Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition

I played for 70 hours and was enjoying the game, and then was stuck in an inescapable game over situation. I didn't have saves far enough back to be able to fix the problem in time, so now I either have to start over or just leave the game unfinished. I don't think it's worth playing again, so I guess I'll just stop, which makes me feel ripped off. There is no warning that the mysterious magical event that you're told about is any worse than the myriad other challenges you face, which may have negative effects if not dealt with in time but don't cause you to immediately lose the game. I had no idea that this particular event deadline was so much more serious than other events - there's honestly no way to tell without reading a walkthrough online. Sure, I guess I should have kept a save file for each chapter and never deleted any of them so that I could go back 20 hours of play rather than starting over, but that seemed wasteful, and no modern, well-designed game would put players in a situation where they just have to throw the game away or start completely over, right? (And, frankly, even being put in a situation where I have to scrap 10 or 20 hours to go back and fix something like this would be immensely frustrating.) The game did not clearly communicate the stakes, so I didn't get to make an informed choice, resulting in a disappointing experience overall. Prior to that, I had been an interesting translation of the Pathfinder tabletop RPG to a new medium, and the writing was OK.

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 First of all, most of criticisms concerning bugs, performance and QoL are no longer valid, because after 2 years of updates it's is more or less playable.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...