Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 – The Final Countdown
2025
Insufficient evidence
We did not find enough credible, independent evidence to publish a numeric cash-grab score. Unrated is more honest than a guess.
What counts as a cash grab?
Commercial extraction prioritized over meaningful consumer or creative value. Profit, popularity, adaptations, sequels, remakes, high budgets, and normal marketing do not count by themselves.
Why?
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - The Final Countdown is a two hour behind the scenes documentary released around June 17, 2025 that follows Warhorse Studios in the final 24 hours before KCD2 launched. Multiple outlets and the film's publisher show it premiered at a festival screening and was published as a web documentary with a public YouTube upload and press coverage. I found no credible sources that the film was sold as paid DLC, locked behind a paywall, or used as a direct purchase upsell for the game.
- Documentary published as a full-length film and promoted by publishers, indicating substantive original footage and interviews.
- Festival screening and press coverage show formal production and distribution beyond a short marketing clip.
- A full upload is available on YouTube and multiple outlets reported the free premiere, no paywall or paid-bundle disclosures found.
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Score factors
| Direction | Factor | Evidence | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against | Public free release | The documentary is published in full on a public YouTube upload and promoted by publisher outlets for streaming.[5][6] | -12 |
| Against | Festival screening and press coverage | Coverage reports and local press note a premiere/screening around Karlovy Vary and festival visibility for the documentary.[3][4] | -14 |
| Against | Substantive original content | Reports and listings describe the film as a two hour documentary chronicling the final 24 hours before release plus the studio history, indicating substantial original material.[2][1] | -15 |
Confidence: Low · No source-backed commercial-extraction signal was found. · Researched 2026-08-14
Sources reviewed
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- [2]www.gry-online.pl
- [3]www.praguereporter.com
- [4]www.gamepro.de
- [5]www.youtube.com
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- [7]www.reddit.com
- [8]www.youtube.com
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- [14]se7en.ws
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- [19]www.reddit.com
- [20]adventistdiscoverycentre.org
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- [22]hypothesis.readthedocs.io
- [23]rpgwatch.com
- [24]de.scribd.com