Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition

This game has a lot of potential, but unfortunately was not tested properly before launch. As it stands, it is riddled with bugs, broken quests, and game play issues. In time, after many patches, it may become what it was intended to be. I would recommend researching the current state of the game before purchasing this. This game finally taught me to wait for release (rather than pre-ordering). The pre-order bonuses don't mean much if the game doesn't work.

A ok to good game, it could have been amazing. I hope they will improve it. The Good The game looks amazing. Models change with the equipment, voice acting of ok, Amari is not good at all. The story is very good. The decisions and challenges of kingdom management is well done. The OK Kingdom management is ok. When you build buildings in the towns, you should be able to actually see those buildings. The WTHECK! Alignment choices, sometimes you are forced to make a choice that moves you away from your alignment when you could have abstained. The vendors do not change their inventories. You have to navigate the junk you sold to get to what you wish. The chest management is bad. You cannot organize your overflow storage, but you can your part storage. Romance. You are forced for only 2 ladies as a man, neither are really appealing. No Amari romance? That could have been quite funny. Combat is very inconsistant. Stay away from swarms...The difficultly of some areas is rough, perhaps a bit realistic, but detracts from the fun of it. There really should be customization of your castle. The ability to remodel your castle would be a beautiful facet to an imperfect gem. A good game, not a great one. Did they really playtest this? I hope to update this after a few patches.

One of the best games in this category since Baldurs Gate/NWN. I can't find any bugs atm, so it seems that they fixed a lot. Very good appliance of the Pathfinder rpg rules. It is shurely an advantage if you know this rules. Lots of possible caracters to create. The game ist quite hard for for this day and age, and sometimes you have to load a savegame oder avoid an area until you are at higher level. But i can recommend it for evreybody who likes Baldurs Gate/NWN/Pillars of Eternity/Divinity etc..

I have recently finished the game and can certainly echo the few of the comments here. 1) State of the game 2 stars but getting better. It was really rushed out the door - the initial release had a ton of bugs and lots of them game breaking. As the patches have come out this has gotten incrementally better but I experienced several issues particularly with companion quests that meant I could not progress that aspect of the game. This has flow on effects towards the end of the game which is pretty disappointing and frustrating. If you purchase the game now, it is likely you will not experience the same level of frustration as it has been patched. 2) Difficulty curve 2 stars ... wow there are some SERIOUS difficulty spikes during the campaign with a few of the fights just outright retarded. You need to very carefully tailor your equipment loadout and spells to even have a chance of surviving some of the fights on challenging (which you will only learn through numerous wipes!). Early game is particularly punishing at times. For those struggling I found duel wielding backstabbing toons to be particularly strong particularly with some of the available party feats. 3) Kingdom management 3 stars - you can disable it if you want to - definitely needs some tweaking as it can be a bit painful at times. You will probably want to persist with it because there are some good items/buffs you can get through it. 4) Story line 4 stars - I actually thought this was pretty good, deep backstories to the characters and an interesting plot. 5) Value for money 4 stars - I think I was at almost 120 hours when I finally finished the game on a single run through, That is a mammoth campaign in this day and age where most games top out at 20-40hrs. Overall 3 stars but believe that as it is patched and tweaked it will evolve into a 4 star. If you love CPRG's you are definitely going to want to add this to your list.

What started out as a bland story of "adventurers come together, kill some goblins and then become heroes" turned into a very enjoyable CRPG in its fullest sense. Good parts first: The story becomes richer and more interesting after a dull first part, you have extreme amounts of customization options available to your PC and your companions (the game system is based on D&D 3.5 rule set), unlike many others I found the kingdom management sidegame to be a nice touch, the world and the NPCs are fleshed out enough that you care about their opinions/backgrounds/wishes, and I have not encountered any major or game-breaking bugs (since I started playing when most of the patches and updates were already published). It was a very pleasant (and long) gaming experience, it has been a long time since I have enjoyed a CRPG this much. What I'm neutral about and many others have heavily criticized: the game doesn't hold your hand. In a given map you will be fighting a group of lowly goblins and then within the same map you will encounter a monster so much above your current level that you will be obliterated. So the game expects you to run away from certain fights and then come back to them again when you have grown. Fair enough. The problem is with fatigue when travelling and loading screens and what-not, I do not want to visit the same maps/locations again. There is also no way of adding notes/markers on the map to remind you what you left behind... In its current state this is a gem of a CRPG.