Warhorse Studios has officially released the long-rumored next-gen update for the original Kingdom Come: Deliverance. The 1.9.7 update is huge, and finally brings Kingdom Come: Deliverance to both PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. It’s a free upgrade, meaning players who already own the game on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 can enjoy the new version on current-gen consoles at no charge.
The original Kingdom Come: Deliverance was released in 2018 as the debut title from Czech studio Warhorse Studios. It was an ambitious RPG set in the medieval Kingdom of Bohemia, taking a historical approach when many similar role-playing games were rooted in fantasy. Although Kingdom Come: Deliverance was met with a solid critical reception, its hardcore mechanics weren’t for everyone, and as Warhorse Studios’ first game, it was still a little rough around the edges. Its 2025 sequel, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, was met with enormous critical and commercial success, and was even nominated for Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2025. The success of the sequel has reignited interest in the original Kingdom Come: Deliverance all over again.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance Officially Arrives on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S
In an exciting trailer and patch notes posted to the Deep Silver website, Kingdom Come: Deliverance officially shadow-dropped the long-rumored next-gen update, bringing the game to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. The main improvement is the massively improved visuals. Now, PC’s Ultra quality is the baseline for current-gen console versions, with asset quality increased across the board. The native resolution has been increased to 2560×1440, although it also upscales to 3840×2160. Kingdom Come: Deliverance now runs at 60 FPS on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, with the patch notes stating that CryEngine has received “optimizations tailored for the PS5 and Xbox Series hardware” to enable this.
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There’s good news for players who had an active Kingdom Come: Deliverance playthrough on previous-gen consoles, too. Existing owners of the game will receive the next-gen update completely free, and it even has save game transfer, meaning players won’t have to start their playthrough from the beginning on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. There are a bunch of other small bug fixes and improvements, as well as the addition of Czech and Japanese voice-overs for the game. The 1.9.7 patch has also been released for the PC version of the game, although, for obvious reasons, it does not include the console-specific changes.
There have been rumors of a next-gen update for Kingdom Come: Deliverance for a while now, but Warhorse Studios remained radio-silent on the topic. Its release doesn’t come as a massive surprise, given the previous leaks, but it’s still good to see it come to fruition. With the sequel’s success, now could be the right time to hop in and experience the original Kingdom Come: Deliverance, which has conveniently just arrived on Xbox Game Pass, too.
Last year, Warhorse Studios released what was claimed to be the final DLC for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. It’s not clear what the future holds for the developer at this point, although its recent success gives it the runway to take on even more ambitious projects in the coming years. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is one of the best RPGs of recent years, so regardless of what Warhorse Studios does next, whether it be more KCD or something entirely new, it’s sure to have a new legion of anticipating fans along for the ride.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance Update 1.9.7 Patch Notes (Next-Gen Update)
Improvements
Improved visuals
- Improved visual quality using PC Ultra Quality as a baseline
- Includes both improved quality of existing graphical features and addition of new graphical features, previously only available on PC.
- Improved quality of assets
- Textures and models have had their resolution increased to match PC HD assets. Can be toggled on or off in the game settings.
- AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution (FSR) v1.2
- Upscaling the final image to 3840×2160
- Increased native resolution the game renders at to 2560×1440
Improved performance
- Improved performance throughout the entire game, with notable outliers being
- Massively improved performance in demanding scenarios such as in-game cutscenes, battles and dialogues
- Massively improved performance in demanding locations such as big cities with many NPCs and foliage dense areas
- Dynamic Resolution implementation for smoother framerate in GPU demanding areas
- Upgraded rendering backend using modern graphical APIs
- CryEngine heavily modified with many improvements and optimizations tailored for the PS5 and Xbox Series hardware
- Improved and optimized multithreading to better utilize all available cores
- Improved and optimized asset streaming to reduce stutters and pop-ins
- Reworked culling to reduce amount of unnecessary draw calls
- These are just the highlights of the biggest changes made in order to reach 60FPS with the target quality of Ultra
Platform features
- Continue where you left off with the cross generation save game transfer
- Owners of Kingdom Come: Deliverance on PS4 and Xbox One can transfer their previous save games (playlines) seamlessly to PS5 and Xbox Series respectively.
- Deep Silver Account integration
- Signing up to Deep Silver Account will grant players a horse caparison. The item will be added to the player stash once the prologue has been completed.Activity cards for PS5
Localization
- Added Czech voice over
- Added Japanese voice over
- Added & improved Turkish language (interface & subtitles)
- Added Ukrainian language (interface & subtitles)
- Added Portuguese (Brazil) language (interface & subtitles)
- Improved localization of Achievements/Trophies
- Fixed & updated terminology
- Fixed several additional localization issues in all languages
Legacy
Stability
- Fixed infinite loading screen when sleeping on a specific bench during the Run! Quest
- Fixed infinite loading screen after the Trebuchet cinematic during the Siege quest
- Developers’ note:
- The infinite loading during the Siege quest that would permanently brick save games could very rarely occur when doing the “From the Ashes” DLC questline beforehand. During the Trebuchet cinematic, the game would wait for Sir Divish to finish scheduled behaviour from that DLC, but would never finalize because it was no longer a valid behaviour.
- Fixed very rare deadlock in the physics synchronization
- Fixed multiple crashes during Baptism of Fire
- Fixed multiple crashes related to the vegetation system
- Fixed multiple crashes related to invalid models or areas
- Fixed multiple race condition crashes
- Fixed multiple crashes in the texture garbage collector
- Fixed multiple memory leaks throughout the game
- Fixed issue where dogs could fail to find valid paths in the world and cause a massive performance decrease
Gameplay
- Fixed issue where the achievements “Casanova” and “Full house sinner” would not unlock under certain conditions
- Fixed issue where controls were blocked when playing dice with Stephan
UI
- Fixed multiple instances where text or icons would overlap in some languages
- Fixed multiple instances of placeholder/missing text and icons
- Fixed multiple instances where strings would be truncated
- Fixed issue where the incorrect subtitles would display in the final cinematic
- Fixed issue where font could break when switching between Japanese and other languages, causing missing or square symbols to appear
- Fixed issue where the settings menu would momentarily appear when switching between Japanese and other languages
- Fixed issue where compass markers would not display after changing language in-game
- Fixed issue where the map cursor would not scale with in-game resolution
Other
- Fixed issue where the “Quilted Vest” made Henry’s arms transparent
- Released
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February 13, 2018
- ESRB
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M For Mature 17+ due to Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Nudity, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Use of Alcohol
- Developer(s)
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Warhorse Studios
