Respawn Monday #13: A Kingdom Come Deliverance: 2 Long Weekend

It was a long weekend, so I took the chance to play a more relaxed game that doesn’t involve quick precision and fast reactions. I benched fighting games like Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls and Street Fighter 6 for something that transports me to another world and just get lost in it. I went for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. Some thoughts.

This open world medieval RPG was one of 2025’s big Game of the Year contenders. I can’/t recall why I never jumped into it when it came out, but I do remember hesitating because I never played the first game. When it became available through PS Plus’s Game Catalog, I did a bit of research to see if missing the first game would hamper my experience with the sequel. Apparently, not so much, so I jumped in with little to no knowledge about the game.

Another RPG That Sucks You in and Doesn’t Let Go

I started Friday, and when Sunday hit, I was already over 20 hours into the game. It starts slow, but it hooks you in. The immersion is spot on, and I love the need to maintain my version of Henry. I need to manage my equipment, tend to his hunger, and make sure I stay clean and not covered in blood after a battle a few hours ago because NPCs around you actually react to your looks and smell.

Melee attacks feel heavy. Getting hit feels like a death sentence, and quests can go one way or another. It’s an RPG that lets me go nuts, from becoming an alchemy flower-picking nut to spending a few hours hunting game for meat to sell and eat.

After all these hours, I’m still working through what I believe is the first major quest. I need to get access to a wedding. I got access, but I never triggered it. Instead, I’m stuck finding new quests, from tracking down the protagonist’s loyal dog to crafting a weapon that is said to clear a curse affecting a community leader.

The writing doesn’t take the world all that seriously, and the voice acting sounds like the actors are having a blast performing these silly conversations and situations. Its story beats are a big reason why I feel compelled to grab every new quest because I have no idea what I’ll get. Most of them have been worth the time spent on them because they aren’t simply “kill this” or “find this”.

Fast travel in this game is also worth mentioning. It isn’t simply quick transportation to your next destination. It’s you skipping the actual travel while time passes, draining your stamina and hunger. You even have a chance of encountering fellow travelers who can give you interesting conversations, or simply bandits trying to rob you.

There’s so much to this game that I understand the impulse to mark Warhorse Studios’ latest epic as worthy of a Game of the Year nomination. It’s the perfect game for me to kick my feet up and just forget about my responsibilities for the weekend.

Playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 also made me realize how Bethesda needs to take a few notes from this series. The elements found in this game feel like an evolution of what an open world RPG can be. There aren’t many games like it that attach so many grounded mechanics to the experience and make you feel like you’re actually living in the world.

A quest isn’t just something to check off a list. It’s an actual experience worth spending time on.

So I’ll take my time. It will become my wind-down game after a long day. Do a few quests, craft potions to make a quick profit, and hopefully move the story forward before I get distracted by another quest I stumble upon, because if a game like this successfully distracts you from the main path, you have a winner.

How was your weekend?

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About the Author - Carlos Hernandez

Carlos Hernandez is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Too Much Gaming, where he writes about video games, reviews, and industry news. A lifelong gamer, he would do anything to experience Final Fantasy Tactics for the first time again and has a love/hate relationship with games that require hunting for new gear to improve your character.