By Ameer Ammar
Mysteria Ecclesiae is KCD2's final hurrah as its last DLC, and I am glad to say it is excellent.
This is a 6-8 hour long journey that is radically different from the rest of Kingdom Come 2, taking place entirely in Sedletz Monastery. Henry finds himself escoring a friend to the monastery and quickly gets tied up in a conspiracy involving a deadly plague, you are locked into this monastery for a bulk of this expansion so be sure to be prepared to focus only on this DLC for its entire runtime.
Mysteria Ecclesiae feels like Warhorse is taking another stab at the first game's "A Needle In A Haystack" quest, which also took place entirely in a monastery and involved a ton of detective work, while I personally always found that quest a bit tedious, Mysteria Ecclesiae has clearly taken all the lessons learned from that quest and has crafted a tale that is genuinely thrilling to experience.
There's a heavy focus on dialogue and stealth gameplay here, with combat being very rare. At a point, I ended up realizing that I hadn't done combat for so long that I almost forgot the controls. As with the rest of KCD2, the dialogue and writing is utterly fantastic. unravelling this mystery and who is behind it all slowly, piecing together clues and sneaking around the monastery never got boring, and its ultimate conclusion was one that I found thrilling.
There's a couple of smaller side quests here but for the most part, this is a very focused DLC on a singular questline. It's different from DLC 2 Legacy of the Forge which focused on adding a ton of new side content to the Kuttenberg region, heavily expanding the endgame of KCD2. Personally, that's still my favorite DLC of the three, but Mysteria Ecclesiae is a close second.
My one disappointment is that for KCD2's final DLC, it doesn't feel like its an "end" in any sense, Henry doesn't get a big final moment, and it doesn't tie into the main story's ending as well. I really wish Henry was given some form of send-off considering we probably won't see a KCD3 for another 5 years.
FINAL VERDICT
Overall, this DLC stands strongly as one of the best questlines that Warhorse has crafted. I highly recommend it if you want a thrilling mystery with a heavy focus on dialogue and stealth gameplay, which you probably already love if you're a fellow fan of KCD2 like me.
Mysteria Ecclesiae - 9/10 - BUY