Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition

The recent version seems stable and does not have as much bugs as previous ones, but the entire concept of the game is very confusing. It's engine, mechanics, graphics are very good, but the game is just the mess. One one hand it encourages exploring new locations but on the other hand every main quest has a time limit, so you are not able to neither explore nor handle kingdom management properly. What is the point in putting kingdom management tasks (that eat up in-game time) and locations to explore (exploring eats up in-game time) when you basically can't do them and focus on the main plot line instead? Also one of the main quests "finding Armag's tomb" is so messed up (and almost impossible to fulfill - reminds me of 90's Sierra adventure games) that developers made an official statement to tell everyone it's not a bug, but a feature (just look it up). I enjoyed Baldur's Gate, Pillars of Eternity series etc and this is the only one CRPG I don't really like.

Amazing game, maybe it wasn't a year ago with bugs, I don't know I just got it recently, and it's a pretty fascinating work of art. Well done, 5 stars, must buy for rpg fans.

This game is essentially a mediocre Pillars of Eternity or Tyranny; it's not super-bad, but there are too many issues to call it good. There are a bunch of UI issues which make the game frustrating. Why are spells grouped by level? I am forever looking for my spells because I can't remember if it's a 3rd or 4th level one. And why are those icons so darn tiny? The way the whole "autopause" works is annoying (Baldur's Gate already perfected this), the damage indicators are so noisy it's hard to see which character is being effective, the pathfinding is horrible and can make you lose battles as characters walk in weird directions, loading areas and/or saving a game takes too long and happens too frequently to not be disruptive, especially when you're doing all those silly quests, etc. etc. The story is so-so; it's pretty standard and fairly bland. Too many quests remind me of World of Warcraft: "fetch this, bring it to that, etc". There's this "kingdom management" thing which is mostly just boring clicking through an awkward UI. This random guy comes to your throne room but doesn't want to tell what about, so you travel to his village and he says he wants to get an emerald necklace to woo some lady. Why do I need to travel all this way, couldn't he tell me in the throne room? Now I need to travel to the town, then to another town to get the necklace, travel back, and have 1 or 2 random encounters in the travelling. All in all a lot of boring legwork interspersed with many 20-second load/save cycles. Also, get your own damn necklace, why ask your Baron? There is a lack of humour as well; it all takes itself as Very Serious Business™ which only adds to the blandness. I don't care so much about the ruleset mechanics as such, but in general I found it all pretty confusing (again, UI issues) especially at the start. It's not a very hard game though; and didn't struggle too much (normal difficulty). All in all: "it's okay, I guess, if you like cRPGs".

After 15h or so, i quit. The prologue is nice, keeps one entertained, but once you are the Baron, it gets boring real quick. While you have to explore the land, you also have to maintain your kingdom at the same time. Wouldn´t be such a problem, if you could open the kingdom managment screen when you are NOT near your town. Because if you ignore some things for too long, you may get problems real fast. Thankfully you can set the managment to "Auto"......But exploring also gets annoying somehow. You move a few miles, your party gets tired, you have to set up camp. And again, and again, and again. And then there are the quest directions / descriptions. Where i gave up on this game a few minutes ago, as i write, was a quest where i had to find a whip for a scientist. Description says "the whip has been outfitted with a beacon, to find it more easily". But on the world map, i don´t see anything about the location of the item. Get Pillars of Eternity or Drakensang instead, way more fun.

I have read better stories on the walls of subway bathrooms.