The rumours have been true: Kingdom Come 2 studio is engaged on an RPG set in Tolkien’s Center-earth

We have all been fairly eager to know what Warhorse Studios is engaged on within the wake of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. Certain, the studio might simply pack all of it in—it received PC Gamer’s 2025 GOTY and thereby received all of videogames—nevertheless it did not appear possible. After I chatted with Prokop Jirsa, one of many studio’s two new inventive administrators, he stored resolutely schtum about its future.

However now we all know the broad strokes. In a put up on X, Warhorse got here out and confirmed that—clearly—it is engaged on one other Kingdom Come recreation, nevertheless it’s additionally engaged on one thing else: an open-world RPG set in JRR Tolkien’s Center-earth.

Which, enable me to be among the many first to say: hell yeah. As I’ve extensively documented, I have been on a little bit of a Tolkien kick lately, and the notion of a recreation filled with Warhorse’s trademark zeal for particulars and systems-driven gameplay sounds implausible. Warhorse is not sharing any particulars simply but—I’ve to think about the sport is in very, very early phases—however I am hoping it takes an identical tack as Kingdom Come, placing you within the sneakers of a comparatively humble schmuck within the thick of nice occasions, quite than simply making you Aragorn and calling it a day. Additionally, no attractive Shelob, if attainable. I’m nonetheless open to attractive Ungoliant.

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If you happen to’re wired into the videogame rumour-mill, this information won’t be a lot of a shock. There have been murmurs that Warhorse is engaged on a “Lord of the Rings” recreation for a short time now. Although it is value noting the studio known as its mission a “Center-earth” recreation and never a “Lord of the Rings” factor (although it did use an LOTR hashtag), which to my thoughts opens up the likelihood we’d get to see much less acquainted territory than the ultimate wrestle towards Sauron.

Me personally? I would not thoughts a recreation set in Beleriand through the tumult of the First Age, when Melkor/Morgoth was as much as his previous tips, however I might additionally see Warhorse following within the footsteps of Return to Moria and giving us a Fourth-Age journey. All of which is frenzied hypothesis on my half and virtually actually unsuitable.

I am afraid these are all the main points you are getting for the second. Warhorse says “We’re excited to inform you extra when the time is correct,” and I am gonna go forward and guess that point is a methods off. It is also value mentioning there are just a few darkish clouds within the air. The matter of the translator who stated he was fired from Warhorse and changed by AI actually has me fearful concerning the state of the studio’s English-language video games going ahead, however I am going to simply have to attend and see.