Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Imperial Edition Bundle

This game is the best RPG I have ever played (including BGII). The only down side (and reason why I don't give it 5 stars) is that the combat is not turn bsaed. Pathfinder is a very tactical tabletop RPG (the most I would say) with positioning and cover as capital features. In the real time combat of this game, this is not captured. Next game: Starfinder with tactical combat!

This game is bad is so bad that I lack English to explain why. But I'll try it: 1- Not balanced at all: There is no internal balance in CR at the game. You can get a random encounter that is over your level by a lot. 2- The combat is broken!: Abilities like damage reduction, displacement, and spell resistance are too strong for low levels creeps like CR2 or 3. ( In fact their CR should be a lot higher just for having these abilities, but who cares about years of D&D balance am I right?) 3- The GAME is broken: Tones of bugs make the game almost unplayable. Lots of patches weren't enough to fix the game. Some bugs can hard lock your memory into oblivion. 4- Bad mechanics: The set of rules are designed for turned based games (if you ever played D&D you understand that the creators never heard of the game per sè) if you do the right thing witch is playing in turns the combat will get clunky and bugged (the game wasn't designed for that) 5- I hate my kingdom: You get nothing from your kingdom besides headache and some obligations that will put you running everywhere just for not losing the game because of some disease or whatsoever. 6- Where is the XP?: There is no way to level correctly while your kingdom is being destructed by some Trolls or crazy mages. You'll be always severely under level. Like lvl 6 against CR 11 or 14 O.o (my RPG section would last an hour with that mentality, the chars would be all killed by a dog lol) 7- Hello learning curve: There is no learning curve the game is broken and hard and you'll have to make so weird builds to play it not friendly to casual players. 8- The good part is that GOG lets you reimburse the money after 30 days so if you bought it try it why not. But be smart and reimburse this game before even trying it too hard. Good points: Voice acting, good chars, and rich stories. TLDR I recommend Pillar of Eternity and waiting for Baldur's Gate 3.

After a buggy launch, the game is in great shape now (encountered no bugs, no crashes on both PC and Mac, runs great on M1 MBA). I liked it a lot, even the kingdom management was OK. Only the difficulty spikes and grinding at the end was annoying, you're forced to buff like crazy before every fight and there are so many fights against trashmobs that advancing takes ages. I switched to story mode just to get over with it and that kind of kills the motivation. Still very good, looking forward to the sequel.

So far, I've played 25 hours in the game. It's an alright RPG, even though there are common issues such as too many trash mobs, a fatigue system forcing you to rest too often, too many choices (literally dozens of weapon types to specialize into, so many attributes you need 2 hours the first time you level up) and the usual overabondance of useless loot... But it doesn't matter because, even though I tried almost everything (disabling GeForce Experience, borderless windowed mode...), the game crashes randomly (sometimes before I can even load a game, oftentimes 1 to 20 minutes into a game, sometimes after 1 hour). I play quite a lot of games but I've never played one that crashes so much. Perhaps Owlcat Games should focus on making a functioning game, 3 years after its launch.

I had such high hopes for Pathfinder: Kingmaker as a big RPG fan! The game play and graphics are all that I was expecting... Sadly... less than 7 hours into the game I ran into the fatal flaw in the game that I just learned has been a longstanding and unsolved problem for years with the title! There is a terrible loading lag that has proven insurmountable thus far, after being first reported as far back as 2018! My computer is a modern self built/scratch built, high-end i9 Core 3.6ghz w.32gb onboard Ram, and GeForce Lightning Graphics Card... so I am way overpowered for running this simple game, yet it has become totally unplayable with a startup/boot time of over 6 minutes when it first started in 25 seconds, and in-game load times for play & combat areas is anywhere from 5-10 minutes to transition when they were mere seconds in the early few hours of my playthrough! And there is accompanied sound jags & stuttering... In 5 years they haven't solved this issue according to all the forums I've visited! 5 YEARS! Do not waste your funds on this game... such high hopes to meet with such crushing disappointment when actually played...