Kingdom Come: Deliverance is realistic and authentic but that's honestly all the praise I can give it.

My first gripe with the game is the heads up display which looks incredibly outdated and is too big for it's own good. The other big problem is the save system which means that you have to possess a consumable to save your game so if you want to go and do something in real life you can either finish the quest to get an autosave which may take over an hour or you can use a consumable which is then permanently gone.

The problems above can be fixed with mods though, what isn't fixed is the story, the story is bland and uses the guise of being authentic to deflect criticism. The story is just a generic revenge quest with lots of boring quests placed in it such as patrolling a town that are excused by people because it's realistic. The combat is also awful, I understand that you improve as you get further and further in the game and I've played a fair amount of it but it's not even balanced. Half of the time you can break the combat by spamming a stab attack at the enemies head and one or two are bound to hit and drop them instantly. Another irritating thing is that if you want to take out an enemy in armour you best be packing a mace as well as a sword because it takes actual minutes to kill one opponent in heavy armour if you aren't carrying a mace. The combat also requires you to lock on and move your mouse in one of five directions to pick where you slash from and it doesn't flow at all and the enemies somehow block everything so you are better off just spamming until they no longer block. Half of the map is just fields and roads too but worst of all are the bugs. The game released a year ago as of me writing this and it still hasn't been fixed, I've owned it since launch and enemies will still just stop mid combat and camera angles will stare at a wall during a conversation along with crashes.

All in all I wouldn't recommend this game unless you're a die hard history buff or you are craving a new RPG experience and are willing to sacrifice some polish and quality to get your fix.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is realistic and authentic but that's honestly all the praise I can give it. My first gripe with the game is the heads up display which looks incredibly outdated and is too big for it's own good. The other big problem is the save system which means that you have to possess a consumable to save your game so if you want to go and do something in real life you can either finish the quest to get an autosave which may take over an hour or you can use a consumable which is then permanently gone. The problems above can be fixed with mods though, what isn't fixed is the story, the story is bland and uses the guise of being authentic to deflect criticism. The story is just a generic revenge quest with lots of boring quests placed in it such as patrolling a town that are excused by people because it's realistic. The combat is also awful, I understand that you improve as you get further and further in the game and I've played a fair amount of it but it's not even balanced. Half of the time you can break the combat by spamming a stab attack at the enemies head and one or two are bound to hit and drop them instantly. Another irritating thing is that if you want to take out an enemy in armour you best be packing a mace as well as a sword because it takes actual minutes to kill one opponent in heavy armour if you aren't carrying a mace. The combat also requires you to lock on and move your mouse in one of five directions to pick where you slash from and it doesn't flow at all and the enemies somehow block everything so you are better off just spamming until they no longer block. Half of the map is just fields and roads too but worst of all are the bugs. The game released a year ago as of me writing this and it still hasn't been fixed, I've owned it since launch and enemies will still just stop mid combat and camera angles will stare at a wall during a conversation along with crashes. All in all I wouldn't recommend this game unless you're a die hard history buff or you are craving a new RPG experience and are willing to sacrifice some polish and quality to get your fix.