Baldur’s Gate 3 at present holds the world file for the online game with the longest script, however Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 will seemingly take that award for itself when it launches in 2025.
Dan Vávra, co founder and inventive director at Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 developer Warhorse Studios, stated on X/Twitter that the sport script at present totals 2.2 million phrases. Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian Studios stated on (*3*) its sport totalled “roughly 2,000,000 phrases” at launch, which means Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 may very well be the new champ.
“Yesterday, we had been counting with our lead designer Prokop Jirsa how a lot we really wrote for KCD2,” Vávra stated. “So guess how massive the script is? 2,200,000 phrases! Or 11,000 typical screenwriting pages. That is a 100 scripts for a typical two-hour film, or about 25 common novels.”
Some additional context sees Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 are available in at virtually 4 instances the size of famously lengthy novel Struggle and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, which sits at 587,287 phrases lengthy, and all the A Music of Ice and Fireplace books mixed, which complete 1,736,054 phrases from A Game of Thrones to A Dance With Dragons.
All these phrases seemingly come at a price, nevertheless, as Warhorse just lately introduced Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has been delayed from 2024 to February 11, 2025.
In IGN’s 8/10 evaluate of the authentic, we stated: “Kingdom Come: Deliverance is an RPG that does the medieval period proper with a refreshingly small-scale story and powerful life like fight.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.