
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II is almost upon us, and the highly ambitious WRPG, a subgenre in which freedom of choice is essential, is shaping up to be the immersive, unabashedly single-player experience to beat in 2025. Likely because of that, a pernicous rumour has arisen online, one which the developers at Warhorse Studios have opted to officially skewer, refuting that KC: DII was denied classification in Saudia Arabia over an allegedly unskippable, same-sex romantic scene.
It's not true that the game has been refused classification in any region, nor are any cutscenes therein unskippable (thanks, IGN). However, as was the case in the criminally underplayed original game, players can explore same-sex encounters, provided they choose to do so. Warhorse co-founder Daniel Vávra was forced to explain this and other fundamental realities, which are presented in-game, if nothing else, in a historically accurate fashion:
"If you want Henry to try a same-sex adventure, feel free. If you don’t want to, you don’t have to. All affairs are (and were in KC: D) purely optional. The characters are perfectly aware that it was a forbidden sin."