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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2: Mysteria Ecclesiae out forSince Nov 11, 2025

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Reception and Awards

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 holds a Metacritic score of 89 on PC and 88 on PS5 and Xbox Series X, and an OpenCritic Top Critic Average of 89 with 95% of critics recommending it (Oct 25, 2026). It sold 6 million copies by Jun 25, 2026, peaked at 256,206 players on Steam, and won the BAFTA Games Award for Narrative.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 was acclaimed by critics: Metacritic lists it at 89 on PC and 88 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, and OpenCritic at a Top Critic Average of 89 with 95% of critics recommending it (both read Oct 25, 2026). It sold 1 million copies in its first 24 hours and 6 million by Jun 25, 2026, the latest figure announced. On Steam it reached an all-time peak of 256,206 players on Feb 9, 2025, and players rate it 91.8% positive. Its biggest award is the BAFTA Games Award for Narrative, won on Apr 17, 2026; at The Game Awards 2025 it lost all three of its nominations to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

Quick facts

Metacritic 89 PC (79 reviews), 88 PS5 (61), 88 Xbox Series X (14), read Oct 25, 2026
Metacritic user score 8.7 on PC (5,318 ratings), read Oct 25, 2026
OpenCritic 89 Top Critic Average, 95% recommend, "Mighty", 175 reviews, read Oct 25, 2026
Steam reviews 150,724 reviews, 91.8% positive (all languages, Oct 25, 2026)
Sales 6 million copies (PLAION, Jun 25, 2026)
Steam peak 256,206 players on Feb 9, 2025 (SteamDB, via GamingBolt)
Steam players now 17,040 at 20:20 UTC, Oct 24, 2026
Won BAFTA Games Awards 2026: Narrative; PC Gamer Game of the Year 2025
Nominated The Game Awards 2025: Game of the Year, Best Narrative, Best RPG

Critic scores

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 scores 89 on PC from 79 critics on Metacritic, and 88 on both PS5 (61 critics) and Xbox Series X (14 critics), read on Oct 25, 2026. At launch the PC score stood at 88 from 53 reviews, per Game World Observer. For comparison, the first game holds 76 on PC, as Steam lists it.

OpenCritic rates it "Mighty". Its Top Critic Average is 89 from 175 critic reviews, 95% of critics recommend it, and its consensus calls it one of the best RPGs of 2025 while noting that slow progression and demanding systems "aren't for everyone" (OpenCritic, read Oct 25, 2026). Two weeks after launch PLAION cited 96% recommended (PLAION).

Daniel Vávra later commented on the numbers. He told The Game Business in April 2025 that Metacritic settled at 88 after some low critic reviews, while Steam users rated the game 94%.

What reviewers said

Most reviews went live on Feb 3, 2025, the day before release. Each score and line below is the outlet's own, as OpenCritic lists them (read Oct 25, 2026):

Outlet (reviewer) Score What they said
Push Square (Khayl Adam) 10/10 "in a league almost entirely of its own"
Game Rant (Josh Cotts) 10/10 "one of the first great games of 2025"
TheGamer (Sam Hallahan) 5/5 "a game that feels like it's making history"
Game Informer (Wesley LeBlanc) 9.5/10 (Mar 24, 2025)
Destructoid (Steven Mills) 9.5/10
IGN (Leana Hafer) 9/10 "excellent melee combat and an exceptional story"
GameSpot (Richard Wakeling) 9/10 "a triumphant sequel, improving upon its predecessor"
PC Gamer (Joshua Wolens) 90/100 "a new RPG classic"
GamesRadar+ (Alan Wen) 4/5 "progression is purposely slow"
Rock Paper Shotgun Unscored "makes Elder Scrolls feel shallow"
VGC (Jordan Middler) Unscored "a brilliant RPG that's uncompromisingly itself"
Eurogamer (Katharine Castle) 3/5 "just as divisive, prickly and abrasive as its predecessor"
CGMagazine (Justin Wood) 5/10 technical issues

Praise centered on the combat, the story and the depth of its world. IGN singled out its melee fighting and story, GameSpot judged it better than its predecessor, and PC Gamer, which later made it its game of the year, called it "a big, bold, unutterably weird thing".

The criticism was mostly about how much it asks of players. Eurogamer found it as prickly as the first game, The Guardian wrote on Feb 5, 2025 that it "demands extreme patience of its players" (OpenCritic), GamesRadar+ noted the deliberately slow progression, and Metro GameCentral and VideoGamer each gave it 7/10. No Polygon review appears on OpenCritic's list.

Steam reviews

Players on Steam rate Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 "Very Positive". Steam's review histogram sums to 150,724 reviews in all languages, 138,411 positive and 12,313 negative, or 91.8% positive, on Oct 25, 2026; the store page shows 92% of 68,843 English reviews and 88% of the 2,495 written in the last 30 days.

Launch week brought the most reviews. The week of Feb 4, 2025 alone added 19,584 positive and 2,162 negative, and only two weeks since have fallen under 85% positive: the week of Mar 24, 2026 (78.8%) and the week of Jun 30, 2026 (84.4%), per the same histogram. No source explains the March 2026 dip, and no review-bombing campaign has been documented.

Sales

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 sold faster than the first game at every step. The first game took 28 months to reach 3 million copies and the sequel three, per Gameluster. Every milestone Warhorse, PLAION or Embracer announced:

Date Copies sold Announced by
Feb 5, 2025 1 million in the first 24 hours Warhorse
Feb 17, 2025 2 million "in under two weeks" Warhorse
May 4, 2025 3 million in three months Warhorse, via RPG Site
Nov 12, 2025 4 million Warhorse
Feb 12, 2026 5 million "within its first year of release" Embracer
Jun 25, 2026 6 million worldwide PLAION

No higher figure has been announced as of Oct 25, 2026: none appears in Warhorse's Steam posts through Oct 6, 2026 or in Embracer's Aug 13, 2026 report. Before launch the game had passed 1 million Steam wishlists.

The sales made Warhorse's best year. The studio reported revenue of 2.7 billion Czech crowns and a profit of about 1 billion for Apr 2024 to Mar 2025 (CzechCrunch), and 1.9 billion in revenue with a net profit of 733 million the year after (CzechCrunch). More on the studio is on Development History.

Steam player counts

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 peaked at 159,351 players on Steam on launch day, Feb 4, 2025, about 1.65 times the first game's all-time peak of about 96,000, by SteamDB's measured count reported by Game World Observer. The count rose every day of launch week and topped out at 256,206 on Sunday, Feb 9, the 49th-highest peak on Steam at the time, per GamingBolt:

Date Daily peak (SteamDB)
Feb 4, 2025 159,351
Feb 5, 2025 176,285
Feb 6, 2025 185,582
Feb 7, 2025 190,194
Feb 8, 2025 233,586
Feb 9, 2025 256,206

Source: ITC.ua, from SteamDB.

It is still widely played. Steam's own count was 17,040 players at 20:20 UTC on Oct 24, 2026, against 4,457 for the first game the same evening. Whether the Nov 2025 free weekend or a later sale ever beat the Feb 9, 2025 peak has not been reported.

Awards won

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 won Narrative at the BAFTA Games Awards on Apr 17, 2026 in London (NME), accepted by Prokop Jirsa and Tobias Stolz-Zwilling (Warhorse). "Upřímně jsme to nečekali" (honestly, we did not expect it), Stolz-Zwilling told CzechCrunch, which noted that the game had come away empty-handed from The Game Awards, the D.I.C.E. Awards, the Steam Awards and the Golden Joysticks.

PC Gamer named it its Game of the Year 2025, as Warhorse announced on Dec 16, 2025.

Nominations

The Game Awards 2025 nominated it for Game of the Year, Best Narrative and Best RPG (Warhorse); all three went to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on Dec 11, 2025 (TechRadar). Embracer counts four nominations, probably including the fan-voted Players' Voice, where the game reached the Top 10. Seznam Zprávy called it the first Czech game among the six Game of the Year nominees.

Awards Nominated for Result
The Game Awards 2025 Game of the Year, Best Narrative, Best RPG Lost all three
Golden Joystick Awards 2025 Ultimate Game of the Year, PC Game of the Year, Best Lead Performer (Tom McKay), Best Supporting Performer (Jim High), Best Game Trailer Won none
Steam Awards 2025 Game of the Year, Outstanding Story-Rich Game Finalist, no win
D.I.C.E. Awards 2026 Role-Playing Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Game Design Nominated, no win
BAFTA Games Awards 2026 Narrative; Performer in a Leading Role (Tom McKay) Won Narrative
Swedish Game Awards 2026 Foreign Game of the Year Nominated

The performances are covered on Voice Cast and Music.

Controversies

A rumored ban in Saudi Arabia was never confirmed. The Arabic outlet VGA4A posted on Jan 14, 2025 that the game was banned there over "unskippable gay scenes", a claim Insider Gaming called unverified. Vávra replied on Jan 19 that there are no unskippable cutscenes, that the game had not been banned anywhere as far as Warhorse knew, and that a same-sex romance is optional (Push Square). See Romance.

Vávra also rejected reports that pre-orders dropped over "woke" content. He said the ratio of sold to returned copies was unchanged and noted that gay characters already existed in the first game (Push Square). Separately, Steam lists Indonesia's IGRS rating for the game as "BANNED".

Frequently asked questions

Is Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 good? Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 scores 89 on Metacritic (PC) and 95% of critics on OpenCritic recommend it (Oct 25, 2026). Critics warn that its slow progression and demanding systems are not for everyone.

What is Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's Metacritic score? Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 scores 89 on PC, 88 on PS5 and 88 on Xbox Series X on Metacritic, with a PC user score of 8.7 (read Oct 25, 2026).

How many copies has Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 sold? Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 had sold 6 million copies worldwide by Jun 25, 2026, per PLAION. No higher figure had been announced as of Oct 25, 2026.

What was Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's peak player count on Steam? Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 peaked at 256,206 concurrent players on Steam on Feb 9, 2025, by SteamDB's count reported by GamingBolt. Its launch-day peak was 159,351.

Did Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 win Game of the Year? Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 was nominated for Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2025 but lost to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (TechRadar). It was PC Gamer's Game of the Year 2025 and won the BAFTA Games Award for Narrative.

How many people play Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2? Steam's API counted 17,040 people playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 at 20:20 UTC on Oct 24, 2026. Console player counts are not published.

Is Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 banned in Saudi Arabia? No ban of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 in Saudi Arabia has been confirmed: the January 2025 claim was unverified, and Daniel Vávra said the game had not been banned anywhere as far as Warhorse knew (Push Square).

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Last updated Oct 25, 2026 by the Vi.ki team. Page text CC BY-SA 4.0.

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