Pathfinder: Kingmaker

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7.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 598 Ratings

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  1. TruthSeaker
    Aug 11, 2023
    2
    Supported them on Kickstarter. Hoped that they will deliver
    They didn't.
    Why 2? That's the amount of corrupted save files(ruined playthroughs) I got in 6 months.
    Absolutely terrible.
  2. RedDragonSchool
    Jul 22, 2022
    0
    Great game. Character generation is a bit difficult for me but overall fun. The variety of choices is satisfying from a roleplaying perspective as well (I'm not a powergamer anyway).
  3. F1_is_WWE
    Mar 20, 2022
    2
    Kingmaker faithfully adapts the pen and paper game to the video screen. This was seen by many as a huge plus - there is an in-depth tried and tested game system, rules, and adventure. But unfortunately what works with pen and paper doesn't work on a pc game. Yes, the rules are deep and you have hunderds of options for building you character - the only fun part of the game. But combat is aKingmaker faithfully adapts the pen and paper game to the video screen. This was seen by many as a huge plus - there is an in-depth tried and tested game system, rules, and adventure. But unfortunately what works with pen and paper doesn't work on a pc game. Yes, the rules are deep and you have hunderds of options for building you character - the only fun part of the game. But combat is a boring chore where you do the exact same moves every single fight and just mindlessly click away. Especially if you turn it to turn based mode, you'll see just how mindless and slow the game actually is.

    The story is alright, again you are presented with many different options on how you want to build your kingdom. But then you find out that the developers are highly biased towards "Chaotic Good" choices and disapprove of you choosing any other decrees. At one point my lawful character supported freedom of speech and this was counted as a chaotic action - what? Plot is linear and you aren't given much choice.    … Expand
  4. Kunray
    Mar 12, 2022
    1
    It's your call but for now it's not recommended.
    1/10 this game at that stage.
  5. Apokalipsis113
    Feb 13, 2022
    1
    FIrst half of the game not bad, Second half is bad. Ending is the worst piece of **** I've ever seen. **** story. Terrible level design, Horrible game balance. 10/10 regret for buy this miserable trash,
  6. gaynorvader
    Jan 7, 2022
    3
    Great underpinnings let down by horriffically poorly written code and text, bizarre design decisions and awful UI.

    This is the kind of game I should love, but I find myself barely tolerating. They all but force you to play a cast of insipid characters with painfully one dimensional personaities tied to the terrible D&D alignment system. You are all but forced to assign these poorly    Great underpinnings let down by horriffically poorly written code and text, bizarre design decisions and awful UI.

    This is the kind of game I should love, but I find myself barely tolerating. They all but force you to play a cast of insipid characters with painfully one dimensional personaities tied to the terrible D&D alignment system. You are all but forced to assign these poorly optimised slobs to help run your kingdom too.

    The difficulty is stupidly harsh for how bad the NPCs you are given are, meaning you more or less have to min max to play the game on anything harder than easy. Stupid given that it's run off a very complicated D&D 3.5e clone called Pathfinder which is never explained in the game and basically relies on you having system knowledge and spend time googling to find out what spells exist, etc to plan your build.

    The UI for the kingdom management is terrible, never showing relevant info, making you dig around to do anything and pointelessly locking you out from making changes on some tasks. The UI for combat is glitchy and painful to use, the turn based mode ocaaisionally just not letting you use a character's turn for no reason. The dice roll DCs often lie, with stuff like 17 AC needing a 16 to hit with a +10 or the floating text laughably floating up saying something like "20 vs 9" and that somehow failing a save, or the inverse. The randomiser has some backend fudging going on where you will commonly see your characters rolling 1s and critically missing and enemies commonly rolling 5/5 16+s to hit you.

    Text has poor grammar, misspellings, and wordy paragraphs of stodge to waste your time. You are frequently railroaded into decisions, or made to make decisions that make no sense because the developers don't even understand the alignment system they insisted on using. Skill DCs are set far too high, being commonly failable even with min maxed characters, leaving no room for rp. Much of the issues are met with the refrain "Just cheat to fix that" from the community, which is mind boggling.

    Overall, this is a terrible effort at a crpg, but is at least pretty, with some nice music and a reasonable adaptation of the Pathfinder system for a video game. It's just a shame it's so badly put together. I have no idea how it scores so highly, and can only surmise that the Paizo fanboys are out in force, making excuses for one of, if not the first video game adaptation of the popular tabletop system. Or maybe people that kickstarted it trying to delude themselves that it was worth the money?    … Expand
  7. Odal
    Nov 30, 2021
    2
    One of the very few RPG:s I actually stopped playing. It had nothing going for it. The voice acting is bad, the characters are not special, the story is meh and the combat is bad well.
    There is just nothing going for this game at all. Confusing leveling system which is more annoying than anything.
    When you play good RPG:s like Divinity Original Sin 2 and then come to this, it's just    One of the very few RPG:s I actually stopped playing. It had nothing going for it. The voice acting is bad, the characters are not special, the story is meh and the combat is bad well.
    There is just nothing going for this game at all. Confusing leveling system which is more annoying than anything.

    When you play good RPG:s like Divinity Original Sin 2 and then come to this, it's just not worth your time.    … Expand
  8. Deaden
    Oct 14, 2021
    1
    Pathfinder MISSMAKER!

    Seriously, last 5 years there is not a single true PC based RPG exist. All they were trying to create some desktop RPG adaptation for PC platform. It's not working, stop lying yourself who gives high five for a broken PC game adaptation from desktop frp. I guess you are have no idea how a PC RPG should be. These paper and pen game designs aren't suitable for PC    Pathfinder MISSMAKER!

    Seriously, last 5 years there is not a single true PC based RPG exist. All they were trying to create some desktop RPG adaptation for PC platform. It's not working, stop lying yourself who gives high five for a broken PC game adaptation from desktop frp. I guess you are have no idea how a PC RPG should be. These paper and pen game designs aren't suitable for PC platforms at all. RTwP gameplay design is a garbage and it's corruption for TBS system as well. Too many times you are missing to hit. UI and controls are not friendly. Story also too cheap to create. Staaaggg Loorrrddd STAAAGG LOOORRRDDD Boooo.

    I don't want to compare POE II vs Pathfinder Kingmaker vs Divinity: Original Sin II but it seems Divinity: OS2 is the winner as a new genre PC RPG adaptation. Even OS2 have many handicaps. Oh boy, I'm missing old time TBS-RPGs. All new adaptation RPGs are not providing real RPG experience at all. You can deceive yourself for giving high points to those worthless games.

    Edit: Game is a total disaster. I'm at act5 and I can say WTF is this! Debuffs make you cancer in this game. I admit some dialogs are really funny and enjoyable but couldn't save the broken game.    … Expand
  9. setpol
    Jul 20, 2021
    0
    DO NOT BUY FOR PLAYSTATION CONSOLES

    This game is a buggy horrible mess. It crashes constantly and has not been fixed in the 3 years of it being out, it won't ever be.

    The game was fun interesting and has something to it but I absolutely cannot recommend when it crashes nearly as much as cyberpunk.

    This was even on a ps5 and it didn't help it at all.
  10. ottohahn
    Jun 12, 2021
    0
    Played the most recent patch in June 2021.
    The Kingdom Management Minigame is boring and sucks.
    The balancing is horrible. Some Enemies are Paperweights and some are just unbeatable. Additionally the difficulty is increased by throwing mob after mob at the player. Last act is incomprehensible and has also horrible balancing. Story is the generic "ancient evil destroys the lands".    Played the most recent patch in June 2021.
    The Kingdom Management Minigame is boring and sucks.
    The balancing is horrible. Some Enemies are Paperweights and some are just unbeatable.
    Additionally the difficulty is increased by throwing mob after mob at the player.
    Last act is incomprehensible and has also horrible balancing.
    Story is the generic "ancient evil destroys the lands".
    There are also technical difficulties. What can take approx 1min to save the game on a 8-core cpu with 32GB RAM and fast SSD?
    I had to force myself to finish the game.    … Expand
  11. Bluehydra
    May 29, 2021
    2
    Pathfinder miss-marker
    The game needs a serious overhaul when it comes to combat. fix the quest breaking bugs where quest doesn't trigger completely. fix to abilities cancelling due to animation freezes

    I can't recommend game that release 2018 and still have game-breaking issues
  12. Steyraus
    Jan 30, 2021
    3
    It startsout really good butvall falls apart when you hit the open world. With glitches, awkward combat , ridiculas ballancing, you encounter almost invincible swarms and high level bosses just steps from the begining area. It throws yoi completely off the experiance.. Every side character has thr same damn story. Was not happy in their home town because life is hard fot wahmen and wahmenIt startsout really good butvall falls apart when you hit the open world. With glitches, awkward combat , ridiculas ballancing, you encounter almost invincible swarms and high level bosses just steps from the begining area. It throws yoi completely off the experiance.. Every side character has thr same damn story. Was not happy in their home town because life is hard fot wahmen and wahmen are amazing so they went off to lives on the streets and run around the wilderness.… Expand
  13. Cyberevil
    Dec 28, 2020
    3
    To summarize this game in one sentence: Critical socjus does unbalanced RPG that gets annihilated by a broken kingdom management sim doing piggyback.
  14. Mnobody
    Sep 30, 2020
    4
    If not for performance issues, I could rate this an 8.
    On PS4
    This game is a buggy crashing mess at least. I can honestly say I haven't had a play experience yet where I didn't get at least 1 crash or fatal glitch that forced me to stop playing and restart everything. Characters sometimes get stuck, bounce through walls, or just annoyingly get in your way. Just moments before this    If not for performance issues, I could rate this an 8.
    On PS4
    This game is a buggy crashing mess at least. I can honestly say I haven't had a play experience yet where I didn't get at least 1 crash or fatal glitch that forced me to stop playing and restart everything. Characters sometimes get stuck, bounce through walls, or just annoyingly get in your way. Just moments before this review, I got the familiar save error (i.e. there becomes no way to save a game), so had to close the game and restart again. Load times are another pain in the ass and average 1+ minute.

    As for the story itself and the gaming elements, its excellent. Managing a kingdom, building towns, and seeing the progress is satisfying. The leveling systems are a bit interesting, though way too much for my tastes (really need 10+ schools of magic? 20+ classes?). Playing melee is the opposite experience as main builds learn almost nothing in skills. There are many questionable/terrible design choices along the way, like having limited control during battles, having commands ignored, etc. The crap battle management ( maybe a PS4 issue) makes issuing commands as fun as juggling broken glass bottles - all I can do is crank difficulty to 0 and let the crap AI auto everything. Even the equipment system is trashy as "more powerful" items seem to make no difference other than cosmetics.    … Expand
  15. Lifwerne
    Sep 16, 2020
    3
    I love RPG:s and this is the first time i've actually quit after a few hours. It's just boring. No immersion. Story is bad, music is obnoxious most of the time (had to turn it down), the table top rules just doesn't work in a PC game, it's just annoying.
    The game is not voiced as good or as much as Pillars of eternity, Dragonage, Wasteland 3 or anything like that. The UI is very confusing    I love RPG:s and this is the first time i've actually quit after a few hours. It's just boring. No immersion. Story is bad, music is obnoxious most of the time (had to turn it down), the table top rules just doesn't work in a PC game, it's just annoying.
    The game is not voiced as good or as much as Pillars of eternity, Dragonage, Wasteland 3 or anything like that. The UI is very confusing when choosing skills etc.
    The movement is slow and clunky. Mind you Pillars of eternity also suffered from terrible combat trying to imitate Baldur's gate which was just good for it's time, but it was worth it for the immersion, voice acting, story, characters and humor. Etc.

    It's just a bad game. I doubt it would have gotten any better had I continued to play it. Maybe they had a really low budget or something. Sad, becuase I thought it would be something more like Divinity OS or such. It's just not on anywhere near that level.    … Expand
  16. Hexen-Slayer
    Sep 8, 2020
    1
    This game was released in 2018 - it's been 2 years, it's still an unplayable buggy mess. The devs have announced a sequel - and this garbage isn't even fixed yet!
    Expect crashes, quests not to trigger, area transitions not to trigger, also an error in the encumbrance system had all my items gain weight overnight - dropping the entire inventory and standing butt-naked didn't change    This game was released in 2018 - it's been 2 years, it's still an unplayable buggy mess. The devs have announced a sequel - and this garbage isn't even fixed yet!
    Expect crashes, quests not to trigger, area transitions not to trigger, also an error in the encumbrance system had all my items gain weight overnight - dropping the entire inventory and standing butt-naked didn't change anything (no affliction, 16 strength fighter).
    Even if all the bugs would be fixed, this is average at the very best. PATHFINDER: KINGMAKER is basically a BALDUR'S GATE / ICEWIND DALE / PILLARS OF ETERNITY clone with a tacked on kingdom management system - which I disabled since I had zero interest in that kind of things. If you played the mentioned above games, why should you play PATHFINDER: KINGMAKER?
    You shouldn't!
    First off, the COMMAND & CONQUER combat system with pausing is obsolete. Either go DIABLO-style clickfest or go DIVINITY: ORIGINAL SIN 2 turn based combat (which would be my preference), but this combat system is garbage.
    Secondly, events with time limits are an absolute no-go! The first task has a time limit, run out of time: game over!
    Three: include the ruleset! Former RPG games of the 90s like EYE OF THE BEHOLDER had in-depth description of the D&D ruleset (on which PATHFINDER is based), even though that game only used a very simplified variety to them. Here you better have some knowledge or you're poop outta luck.
    Graphics and art style are ugly. Add terrible voice acting (Linzi, shut up!) but at least it has the typical "only every first line of each paragraph voiced" novel-length dialogues, so you won't have to put up with too much of it (Linzi ended up not in my party anyway). Sound effects and score are serviceable, but nothing more than that.
    Character portraits are a joke! Only a handful to choose from and not one was visually pleasing.
    A repetitive gameplay loop (especially if you've played the afore-mentioned games) with a copy & paste job of the HUD had me wanting to uninstall this garbage after only a few minutes.
    If you must play one of these COMMAND & CONQUER-RPGs, pick BALDUR's GATE II if you must, or PILLARS OF ETERNITY I & II to get the best of this type, but avoid this bugged, boring and bland BG-rip-off like the plague (you'll be glad you did!).    … Expand
  17. JP78
    Aug 23, 2020
    2
    Not a fun game. It's boring due to the board game rules being followed so strictly. So, as the board game relies on dice rolls, the game also does and instead of being a Tactical/strategic RPG, it becomes a game based on luck. Good presentation, bad game mechanics.
  18. disposable
    Aug 11, 2020
    0
    Legitimately the most miserable CRPG experience I have ever had. Boring, bland story around characters that you'd find in the RPG starter pack with some of the most atrocious combat I've ever seen. You'll randomly jump between insultingly easy encounters and ones with enemies that straight up one shot you. Less than halfway through I just wanted it to end.
  19. sundog005
    May 23, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Cannot recommend this without mods...if you buy it check out Nexus for some game fixing mods that rescue it... as usual it seems lately with many RPG's. The default companions are irritating aswell like PoE and PoE 2. My advice make your own party and don't worry about the *companion stories* they mostly aren't worth the effort of doing and the XP for them is skippable. My personal pet hate is the half orc sadist sorc....
    Sledgehammer difficulty spikes are apparently Owlcat's idea of making the game more challenging as well, severe absence of subtley in writing and design like i said get some mods to smooth the ride if you are determined to finish the game...i got as far as the *EVERYTHING in the Universe is trying to destroy your Kingdom!*, events and got tired of it personally. I mean whoever is behind all those over the top, even if you win you lose problems has to be some godlike mofo....at this point you can have the Stolen Lands it ain't worth the hassle, i'm off to play an actual good game :p...Sorry to say it but this is what happens when you give a big potential project to an amateur outfit like Owlcat.    … Expand
  20. Sepherim
    Mar 24, 2020
    3
    Pathfinder: Kingmaker es la historia de una promesa rota. La promesa es que va a ser un buen juego, y es lo que parece en un principio: una historia no espectacular pero con cierto interés, y un mundo abierto donde ir desarrollándote como quieres. Y una vez tienes tu baronía, pues mejor todavía, construyendo, desarrollando, etc. Todo ello en un sistema de combate (Pathfinder, al fin y alPathfinder: Kingmaker es la historia de una promesa rota. La promesa es que va a ser un buen juego, y es lo que parece en un principio: una historia no espectacular pero con cierto interés, y un mundo abierto donde ir desarrollándote como quieres. Y una vez tienes tu baronía, pues mejor todavía, construyendo, desarrollando, etc. Todo ello en un sistema de combate (Pathfinder, al fin y al cabo) sólido. Pero esa promesa se va truncando a medida que vas jugando. Primero, el sistema de alineamientos es terrible, y te obliga a hacer cosas para gestionarlo (si, como yo, juegas un paladín o clases similares), como hacer cosas "Legales Malvadas" porque necesitas puntos en "Legal" y no hay opción "Legal Buena" (y literalmente, te pone de que alineamiento es cada acción posible en una escena, pero no suelen estar todos representados. Y a medida que sigues avanzando en el juego, la trama se va volviendo cada vez peor e incluso llegan quests que carecen de todo sentido, como A Devil's Bargain, que es una basura de historia. Pero peor todavía, a medida que avanzas se van acumulando los bugs y problemas, hasta que el juego es literalmente injugable: salidas a escritorio, problemas de mecánica (como no poder seleccionar cosas), eventos del castillo que se buguean y no permiten avanzar... y, al menos en mi caso, finalmente bugs que evitan que se inicien las quests principales (la de los bárbaros para mi) lo cual implica que pierdes la campaña. Todo eso añadiendo errores graves de diseño, como la selección de consejeros que, para ciertos puestos, es absurda y malísima y te deja sin consejero en un puesto clave durante una buena cantidad de horas porque si.

    Gráficamente el juego es normalito, el sonido cumple sin sorpresas. Pero todo el resto es un desastre. Un 3.    … Expand
  21. MISTERJABBERS
    Feb 3, 2020
    0
    This game is a glitched wreck. I was only able to play it for about an hour before the game crashed and from there, it would never load past the title screen. Paizo is a terrible company with non existent customer service. I will never purchase or play another Paizo product ever again.
  22. Gette
    Jul 4, 2019
    3
    The game is simply too imbalanced.
    Despite during the kickstarter promise a game that present tabletop, the game designer decides to cut experience by 2/3. Yes you only get 1/3 exp or lower as you're supposed to get, which later turns to 1/10 then 1/100.
    Then, the designer decides to increase enemies stats irregularly. You get to fight BAB + 17 enemies at EASY mode around level 8 as    The game is simply too imbalanced.
    Despite during the kickstarter promise a game that present tabletop, the game designer decides to cut experience by 2/3. Yes you only get 1/3 exp or lower as you're supposed to get, which later turns to 1/10 then 1/100.

    Then, the designer decides to increase enemies stats irregularly. You get to fight BAB + 17 enemies at EASY mode around level 8 as MAIN QUEST, ALONE. There are also miscellaneous power ups for random mobs.

    I know my pathfinder and D&D but this game is just Diabolo/Divinity pretending to use pathfinder rules where gears triumphed over characters. Sucks I backed it :(    … Expand
  23. Wolfstorm321
    Jun 17, 2019
    2
    Horrible game, each minute on the map I have to listen chit chat from the characters, where they talk about themselves, its very, very annoying and the worse aspect of it all (the talk is so bad that it made the player looks like a retard). Combat is terrible (9 in 10 times you see "miss" on the screen, meaning the characters fight like children), the quests are pointless, there is noHorrible game, each minute on the map I have to listen chit chat from the characters, where they talk about themselves, its very, very annoying and the worse aspect of it all (the talk is so bad that it made the player looks like a retard). Combat is terrible (9 in 10 times you see "miss" on the screen, meaning the characters fight like children), the quests are pointless, there is no story, you keep exploring the map in circles. The only good thing were the classes, those were fine, with diversity of builds, but unfortunatelly the devs spoiled the game with bad writing, annoying and useless talk (which is not immersive, quite the contrary), bad combat and a stupid AI. Wasted potential.… Expand
  24. nckvssy
    Apr 10, 2019
    0
    What a piece of garbage. Unbalanced encounters and just terrible game play. Avoid at all cost, this is a waste of time and effort. Spider swarms taking out a group of level 3 adventurers even after you use 20 alchemist's fire LOL what a joke
  25. TucoMerc
    Mar 18, 2019
    1
    Retarded imbalanced game that just forces you to kill everything on sight and if you can't you die without a chance to retreat. Disgusting and beyond words.
  26. Straph
    Feb 9, 2019
    0
    This game really needs a beat down. They used a tabletop game, but then tried to convert it to a real time system while trying to keep the tabletop rules intact. The game is still after months plagued with bugs. Less than 3% of game owners have actually beaten the game. They put out DLC that no one was interested in, and have really bad communication to their player base. The game'sThis game really needs a beat down. They used a tabletop game, but then tried to convert it to a real time system while trying to keep the tabletop rules intact. The game is still after months plagued with bugs. Less than 3% of game owners have actually beaten the game. They put out DLC that no one was interested in, and have really bad communication to their player base. The game's normal difficult is set to superman, and you'll find yourself constantly losing battles that statistically you should have won, because the devs don't understand how random dice rolls are supposed to work. The enemies have a 60~100% chance of hitting you, but you have about a 30~50% chance of hitting the enemies regardless of how high of a level you are. The NPC that fight along side you are typically better than you are at their given roll. You'll find that main of the NPC end game quests are broken. The game itself doesn't offer a good tutorial so even if you're familiar with pathfinder tabletop you'll still have a hard time adjusting. The lack of quality items for your specific character will be hard to find as there isn't a ton of variety in the late game items to fill the needs of any specific build. This game really needs an overhaul, and should have never been released in it's current state. I would consider this game to be in alpha transitioning to beta. If the devs actually fix many of the bugs, and core design issues this game might be a 7. In it's current state it's not worth even picking up as you can't actually play through the entire game without encountering bugs. Great idea, poor execution from a new dev.… Expand
  27. Fidi
    Jan 15, 2019
    0
    Too many poorly designed encounters that are guaranteed to be a TPK unless they player was lucky enough to accidentally bring the right combination of classes. Dying over and over again until you go back to an earlier save game and switch to a different party is "Replay value" according to Kingmaker.
  28. sunnycorax
    Dec 26, 2018
    4
    This game has so much promise and started out addictively fun. The battle system is trash. The encounters are exercises in patience and frustration. Complete unbalanced mess. I wish I could have made it to the actual management part of the game that is in the title but I couldn't help setting at some of these quest missions setting dumbfounded at what it was that this game wanted me to do.This game has so much promise and started out addictively fun. The battle system is trash. The encounters are exercises in patience and frustration. Complete unbalanced mess. I wish I could have made it to the actual management part of the game that is in the title but I couldn't help setting at some of these quest missions setting dumbfounded at what it was that this game wanted me to do. Enemies with high spell saves, DR given out to enemies like it is **** candy. Healing castings that works but your party member immediately dies after being healed because **** you that's why. Never before in a game has auto-save and quick save been such a companion...on normal difficulty. There is challenging and then there is brutally unforgiving. This game revels in handicapping the player and tossing them into fights in which luck has more to do with you beating an encounter than any level of skill, planning, or equipment. I found myself on main quest modules hammering save before each fight and load several times as my party gets wrecked with not a clue as to why. This game reminded me why I hate the idea of random encounters in game and in D&D when I play it. It is like a D&D game ran by the most chaotic evil DM on the face of the earth. There is plenty good here but the gameplay kills every bit of fun that the opening hours of play seemed to glimmer with. I want to like this game but as it stands right now it is garbage. Redeemable? Yes. Playable? No.… Expand
  29. Chashm0dai
    Dec 14, 2018
    0
    Full of bugs. Constantly updating with several GB of files each time, yet no big improvements. They're already selling DLCs even though the game is obviously far, far from finished. They also ban people from their Steam forum for nothing. Critique is silenced quickly. I think that has to do more with whatever idiot they hired as moderator, rather than the developers themselves.
  30. suitejesus
    Dec 1, 2018
    3
    Starts off great, a true RPG..... until you run into a game crushing bug. You can easily but 50-60 hours in to all of a sudden find out you can't even finish the game. My first play through I made the mistake of trusting the developer comments about setting kingdom management to the auto mode. I found the idea of constantly assigning advisors to meaningless tasks to be a burden after aStarts off great, a true RPG..... until you run into a game crushing bug. You can easily but 50-60 hours in to all of a sudden find out you can't even finish the game. My first play through I made the mistake of trusting the developer comments about setting kingdom management to the auto mode. I found the idea of constantly assigning advisors to meaningless tasks to be a burden after a dozen hours in, so I set the option to auto which specifically states in the menu option that your kingdom CANNOT FAIL in the auto-mode, which is great considering once you click this option you cannot undo it. After all, maybe I just want to adventure around my lands instead of manage it. Well, guess what? 50 hours go by and all of a sudden I get a game over screen because my kingdom has crumbled, and there is absolutely nothing I could have ever done about it. On top of this, you will have countless missions you cannot complete if you happen to select dialogue choices out of order, happen to have the wrong companion at any given time, or sell items you didn't know you were supposed to keep. You want a customized party to compliment your play style? Hahahaha..... too bad, here are a bunch of pregenerated companions with horrible stat allocation that you will have to babysit in order to stay alive. Or you can buy mercenaries for an absurd amount of coin, but then forego some of the MAIN GAME content. Sadly this game had great potential, but the execution of the game is horrid.… Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 33 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 33
  3. Negative: 0 out of 33
  1. CD-Action
    Feb 13, 2019
    75
    Pathfinder: Kingmaker offers an interesting world to explore along with satisfying combat, and the first half of the adventure is top-notch old school fun. Unfortunately later the game loses its momentum and becomes boring. Anyhow, it’s a solid RPG that should keep Baldur’s Gate’s fans happy for many hours. [12/2018, p.86]
  2. Games.cz
    Jan 15, 2019
    80
    A great adaptation of the original Pathfinder gamebooks. The story is sidelined by tough tactical combat - its steep difficulty may be daunting to genre newbies, but D&D veterans will be delighted. There are technical problems, yes, but those are overshadowed by refreshing kingdom management and interesting companions.
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  3. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Dec 31, 2018
    80
    RPG for the hardened. Get used to loadings and getting lost in the rules, get ready for an ok storyline - and in the return you will enjoy a deep level of challenge and great management of your own kingdom. Obsidian has a new competitor. [Issue#290]
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