The 2,500 Tons of Silver Behind a 6 Million Copy Game

Kingdom Come: Deliverance's real history is a fight over silver, kings and a 26km road from Prague. The film traces Charles IV's death in 1378 to his son Wenceslaus IV's capture by Sigismund in 1402, and why Kutná Hora's mines — a third of Europe's silver — made Silver Skalitz a target on March 23, 1403. It follows how Warhorse Studios and Daniel Vavra rebuilt 16 square kilometers of 1403 Bohemia on Kickstarter with 35,384 backers and sold six million copies. From Prague Groschen to Perkstein Castle, it shows what the game got right, what it invented, and what history still can't prove.