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Last month marked the much-anticipated release of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, an open-world action role-playing game (RPG) set in fifteenth-century Bohemia. The game sold five hundred thousand copies across all platforms (PC, PS4, and Xbox One) within two days of its release and surpassed the one million mark after two weeks, an impressive feat for a crowd-funded game developed by an indie studio. Despite its flaws, it’s a meticulously crafted and highly immersive game that succeeds in its commitment to historical realism and has the potential to become a cult classic.The developers have begun to patch up bugs and performance issues, and the game will likely continue to improve over the coming months.

The game takes place in the year 1403, twenty-five years after...