Kingdom Come Deliverance on Switch - The Most Ambitious Switch Port Yet? - DF Tech Review

Update 16/03/24: The sharpened image mentioned at 05:39 relates to an intended in-game effect. Drinking in the game causes an oversharpened image while the 'drunk' status icon appears - an oversight on our part. Apologies for any confusion!

Another 'impossible port' arrives on Switch, once again engineered by the tech wizards at Saber Interactive. This time, CryEngine 3 gets another run-around on Switch with Kingdom Come Deliverance - a game that struggled with performance even on PS4 and Xbox One systems back in 2018. Six years on, the Switch edition arrives with a surprising number of visual features in tact - while frame-rates are very much what we'd call 'dynamic'.

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00:00 Overview
03:09 Loading Time Tests
04:21 Switch vs Xbox One Graphics Comparisons
09:08 Switch Frame-Rate Tests
12:57 Conclusion