I've spent over 120h on this game and beat it, but I still didn't see everything there's to see. If someone asked me to put a top 3 isometric(ish) cRPG games of recent years I'd definitely put Pathfinder: Kingmaker on the list (next to the Divinity Original Sin II and Pillars of Eternity II). For some reason I haven't heard of this game before premiere, so I wasn't hyped, only found it out recently and gave it a go. Seems like that was lucky as this game had a lot of issues in its early life. Now in 1.3.x patches the game had almost no technical issues. (few times it froze completely when I was alt-tabbing, but that's it). What makes this game really unique is it's strategy layer. This is really well done and a big and important part of the game, and not just some optional mechanism. It also blends really well with the story and gameplay. Another very good thing was the story itself, it's really nice, full, interesting and deep. To be honest I was expecting something completely different, but I don't want to spoil anything. I liked the Pathfinder character creation system, which is almost like well known Dungeons & Dragons but with much easier multiclassing and many interesting classes I could try. It allowed me to create a very interesting and powerful character, so I'm very happy about it. For me all these things alone are enough to call it a very good game, but there's more smaller good things, like nice music, graphics, characters, lore etc. Also the ability to control the difficulty levels on the fly! I think that besides some minor technical issues I mentioned before the only big flaw that comes to my mind is that there are quite a few repetitive elements in the game (eg. similar/same maps being reused). But that's not too bad. If I could give a score with a fraction I would give something like 4.8/5
