Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has had its fair share of drama and controversies ever since launch, more recently being involved in a lot of hoopla over its lack of recognition during 2025's awards season, but one of the more vicious came before the game's release, after people discovered that the game would feature a gay romance scene.
It was claimed that pre-orders had dropped and that refunds were coming in as a result, something that Kingdom Come writer Daniel Vávra immediately rubbished at the time. Shortly after, Warhorse admitted that it was "fed up" of being dragged into culture wars, and that it "would like not to be connected to these fights at all."
Now, almost a year on from the game's release, Warhorse has spoken to PC Gamer about what kind of impact these kinds of controversies can have on a game and the studio making it. For Warhorse specifically, it sounds as though it didn't impact all that much.
In the interview, KCD2 executive producer Martin Klíma revealed that while the controversy may have brought more eyes to the game, his personal opinion is that the controversy only actually mattered to "a handful of terminally online...
