Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition

This RPG has it all: A mesmerizing story, an excellent combat-system, good music, very good translations, nice voice-acting, a vast world to explore, a kingdom to manage, beautiful graphics, enticing characters, tons of side-quests, a good sense of humour and all the oddities you would expect from a fantasy game: Undead cyclopses? Check! Mutating monsters? Check! Crazy nymphs? Check! Interdimensional portals? Check! Prestige-classes? Check! A variety of both dangerous and fun side-quests? Check! NPCs with an agenda of their own? Check! The list goes on almost endlessly. So don't be fooled by all the negative reviews. "Pathfinder: Kingmaker" is easily the best RPG to see the light of day in recent years. It will keep you on your toes constantly and will do so for weeks on end, even if you are a seasoned player. Bugs are very rare to say the least and it runs very stable: Throughout the whole game, the only problems I encountered were some very minor typos in the german version I played. And the game features countless pages of well written story and dialogue. I regret having not played this game earlier. I certainly would have done so if it had not been for all the complaints and problems I read about. Be assured: As far as I can tell, its casual players complaining about the game being too hard. So let me put it like this: The game is not bad. You just can't fight.

Just can't enjoy this game. Its a bad roleplay experience end even worst computer game. I Gave it 35h and i really wanted to like it because i love the pnp but this is just not good enough.

There's a lot to like here, and the 12 hours I've been in game so far have been mostly fun, but also frustrating. I don't think games should handhold, but oh boy, this game really needs to be better at explaining the mechanics at work. If you're doing 0 damage because it is getting reduced for example, the game does not tell you why. I was convinced an enemy was immortal, until I by chance threw a fireball at it, and that was apparently its weakness. The Kingdom aspect is interesting, with opportunities and problems being brought before you as a ruler, though I hope I will get to see more of the consequences of my decisions. Right now the consequences are mostly just numbers on a screen going up and down, without really feeling like it has any effect on the gameworld. Aside from some very long loading times, the game runs and looks great for what it is. I've had no crashes at all, and haven't really run into any gamebreaking bugs. I'd love to finish this game, but right now I've run into a puzzle that is excruciatingly long, especially because it involves running around a large dungeon flipping switches, and there is no fast mode in the game. This game is S L O W - painfully so. Sometimes running around an area exploring actually feels boring because its just soooooo sloooooooow. I hope someone discovers a teleport cheat code, because I'm about to just give up on this thing.

I enjoyed this game. I enjoy the maps, I enjoy the chardev, the combat isn’t bad for RTwP but is still sophomoric and not very challenging. I’ve played many buggy rpgs on release and either I was lucky and they didn’t impact me or this game gives new meaning to buggy as the bugs just ruined every playthrough. I tried a bunch of times, and got to the city in the lower west side of the map (last area to explore) but every times the bugs got me and ruined it. I remember people having hissy fits for games like ToEE, Bloodlines, and PoR:RoMD and all the bugs and thinking they were all crazy, but now I get it. This game set a new gold standard on buggy game. So, so, so, so buggy. Buggy, but still good. I’d be happier about it if the dev’s weren’t authoritarian tyrants that literally banned everyone I know from Steam for asking questions. No, not political questions. Regular questions. I can’t abide that, but I’m not missing out on my kind of rpg for it. If ISIS came out with ToEE 2 I’d buy it too. But, its important for me to mention the dev’s authoritarian ways for people with a stronger moral compass than I have, or more loyalty to ethics than good rpgs. Is this game worth buying? For rpg fans an unequivocal yes. But – I would hold off until it is confirmed to be bug free, or at least has a tolerable amount of bugs, maybe all the dlc. If you are a better man than I and don’t want to support authoritarian devs that ban people for asking simple mechanical questions, but still love rpgs, you will miss out on a good one. The one start is for all the bugs. I’ll play it again after all the DLC and change my rating then. Probably to three stars. They lose one for having shitty, easy, RTwP combat and really unoptimized recruitable party members instead of a sane system where you can have more control of all characters/builds. They lose another start for being authoritarian goons.

I was initially very excited about this game. I soon found out it has a lot of bugs, the tutorial isnt very good for explaining a lot of things. Graphics could have been better maybe even another graphics engine. No complaints about the sound though. I really wanted to like this game and I gave it a chance and played on. If you are a hardcore exclusive pathfinder pen and paper player you will probably like this. Also, even though there is an option to have the AI take over the other characters or to control some or all at once it still just didn't feel as user friendly as one might expect. The creators had a lot of good idea's and concepts, but things just didn't flow together well. I have played quite a bit of rpg games in the past and even pen and paper of other similar systems yrs ago, but I just couldnt get into this game no matter how hard I tried. I really wished I would have bought another game instead of this one for myself last Christmas lol. Hope you guys enjoy the game more than I did.