{"id":501678,"date":"2026-05-25T11:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/501678\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:03:13","slug":"warhorse-confirms-open-world-rpgs-for-both-kcd-middle-earth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/501678\/","title":{"rendered":"Warhorse Confirms Open-World RPGs for Both KCD &#038; Middle-earth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we learned that <a href=\"https:\/\/80.lv\/articles\/warhorse-studios-works-on-two-new-games-set-in-kingdom-come-middle-earth-universes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Warhorse is working on two new projects \u2013 an open-world Middle-earth RPG and a new Kingdom Come adventure<\/a>. Recently, the studio hosted a YouTube stream in which Tom Grey, Community Manager at Warhorse, and Tobias Stolz-Zwilling, the studio&#8217;s Communications Director, shed more light on what the studio is preparing.<\/p>\n<p>As shared in the stream, the announced games set in the Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Middle-earth universes will both be open-world RPGs. While the Middle-earth game was already confirmed as an open-world RPG at its initial announcement, fans were left to speculate about the &#8220;new Kingdom Come adventure,&#8221; as the studio described the upcoming project. Now, the developer has confirmed that both will be full-fledged, proper games. Later in the talk, Tobias Stolz-Zwilling added that the studio continues to expand the Kingdom Come universe, its passion project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">The Communications Director also revealed that the Kingdom Come project will be led by Prokop Jirsa, while the Middle-earth game will be headed by Viktor Bogan, the design director of Kingdom Come. Stolz-Zwilling also clarified that the new Kingdom Come: Deliverance title is set to release next fiscal year, highlighting that fans won&#8217;t have to &#8220;wait another seven years&#8221; for the next entry in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the highlights from the stream shared in the X\/Twitter post from Warhorse:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, we learned that Warhorse is working on two new projects \u2013 an open-world Middle-earth RPG and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,158359,19,17,5,82,3880],"class_list":["post-501678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-eire","tag-game-development","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-technology","tag-video-games"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116634884948025311","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}