I have a somewhat disturbing confession to make, dear reader: Since the middle of January, Steam (a platform that hosts and distributes gaming content) tells me that I have spent almost 84 hours of my life in 15th century Bohemia.
The proximate cause of this detour to the past is a computer game by Czech Gaming outfit Warhorse Studios. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is what is known as an “RPG”, or role-playing-game. It puts you into the person of Henry of Skalitz, a fictional young blacksmith from the very real town of Skalitz who finds himself caught up in the (very real) civil war between Wenceslas II of Bohemia and his brother, King Sigismund of Hungary. The towns are real, the people are real, the history is entirely accurate, and the studio spent hours re-creating the world in which the game takes place to immense levels of detail.
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