Kingdom Come: Deliverance

“The infamous fighting system and soft lock combat make group fights frustrating and nearly impossible, as the game only allows swings on the enemy currently locked on, with enemies master striking relentlessly, leading to quick player death.”

“The combat mechanics are clunky and poorly executed, with a terrible lock-on system that hampers fights against multiple enemies, resulting in frustrating deaths from unavoidable attacks and a lack of effective defensive options.”

“The saving mechanic requires consuming a rare in-game item to save, which is frustrating and punishes players with significant loss of progress upon death; combined with frequent bugs and crashes, this design severely detracts from the gameplay experience.”

“Performance is beyond terrible, it's one of those games that advises you that anything above high graphics such as very high and ultra is made for future hardware. I have a 4090 with a Ryzen 5900x and my settings are a mix of medium and high with most of the draw distance and texture distances down to at least 20%. It's jarring and distracting watching people walk around with either no face or no head at all and watching as their clothes change colour and gain more detail the closer I get. I can hit 110 fps and up in the woodland areas but when I hit a town or city it plummets down to 51 and lower in some circumstances.”

“If you told me all the positive reviews were from older gamers who just wanted to relive their favorite games from back in the day but with updated graphics, there would not be a shred of surprise found within a mile of me.”

“Absolutely terrible, the graphics were weird and characters movements were off but I didn't mind that too much, then I tried combat but the mechanics for it are weird and I couldn't figure it out but I assumed I just learn how later.”

“Atrociously buggy in a game ruining way, the movement in combat is not fun, and feels like a lazy "good enough" compared to literally every other game.”

“Unplayable buggy, game will spawn enemies that will 100% kill you out of nowhere, many quests will completely bug out and be uncompleteable, there are also glitches in the combat that make it truly awful, i would never trust a single award given to this game, probably all made up to make it look better, i wanted to play this game so i could play the second one, and this game is outright unplayable, the glitches alone make doing most quests as bad as pulling teeth, but on top of that the fact that you have to mod the game just to be able to save when you want to is outright disqualifying this slop from being considered a finished game.”

“The difficulty spikes are insane + the glitches are terrible, i had multiple immersion breaking bugs, enemies flying into the air, getting stuck in the floor, getting on a horse and noclipping into the walls, gravity just shuts down and i fly into the sky only to die... can't heal yourself during combat, trying to kill more than 2 enemies at a time with a sword is near impossible.....the list go on and on.”

“Again, terrible optimization, be prepared to have bad performance every time you have 5+ NPCs around even with a high-end PC and messing with the files and commands does almost nothing to make the game get 60fps consistently.”

“But in 2026 the performance is still absolutely pathetic, with massive FPS swings from 30 to 200 on a 5800x3d, 32 GB RAM and an RX 9070 XT on medium settings, and 99th percentile FPS that are barely half of the average, which makes the game feel constantly stuttery and inconsistent.”

“Worst game ever... runs like shit... a 2018 game... badly optimized... even with mods this thing can't run with decent performance... "Kingdom Loading Deliverance"... after you wait 20 minutes for the game to start from launch on Steam... it will load even if you eat in a f***ing cauldron...”

“Same goes for music – it’s fine for what it is, but sometimes the battle music can start playing all of a sudden, making you freak out, even if there are no enemies in sight. There are also huge patches of the game where the music doesn’t play at all; I’m not sure if it’s by design or if it’s another borked feature.”

“The music is repetitive and unimaginative.”

“One such glitch resulted in having only background music throughout the entire scene and afterwards.”

“You will spend a lot of time early in the game grinding skills (both leveling up and getting good) in training arenas if you're smart, because your character starts as basically an unarmored child and gets thrown into realistic armed combat after the prologue wraps up.”

“Combat system is fun as soon as you start grinding otherwise it's like the rust community (toxic, hard to deal with).”

“The combat also suffers from a time sink in which you'll have to train and practice for multiple real hours just to have a chance in 1v1 let alone any fight more than a 1v1, which may sound cool in concept as a way to immerse yourself but it becomes a tedious chore that halts you from enjoying the game as many main and bigger side quests involve combat to some degree with the positive caveat that some of those quests have other NPCs to help you.”

“Ugly graphics, horrible atmosphere, not immersive at all.”

“Atmosphere is broken constantly by poor animations, items clipping into NPCs, NPCs clipping into each other, etc.”

“The bugs ruin the atmosphere of the game and frankly the fun if I run around for 30 minutes to find the quest person is stuck behind a door.”

“Is it supposed to be funny?”

“Level-up rewards called perks have tacky names and cartoonish icons that are supposed to be funny, but just break immersion whenever they pop up again in your face ('headcracker has been activated!' with a cartoon icon in the middle of the screen when you do a successful headshot).”

“After this, characters of e.g. Skyrim feel like characters of an old unfunny anecdote.”

“The slow boring story quests that make you wait up to 6 days just to even start them is horrible.”

“Now, if you buy it you’ll get the product with zounds of bugs, unbalanced mechanics, with low optimizing and extremely boring story full of the cheapest clichés as I’ve seen in movies from the 50’s.”

“I really wanted to like this game but the wonky fighting, boring story, silly lockpicking and stealing mini-games, the dead world, clipping errors, slow texture loading, unskippable intro videos make it just impossible for me.”

“Great story but no replayability.”

“The only downside in my eyes is the replayability, as our decisions in main and side quests play only a minor role in the progression of the story.”

“It just adds to the replay value.”

“However, I wasn’t particularly fond of the character development systems, which is the main reason I don’t see myself replaying it.”

“Most characters are generic and interchangeable (except Hans), little character development occurs and quest outcomes are almost entirely self-contained.”

“There's very little character development of either the PC Henry or any NPC, and no meaningful choices to speak of.”

“Good game, but they just added in-game ads, you have to accept a new EULA and sign up with an account for a single player game.”

“This is a complete cash grab scam; no attempt to create gameplay is anywhere in this POS.”

“The DLC for the game is also disappointing, feeling like a cash grab rather than adding anything substantial to the overall experience.”