Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition

Christ where to begin... I like to play rpg so that i do everything I can with all quests all locations etc, but this game make me not develop my characters and their gear but just rush ahead to main story quests so that my Kingdom is not dead because of some shitty event. But lets spread it a little: 1. This game has a TON of time restrictions for doing quests. I get it 1-2 restriction is ok but EVERY main quest got those? Why on what darn reason?! Only thing it does is making you abandon exploring because you need to be either doin main quest or being near your main city so you can assign ppl so you dont game over... 2. The story of this game sheesh it began interesting, with fay and political intrigue but 2 steps later Look here is main bad guy everything that happens is his fault go kill him >.> 3. Some quests and COMPANIONS are miss-able and not because you decide you dont want them, the game doesn't tell you bout possibility and if you do some stuff you can be easily hard locked from 1-2 companions. 3. Alchemists are ridiculously OP especially enemy alchemists with their infinite bombs. 4. The difficulty levels are atleast dumb, I'm not some glorious strategist so i normally play on normal but settings there easily allow your characters to be oneshot because of one crit. Secondly for a game where there is timer for every quest, making all encounters so that you need to rest after fight to heal/restock spells is ridiculous. 5. Some positives game has awesome effects and generally is really pretty. 6. Do NOT try to manage your kingdom on your own or you will be swarmed with stupid problems that take month to solve and stack onto each other. IF someone wants to play this game ahead of time go to nexus and get mods for it otherwise you will be hurt. OHHH almost forgot this game has bugs FROM 2018 in 2020 that devs said they will fix but didn't(dont believe? check steam forums >.>)

A faithful translation of Pathfinder DnD mechanics with interesting story and well-written companions. A few major gripes that prevent me from giving it a higher score. It suffers from a common problem in DnD CRPGs, in that early game (levels 1-4) combat is EXCRUCIATING, due to the sheer volume of combat your characters are expected to engage in and the lack of resources at your disposal. Unless you've min-maxxed your character you'll have low AC, HP and BAB meaning you'll get hit a lot, killed a lot and have trouble hitting anything back. Also at low levels you can put as many points as you can into a skill and max out its associated stat and you'll still fail a check because "dice says no". Get used to F5ing and F8ing a lot. Once you hit level 5 and onwards, you've got some toys to play with and can actually make a mistake without it ending your career and reliably pass a few skill checks. The game starts to open up and becomes actually fun when you can give poor F5 and F8 some well-deserved rest. The other major problem is the poor optimization that results in noticable FPS drops even on high-end hardware, particularly when the game tries to render fire animations for some reason, or when there are a lot of corpses on-screen, or sometimes just randomly for the hell of it. The game looks nice, but not "that" nice.

It's a big game, but I found myself sitting around wondering "okay, do you really expect me to grind for another 30+ hours just to advance the plot? It turned out, the answer was yes. The game feels like a foundation with plot thrown in for flavor, but it didn't feel sufficiently connected to bring me from one thing to the next. Also, several critical events I skipped the first time through because ... I didn't go to a particular location at the right time when there was nothing to tell me to go there, no journal entry, no quest marker. Ended up being rather annoying. Also, is it really too much to ask that on the world map I have something between "no names, no quest markers" and "all the names and your quest markers that you can barely find because the names are in the way"?

This is the most fun I have had playing a game of this genre. And I don't normally like this genre. I loved the characters, the story and presentation. I even like being the Baron / Barroness. This is a labour of love done right in my opinion. You can almost hear the dice rolls in the back. Many seem to dislike it for various reasons. I am assuming most issues have been fixed over the years. But one constant complaint is the difficulty. While I would agree (normal is too hard for me), in my opinion there is NO shame in reducing the myriad of difficulty setting to suit your ability. My only serious complaint is that it seems to require a lot of GPU (graphic card) rersources. My GPU runs hot playing this. A minor issue is that you cannot save during battle. Some battles can run long if you are controling it and not letting the AI go at it. As many games of this type you cannot rotate the field of view. Common guys, it is past the 2020's :)

The save files balloon up to ridiculous sizes, eating up disk space, and slowing the game to a crawl. I've never finished this game because halfway through due to the size of the save files, the game slows down to a crawl. Don't get this game, especially if you don't have loads and loads of free disk space.