Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition

I'll go the other way around... I am enjoying this title very much (despite some bugs) and unless I get really upset, I'm sticking with 5 Stars. If you like Pathfinder or any D20 with 3.5 D&D rules and it's likes, you'll like this game. I've played through the first two table-top adventures this title is based upon and this game manages to provide a great narrative that works great with the actual adventure path series. The rules implementation resembles IWD 2, which mixed 2nd & 3rd editions, but this title makes the actual transition to what Paizo made out of D&D 3.5. The added classes and the amount of variety available to the player is awesome and the interface is easy to learn and master. Yes, there are still bugs Oct 2nd. 2018, but the development team is quick to post updates and listen to QoL requests from the thriving players community. Lots of monsters, NPCs, side quests and more to fill at least 40-50 hours and on top of that, consider replaying the game selecting a different alignment and attitude :)

Do not buy this game unless you are a super pathfinder fan, and even then only if you like the mechanistic over the role playing. Even at the easiest setting the difficulty curve in this game is random at best. You can go throe several fights (even boss fights) with barely a scratch, and then 2 or 3 party members will drop to a random enemy. It is way do easy to make a bad build, and you will not be able to see it until you are 5 or 6 level in to the game, and there is no respect options. More over it is possible to make choices that put your kingdom in to a death spiral and not know it until a few hours of game play later. By now I can no longer be bothered to play throe the beginning of the game, from all the failed starts. And as such will never complete this game.

I won't lie this game is really great when it comes to story and character development (well, i know it's subjective but i really liked it so far). The difficulty is manageable but on the higher levels (hard/unfair) the game just become a "save scum" game wich make most people complaining about an uneven difficulty. The bigest problem with the game though is the bugs. There is simply too many of bugs, some are game breaking, others are quest breaking, ability breaking, save breaking or just little anoyances... in the end you just can't bare it anymore and decide to stop playing until they fix everything (it took me 50 hours for me to make that decision btw). This is why i don't recommend it right now, if you want to buy it wait christmas or wait for the definitive edition (at least you'll be sure that most of the bugs are fixed). I am pretty sure though that after a year i'll be able to 5 star this game and recommend it to everyone.

This game was fun! Then for some reason, my kingdom was destroyed due to "Call of Abaddon". None of my open quests mention anything about “Abaddon”. I believe I was only in Chapter 2, but well over 50 hours playing. I tried an older save and enabled auto kingdom and "invincible kingdom", but game still ends. There is no way I’m going to start a new game to get back to where I was hoping the same thing doesn’t happen again. If you want a game that ends after 50 hours of playing for no apparent reason, then this is the game for you!!!

Pathfinder: Kingmaker has great potential, as blend of roleplaying game and building game based on a well tested concept from the original Pen and Paper Pathinder-Kingmaker adventure path. Yet, it attemps to create a verbatim copy of the adventure path as PC game, and as that fails. It suffers from several problems: - Lacklustre NPC - Poor story - Freedom deception - Hidden optimization requirements - the game feels extremely slow First and formost, the iconic NPC are flat. That makes them a great tool at the table, as they have to interpreted by the Game Master, but as characters in a computer game they convey part of the story and require more depths. Loading screens and cutscenes tell me what kind of person the NPC are, but during gameplay, it does not play any role at all. The story is your run of the mill "zero to hero" story, where a ragtag band fights a threat from beyond. Even worse, it pretends to be rather open, where in fact it is not: Most occurances are scripted, even though they are disguised as "random encounter". Pathfinder requires rules mastery for successfully playing an Adventure Path, and Kingmaker is no different. The games does not openly tell you, though, and even deceives you into believing that optimization is not necessary through the often badly built "story companions" (I greatly advise anyone to look for a character build thread in the forums). Furthermore, many events are purely based on chance. Last but not least, the game feels sluggish on my PC and reacts very slowly whenever I interact with it. That might be due to my system though. Even though I generally love this kind of game, it does not truly deliver. I cannot fully recommend it.