Warhorse says Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is coming out a week early 'so you can start 2025 with the best game there is,' but I feel like there might be another reason
Just a couple months ahead of release, Warhorse Studios has announced that Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has a new release date—but don't worry, because it's actually going to show up a little earlier than planned. Instead of arriving on February 11, the big new RPG is now set to arrive on February 4.
The reason for the release date change, Warhorse PR manager Tobias Stolz-Zwilling said, is simple: «So you can start 2025 with the best game there is. Right?»
Big news: Kingdom Come: Deliverance II will arrive at your homes on FEBRUARY 4TH 2025!⚔️With the release date pushing one week forward, we have a bunch of more exciting news coming in the following days. Brand new Story trailer drops Tomorrow on December 5. PC and Console… pic.twitter.com/hfBrQZJyjSDecember 4, 2024
Well, okay. Kingdom Come: Deliverance, released in 2018, is a really good historical RPG, and hopes are high for the sequel. PC Gamer's Fraser Brown said it feels like the original game «but more» in an August preview: «It's larger, confident and extremely tactile, but maintains the first game's novel juxtaposition of historical drama and slapstick silliness.»
That's definitely welcome news for fans, and props to Toby for aiming high, but I suspect there might be other forces at play here. As we said in September, February 2025 is absurdly stacked with games, including Civilization 7, a guaranteed heavyweight, which is also set to drop on February 11. Assassin's Creed Shadows shows up three days later, on February 14, and you know that's going to be big, and four days after that Obsidian's hotly anticipated RPG Avowed finally comes out. Eight days down the road we've got Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, and two days after that—February 28—Monster Hunter Wilds, another sure-fire hit, lumbers out.
That's a whole lot of gaming going on, and you can understand why Warhorse might want to make a little space for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. Going later in the month would put it right in the path of
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