‘5,000,000 Henrys’ and so they’re all fairly hungry: KCD2 has offered gangbusters since its launch final 12 months

A mere week after Warhorse celebrated Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2’s first birthday with some enjoyable statistics, it is dropped one other large one: KCD2 has offered 5 million copies since its launch final 12 months. I believe it is in all probability extra satisfied with this stat than those about gamers doing a number of million drunken murders (although that is worthy of delight too).

“5 million Henrys are actually adventuring in Bohemia,” wrote Warhorse on X, terrifyingly. “KCD2 has formally reached this large milestone and it’s all due to you. Our neighborhood is rising each single day and we could not be extra excited to have you ever with us. Thanks for making this journey unforgettable!”

For comparability, KCD1 offered about 2 million copies within the first 12 months of its launch, and had offered 8 million by November 2024. So whereas KCD2 won’t fairly have outpaced its predecessor, on the fee it is going it will not be lengthy till it has.

I am daring and iconoclastic sufficient to say: it is earned it. KCD2 is a improbable recreation. It is so good, in reality, that some particularly cool videogames web sites/magazines declared it their recreation of the 12 months for 2025, beating out fairly a little bit of robust competitors. In my Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 evaluation, I referred to as it a “new RPG basic,” and you understand what? I feel past-me was proper.

Once I sat down with Warhorse co-founder Martin Klima, he attributed KCD2’s success to the way it treats its gamers. “This recreation is critical about taking gamers severely, and I feel we will see within the recreation trade on the whole, there’s a [tendency] in direction of the video games that provide this, type of, extra grown-up strategy and supply much less hand-holding. I feel KCD actually suits into that pattern.”

I hope he is proper. Extra video games the place I die a peasant’s loss of life within the mud as a result of I forgot to placed on a gambeson, please. They’re fairly scorching proper now.