Daniel Vávra (born 2 September 1975) is a Czech video game writer, director, designer and co-founder of Warhorse Studios.

Vávra started his career in 1998 at Illusion Softworks, initially working as a graphic artist for Hidden & Dangerous, he went on to become the lead writer of Mafia.

[8] He studied at the School of Applied Arts in Turnov and started his career as a graphic designer at advertising company TIPA.

[11] His next project was the highly acclaimed Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven,[12] for which he was the lead designer, screenwriter and director.

[17] Vavra has since gone on to state his concerns that major publishers, and the way they are structured, mainly the collective decision making, causes great damage to the gaming industry.

[22] In 2011, Vávra co-founded Warhorse Studios, and wrote Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a role-playing video game that uses Cry Engine 3 set in a medieval-themed open world environment.

[24] Warhorse Studios was sold to Koch Media (renamed Plaion in 2022) in 2019 for €33.2m, with Vávra remaining as its creative director.