Henry of Skalitz is saddling up for a new audience. During the September 9, 2026 Nintendo Direct, Warhorse Studios and publisher Deep Silver officially confirmed that Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Royal Edition is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 in 2027. It’s a big deal for fans of serious open-world RPGs — one of the most acclaimed games of 2025 is now making its way to Nintendo’s hybrid platform, and it’s bringing everything with it.
What’s Included in the Royal Edition
This isn’t a trimmed-down port or a bare-bones release. The Switch 2 version launches as the Royal Edition, which means players get the complete Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 experience right out of the gate. That includes:
- The full base game
- All three premium story expansions
- The “The Lion’s Crest” bonus questline
- The “Gallant Huntsman’s Kit” exclusive gear
- The “Shields of Season Passing” cosmetic content
Warhorse has also confirmed a specific set of Switch 2-native features currently planned for the port:
- Joy-Con 2 mouse mode support
- HDR support
- 1080p in handheld mode (upscaled) and up to 1440p docked (upscaled, depending on display)
- Various gameplay bug fixes
- Enlarged menu UI optimized for smaller displays
The Joy-Con 2 mouse mode support is a particularly interesting touch for a game that has extensive menus, inventory management, and dialogue systems. Being able to navigate those systems with a mouse-like input rather than a thumbstick could meaningfully improve the feel of the port for Switch 2 players.
The Story and the World You’re Getting
For anyone who hasn’t touched the Kingdom Come series yet, here’s the quick version: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a first-person open-world RPG set in 15th-century Bohemia, and it is one of the most historically committed games ever made. You play as Henry of Skalitz, a blacksmith’s son caught up in a war of succession, political intrigue, and personal revenge in a world without magic, dragons, or fantasy trappings of any kind.
The sequel launched on February 4, 2025 and picks up directly where the first game left off, expanding to two new open-world maps — double the size of the original — and taking players to famous real-world locations including Trosky Castle and the historic mining town of Kuttenberg. The game is M-rated, features a detailed simulation of medieval life where your character needs to eat, sleep, and manage skills, and lets players approach quests in genuinely multiple ways — through combat, diplomacy, stealth, or outright trickery.
What makes KCD2 special compared to most open-world RPGs is its refusal to hold your hand or give you fantasy shortcuts. Getting good at sword fighting actually takes time. NPCs have real schedules. Lockpicking is a skill you genuinely develop. The world rewards patience and observation in ways that feel unusual in 2025, and that’s exactly why it connected so strongly with players who were hungry for something different.
How Big a Success Was KCD2? The Numbers Tell the Story
This Switch 2 announcement makes a lot more sense when you look at how the game has performed on its existing platforms. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 launched to immediate commercial success, selling 1 million copies in its first 24 hours and reaching the 2 million mark within two weeks. By its first anniversary, it had crossed 5 million copies sold. By June 2026, Warhorse confirmed it had surpassed 6 million copies sold worldwide — a remarkable figure for a hardcore historical RPG from a Czech studio.
Critically, the game scored an 89 on Metacritic and an 89 on OpenCritic, with a 93% positive rating on Steam across over 143,000 reviews. Game Informer gave it a 9.5 out of 10. It was nominated for Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2025, eventually losing the award to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and it won the BAFTA Games Award for Best Narrative. The original Kingdom Come: Deliverance, meanwhile, has now crossed over 10 million copies in total sales, showing how much the franchise’s reach has grown.
When a game hits 6 million copies on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S, expanding to Switch 2 — especially with Nintendo’s renewed focus on drawing in major third-party titles — is just common sense. There’s a real audience there waiting to discover this world for the first time.
The Performance Question — Can Switch 2 Handle It?
Here’s where the conversation gets genuinely interesting, and where some healthy skepticism is warranted. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is an enormous, technically demanding open-world game. The vast map, dense environmental detail, complex NPC AI, and physics simulation are all things that challenged PC hardware on its own terms. Getting that running well on a handheld console — even one as capable as the Switch 2 — is not a trivial task.
The announcement trailer has already drawn some scrutiny, with a few clips looking less than perfectly smooth in terms of frame rate. Warhorse and Deep Silver haven’t released technical performance specifics beyond the resolution targets, so exactly what frame rate targets or quality settings the port is hitting remains unknown for now. The confirmed 1080p handheld and 1440p docked targets are both upscaled rather than native, which is standard for Switch 2 ports of demanding titles, but gives some indication of where performance headroom is being balanced.
There is precedent worth looking at here. The original Kingdom Come: Deliverance ran on Nintendo Switch, ported by Saber Interactive — and it was widely considered one of the most technically ambitious Switch ports ever attempted. Digital Foundry called it among the most impressive portable achievements they’d seen, even while acknowledging the visual compromises. It ran at a dynamic 540-720p resolution targeting 30fps, with regular drops in villages and busy areas. The Switch port was impressive for existing at all, but it wasn’t a smooth experience.
The Switch 2 is significantly more powerful hardware, and the KCD2 sequel is being developed with this as a native target rather than a late-gen afterthought port. That should lead to a better result. Whether it lands at a stable 30fps or pushes higher, and what visual fidelity it achieves, will be the real questions to watch when more technical information comes out closer to launch.
A Natural Fit for Nintendo’s Third-Party Push
Nintendo has made it clear that the Switch 2 era is going to be defined partly by an unprecedented focus on bringing major third-party titles to the platform — more so than any previous Nintendo generation. The Switch 2 launch lineup and its subsequent wave of announcements have backed that up, with ambitious ports and day-one releases from studios that historically bypassed Nintendo hardware entirely.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 fits squarely into that strategy. It’s exactly the kind of deep, lengthy, single-player RPG that Switch players have traditionally craved but rarely gotten at this scale. The original KCD’s Switch port, despite its compromises, found an audience specifically because that audience was desperate for that type of game on a portable platform. The Royal Edition of KCD2, with the full game and all DLC bundled in for portable play, is a compelling proposition even if some visual concessions are required.
And for players who already own a Switch 2 and want to understand why this franchise matters, there’s good news: the original Kingdom Come: Deliverance is already available on Nintendo Switch and playable on Switch 2 via backward compatibility. That means you can play through Henry’s full journey — both games, start to finish — on Switch 2 once the Royal Edition launches in 2027.
What’s Next for Warhorse Studios
The KCD2 Switch 2 announcement comes at a time when Warhorse is one of the most interesting studios to watch in the entire industry. Back in May 2026, the studio confirmed it is simultaneously developing two major new projects: an open-world Middle-earth RPG set in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings universe (enabled by Embracer Group’s ownership of the IP), and a new Kingdom Come adventure — the third entry in the franchise.
That new Kingdom Come game may already have a name. In July 2026, a trademark filing at the European Union Intellectual Property Office was discovered for “Kingdom Come Salvation” — filed in Czech, handled by a Prague-based attorney associated with Warhorse’s previous trademark work, and featuring a logo matching the visual style of the KCD series. Warhorse hasn’t officially confirmed the title, but the filing is about as clear a breadcrumb as trademark hunting gets. The new title may also have some form of online or multiplayer functionality, based on language in the trademark classification that refers to “entertainment services for matching users with computer games” — something neither previous KCD game featured.
Original KCD director Daniel Vávra has stepped back from game development to focus on producing a Kingdom Come film, but the studio’s creative leadership appears intact and both new projects are reportedly in active development. Reports have suggested the next Kingdom Come could be targeting a fiscal year 2027-2028 window, which would align with a potential reveal in the not-too-distant future.
The Bottom Line
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 on Switch 2 is exactly the kind of announcement that makes you genuinely happy for Nintendo players who missed out on one of 2025’s best games. A 6 million seller, a BAFTA winner, and a Game of the Year nominee is now officially on its way to a platform where it’s going to find a new audience that’s hungry for exactly this kind of experience.
The performance question is real and will need answering before launch, but given the gap in hardware capability between original Switch and Switch 2, and the fact that Warhorse is developing this with Switch 2 specifically in mind, there’s genuine reason for optimism. The Joy-Con 2 mouse mode, HDR, and the decision to bundle the complete Royal Edition rather than a stripped-down version all suggest this isn’t a rushed cash-in — it’s a proper port with Switch 2’s capabilities in mind.
2027 is the confirmed window. A specific release date hasn’t been announced yet. But for RPG fans on Switch 2, this one is firmly on the watchlist. Henry’s heading back out on the road — and this time, he’s going portable.
For fans keeping up with all the big gaming announcements this week, it’s been a packed few days across the board — from Marvel’s Wolverine finally launching on PS5 to Bungie confirming Marathon’s future, September 2026 has been one of the busier stretches for gaming news in recent memory. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 making the jump to Switch 2 is a worthy headline to add to the list.
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