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Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition is the first isometric party-based cRPG set in the Pathfinder fantasy universe. Enjoy a classic RPG experience inspired by games like Baldur's Gate, Fallout 1 and 2 and Arcanum. Explore and conquer the Stolen Lands and make them your kingdom!
Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition is a rpg, party-based rpg and fantasy game
developed by Owlcat Games
and published by Knights Peak.
Released on September 25th 2018 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 5 languages: English, French, German, Russian and Simplified Chinese.
It has received 33,421 reviews of which 26,001 were positive and 7,420 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.7 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 64-bit or newer
- Processor: Intel Celeron 1037U @ 1.80GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000
- Storage: 30 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card
MacOS
- OS: OS X El Capitan
- Processor: Intel Core i7-3610QE @ 2.30GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000
- Storage: 30 GB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64-bit or newer
- Processor: Intel Celeron 1037U @ 1.80GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000
- Storage: 30 GB available space
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Pathfinder: Kingmaker is a very engaging, but at the same time extremely exhausting game. The clearly good parts are the writing and the soundtrack. Everything else is at best questionable, and at worst terrible. The main reason most players should try this game is its story. The text is written quite well and is interesting to read. I wanted to know how the story would end, to complete companion quests, and to solve small problems of my kingdom. The game itself is fairly linear, but it has an alignment system that makes role-playing flexible. You can play very different kinds of characters. The game also has an excellent soundtrack that does not become annoying even after 100 hours. Whether you like the gameplay strongly depends on what extreme you are ready to accept. Are you willing to sit with Excel spreadsheets, maximizing your party and constantly checking the player’s handbook, or do you prefer to set the difficulty to minimum and just follow the story? The developers tried to adapt the Pathfinder tabletop system to a video game format, but the problem is that the system turned out to be overcomplicated. There is too much math, both hidden and obvious. To play effectively, you constantly need to consider a huge number of modifiers, bonuses, and stats. For players unfamiliar with the original system, this will be very difficult, and the in-game tutorials are not enough. This also works poorly with real-time combat. Yes, there is a turn-based mode, but considering the number of fights, it is really needed only for difficult battles. Even on normal difficulty, the game can punish you for not knowing certain mechanics, although you can always respec your character. Balance problems make this worse: some dungeons are very easy, but at the end you may face bosses or even regular enemies that are completely too strong for your level. The peak of bad game design is the second-to-last dungeon, House at the End of Time. You are constantly affected by debuffs, enemies regularly paralyze your characters, and the character who could help you deal with this is simply killed. This is not even mentioning the level design with very annoying portal puzzles, which took me more time than the fights themselves. Many players quit the game right before the finale because of this dungeon. Besides combat, the game has a kingdom management system where you capture lands, build cities, and assign characters to solve various problems in the realm. For most of the game, this system is quite enjoyable, but it also has serious balance issues. In the last third of the game, the difficulty of skill checks becomes absurdly high, so most decisions start to fail. At the same time, feedback is very weak, and the game does not clearly explain what you are doing wrong. Thankfully, you can enable automatic kingdom management and ignore this system. Among smaller but annoying issues: some quests are time-limited and give you a limited number of days to complete them. The main problem is that the game does not always clearly tell you how much time you have. Because of this, quests you postpone may fail unexpectedly. Overall, if you value role-playing games with a strong story, role-playing options, and deep mechanics, and you are ready to tolerate messy implementation, Pathfinder: Kingmaker can give you a great 100+ hour experience. However, before playing, it is worth at least slightly familiarizing yourself with the player’s handbook. Otherwise, it is better to lower the difficulty to minimum and enable automatic kingdom management.
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Of all the Owlcat games, this is the hardest to get through. It was and still is incredibly ambitious and borderline demented, but this ambition comes with drawbacks, many of which they only started to remedy in their more recent titles (WotR and Rogue Trader). It is incredibly long, to the point where the endgame is more of a marathon than a glorious climax. This marathon sadly extends to the gameplay as endless waves of trash fights, for which you still have to sort of min-max and buff up tho (thanks PF 1e), simply get boring and tedious after a while. Choices and consequences also suffer from the game lenght. Without more specialised RP options and world consequences, any alignment path besides Chaotic good will feel severely out of place and weird. The Mythic system in WotR did wonders to remedy this, but once again this is an example of a lesson learned from a non-functional aspect of Kingmaker. The endings are also severely undercooked and do not synergise between eachother, it is so bad I wouldve prefered a "You win" screen to what I got. This is a problem in all 3 Owlcat CRPGs to date, and I cannot pinpoint why it keeps happening. Fallout New Vegas did good and cohesive ending slides back in 2010, you dont have to re-invent the wheel here. So after all this, why the thumbs up? Well for one, as a product of its time, it is amazing and the sheer gravitas of this game being the springboard from which Owlcat began their rise into the CRPG game market is incredible. Taking something so niche, executing it so incredibly, painstakingly accurate that it actually becomes a detriment and still create a fun and engaging product is nothing short of awesome. The build variety is great (Although somewhat limited if one wants to play on anything higher than Normal), the scope of adventuring around and managing a kingdom at the same time feel good (IF IT WAS SHORTER) and some character arcs are legitimately cool, you can become attached to these people as well as your kingdom as a whole and Owlcat's writing definitely proved itself in their very first entry already. Sadly, less than 10 % of the playerbase has the "you win" Achievement. Less than 10 % actually finished the game. This is somewhat expected, considering the niche nature of the game and it many non accessible aspects, but its still sad. In my opinion, no matter how niche, a game shouldn't be not finished by a large majority of players and I blame the lenght above anything. You can play the same Pen & paper campaign for many years, but this lenght, this maturing of story which comes naturally in IRL Roleplaying, cannot be translated to a videogame. I bet most people had fun for their first 30, 35 or even 40 hours, but just didn't have it in them to run the final 100 miles. In hindsight they didn't miss much, truely, but this problem with Owlcat games dragging on and simply not holding attention long enough started here with their very first release. WotR upped the completion rate to almost 12 % while rogue trader sits at roughly 17 %. They are slowly catching up the Behemoth of BG 3 with its almost 22 % completion rate, but neither has figured out a way to make most people see these long adventures through. TLDR: Digressions aside, Kingmaker is fun, but tedious. It is detailed but often sloppy. It is grand but often confusing. In the end only the biggest of CRPG fans will see the adventure through, but I like to see the game more as the beginning of a bigger adventure; the adventure of Owlcat games and their struggle to bring CRPGs and niche PnP games solidly into the mainstream. As an "Act 1" of this adventure, Kingmaker is well worth a recommendation.
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I started Pathfinder: Kingmaker thinking I’d be the noble ruler of a proud realm. Ten hours later, I was knee-deep in tax reports, kingdom unrest, and three missing companions because I forgot to rest for five days. Every decision feels important until you realize the real enemy isn’t trolls or undead — it’s the RNG dice roll that keeps ruining your diplomacy. The combat is brutal, the dialogue is endless, and the loading screens give you time to reflect on your poor life choices. But somehow… it’s brilliant. The story sucks you in, the companions are lovable disasters, and every victory feels earned — mostly because you survived the UI. I wanted to be a ruler, but ended up a sleep-deprived peasant with a crown.
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“We Are Going on an Adventure!” TL;DR: A deep, story-rich CRPG with amazing companions and kingdom building. It’s slow-paced but absolutely worth it if you love epic adventures. First things first: a little warning before you dive in. Pathfinder: Kingmaker is a slow-burn experience. You’ll need patience because this game is huge, packed with content (amazing content, to be fair) and a lot of reading. The Pathfinder system itself isn’t the most beginner-friendly either, so expect a learning curve. If you don’t enjoy reading or prefer fast-paced action, this might not be the game for you. But if you’re willing to take your time and learn, the payoff is absolutely worth it. I absolutely love this game because it reminds me of The Fellowship of the Ring. What first drew me to Lord of the Rings was the idea of a group of companions coming together for a common cause to save the world from evil and the sense of camaraderie and connection between them. That same feeling is why I fell in love with CRPGs, and Pathfinder: Kingmaker captures it perfectly. Your companions have depth, their stories matter, and the sense of building something together, whether it’s a party or an entire kingdom, feels amazing. The character customization is incredible. There are tons of classes, archetypes, and feats that let you create any build you can imagine. Combat can be real-time with pause or turn-based (I recommend turn-based if you struggle with some of the tougher fights), and it becomes very tactical once you get into it. The story is rich and engaging, growing into something truly epic as the game progresses. Kingdom management adds an extra layer that I personally loved, especially interacting with advisors and artisan visits, which make your realm feel alive and connected to your choices. The game is in great shape now, and honestly, I don’t understand why people still complain about bugs. I only ran into a couple of minor visual issues. If you want a rich, old-school RPG with modern polish, deep roleplaying, and a true sense of epic adventure, this is it. Just bring patience and don’t hesitate to Google if you don’t understand something.
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Finally! After four starts and 620 hours, I finally finished Pathfinder: Kingmaker (the entire game probably lasts about 80 hours for one playthrough). This has to be the most convoluted game I've ever played (which is not to say that it is a bad game). To rate this game based on a simple binary (yes or no) system would be grossly misleading. Pathfinder: Kingmaker requires patience... a lot of patience. If you do not like to read a lot of stuff in your games, then that's already going to create a bad experience for you. Kingmaker looks like a regular party-based RPG like Pillars of Eternity or Divinity: Original Sin, but does does not play like that in my opinion. While PoE and D:OS have an almost intuitive feel for their game mechanics, Kingmaker's mechanics require you to read and read and respec and retry and restart and oh boy...! In a word, convoluted! The game is quite tedious and frustrating in it's first act. The middle game is where I had the most fun given that combat becomes more accessible and dynamic compared to the first acts. The end game was exhausting. In general the game feels like all the ideas that were put on the table during game development were just thrown into the game without any streamlining. Some people may like it, others may not. Personally, I believe that less is more with such games or, at least, streamline the systems. The morality system is one of the worst I've encountered in a game of its type/class. Combat becomes fun in the middle to endgame. The kingdom management is a unique addition to the games systems and I very much appreciated that inclusion. The story was engaging enough that I wanted to see it through to the end, regardless of how the end game was presented. If you like reading and figuring out systems, perhaps Pathfinder will be for you. If you prefer a game with intuitive gameplay mechanics, then I would not recommend Pathfinder. I am yet to play the second game. Hopefully, some things will be improved in that iteration.
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Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition received 26,001 positive votes out of a total of 33,421 achieving a rating of 7.66.
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Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition was developed by Owlcat Games and published by Knights Peak.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition is a single-player game.
There are 6 DLCs available for Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition. Explore additional content available for Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition on Steam.
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Developer
Owlcat Games
Publisher
Knights Peak
Release
25 Sep 2018
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