When Kingmaker first came out, it was very buggy. You'll see this if you go look at the 'most helpful' reviews since they're all years old by this point. With the release of the enhanced edition, a vast majority of those bugs and balancing issues have been resolved. The game runs fine and running into game breaking bugs doesn't happen anymore, at least for the vast majority of users. The game itself is obviously based on the Pathfinder RPG tabletop system with a few tweaks for running in a real-time with pause format without any grid based battle map. Fans of the tabletop will probably be irked at the real time system, though there is a fan mod that adds it back into the game, but for most the real time system works just fine. Gameplay consists of building your character by picking their race, class, and starting statistics like any RPG, and then giving you a few party members to go malice bandits in the wilderness with. Fairly typical CRPG so far, except that by using the Pathfinder system, you get a vast array of choices when it comes to character building. The game isn't great at helping you learn the ropes, but even on normal you'll be fairly alright so long as you don't make drastically poor decisions (A wizard trying to knife fight, for instance). You can customize the difficulty as much as you like, tweaking things until you feel it's just right for you, so in theory anyone could finish the game. The story of the game is so-so, interesting enough to keep you wanting to play but nothing to write home about. The characters are subjective, but I found them all interesting in their own ways. Kingdom Management is where the game really falters, unfortunately, and the devs never really got around to fixing this part - you'll want mods for sure, even with the Crisis Point system being added. If you like most CRPGs, you'll like Kingmaker. If you love character building, you'll be cursed to never leave the first chapter due to alt-itis. Definitely worth a buy.
