The clue surfaced in a European form, not a trailer
The best leaks do not always come from a secret folder. Sometimes a lawyer simply files the paperwork before marketing has a trailer ready. Warhorse Studios has just learned that lesson.
On 23 July, the studio applied to the European Union Intellectual Property Office to protect the name Kingdom Come Salvation. Gematsu found the filing, complete with a logo using the familiar Kingdom Come: Deliverance lettering. Its categories cover video games, software and entertainment services.
Warhorse has not announced a game called Salvation. The trademark may belong to its next entry, an expansion or a smaller project, and names can change before release. Still, the filing is real and the connection to Kingdom Come is hardly subtle.
Warhorse had already confirmed another Kingdom Come adventure
The filing matters because of what happened in May. Warhorse confirmed two projects: an open-world Middle-earth RPG and “a new Kingdom Come adventure”. It avoided the words Deliverance III, said nothing about Henry of Skalitz and promised more when the time was right.
That wording may simply be cautious. Salvation nevertheless fits a series preparing to move beyond Henry's story. Both Deliverance games follow him from the destruction of Skalitz to a fairly complete ending. Keeping Kingdom Come while changing the subtitle would let Warhorse introduce another lead, conflict or historical period without discarding a valuable name.
Fans are already looking towards the Hussite Wars, which follow the events of Deliverance II and suit Warhorse's appetite for religion, politics and mud. It is a compelling theory. The trademark says nothing about time period, plot or characters.
The multiplayer theory comes from a far less exciting sentence
The application also protects services for connecting users with computer games. That line has produced speculation about co-op or multiplayer. You can already picture four peasants attempting the same lock while the guards decide whom to hit first.
Slow down. Trademark applications use broad descriptions to cover accounts, communities, online services and commercial uses that may never reach the final product. The wording does not confirm co-op, and no outlet has produced independent information that does. The name is evidence. Multiplayer remains an interpretation.
Warhorse built Kingdom Come around a slow, consequence-heavy single-player experience. It can change that formula, of course. Turning legal boilerplate into an announced feature would still ask far too much of one form.
Salvation points towards 2027, but almost everything is still missing
Embracer CEO Phil Rogers has called the project a game and said the company hopes fans can play it during the next financial year. That makes 2027 plausible; it does not give us a date. Platforms, protagonist, setting and scale remain unconfirmed.
My bet is that Salvation is not a conventional expansion. Warhorse described a new adventure and protected a standalone logo rather than a small Deliverance II suffix. I also suspect Henry will appear somewhere. After two games in his company, removing him entirely may be stranger than keeping him in the lead.
For now, the filing gives a name to an empty box in our 2026 release calendar and upcoming projects hub. You can follow the studio itself through our games industry and creators coverage.
Salvation may be the future of Kingdom Come. Today, it remains handsome lettering on a European document.
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