Probably not positive you may stake a declare on the Center Ages, lads. Kingdom Come Deliverance followers have been fast to criticize new medieval RPG, Knight’s Path, for being, of their eyes, too much like Warhorse’s 2025 epic. Seems, actually, that something striving for historic accuracy (even when there are wyverns on this one) will are inclined to look related – that is most likely why you are eager about it.
Knight’s Path launched a trailer yesterday, and it bought numerous consideration. The YouTube video has garnered a really respectable 260k views on the time of writing, and the X video has been seen by a whopping 2.3 million. That is a good chunk of individuals, irrespective of how you narrow it, and the numbers aren’t misplaced on builders.
The devs posted on X that they have been “overwhelmed” with the response to the Knight’s Path trailer, and appeared genuinely thrilled that so many individuals had linked with what it confirmed. For these few who have not seen Knight’s Path, it’s an motion RPG set within the Center Ages. You play as a disgraced noble who has to work their means again up the ranks.
Fight seems methodical, well-paced, and packs a wallop. The Steam web page describes a powerful emphasis on timing, positioning, parrying, and countering, and the video does a fantastic job in displaying the evening and day distinction between the inept newbie you begin as and the grasp swordman you change into.
Mooring your aesthetic to medieval realism is all the time going to get individuals speaking, although. Cries of “Not hating, simply saying it kinda seems like a KCD2 mod” and “This look 100% like Kingdom Come Deliverance, even the engine and colour grading. Similar Dev or rip off?” rang out within the feedback, which prompted the developer to acknowledge these considerations.
One of many dev feedback famous that Knight’s Path “comes from the identical place of respect for historical past, medieval structure, and armor [as KCD2]. Any similarities don’t come from copying, however from drawing from the identical real-world previous.” The comparisons largely look aesthetic, as Knight’s Path is about in a low fantasy world; one that appears to have been conceived by individuals’s beliefs on the time – beliefs that the world was a lot greater and far more fantastical than it truly was.
There is no such thing as a set launch date for Knight’s Path, however there’s a very early fight idea demo accessible on Steam referred to as Knight’s Path: The Match – at this level, although, that’s two years previous, and the fight seems fairly completely different from what we have been handled to in the latest trailer.