{"id":1955638,"date":"2026-05-26T10:04:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1955638"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:04:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:04:50","slug":"a-third-kingdom-come-rpg-may-be-released-sooner-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1955638","title":{"rendered":"A third Kingdom Come RPG may be released sooner than you think"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">A third Kingdom Come RPG may be released sooner than you think<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">Swift Deliverance.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/kingdom-come-dlieverance.jpg?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"A medieval man with a bloody wound in their chest skips merrily in a circle with skeletons while smiling as if up at the heaven&apos;s above.\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"kingdom-come-dlieverance.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Warhorse<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Robert Purchese avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/user-9946-originalxoriginal-14-03-23.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Robert Purchese avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"user-9946-originalxoriginal-14-03-23.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/robert-purchese\">Robert Purchese<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Associate Editor<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-05-26T10:04:50+00:00\">May 26, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<div class=\"comments\">\n      <a class=\"comments__link comments-bubble\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/kingdom-come-deliverance-3-release-window?view=comments\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n          10 comments<br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"1051b466-7953-4579-b007-c5571fcbff38\" data-name=\"Kingdom Come: Deliverance\" data-follow-text=\"Follow Kingdom Come: Deliverance\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following Kingdom Come: Deliverance\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow Kingdom Come: Deliverance\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following Kingdom Come: Deliverance\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow Kingdom Come: Deliverance\" title=\"Follow Kingdom Come: Deliverance\"><br \/>\n  Follow Kingdom Come: Deliverance<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>The next game in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/kingdom-come-deliverance\">Kingdom Come: Deliverance<\/a> role-playing series is &#8211; as plans stand &#8211; going to be released surprisingly soon. Developer Warhorse Studios said its current target is the next financial year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If everything goes right, it comes next fiscal year,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WarhorseStudios\/status\/2057810027549716978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2057810027549716978%7Ctwgr%5E42cd3cbcc837a194c12557ae0b8addeb33337c12%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ign.com%2Farticles%2Fkingdom-come-dev-confirms-next-installment-is-an-open-world-rpg-set-to-launch-next-fiscal-year\">said communications director Tobias Stolz-Zwilling<\/a> during a community stream, &#8220;which means you don&#8217;t have to wait seven years for another Kingdom Come. That is good!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What does next fiscal year mean? Well, Warhorse was a private company until it was acquired by THQ Nordic\/Embracer Group in 2019, so the company&#8217;s fiscal\/financial years presumably align with Embracer&#8217;s, which run &#8211; like many other companies &#8211; from 1st April to 31st March. Warhorse is currently in financial year 26\/27, so the next financial year 27\/28 &#8211; the release window mentioned here &#8211; runs 1st April 2027 to 31st March 2028.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Royal Edition - Official Launch Trailer\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uWIpQW_9m3w?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/uWIpQW_9m3w\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Royal Edition &#8211; Official Launch Trailer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uWIpQW_9m3w\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>That&#8217;s a relatively short period of focused development for a new Kingdom Come: Deliverance game &#8211; just over three years if we stretch the release window to maximum range. Considering there were seven years between KCD1 and KCD2, as Stolz-Zwilling said, that&#8217;s a significant difference, and it&#8217;s making some fans nervous to hear it.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Another KCD game in just 2 years?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DDustinC\/status\/2057818684585054420\">one person said on X<\/a>. &#8220;That sounds great but I&#8217;m praying it doesn&#8217;t sacrifice quality just for the sake of releasing sooner.  KCD1 and 2 were really big games with a lot of depth and detail in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/loqzfv3x\/status\/2057837493320290421\">Another person said:<\/a> &#8220;Please don&#8217;t rush the development of KCD3. I and everyone who played the KCD series knows the reason that they are so good is because the detail and effort creating the depth of immersion [is] so real it&#8217;s almost indistinguishable from what reality would have been. Take your time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, we don&#8217;t know when Warhorse started working on this project. Perhaps pre-production began long before KCD2 was released. It&#8217;s not uncommon for studios to move designers and writers and artists over to concepting a new project while another is being polished and iterated on for release. Perhaps full production began as soon as KCD2 came out.<\/p>\n<p>We also don&#8217;t know whether this is going to be a full-scale Kingdom Come: Deliverance adventure &#8211; ie. KCD3. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/kingdom-come-deliverance-lotr-lord-of-the-rings-rpg\">Warhorse referred to the game as &#8220;a new Kingdom Come adventure&#8221;<\/a> when it was announced last week, which could be open to interpretation. However, Stolz-Zwilling did say in the community stream that it was a &#8220;Kingdom Come open-world RPG&#8221;, so it sounds like a full-scale operation &#8211; open-world RPGs are hardly side projects.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is another complication, however, and that&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/kingdom-come-deliverance-lotr-lord-of-the-rings-rpg\">the open-world Middle-earth RPG Warhorse also announced<\/a> last week. There&#8217;s no release date attached to this project, so presumably it&#8217;ll come after the next Kingdom Come game, but trying to develop two major projects simultaneously is notoriously difficult, especially if they&#8217;re open-world RPGs.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, it&#8217;s exciting. Warhorse is galloping after the success of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/kingdom-come-deliverance-2\">Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2<\/a>, which has sold 5m copies and counting, and there is also a movie in the works.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"poll_wrapper\" data-fixed=\"true\" data-hashid data-init=\"false\" data-poll-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>The next game in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/kingdom-come-deliverance\">Kingdom Come: Deliverance<\/a> role-playing series is &#8211; as plans stand &#8211; going to be released surprisingly soon. Developer Warhorse Studios said its current target is the next financial year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If everything goes right, it comes next fiscal year,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WarhorseStudios\/status\/2057810027549716978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2057810027549716978%7Ctwgr%5E42cd3cbcc837a194c12557ae0b8addeb33337c12%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ign.com%2Farticles%2Fkingdom-come-dev-confirms-next-installment-is-an-open-world-rpg-set-to-launch-next-fiscal-year\">said communications director Tobias Stolz-Zwilling<\/a> during a community stream, &#8220;which means you don&#8217;t have to wait seven years for another Kingdom Come. That is good!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What does next fiscal year mean? Well, Warhorse was a private company until it was acquired by THQ Nordic\/Embracer Group in 2019, so the company&#8217;s fiscal\/financial years presumably align with Embracer&#8217;s, which run &#8211; like many other companies &#8211; from 1st April to 31st March. Warhorse is currently in financial year 26\/27, so the next financial year 27\/28 &#8211; the release window mentioned here &#8211; runs 1st April 2027 to 31st March 2028.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Royal Edition - Official Launch Trailer\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uWIpQW_9m3w?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/uWIpQW_9m3w\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Royal Edition &#8211; Official Launch Trailer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uWIpQW_9m3w\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>That&#8217;s a relatively short period of focused development for a new Kingdom Come: Deliverance game &#8211; just over three years if we stretch the release window to maximum range. Considering there were seven years between KCD1 and KCD2, as Stolz-Zwilling said, that&#8217;s a significant difference, and it&#8217;s making some fans nervous to hear it.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Another KCD game in just 2 years?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DDustinC\/status\/2057818684585054420\">one person said on X<\/a>. &#8220;That sounds great but I&#8217;m praying it doesn&#8217;t sacrifice quality just for the sake of releasing sooner.  KCD1 and 2 were really big games with a lot of depth and detail in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/loqzfv3x\/status\/2057837493320290421\">Another person said:<\/a> &#8220;Please don&#8217;t rush the development of KCD3. I and everyone who played the KCD series knows the reason that they are so good is because the detail and effort creating the depth of immersion [is] so real it&#8217;s almost indistinguishable from what reality would have been. Take your time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, we don&#8217;t know when Warhorse started working on this project. Perhaps pre-production began long before KCD2 was released. It&#8217;s not uncommon for studios to move designers and writers and artists over to concepting a new project while another is being polished and iterated on for release. Perhaps full production began as soon as KCD2 came out.<\/p>\n<p>We also don&#8217;t know whether this is going to be a full-scale Kingdom Come: Deliverance adventure &#8211; ie. KCD3. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/kingdom-come-deliverance-lotr-lord-of-the-rings-rpg\">Warhorse referred to the game as &#8220;a new Kingdom Come adventure&#8221;<\/a> when it was announced last week, which could be open to interpretation. However, Stolz-Zwilling did say in the community stream that it was a &#8220;Kingdom Come open-world RPG&#8221;, so it sounds like a full-scale operation &#8211; open-world RPGs are hardly side projects.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is another complication, however, and that&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/kingdom-come-deliverance-lotr-lord-of-the-rings-rpg\">the open-world Middle-earth RPG Warhorse also announced<\/a> last week. There&#8217;s no release date attached to this project, so presumably it&#8217;ll come after the next Kingdom Come game, but trying to develop two major projects simultaneously is notoriously difficult, especially if they&#8217;re open-world RPGs.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, it&#8217;s exciting. Warhorse is galloping after the success of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/kingdom-come-deliverance-2\">Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2<\/a>, which has sold 5m copies and counting, and there is also a movie in the works.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"poll_wrapper\" data-fixed=\"true\" data-hashid data-init=\"false\" data-poll-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News A third Kingdom Come RPG may be released sooner than you think Swift Deliverance. 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