This content requires the base game Kingdom Come: Deliverance on Steam in order to play.

## About This Content
Book of illustrations and concept art from the game Kingdom Come: Deliverance,
which, just like the game, is a little out of the ordinary. While in the case
of fantasy and scifi games the illustrator can let his imagination run wild,
limited only by what can subsequently be transformed into models in the 3D
engine, the approach in Kingdom Come was quite different.

Our game takes place in a historical setting – it aims to be as authentic as
possible and to depict the Middle Ages as they really looked, and not like we
see in cliched, often very misleading images on the silver screen. What’s
more, the story takes place in a quite specific place and time and features
real historical figures. We wanted to create a world in which you could
finally see how things really looked then, how people lived and dressed and
what the landscape we know intimately looked like at a time when people used
it quite differently than they do today. So, the illustrations for Kingdom
Come were also created differently. There was still a need for imagination,
but it was supported by historical research, consultation with experts and
examination of archives.

So apart from creating attractive images of the hero of the game in action
poses, our illustrators also had to learn about drawing old maps, book
illumination, altar panels and frescoes. They created detailed diagrams of
medieval mining works and equipment and projected into the concept landscapes
depicting real places their acquired knowledge of medieval farming and land
use.

The art you will see here is only a fragment of the thousands of
illustrations, sketches, maps and concepts that had to be created for the game
– enough to fill several such books. Almost everything you see in the game
first had to be studied diligently by someone before being painted. And we
believe the artists did a first-class job.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance – Art Book