I'll say up front that I'm probably about as big a Kingdom Come: Deliverance fan as you'll find, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has become one of my favorite games of all time. So, naturally, the announcement that Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Royal Edition is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 in 2027 immediately had my attention. I'm already imagining how dangerous it will be for my free time to have a portable version of KCD2 sitting within arm's reach, but there's another part of this announcement I'm almost more interested in seeing play out.
Nintendo has confirmed that Switch 2 is getting the Royal Edition, which includes the base game and all of its premium story expansions. Right now, though, we don't know how the game is actually going to perform there. Considering the kind of game Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is, I have a feeling this port is going to tell us quite a bit about how far Switch 2 can really go with the massive open-world RPGs that have traditionally called PlayStation, Xbox, and PC home.
I'm not going to pretend I expect Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 on Switch 2 to look or run exactly like it does on more powerful hardware. It shouldn't have to. Switch 2 is considerably more capable than its predecessor, and Nintendo has made faster loading and improved graphical performance two of the system's biggest selling points. Even so, KCD2 is a pretty serious game to throw at it.
The first thing I'm going to be watching is the frame rate, simply because Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 can put quite a lot on the screen at once. Kuttenberg immediately comes to mind here. It's a huge city where simply walking through the streets can have Henry surrounded by NPCs going about their routines, while the city itself is considerably denser than most other areas in the game. I've spent more time than I'd like to admit wandering around Kuttenberg doing absolutely nothing productive, so I know just how busy that place can get.
Things can obviously become much more chaotic once combat starts. KCD2 isn't necessarily a game that needs an absurdly high frame rate for me to enjoy it, but stability is another story. If I'm walking through Kuttenberg or fighting several enemies and the frame rate is constantly dropping, that's going to be considerably harder for me to ignore than simply playing the game at 30 FPS.
The first thing I'm going to be watching is the frame rate, simply because Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 can put quite a lot on the screen at once.
Then there's the open countryside, where image quality becomes much more interesting. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has some gorgeous landscapes, and a lot of its exploration has you looking pretty far into the distance as you're traveling between towns. I don't expect the Switch 2 version to preserve every bit of visual detail I would see elsewhere, but I am curious to see how much resolution Warhorse has to give up to keep everything running smoothly.
Draw distance could also become one of those things that stands out more than expected. One of my favorite parts of traveling through Bohemia is seeing some town or landmark sitting way off in the distance and eventually realizing that's exactly where I'm heading. If distant scenery starts popping into existence too aggressively, it could make the compromises behind the port much more obvious.
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