Kingdom Come: Deliverance Review - 5 Ups & 5 Downs

3. Down: Frequent Bugs/Glitches/Areas Where More Polish Was Needed

Within hours of launch, already the reports were flooding in: Kingdom Come: Deliverance was a buggy and awkward game, though not one whose reputation has been dominated by such things.

Creator Daniel Vavra is already talking about patching in a number of optimisations ranging from tightening up a nightmarish lockpicking minigame, to overall performance tweaks. Honestly, I've not encountered any game-breaking bugs, though the general meshing of objects, people and animations does mean that every few moments, something will be clipping through something else.

I had a great moment where an intense fight against a group of guards ended with me getting the upper hand, simply because they all fell into a stream and spent the rest of the fight walking directly into a grass verge. It lead to some VERY easy headshots, but of course, that isn't the point.

To some degree, all of these issues are forgivable, being this is Warhorse Studios' first ever game. Reports online have mentioned more substantial problems that prevented quest completion, but as the team have already issued a launch day patch and another on PS4 (with Xbox One coming soon), it should only get better from here on out.