Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition

A promising story and premise ruined by infuriating mechanics and technical difficulties. The game starts out well and I was really into it but the further I got the more I this game drew my ire. To me, everything this game does right, there's something that brings it down. The lore and story are good but horrible pacing and too many threads make sure that it doesn't really flow well and make the game feel stretched out and and it should have ended already. Combat is okay and tactical but the ridiculous spell casting rules, resting and increasing ability damage/negative level etc shenanigans make it feel like a trudge. Kingdom management involves simcity-like town building and auto mode to skip it doesn't work. In my case auto mode resulted in a game breaking bug so I can't finish the game. The game is also very unforgiving to newcomers, its's easy to ruin your character by picking the wrong things, there's no option to reset and you probably need to roam the internet if you want to grasp the definitions of many D&D terms present in the game. My advise would be to wait until it's patched and not pay full price for this game.

I like the core game, but its so buggy and random and broken, its just a crap shoot. Quests that don't show up, quests that do not complete, quests that complete wrongly. Companion quest, kill this troll with the companion, I kill the troll, quest doesn't register. Or my other favorite this one guard guy who got killed in a quest event showing up back at base with no explanation. I've seen early access titles with far less bugs then this! And then there is the completely moronic difficulty of this game. There is a difference in making encounter where you have to think it through and react quickly; and creating encounters where every attack your characters make misses or your characters are just paralyzed the entire fight! Random encounter can be impossible to win. Quest encounters can be impossible to win, and you won't know that until its too late. Even cheating with mods to change character stats, still end up having unwinnable situations. Then you have the stupid time sinks! Why are they making us run back to the start of every map, when they don't add new NPCs to the map? Its just a waste of time, let us exit to the travel map instantly (good mod for this). I conquered all the zones, made it to the final house, and the game is crashing on loading between zones... I'm done. Maybe Ill try it again in a year if they ever manage to fix it.

The system itself is good and story serves it with adequate graphics, but kingdom management usually turns into a death spiral. Also what if people don't want to have default followers to solve the kingdom problems? The game also became quite imbalanced with huge modifications to many monsters. You would see monster equivalent to a threat that is supposed to be dealt with a level 14 four man party when you're about level 7 in main story line. It's like the encounter designer decide to say screw it and add random stat modifications to enemies as if this is a diablo game. There is also huge nerf to exp gain so players get to grind more monsters. Toee didn't require this nerf and worked well enough. The player cannot also see what's in a random encounter unless they decide to tackle it through brute force. Would be good if they actually stick to pnp rules but it wasn't. Many abilities also feel like an after thought such as the wild shape. Travelling through the throne room to outside also took forever without a shortcut. (unless it was added later but I quit the game already)

This game is stuck in time - and it breaks the game. Here's what I mean by stuck in time: Everything in this game has a timer. Some are shown, some aren't. But it's nearly impossible to keep up with them. The "problems" (in-game events that, unless addressed, cripple your kingdom) come fast and furious. Unfortunately for you, you can't fix them. You assign an "adviser" to do it for you. That takes time, and often, results in auto failure. Many issues are designed to destroy your kingdom. But you don't know which ones. You don't know when. And there's no marker to help. You just wait your time, and it breaks your game. The end.

Игра очень нравится. Особенно радует,что это краудфандинговый проект. Спасибо огромное разработчикам. Атмосфера игры шикарная, диалоги и описание персонажей, локаций, предметов позволяют погрузится в мир игры еще больше. Багов я не заметил (единственный это зависание, если свернуть игру при загрузке сохранения, но появляется редко и, возможно, связан с системными проблемами). Рекомендую всем любителям рпг и фэнтези.