January 20 should have been a big day for indie game Knight's Path. The story-driven action RPG set in a "grounded low-fantasy world inspired by the Holy Roman Empire," released its first gameplay trailer on social media, and, on Twitter alone, it quickly garnered 2.2 million views.
That joy must have been short-lived for indie developers Jan Tichota and Aamn Chahrour, however, as the team has spent the last two days defending the game against allegations that it copied Warhorse Studios' Kingdom Come: Deliverance franchise, alongside sharing that it won't contain LGBTQ relationships, because they don't care about "modern agendas".
It's hard to deny that Knight's Path looks a lot like Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Sure, it's a medieval world, so there's going to be some overlap, but if you'd have shared any still from the trailer with me (aside from the one with the dragon or the giant snail), I'd have sworn blind it was from either of the Warhorse-made epics. Tichota and Chahrour vehemently deny they copied it, though.
"We have a lot of respect for [Kingdom Come: Deliverance] and are genuinely grateful for how it helped show the Middle Ages as they actually were....
