At long last, the cult classic action-RPG Kingdom Come Deliverance is releasing on Switch next month

I’m a little worried for my poor ol' Switch

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The 2018 action-RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance is launching on Switch on March 24, 2024, Nintendo and Warhorse Studios have announced, and I’m a little worried about how it’ll run on the nearly seven-year-old portable hardware.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is an immensely detailed and massive open-world game, and I remember my mid-range PC absolutely screaming under its burden back in 2018. Low FPS and a plethora of bugscontinue to be a pain pointfor players on console and PC, which is what’s giving me some pause about the upcoming Switch port.

I could be surprised though! I’m reminded of similarly big games like The Witcher 3, Dragon Quest 11, and Skyrim as examples of Switch ports done right, but then I’d also argue Kingdom Come: Deliverance is either newer, more graphically intensive, or more notoriously buggy than any of those games.

It’s really hard to judge from thefew short seconds of gameplayshown off during Wednesday’sNintendo Partner Direct, but to my eyes the footage indeed looks pretty murky and choppy. Some muddy textures, not to mention reduced draw distance and a lower amount of on-screen detail more generally, is to be expected; all I really want is a stable 30 FPS frame rate. But only time will tell.

Performance aside, Kingdom Come: Deliverance released tomixed reviewsbut has since attracted something of a cult following for its bloody yet janky realism, complex combat system, andsomewhathistorically accurate depiction of medieval Europe. There’s also anactive modding scene, but that obviously won’t apply to the Switch version.

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