2.2 million words: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's script surpasses all of the "Song of Ice and Fire" books in length

That's about 25 average novels.

Daniel Vávra, co-founder and creative director of Warhorse Studios, announced on the social media platform X that the script for their upcoming game contains 2.2 million words. In comparison, the developers of Baldur's Gate 3 at Larian Studios noted on Steam that their game included "approximately 2 million words" at launch. This figure still holds the world record for the longest video game script.

“Yesterday, we counted with our lead designer Prokop Jirsa how much we actually wrote for KCD2,” said Vávra. “The total amount of the script is 2,200,000 words! That equates to 11,000 standard pages of script, or 100 scripts for a typical two-hour movie, or about 25 average novels.”

Yesterday, we were counting with our lead designer Prokop Jirsa, how much we actually wrote for KCD2. So guess how big the script is?

2,200,000 WORDS!
Or 11,000 typical screenwriting pages.
That's 100 scripts for a typical two-hour movie.
Or about 25 average novels. pic.twitter.com/nYIBfALSA7

— Daniel Vávra ⚔ (@DanielVavra) August 29, 2024

To put this scale into perspective, the script for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 surpasses the combined word count of all the books in George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. This popular saga, from "A Game of Thrones" to "A Dance with Dragons," contains a total of 1,736,054 words.

This ambitious project has affected the development timeline. Recently, Warhorse Studios announced the release date for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has been pushed from 2024 to February 11, 2025.

The first Kingdom Come: Deliverance was released in February 2018 on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. The first-person game immerses players in a meticulously recreated early 15th-century Bohemia, where they follow the adventures of Henry, the son of a blacksmith, as he seeks his place in medieval society.

Source: IGN