Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition

I give it 5 stars because it's an experience worth having, despite the amount of bullshit one has to wade through. The game is long and fun all the way through. First of all, most of criticisms concerning bugs, performance and QoL are no longer valid, because after 2 years of updates it's is more or less playable. Still chock full of glitches, but after over 100 hours never experienced something game-breaking, requiring me to revert to an earlier save. Mechanics-wise it's great. As a person who treats combat in RPGs like a distraction at best, I had great fun learning the system throughout the playthrough. Unlike most other RPGs it remains challenging the whole time, maybe except for the final dungeon. Kingdom management seems like a port of some failed shitty mobile game. The only thing missing is the ability to buy Building Points™ for real money. Writing is all over the place. Sometimes the dialogue is decent, and sometimes cringeworthy. Sometimes you a have great way to roleplay, and sometimes you're softlocked into making certain story decisions at the threat of huge gameplay disadvantages. The story starts as the most banal "obviously good vs obviously evil" type, but then it throws convention defying curveballs at you, where the many RPG cliches are treated with real life logic. Accepting a quest from a wrong person can have disastrous results, with the choice to at best mitigate the damage you've done, and sometimes the evil motivated choice is the best one long term. Then again the game comes back to the banality, especially at the endings. It's got the "choices having consequences throughout the playthrough" part really good. The alignment system intrinsically sucks. The companions are mildly amusing at best (Nok-nok) and infuriatingly annoying at worst (Amiri), and most of them are at the worse side. Luckily, you've the option to hire custom made mercenaries and exile (sadly not kill) most of the story comps.

I have enjoyed playing CRPG since I was young. I wanted to play PF game for a long time. But I didn't solve the problem that didn't work. When the PLAY button was pressed on GOG Galaxy, the game did not run without any change. The last time I tried was when I got it free of charge from EPICGAMES. Funny how it didn't work out the same way. I searched on the Internet, but I couldn't find a clear solution. Even now I don't know which is the solution. Fortunately, however, I enjoy PF without any problems now. It took a long time. I've never even seen a loading screen of this game. Who knew? I'm so happy just by looking at the loading screen. You all know that this game is great. I'm leaving this comment because of the joy of this game being played.

During the first 100 hours, I was able to forgive the glitches, lack of tutorials, memory leaks, slow saving, boring kingdom management and annoying time limits, as the quests and fights are great! Chapters 1 and 2 were great; Chapter 3 was terrible; and then Chapters 4 and 5 were good again. But that final chapter... The final chapter, which took about 8 hours, was so bugged and so terrible that it ruined the entire game for me. I will probably never play the DLC or try an evil playthrough. Goodbye, Kingmaker.

All in all a good game, but still broken. After a patch, a new gamebreaker... At the moment, even after the new patch today, i cant leave my City anymore... Wait for the buy after the game is unbroken. When that happens, you will get a really really good game. But not now, you will curse it, because you cannot end it... sight...

Poor balancing, hidden dice rolls, stupid mechanics and poor design making spiders the worst enemies. Low leveling and few items makes the first few random encounters impossible to deal with. A pure frustrating game with a scalable difficulty that doens't play well witht eh D20 rulesset. A slow camera, slow paced and none rotatablke map with plenty of trees and elements that blocks your view constantly. It is like there is a good game burried beneath everything, but right now - it's just a pain to play it. To be able to play it and manage a decent run, you have to be a min-max player and also, have a bit of knowledge of what happens to truly prepare for even the first few fights.