CCRB RECORD No. 0076
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Determination: Implied — Corruption 2
The medieval Church is shown corrupt in the specific ways it historically was, inside a game that takes Christian faith seriously.
This record lowers an earlier determination of explicit. Kingdom Come: Deliverance does depict the real fifteenth-century Catholic Church, and it does not flatter it: Father Godwin lives openly with a concubine in breach of his vow of chastity, a visiting Vicar arrives to hunt Waldensian heretics and refuses to explain what the heresy is, and Godwin's own copy of Master Jan Hus's preaching — present from the start of the game — attacks a clergy drowning in wealth who charge for baptism and sell absolution to thieves and murderers. But the direction test is not met. Christianity is not the antagonist; Sigismund's invasion is. Prayer is a mechanic that benefits the player, penance restores reputation, Christian greetings are the ordinary speech of the world, and the game's own title is a line from the Lord's Prayer.