Drawing the ire of the noble class, they asked his half-brother Sigismund of Luxembourg to step in and take charge, only he took this to mean “pillage and burn half the country” after kidnapping Wenceslas in an attempt to force his abdication of the throne. After the death of Charles IV, King of Bohemia and the Holy Roman Emperor, his son Wenceslas took the throne only to quickly make enemies because of his courtly excesses. Instead of building a world where magic and monsters reign supreme they’ve drawn upon their own history for inspiration as residents of the Czech Republic, crafting a story set against the conflicts that occurred in Bohemia during 1408. With Kingdom Come, Warhorse Studios effectively made a Skyrim for history majors. Do so, and I think you’ll find this to be one of the most enriching experiences of the year. Wildly ambitious in everything it does, you’ve got to have the patience and willingness to put in the time to learn a myriad of untraditional gameplay systems and buy into the realism it wants to establish. The game, which marks the debut of Warhorse Studios, is denser than a James Clavell novel and just as rich. War and political turmoil kept people in fear as one’s livelihood could be decimated under the hooves of marching armies. A class system keeps the rich and royal in high standards of comfort while those below them carve out a simple existence working the land. Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a more grounded vision of Europe during the 15th century, one that wasn’t always smiles and pretty maypoles. Come to think of it, the last game I vividly recall casting me as a knight was 1986’s Defender of the Crown (man, I’m old), an action/strategy title that I really only enjoyed for its Medieval Times-style jousting and sword fighting events. The material certainly makes for a good video game. There’s a tendency to romanticise the Middle Ages because of the whole “knights” and “chivalry” thing.
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