It’s not exactly uncommon for games to take inspiration from history. Settings for fantasy games are often based on medieval Europe, while games like Elden Ring and Dark Souls see you exploring castles to fight knights and soldiers who wouldn’t have looked out of place in the Middle Ages.
2018’s Kingdom Come: Deliverance was different, however, in that it foregoes the fantasy setting entirely in place of the very real 15th Century Bohemia, and there’s a reason for that.
In PC Gamer issue 402, Vavra spoke openly about the frustrations that ultimately led to KCD. “Generally, I was pissed a lot by the fact that there was no historical videogame at all.” he began. “And there’s no reason for that, because in movies and books and everything, they’re very popular.
And [there was] this kind of conservatism in the game industry - when you proposed it, everybody would say, ‘it’s weird, there are no monsters’.