{"id":1555229,"date":"2026-04-17T13:37:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e2Ndx8YF53vYhtS4ndkrz9"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:37:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:37:41","slug":"kingdom-come-2-director-welcomes-lgbt-award-nomination-then-spends-around-175-words-explaining-that-it-doesnt-make-him-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/kingdom-come-2-director-welcomes-lgbt-award-nomination-then-spends-around-175-words-explaining-that-it-doesnt-make-him-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingdom Come 2 director welcomes LGBT award nomination, then spends around 175 words explaining that it doesn&#8217;t make him &#8216;Woke&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/uk\/kingdom-come-deliverance-2\/\">Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2<\/a> was our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/kingdom-come-deliverance-2-is-pc-gamers-goty-because-it-trusts-players-and-takes-them-seriously-says-warhorse-co-founder-i-think-you-can-only-eat-so-much-popcorn\/\">game of the year for 2025<\/a>, and I personally hailed it as a &#8220;New RPG classic&#8221; in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/kingdom-come-deliverance-2-review\/\">KCD2 review<\/a>. Why? Because you can kiss Hans. There&#8217;s some stuff about emergent, systemic gameplay; an uncompromising design vision; and a well-told, politically complex story in a setting no one else is working in, but make no mistake: I&#8217;m just here to hold Hans&#8217; hans. Hand. Hands.<\/p>\n<p>I kid (mostly), but the development of Henry and Hans&#8217; romantic relationship\u2014if you choose to pursue it\u2014and the pair attempting to interpret their feelings for one another through contemporary chivalric traditions, was really well done. It&#8217;s a big jewel in the game&#8217;s crown.<\/p>\n<p>It was so well done, in fact, that KCD2 has nabbed two nominations for <a href=\"https:\/\/gaymingawards.com\/nominees\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gayming Magazine&#8217;s 2026 Gayming Awards<\/a>: KCD2 itself is in the running for &#8220;Gayming fan favorite award,&#8221; while Hans is up for the &#8220;Best LGBTQ+ Character Award.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>KCD2&#8217;s creative director Daniel V\u00e1vra\u2014who has since departed that role to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/kingdom-come-deliverances-fractious-creative-director-daniel-vavra-wont-lead-warhorses-next-game-its-not-a-breakup-hes-just-making-the-kingdom-come-film\/\">focus on a Kingdom Come movie<\/a>\u2014welcomed the nomination on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DanielVavra\/status\/2044903490170880105\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a>, writing that he was &#8220;really proud&#8221; of the Hans\/Henry relationship. And then, well, he wrote a whole bunch of other stuff, like a long-winded and less amusing riff on the famous Hideo Kojima &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN\/status\/367894294322872320\" target=\"_blank\">not a gay<\/a>&#8221; tweet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I absolutely stand by the fact that the way we did it is exactly how something like this should be done,&#8221; said V\u00e1vra &#8220;Non-coercively, naturally, and educationally (because we show how things really were in the Middle Ages without idealizing them).&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1921px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.22%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"4jJMK7agSJsVKZCs7pUhuH\" name=\"NE6BprQNmXZkN3w7L842ra-1200-80\" alt=\"Hans with his hands in the air\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kingdom-come-2-director-welcomes-lgbt-award-nomination-then-spends-around-175-words-explaining-that-it-doesnt-make-him-woke.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1921\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><a href='https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kingdom-come-2-director-welcomes-lgbt-award-nomination-then-spends-around-175-words-explaining-that-it-doesnt-make-him-woke.jpg' target='_blank' class='expand-button icon-expand-image icon' ><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Warhorse Studios)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You can probably see where this is heading. V\u00e1vra wrote that KCD2 did gay romance right where so many others, apparently, do it wrong: &#8220;without shoving it down anyone\u2019s throat or trying to re-educate them like so many titles that are rightfully called &#8216;woke&#8217; these days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We made the gay community happy and gave them the CHOICE to be themselves, just like we did for others in other choices and quests, and anyone who isn\u2019t interested probably didn\u2019t even notice.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>By way of conclusion, V\u00e1vra would like you to know that\u2014though the inclusion of gay romances in KCD2 &#8220;was my idea, my decision and my responsibility and I had to convince others to do it&#8221;\u2014it does not mean that he doesn&#8217;t &#8220;find the abundance of forced &#8216;woke&#8217; nonsense in the entertainment industry annoying at the same time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>V\u00e1vra is a peculiar figure. In the time of KCD1, his vocal support of the far-right Gamergate movement made him, and the game he directed, something of a saint of right-wing gamers, who perceived him and Warhorse as some sort of bulwark against a scourge of &#8220;woke&#8221; content they perceived to be laying waste to the games industry. <\/p>\n<p>As someone who plays a lot of RPGs, I don&#8217;t recall any of them forcing me to kiss anyone of the same gender or indeed, to be &#8220;woke,&#8221; for whatever definition of that word its opponents are using today. Perhaps I&#8217;m just playing the wrong ones.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"D9824Ncwd7kdhDZaQUPN8A\" name=\"henry\" alt=\"Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 image - Henry riding a pink and blue striped horse while holding a fish\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kingdom-come-2-director-welcomes-lgbt-award-nomination-then-spends-around-175-words-explaining-that-it-doesnt-make-him-woke-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><a href='https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kingdom-come-2-director-welcomes-lgbt-award-nomination-then-spends-around-175-words-explaining-that-it-doesnt-make-him-woke-1.jpg' target='_blank' class='expand-button icon-expand-image icon' ><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Warhorse Studios)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that this precise same contingent of rabidly conservative gamers promptly turned against V\u00e1vra and Warhorse the second they put a prominent person of colour\u2014and, of course, a gay relationship\u2014into KCD2, which suggests they were never really as concerned about this kind of content being done &#8220;the right way&#8221; as they were about it being present in any capacity whatsoever. For its part, the wider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/kingdom-come-deliverance-2s-developer-is-fed-up-of-being-dragged-into-the-culture-war-it-seems-like-someone-is-always-trying-to-brand-us-somehow-and-we-are-just-trying-to-make-a-cool-videogame\/\">Warhorse studio has said it&#8217;s &#8220;fed up&#8221;<\/a> with being dragged into culture wars.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;ve never gotten the impression V\u00e1vra has a particularly cogent or well-considered politics; rather he just seems like a very sensitive person who reacted badly to criticism of the first Kingdom Come and has kept up that tradition in the second game, too.<\/p>\n<p>But regardless of its director&#8217;s tweets, KCD2 is a very good and very well-written videogame, and I think it fully deserves the plaudits it earned for its depiction of Henry and Hans&#8217; romance, whether that makes it woke or not.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"3ad4551a-ddf3-4f95-99ec-68b8a738f81e\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kingdom-come-2-director-welcomes-lgbt-award-nomination-then-spends-around-175-words-explaining-that-it-doesnt-make-him-woke-2.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"3ad4551a-ddf3-4f95-99ec-68b8a738f81e\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/kingdom-come-2-director-welcomes-lgbt-award-nomination-then-spends-around-175-words-explaining-that-it-doesnt-make-it-woke\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 was our game of the year for 2025, and I personally hailed it as a &#8220;New RPG classic&#8221; in our KCD2 review. Why? Because you can kiss Hans. There&#8217;s some stuff about emergent, systemic gameplay; an uncompromising design vision; and a well-told, politically complex story in a setting no one else is working in, but make no mistake: I&#8217;m just here to hold Hans&#8217; hans. Hand. Hands. I kid (mostly), but the development of Henry and Hans&#8217; romantic relationship\u2014if you choose to pursue it\u2014and the pair attempting to interpret their feelings for one another through contemporary chivalric traditions, was really well done. It&#8217;s a big jewel in the game&#8217;s crown. 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