Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's Script Reputedly Dwarfs That of Lesser RPGs

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II's script is reputedly on the obscenely large end of the RPG word scale, with Warhorse Studio's writer Daniel Vávra claiming that: "As far as I know, it's the longest script for a game ever. Including Baldur's Gate 3."

YouTuber ESO_Danny posed with the double-sided script from the original Kingdom Come: Deliverance (below), which allegedly weighed in at 800,000 words. KC: DII, meanwhile, is over twice that, at a reputed 1,700,000 words. To put that in perspectice, the average novel is 70-100,000 words. But does this verbose effort from the Czech studio put it in GOAT territory?

Not quite, says Michael Douse, publishing director at Belgium-based Larian Studios, reminding us all that if you're gunning for the king, you'd better not miss. The outspoken dev says that Baldur's Gate 3 remains an absurd several hundred thousand words out of reach of even Warhorse's latest, holding the Guinness World Record for Longest Video Game Script ever at over 2,000,000 words across 1,888 voiced characters and 174 hours of cinematics. Oh well, better luck next time, eh, lads?