Last week was a momentous celebration for fans of Warhorse’s Kingdom Come franchise and J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings franchise, as it was announced that Warhorse is developing both a “new Kingdom Come adventure” and an “open-world Middle-earth RPG.” Warhorse is clearly striking while its blacksmith’s anvil is white-hot from Kingdom Come: Deliverance II’s success, and it will be thrilling to see how a developer that relishes realism in gameplay tackles one of the most iconic fantasy IPs in history.
Of course, when these games will launch is another question entirely, and it seems as if we have recently received an answer regarding one of them. Warhorse’s open-world Middle-earth RPG is sure to be a massive undertaking for the studio, and, with a whole other open-world RPG it is also working on and releasing first, Frodo and Sam could probably travel back and forth from the Shire to Mordor several times before it arrives.
In a livestream airing on YouTube, Warhorse confirmed that its newly announced “Kingdom Come adventure” would be an open-world RPG and, as communications director Tobias Stolz-Zwilling states, is expected to launch “next fiscal year.” This suggests...
