Kingdom Come - Interview @ Faxtralife

Fextralife interviewed Warhorse Studios' PR manager Tobias Stolz-Zwilling, about Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

FL: So you mentioned both the setting and realism as being a risk. What is it about that time period and realism that was such a strong motivating factor in creating this game despite the risks?

WS: Basically it is Daniel Varvra's dream. He is a Czech patriot he wants to tell the story of the Czech republic, he wants to show that Bohemia was the most important country in the Holy Roman Empire and he wants to talk about a story that really happened that is full of bloody war and intrigue and no one ever covered this period before in an RPG, nor the realism part. You have all these samey slightly realistic games where you have a real life setting like Assassin's Creed but there's always this slight addition of fantasy elements where the Assassin can jump from the tower and survive. Varvra wanted to tell a story that is really kickass and interesting. We all believe if Mel Gibson wouldn't have shot the film Braveheart, no one would know Scottish history and we think this story is even more interesting than that. So why not try the Braveheart effect and see what happens. This time period was also full of political struggle. A love/hate relationship between what became Germans and Czechs, and there were already cultural classes. It was very interesting to research and to tell the story. Nearly every event, NPC, building, and natural landscape feature existed back then.

FL: Are there plans for a sequel?

Of course! Even before we release Kingdom Come: Deliverance the team will already be working on the second part of the game which will most likely be called Kingdom Come: Something but it also depends on the success of the first part. The initial idea was to have a huge game, but we decided to split it into parts because it was too huge for Kickstarter, it would be too expensive. So we decided to do 3 acts. The first part is already way bigger than expected so all 3 together will tell the story. This is still on the horizon because we are still working on Deliverance and then will focus on the next thing.

Thanks Couch.