1 – Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
We live in a time for gaming that’s truly special indeed. A time when one of the most successful games of the last season was an open-world, medieval RPG that’s slow, realistic, and so dense with content that it makes things like Baldur’s Gate 3 and Skyrim blush. The first Kingdom Come: Deliverance was a bold statement when it came out, and its success was proof that a market for this kind of experience does exist, and it’s quite large. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 puts us back into the shoes of Henry, in his journey to avenge his parents. What happens in between missions is the true meat-and-potatoes of both games, where Henry truly is your character to shape and roleplay as. You explore a medieval recreation of a part of Bohemia done with meticulous attention to detail, with castles, towns, and hamlets recreated to be as real as possible. The real-time sword-combat is equally unique to the series, and could only work in an RPG like this, and you’re allowed to specialize how you want, to fight with whatever weapons you wish. It’s a slow-burning experience that is best undertaken with enough time to see the whole thing through over the course of several weeks, and maybe months.
Never Stop Playing With History
I hope you have enjoyed this trip exploring the best historical games you can play in 2026, and I certainly hope you enjoyed some of the most esoteric entries as well. For a game to be historical, I don’t think it has to be realistic, and to be a 1 to 1 recreation of History. Instead, it should capture the nature of the setting, people, and events it’s trying to recreate, and games like Valiant Hearts: The Great War, despite being a sidescrolling platform, do a much better job at focusing on the human side of World War 1 than most realistic shooters ever will. On the other side, you have games like Burden of Command and Scourge of War: Waterloo, which go to their utmost extent to try and portray History as realistically as possible. There’s always something for everybody, and if I didn’t have to limit this one down to 10 choices, I could have gone on writing this list forever.
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