The world of Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 currently excites many role-playing fans. In the new special from MeinMMO, Karsten Scholz recommends you other open worlds that, in his opinion, offer a comparable immersion and fascination.
If you have read my assessment of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, you know: I had a lot of fun with the new role-playing game from Warhorse Studios. The realistically appearing world is one of the clear highlights for me. At the same time, I fear that some players may not be able to enjoy the wonderful, virtual Bohemia because of some peculiarities of KCD2.
Fortunately, there are still some other games with huge worlds that, in my opinion, are similarly fascinating and immersive, and in which you can expect comparable advantages as in Kingdom Come 2: For example, the often robust, direct manner of the inhabitants, or the use of exciting points of interests instead of generic tasks to guide players through the world.
His relationship with games featuring huge open worlds outside the MMORPG genre, however, is challenging. Often, story blockbusters are so huge and cluttered with optional, mostly generic content that they eventually lose me.
Although I have played almost everything with GTA or Assassin’s Creed on it, there are hardly any parts of both franchises that I could actually complete. It takes a lot for such a massive game to click for me, and I play freely until the credits roll.
I present you with a selection of these special worlds or games below, as alternatives to Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. You can jump directly to the suggestions that interest you via the content overview. Which open worlds have particularly captivated you so far? Share it in the comments!
If you want to take a look at Kingdom Come 2, here are some starter tips:
The roots of Kingdom Come 2
In my initial assessment linked above, I already made a comparison to Gothic. The iconic role-playing game from Piranha Bytes was indeed the first game that could truly captivate me with its hand-designed and plausibly simulated 3D world.
If you played Gothic back then, you will (often very fondly) remember the Mine Valley, the rough demeanor, and characters like Diego, Lester, or Mud. Or the grumpy reactions of the inhabitants when you got too close to their property or tried to make yourself comfortable in their bed.
Somewhat heretically, one might say that the developers of Piranha Bytes have been making the same game over and over again for almost 25 years, at least regarding design, rules, and simulation of the respective worlds.
While the Risen and ELEX parts also offer their charm, the previous highlight of the studio is clearly Gothic 2 (plus “The Night of the Raven”), which builds on the strengths of its predecessor and eliminates some of its teething problems.
If you missed Gothic and don’t want to catch up with the classic due to its outdated technology, you should keep your fingers crossed: This year the elaborate remake of the first Gothic part is supposed to be released, currently being developed by a Spanish studio of THQ Nordic, and with Kai Rosenkranz at least one creative from the original crew is involved.
Next, we continue with the Elden King.
