Kingdom Come: Deliverance multiplayer sequel teased, but don't get your hopes up just yet

A new update on the Kingdom Come franchise hints at a multiplayer sequel in the works, but we wouldn’t get your hopes up just yet.

The future of the series was confirmed earlier this year when Warhorse Studios announced “a new Kingdom Come adventure” in the same breath that it teased it was working on an open world RPG set in Tolkien’s Middle-earth.

Adding on to this, last month it was revealed that a trademark for “Kingdom Come: Salvation” had been filed, seemingly hinting at the title for the upcoming adventure.

However, nothing was confirmed on whether this is a sequel, a spin-off, or something else entirely but still set in the Kingdom Come universe.

Now, additional trademark filings related to Kingdom Come: Salvation have been reported (via Phrasemaker), with our first major hint about the next plans Warhorse has for the RPG series.

These new filings contain language related to online services, implying that a future Kingdom Come game could have such features like multiplayer or some form of online connectivity.

Looking at the filings, two major sentences stick out: “Providing online computer games featuring virtual environments in which users can interact for entertainment purposes” and “Providing online computer games featuring virtual worlds in which users can interact for entertainment purposes.”

Most importantly, these filings also put Kingdom Come: Salvation under IC 041, which is a classification that the World Intellectual Property Organization uses to cover “services having the basic aim of the entertainment, amusement, or recreation of people”, which includes online gaming.

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PC Gamer reports that this may not necessarily be the case. Speaking to video game IP attorney Kirk Sigmon, the publication reports that these filings are “far from a promise that the next Kingdom Come video game will feature multiplayer.”

Sigmon says that “as part of our usual cautiousness, IP attorneys generally try to make sure that we file trademarks in enough classes to cover a broad spectrum of how the mark might be used by the company, as well as in view of the fact that certain terms can be read broadly. In turn, you can find plenty of examples of non-multiplayer games registered in IC 041.”

PC Gamer points out that a similar filing was made for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 last year, despite the fact that the game had no online multiplayer. Instead, these filings are used to cover as much ground as possible for IP holders, in case they decide to implement these services at a later date.

Sigmon continues to explain that “one of the biggest reasons IP attorneys might register a singleplayer game that way (e.g., referencing a game being 'online') is that the term 'online video game' could be interpreted pretty broadly.

“For example, I might need to argue sometime in the future that distribution of a game via Steam and/or a game with downloadable DLC is, in some sense, 'online’. Also, you never know if a game might go fully multiplayer in the future, so it helps to have that breadth.”

I guess for now the future remains unclear whether Kingdom Come: Salvation will feature online multiplayer or not, but all signs point to this probably not being the case. Still, we can’t help but fantasise what an MMO or Chivalry-esque multiplayer interpretation of the games would look like.