New Kingdom Come game could be out as early as next year says Warhorse

Warhorse Studios has confirmed the follow-up to Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 could launch next year, as all signs point to a spin-off adventure. 

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has become a major hit both critically and commercially, for developer Warhorse Studios, having sold over five million copies since it launched in February last year. 

Following its success, the studio recently confirmed it is working on two new projects: a Lord Of The Rings open world role-playing game, and a ‘new Kingdom Come Adventure’. 

After the announcement last week, Warhorse communications director Tobias Stolz-Zwilling appeared on a livestream on Friday (May 22) to provide further details about the studio’s next title. 

While it’s not confirmed that the next ‘Kingdom Come Adventure’ is definitely not Kingdom Come: Deliverance 3, the studio’s planned launch window for the title suggests it’s a smaller scale evolution from its predecessor. 

According to Stolz-Zwilling, the next Kingdom Come game is set to launch in the ‘next fiscal year’, so anytime between April 2027 and March 2028.

‘If everything goes right it comes next fiscal year,’ he said. ‘Which means you don’t have to wait seven years for another Kingdom Come. That is good!’

Additionally, the dev confirmed the next title in the series will be an ‘open world RPG’ like the prior two games. 

To achieve such a tight turnaround, it’s likely the next game will crib from the world and mechanics built for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. So it’s likely a smaller scale offering in the vein of Dying Light: The Beast or Spider-Man: Miles Morales. 

Either way, it suggests the Lord Of The Rings game is further out, which makes sense as it will take a lot more work to build the assets for Middle-earth and try to replicate J.R.R. Tolkien’s world.

Prokop Jirsa, a designer on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, is the creative director on the next Kingdom Come entry, while Viktor Bocan is leading the Lord Of The Rings team. 

Warhorse reportedly had around 250 employees in 2024, and even if it has staffed up more since, two open world role-playing games is still a massive undertaking for that number of people.

But assuming the Kingdom Come game isn’t a mainline sequel the plan may be to finish it off relatively quickly and then move everyone across to The Lord Of The Rings.

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