Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 director Daniel Vávra has taken to social media in order to address what he calls "wild claims" surrounding the game, including a ban in Saudi Arabia, unskippable cutscenes, and more.
In a lengthy thread on social media platform X, Vávra points to claims that have been circulating in recent days. He says these claims are "based just on one screenshot and a poorly translated tweet", likely pointing to this post from Saudi Arabian outlet VGA4A.
When machine translated, the post seems to say that Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has been banned in Saudi Arabia due to "unskippable gay scenes in story mode", and it's likely that this is the claim Vávra wants to address.
According to Vávra, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 will feature "NO unskippable cutscenes", a claim he extends to the entirety of his studio Warhorse's output.
He then says that his studio's game is not, nor ever was, banned in any country, "at least not that we know of". It is, of course, possible that the game was banned in Saudi Arabia without Vávra's knowledge, but since he's the head of Warhorse, that seems unlikely.
Vávra then goes on to say that...
