Henry working at a blacksmith's anvil in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Director Shoots Down "Wild Claims"

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Published: January 20, 2025 9:12 AM

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 director Daniel Vávra has taken to social media in order to address what he calls "wild claims" surrounding the game, including a ban in Saudi Arabia, unskippable cutscenes, and more.

In a lengthy thread on social media platform X, Vávra points to claims that have been circulating in recent days. He says these claims are "based just on one screenshot and a poorly translated tweet", likely pointing to this post from Saudi Arabian outlet VGA4A.

When machine translated, the post seems to say that Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has been banned in Saudi Arabia due to "unskippable gay scenes in story mode", and it's likely that this is the claim Vávra wants to address.

Henry and another warrior seemingly preparing to duel in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
Recent rumors surrounding Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 are, according to its director, unfounded.

According to Vávra, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 will feature "NO unskippable cutscenes", a claim he extends to the entirety of his studio Warhorse's output.

He then says that his studio's game is not, nor ever was, banned in any country, "at least not that we know of". It is, of course, possible that the game was banned in Saudi Arabia without Vávra's knowledge, but since he's the head of Warhorse, that seems unlikely.

Vávra then goes on to say that while he doesn't like "forced diversity", he and his team were not forced to do anything, nor are they "forcing anyone to do certain things".

Again pointing to the rumors of "unskippable gay scenes" propagated by the aforementioned post, Vávra says gay characters were already present in Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and that "you are responsible for your decisions".

He says that if you want Henry to have a "same-sex adventure", you can, but "if you don't want to, you don't have to".

The rest of Vávra's thread contains some story details for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, as well as historical context explaining some of the creative decisions behind the game.

Vávra says, for instance, that the city in which the game takes place was "one of the richest" in Europe and was "besieged by a massive foreign army", which is why it's "more diverse than the life in the villages which were featured in the first game".

He closes by saying that he doesn't want his game to "be used as clickbait by people who didn't even play it yet", and that some followers have been "turned into exactly the same narrative they pretend to be fighting against".

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is set to launch for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S on February 4th. You can take a look at our preview here to find out what we thought of this medieval Bohemia-set RPG.

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Developer
Warhorse Studios
Publisher
Deep Silver
Release Date
February 4, 2025 (Calendar)
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