Pathfinder: Kingmaker

« If we don't encounter bugs, Pathfinder: Kingmaker with its epic scope is nothing less than the heir to Baldur's Gate. »

« Pathfinder Kingmaker on PC is incredibly fun and rightfully nominated in our Global Game Awards 2018 for Best RPG. Today Owlcat have already made Pathfinder Kingmaker into a beautiful looking, rich CRPG, that delivers a great place to adventure, an interesting land to rule and the tools to carve out a realm that you can call home. »

« PC gamers looking for the old time cRPG feeling can’t go wrong with Pathfinder: Kingmaker. The presentation is beautiful, the writing is excellent, and the world offers just enough life to engage the player’s imagination to fill in the gaps. Still, at the time of this writing, balancing issues and bugs keep the game from being a definite recommend – at least for the time being. »

« Pathfinder has some flaws, but nonetheless delivers a tremendous amount of entertainment for fans of pen & paper fantasy. »

« Story and exploration in Kingmaker are grade A. Adaptation of Pathfinder system is probably even A+, since it’s simplified, yet still incredibly complex and satisfying. But. Some elements, like titular kingdom-building, are astonishingly bad, and overall technical execution is subpar at best. [Issue#234, p.76] »

« In the smaller moments, Kingmaker captures the tabletop experience better than any single player game I’ve ever played. I’ve never had to set up watch rotations before or go hunting for meal ingredients. I love how every character has a favorite food and how it affects their stats. There’s a lot of game to this game, and I can’t imagine I’m going to want to stop playing it any time soon. »

« I’ve only really scratched the surface of things which are going on in this game and trust me I haven’t covered everything by far. This game has a ton to offer to both new CRPG players and players who have been around the genre for a while. »

« I cannot help but feel there is a 10 out of 10 game on the other side of my issues with Pathfinder: Kingmaker. It still has a way to go before it reaches its full potential but the vision the developers had for the game is starting to come through; A punishingly hard game, quite unlike anything we’ve seen, that satisfies craving for a deep, engaging and well written cRPG. »

« Woke trash. Boss woman employer. Barbarian women. Fighter woman. Bard woman. Is this some lesbian fantasy? »

« After the D&D ruleset changing into something more accessible, the Pathfinder ruleset gives a satisfying amount of "crunch" required to make an optimal character. It requires you to invest some time into learning the classes and races to understand what synergizes well, but it's definitely worth doing it if you like to have a more deep experience when making your character(s) than the newer D&D games out there. Overall the game feels very big but also very detailed, and the only major complaint is that the timed Kingdom Management and timed events can really give you some "feels bad moments". »

« Bad support, tons of bugs (ignored), PC version has technical problems (including -silent- crash on quit bug). The game can be decent or even good, but only if you're the kind of superficial player ignoring all its annoyances and issues. »

« Hands down one of the greatest rpgs ever made, it's hard to even know where to begin. The amount of choice you have - both in character creation and role playing your way through the game is off the charts and while there's some fake difficulty due to stat bloat and some late game enemies. having immunities that don't make sense, navigation being a PITA in some cases, etc, more often than not I would describe it as being compellingly challenging. Kingdom management adds a very cool geopolitical strategy element to the game and the way it integrates into both the story and gameplay is nothing short of phenomenal for a minigame. The characters are outstanding, companions, villains, and npcs alike. Though there will always be elements of subjectivity and acquired tastes and whatnot that go into this but for my part, I found the cast to all bring something to the table that made me feel right at home in this world and almost all of them had highly compelling backstores and connections to the setting's lore. Using your head is mandatory. You have time limits per act which, while very generous, still prevents you from doing the old "exhaust every OP ability I have, rest, repeat" playstyle that...well, a lot of other crpgs allow lol. The encounter rate is also quite high - those two factors combined make using your head a mandatory part of playing the game. You have to use your spells and abilities judiciously, and without a guide, you won't always know when is the best time to burn a spell slot or a specific item or something else that has limited uses or limited uses per rest period. You have to decide how much weight to carry and how that affects fatigue and the need to rest. Half of the challenge is using your own judgment as you try to decorate the land with your enemies entrails without getting your own head torn off. If all of this sounds like a bit much to handle, understand that the difficulty settings are highly modular. As are the combat settings. You have a LOT of control over the type of gaming experience you get to have here, far moreso than the vast majority of games. The obtuseness is something of a feature rather than a bug. The writers expect you to read the coversations and in game material such as books and letters and such for clues on how to find various secrets or understand the significance of certain events or figure out how to advance a substory, etc and so forth. The writing is verbose and the game is massive so this is a taller order here than it sounds. If you're a new parent or something like that you should probably just play something else (if you have time for video games at all), not gonna lie. The necessity of min-maxing, metagaming, and having to have a million buffs on at all times is overstated. Most of that talk from the fandom is based on grognards and uber nerds who play on unfair difficulty and solo runs and other such craziness. Again, difficulty settings along with various other gameplay settings are highly modular. Just understand that this game's normal is a level or two harder than most rpg's normal, and that goes for every default difficulty settings. The so called necessity of metagaming is due to the number of hidden checks based on the many, many choices you make and the consequences they may have. This only requires metagaming if you're going for the "perfect" roleplay and secret endings and such. For me, that would've just turned an epic rpg experience into a miserable one. I simply play the way I want to play and let the chips fall where they fall and I have a blast with this game. I could go on, but limited time and character count is going to prevent me from doing so.9.5/10. Will play again. Pathfinder: Kingmaker is one of the greatest rpgs of all time, bar none. »

« Encountered 3 different gamebreaking bugs in my 3 playthroughs of act 1 and wasn't able to progress further. Considering all other minor bugs that were present, I'm not trying for the 4th time. »

« Brilliant game Owlcat have shown themselves to be the next big thing in rpgs. It has everything I like in games including fun combat, great story, base management,fun characters...I never put it down once I started! »

« I bought the game may 21, 2025. I've already put over 80 hours into it. It has been 80 hours that felt like I'm working on this game instead of playing. Most of that time was spent trying to solve some bug or performance issue that is actually unsolvable. Like the constant stuttering. Simply walking in this game is buggy and painful. Constant crashes, saves that don't load, broken skills and abilities that do nothing and one unique bug: there's a few npc's that if talked to makes the game go back to the title screen. It happens every time you talk to them. I never saw anything like that. I almost bought that wrath of the righteous crap because their were both on sale. I'm glad that I didn't, but I wish I hadn't even heard of this game. »

« New view on the classic like Baldur's gate type of crpg with a nice innovation of smikingdom management and many characters quests world live around you.. »