I have complicated feelings toward Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. When I finish games, I am usually eager to write, feeling as if the game sets up a conversation between its creators and me. KCD2 did not elicit this response in me, sadly. There were aspects of it that really intrigued me, but on the whole, I find it hard to say much about the game. It is full of content, but void of meaning. It is a massive game, but its core thesis is incredibly weak.

Does that make it a bad game? Absolutely not. It's fun and expansive. It’s the kind of game people love to get lost in. It shares much of its DNA with Bethesda Game Studios games in its openness and quirkiness, with NPCs pretending to live daily lives. That said, in these articles, I am not interested in telling people whether a game is good or bad. When I write about a game, I look for an interpretation of what it says about our world through story, mechanics, and art. Sadly, my takeaway was that Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 does not say much of interest.