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Joshua Wolens

Kingdom Come 2 and Avowed have revealed to me the grand unified theory of game design: A good game is when you can steal back the money you just spent at a shop, a bad game is when you can't

Dry Devil holds a torch and grins.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is great. So great that I slapped a 90% score on it in our Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 review. But frankly, I wasted a lot of your time in that piece, nattering on about narrative and mechanics and whatever when I could have just presented you with my grand unified theory of videogame design and left it there: A good game is when you can steal back all the money you just spent at a shop, a bad game is when you can't.

QED, KCD2 is a good game. A great game, even. I spent approximately 40 hours in it exhaustively scamming every merchant on the map, turning myself into a literal renaissance man by paying skill-trainers for their time with the same 500 groschen over and over and over again.

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