Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition

The game is great until i forces a stupid auto chess mini game. It so dumb, I don't want a dumb require game of the "Crusade" I want to play a party based rpg. This game is a mistake. It's like those shows that change genres halfway through the series.

Great story, standard pathfinder combat.
I have now been playing tabletop pathfinder for 12 years at this point and can say that the combat in it sucks. Spell failure and resistance just are not fun mechanics when endgame enemies just have +30 or more to any of their saves. THAT being said I love the writing that Owlcat has brought to the characters. 7/10

Good story focused rpg with lots of roleplaying opportunities, whether ye be an orc barbarian of Elvish Wyzard.

As per previous installment, Kingmaker, Wrath of the Righteous did not disappoint.
The crusade management is much simpler than the kingdom management, but building armies and the grid based combat brings a new spice to the series.
The world map is smaller in terms of locations, but there's still lots to do with many new classes and archetypes, new mystic paths and companions and of course, a secret ending that i failed to acquire in my initial play through. Will replay again and will definitely recommend.

Note that with the many choices and options the game has to offer, its not perfect and at times, can be frustrating but the overall experience will not disappoint.

Better gameplay and mechanics than its predecessor but preferred the more grounded storyline of the first game. Still good fun.

Score: 7/10

Great game with lots of build options and amazing modding community.

Has tons of replayability. Also godawful puzzles (which devs dialed down a bit).

Devs listen to comminuty feedback and do improve the game even long after its release.

Fantastic cRPG and one of the best in the genre. It may not be as polished as Baldur's Gate 3 but gameplay, combat, story, companions, and world building are all excellent.
The game is definitely more complicated and has a higher learning curve than most cRPGs. I recommend using online guides before starting the game and at early levels. If you go past level 3-4 you would love it and appreciate its complexity.
Overall, I think it is a must play for all RPG fans!

I started this game more due to boredom & was heavily surprised how much I loved it ^^
The last time, I liked the companios that much, was when I played Mass Effect. Besides, since there are several surprised hidden, exploring felt pretty much always rewarding imo.

However, two heads-up as a warning:
1) The combat: Since I play a lot D&D 5E I thought that I could get easy into the game. Oh boy, was I wrong. At first, I was extremly confused & had to relearn alot, but tbf I woulnd't say that's the games entire fault (it didn't help that the German translation was sometimes kinda misleading). But yeah, my main problem was even though I liked the feeling of getting stronger & stronger through the stroy, it felt a bit plain how most of the new skills were basically "Alright, instead of +2 attack you will now get +3 attack AND +1 damage!" & too simliar to each other. I mean, a lot of the high-levels spells are versions of the lower ones but you can target more than one enemy. Eh.

2) The riddles: I really, REALLY did... not quite appreciate them. The fact that I was even puzzled about them after I looked up after their solutions out of desperation made me feel less bad.

Please keep in mind that I only detailed my complaints to adjust expectations. The game's story more than made up for all of it imo :)

Одна из лучших изометрических РПГ нашего времени. Отличный сюжет, прекрасные, проработанные спутники, интересные квесты, музыка и прогрессия. Моё почтение

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous – a symphony of jank.
A decent story with solid NPCs buried in a lengthy campaign built on overcomplicated mechanics and a frankly tedious gameplay loop. Buy it at 90% off.
You can 100% it if you hope to be isekai’d and need god-tier stats for the next life.

Did I have a good time with it? Yes.
Did I drop it in act 5? Unfortunately also yes.
I very much enjoyed the story and characters as well as their related quests. All the companions were unique and interesting characters I enjoyed spending time with.

HOWEVER... The combat or more accurately the encounter design is uhm... bad?
It's pretty bad. Quite often it just feels like a bunch of enemies have been thrown together every few steps in a dungeon, because well... gotta have some enemies here. I assume I might have had a better time if I used the realtime combat more frequently, but I bought this as a turn-based crpg and with the density of all the mechanics, learning an additional optional combat system was just not a priority that was communicated to me.

I played the majority of this game on normal difficulty because that is what I usually do on a first playthrough but I had to switch to easier modes in a few encounters and I will say that it feels like there is a very big gap between normal and easy mode (which is the second easiest mode in the game). It sort of feels like there could have been a difficulty setting between the two which maybe should have actually been the normal mode. Then again the difficulty is fully customizable which is pretty nice.

What actually made me drop the game was a bug that I encountered a few times in the late game where basically initiative would never be set in combat, locking you in combat mode with no ability to actually fight, staring at your enemies and characters just standing there in an eternal face-off. This mixed with already building frustration about the combat design made me close the game for the forseeable future.

TLDR: I don't know if I would recommend, enemy layout is bad, characters and story are great, difficulty is set weird but fully customizable if you want to put in the effort.

It tries a lot of things, sometimes to its own detriment but I guess I am glad the game exists?

Many of my favourite games are CRPGs. However, I’ve never been a huge fan of reading and this genre seems to be dominated by games lacking full voice acting, so I’ve skipped over many of the most popular ones. This is one such game that lacks full voice acting, but due to it’s low $4 price tag during the sale, I decided to give it a chance, and I am immensely glad that I did. Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition is phenomenal. It’s so good that I honestly didn’t miss the lack of voice acting. I’m not going to pretend it’s as good as my favourites in the genre, like Baldur’s Gate 3 and Disco Elysium, but it’s a lot closer than I was expecting, and I think might actually be on the same level in some ways.

The game feels incredibly deep with a large amount of build and dialog choice. At times it can be a little overwhelming just how much choice is thrown in your face. There is an option to automatically build characters as they level up, but I always prefer to build them how I want, and I play these sorts of games on easier difficulties, so its usually much harder to make a nonviable build. Speaking of that, I did notice that some of the build options just seemed to be blatantly worse than others. For example on one of my level ups I picked a skill that gave me +2 to one of my skills, but I later realized that there was also a skill, hidden in a drop down, that gave me +4 to the same stat. They seem to stack and I ended up picking both so I do not think it’s a problem to have both, but it would have been nice if the game did something to make it harder to make this mistake. Maybe show a list of similar skills or warn the user if a blatantly better skill exists so that they can pick that first, since I would imagine these decisions matter a lot more on harder difficulties. Honestly, that is the biggest issue this game has: it could have used another pass or two too polish it and fill it with additional QOL features.

Going back to the dialog, I thought it was quite well written. I never once got bored, even though I was reading it myself, rather than listening to the characters speak, as I prefer to do. The story is fantastic and even though it has a lot going on, it’s told in a very simple way that is both engaging and easy to follow. It’s filled with interesting twists and reveals. The dozen or so companions I encountered on my journey all felt unique, interesting, and seemed to have a wide variety of beliefs, although some of them did feel like they could have been developed more throughout the story. I actually ended up killing a few of them off due to conflicts that arose within my party. This is something I don’t think I’ve ever done before, and it was really neat to see. The ones in your party will occasionally chime in during conversations and even banter with each other, which I always really like. I would have liked to see even more of this, but I can’t complain about the amount already in the game. If I had to guess, I would say that only maybe 5% of the dialog is voiced. This seems to mainly be around the introduction of major characters and major story moments. The voice acting is generally quite good and I wish there was more of it, but I really did not mind the reading nearly as much as I thought I would.

The combat is something I did not engage with a lot. This is not because it is bad, I just played on an easier difficulty, where combat mattered less. The game has a number of difficulty presets as well as a dozen or so options you can tweak. I started by selecting one of the easier difficulties, and then tweaked the options a bit, such as re enabling manual level ups. This meant that most of the time, my party just ran in and destroyed everything with basic attacks in a few seconds time. I had fun playing this way, but it’s probably not the way most people are looking to play. For what it’s worth, there did seem to be a large variety of spells, but finding better gear is not super common. On that note, the game doesn’t do a great job of making it obvious how certain things are calculated. All the information is there, just sometimes its buried in submenus inside menus. For example, I spent most of my play through wondering why my archer with lower dexterity always did more damage with their bow than my other archer using the same bow. When I hovered over the damage calculation I did not see anything that explained this. Eventually, I realized that if I opened my inventory, clicked the bow, opened it’s submenu, and I think opened another submenu inside that, I got an explanation telling me that the bows I was using had a modifier that made them add the users strength modifier to their damage.

Something else the game excels at is its sense of scale. Even though the game is divided up into dozens of smaller areas, it manages to feel absolutely massive. It provides a sense of adventure that I have not seen in many other games. This sense of scale is also helped by the fact that the game sort of has 2 modes. In one, you are your party going around doing quests exploring. In the other, you command an army and make military and make diplomatic decisions, and build up fortresses; sort of like a watered down strategy game. I quite enjoyed the balance of having both parts, even if my army strategy consisted of increasing size until I could just auto-win battles.

As a final minor complaint, this game is quite stingy with it’s achievements. Outside of the DLC, It’s not uncommon to sit down with the game, play for a half dozen hours or so and not get a single achievement.

Overall, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition is a game I really cannot recommend highly enough, as long as you are fine with a lot of reading, some somewhat unintuitive menus, and cutscenes that feel quite low budget and could use some polish. The $4 I spent to buy the base game is probably the best $4 I’ve ever spent (Terraria was only $3). I liked it so much I ended up purchasing both seasons passes part way through my game, so my 124 hours of playtime includes the 3 DLCs that were integrated into the main story, but not the 3 standalone DLCs. I honestly believe that If this studio was given more time and a bigger budget, they could make something to Rival or possibly even surpass Baldur’s Gate 3. I will have to check out their other games and I am excited to see what they put out next.

Poor writing, flimsy characters, battle is boring, and leveling is agonizingly slow. I had to quit when I was 3 hours into a battle that just would not stop spawning enemies... Felt like a waste of time. 1 star for Lann, I like him.

Gran juego con mas opciones, una vez que entiendes el loop de juego se vuelve muy adictivo.

TL:DR : сюжет цікавий, але геймплей займає абсолютно більшу к-ть часу по відношенню до наративу, а він в грі ну дуже нудний, недороблений і виснажливий.

Тут непоганий сюжет, гарний візуал, який підкреслює всю масштабність подій, добрий саунд дизайн і тд. Але певно самий основний плюс даної гри це її реіграбельність, оскільки центральним компонентом гри є механіка міфічних шляхів, яка видозмінює не тільки добру частину сюжету, подій в грі, але й видозмінює ваш загальний стиль гри. Це все дуже круто зроблено, це основна причина чому мені ХОЧЕТЬСЯ грати в гру і чому мені ХОТІЛОСЬ би пройти її не один і не два рази, кожен раз змінюючи білд свого персонажа, білд напарників, міфічний шлях і тд.

Але ключовим в цьому всьому є ось це "ХОЧЕТЬСЯ", оскільки коли сідаєш саме грати, то починаються проблеми. Всі ігри по Pathfinder від Owlcat Games можна описати фразою "quantity over quality". Як в першій грі були не цікаві сайд квести, максимально філерні локації з лутом, недороблена механіка будівництва міста, а ще дуже і дуже багато нічим нецікавих битв з рядовими ворогами, так і тут абсолютно ідентичні проблеми.

Тут дуже багато не потрібних боїв, кожен з яких триває вічність, оскільки здоров'я ворогів росте дуже стрімко, як і пошкодження від них. Між боями на локації може проходити від сили хвилини 3-4. І це окей, в усіляких Воротах Балдура (ті що перші два), чи Стовпах Вічності в усіляких підземеллях теж достатньо ворогів. Але відмінність в тому, що ті ігри дизайнились так, що хоч і з певним челленджом, але їх можна було пройти в соло, керуючи тільки безпосередньо персонажем гравця. Ця ж гра не про це, ви завжди ходитиме з повною групою напарників і тому в якості балансування разраби вимушені і ворогів робити доволі жирними, і к-ть їх збільшувати. І це дууууже набридає. Набридає це тому, що ні один з режимів гри не пристосований адекватно для такої к-ті ворогів -- в пошаговому режимі деякі окремі бої по своїй тривалості можуть перевалювать за ГОДИНУ (що ДУУУУУУУЖЕ круто, адже в грі ви не можете зберігатись під час боїв, тому помилка під кінець такого бою може означати перегравання всього бою з самого початку), а в реальному часі з паузою у вас навряд буде можливість контроллювати абсолютно всі процеси, що трапляються. Ну я обрав пошаговий режим і мій геймплей виглядав так: 3 хв відпочинку, 5-10 хв битви і так до поки не дійдеш до міні босса, з яким будеш битись протягом 20 хв. І так сумарно ти десь годину-дві будеш битись, щоб отримати незначну порцію сюжету, за якою слідуватиме весь минулий процес. Ееее, ну я не витримав духоти цього процесу.

Про організацію хрестового походу взагалі мовчу, максимально філерна та недороблена механіка, єдина стратегія в якій це обирати генералами магів. Все інше це непотріб

This is not doing it for me (yet). Way too linear and repetitive first chapter, not enough of a hook thus far.

After you spend 100 hours in character creation, you then have a very bland story that you're forced to watch.

The difficulty curve in this game is equivalent to more health for enemies, and forcing your party to infinitely miss whatever they're attacking; Unless you want to play on carebear mode which virtually defeats any purpose of class and character development. This game is bs, and they're robbing players blind.

This game is too tedious. I don't want to have to cast a bunch of buffs on my party before every battle

Owlcat games can't seem to make a game without gamebreaking bugs. And OMG!!! READ THE EULA AGREEMENT!!! This alone should freak anyone out to the point of wanting to burn this company to the ground. The game requires you to allow Owlcat Games the ability to download third-party software onto your computer. This external software is permitted to scrape your machine for data, including hardware specs and other installed apps. The data is supposedly anonymized, but is geolocated. The scraped information is then permitted to be used for marketing purposes with any of Owlcat's marketing partners.

Just 6 hours in and I've learned how much of an intersectional feminist wet dream this game is going to be. Right out of the gate, nearly every female NPC is a "gurl boss" and the few male NPCs encountered thus far are the ideologically mandated "effeminate" type. Otherwise, it seems fine. Been playing (GMing) RPGs for decades. I've always enjoyed egalitarian parties and storylines, but the feminism in this one seems a little too forced. Let's hope things improve...

the first time I try an DND based game. Although there're too many thing to digest, but overall, the experience is so great. Love it

pretty good game i think

While it's not perfect and some of the most annoying parts of the game (Crusade battles, most of Act 4 on repeat playthroughs) truly drag it down. However, I think the highs it provides eclipse a lot of other "cool moments" in most games.

It often goes on sale for 2-5 bucks, if you like the genre there is no reason not to get it and give it a whirl. Don't be afraid to lower the difficulty until you can get a good hang of the quasi-PF1e system, it takes some time.

Also look up every puzzle solution in the game, trying to understand them is not worth your time. The slabs are fun to figure out once, same with the various other things scattered around, but you genuinely risk losing out on important things over some (in my opinion) very peculiarly designed challenges.

This game alongside Rogue Trader just solidify for me that Owlcat are going to be mainstays in the Fantasy CRPG genre.
- Fantastic Story
- Fantastic Gameplay and Mechanics
- Very Good character design
- Great achievements
- Awesome difficulty scaling

Captivity begins with ones own mind
Yes. one of the best dnd games for me. And the best of the best story games that I will remember for a long time.

the longest game ive ever played (143 hrs) but a very well made RPG. 100% recommend it

I wanted to like this game, I really tried.

Wrath of the Righteous plays and feels worse then most older clunk-fest games I have played, with a complete lack of QoL, or even the most basic of attempts to make playing the game easy for the player. I can excuse this form of clunk in older games from 2001, but I refuse to excuse it from a game made in 2021. The lack of thought and care that went into the gameplay is outright appalling, it feels like they just read a pathfinder manual, slapped all the mechanics in unity, then decided to leave it as is instead of trying to improve how the game actually played.

Go play Baldurs Gate 3 or other RPG games, this one isn't worth your time.

good game, i like the magic system and world building/story

Great Value for your money! One of the best RPGs out there, long and meaningful amazing story. The character you make goes on an adventure where the way you play and the choices you make shapes the world, with all the tons of different classes, abilities and spells you can choose from, this game's replay ability and entertainment's potential is endless.

If you ignore the pain (No just because they are demon cyborgs that shouldnt mean they are important to electricity, their electronics will still fucking die despite them being demons) its a really great and engaging game.

207 hours, one of my long game play aside from the other series. Highly recommended, full of stress as it was difficult enough, a lot of reference to walk through all over internet with AI assistance of course. Too many choices to be made. And it is all worth the story and ending.

Overall a much better game than Kingmaker. The writing is better, the application of the G-E/L-C morality system is mostly sane, and the game is overall more stable. Those are more or less objective observations. Subjectively, I am enjoying the story much more, and find the Crusade management more interesting than Kingdom management. I also find the companions more interesting. I do think some of the voice acting might be worse, though. hard to say really.

My only real complaint is with technical side of things. It's still kind of buggy and the optimization is entirely lacking. My AMD 5600 XT is no power house of a GPU, but I'm not playing at 4k or anything, and... have you seen this game? It isn't exactly graphically demanding. Or shouldn't be. Yet for some reason it the GPU runs at near 100% and the game runs at around 45 fps. On the Steam deck, it's even worse. For that matter, the fonts are terrible on the Deck's small screen. I'm not sure what changed between Kingmaker and Wrath, but they did something to make it run and look way worse on the Steam Deck.

Just like with Kingmaker, but not to the same extent, I just do not enjoy the dialogue, the writing, or the setting. I like the idea of a grand battle between light and dark, but goodness me it's so generic that that they've somehow made the concept boring and dry.

The dialogue is bad again as well. Everyone is a bit too over the top and the writing of dialogue is basic to the point that it feels like a child wrote it in their knights vs demons fantasy. I don't think over the top dialogue is an inherently bad thing, but if you want it to be over the top, don't make it so incredibly basic. Be flowery.

Combat, like all CRPGs, starts of slow and you miss everything. However, even when you do start hitting things, it still feels slow. Incredibly slow. This game is the epitome of a slow slog through hell; maybe the gameplay is representative of the story.

Speaking of combat, all of the classes have great depth and customisation options, but it takes a long time before your class actually feels unique. You will spend most of your time using your weapons, not your spells.

I think there are better CRPGs with far superior writing and settings, such as Pillars of Eternity, Tyranny, and even the old Baldur's Gate games, as well as the new one.

I guess they just expect you to have to wade through forums to figure out wtf to do. Quests have very little info and few prompts on where to go. Nothing like a non open world rpg where you cant even figure out what the fuck they want you to do. Unfortunate as the gameplay is alright and i was excited as we play pathfinder book rpg...fire the retards who decided hey guys lets put annoying and hard to find shit everywhere with no direction what to do

This is probably one of the best tabletop adaptation games I've played, especially in terms of power fantasy. The game has various Mythic Paths, in which you transform into an Angel, a Demon, an Aeon, a Lich, a Golden Dragon, etc. Each has it's own unique effects on how people interact with you, the army you lead, troops you get, and a unique set of powers that combine with your normal leveling progression. You also have a solid range of companions who you can influence by your choices and interactions with them.

The Good: All the stuff I mentioned above. Content depth - A single run is probably a good hundred+ hours of gameplay. Replayability - The different mythic paths are divergent enough in story that it doesn't feel like just doing the exact same things over again. The companion characters are all pretty great. Build customization - You have SO many options. Highly customizable difficulty options - You can up damage taken, damage dealt, scale monster tactics (how much they use CC, buffs), all kind of different stuff.

The bad: This IS a pretty long game. It's also very mechanically crunchy compared to say, BG3. If you play every combat in turn based mode like I did on my first playthrough some areas take an agonizingly long time.

The Ugly: Build customization - Remember when I said you had SO many options up in the good? Well, if you don't already know Pathfinder 1E pretty well, you're about to have to read a fuckton of text at the start of the game to make a good build. Or follow a guide, which is a lot easier.

Just the absolute worst: Blackwater.

Obviously recommend. It's a fantastic game, its all we had before BG3 and it is of equal depth. Owlcat has put much love and care into the world and the game itself. Yes there are some silly bugs here and there and there could be improvements, but thats a game that's gonna take over 160 hours from you and you're not even gonna notice. If you like ttrpgs, just go for it, you won't regret it.

Best CRPG I have played in a long time. Great story immersion. I really felt like my party was saving a huge part of the world.
I feel like it addressed each of my problems with Kingmaker and fixed them well.

Big Time thumbs up. I get lost in character creation, character leveling and the vast amount choices you get to make. The game is wonderful and very worth the time!!!

Very good game!!! I'm 116 hours in, but still in act 3! The game is very large, long and time consuming. I don't know how many hours i spend just to build & look for a guide to build my character.

i felt overwhelmed at first, there were so many classes and sub classes in creating a character and so much lore in the game. but after getting used to it, this is one of the best games i have ever played, we can decide what we wanted to be and the choices we make will have an impact on the world, which makes every playing session feel different. locations, interactions, details, etc. is incredibly impressive!

This was exactly the game I needed after Baldur's Gate 3 and after reading reviews for the latest Dragon Age game, which I did not purchase. This is a seriously solid RPG, though each chapter took some adjustments, and I'm already starting another playthrough after spending months getting through the first. The story and characters are classic and the amount of choices are staggering. Enjoyed the combat, including the ability to just let it run, though I often went turn based and micromanaged. Loved the puzzles and level design. Everything else you can tell from a little preview - it's isometric, complicated character building combat with a lot of reading. But also compelling and so fun to play. Would absolutely recommend.

Pathfinder: 0/10
Wrath of the Righteous: 10/10

Seriously, this gameplay made me sure I never would want to play Pathfinder on a tabletop either. You really need to rules lawyer absolutely every spell, because there are so many similar but actually completely incompatible terms, it's simply mentally exhausting, and on top of that it's all dice rolls anyway, so even if you rules lawyer perfectly you still get fucked half the time. Also the sorcerer has >100 spells by the end of the game, and there is no search function, so it really is very fiddly. I ended up spamming fireballs and later chain lightning up to the end of the game, figuring out the right spell to use among 5-page-long enemy character sheets is just not fun for me.

I played with auto-crusade, the world map mechanic was already frustrating enough having to control 1 unit, let alone if I had 10 platoons and an upgrade system on top, geez. Thankfully in the late game you get enough stealth to be able to always evade enemies even when exhausted, but during most of the game, traveling between places is full of interruptions by not very challenging battles, and managing the rest menu every screenful. It also conflicts with urgency in the story, since you can rest for 30 days with someone yelling "we have to go there NOOWWWW", not a big fan.

But the writing is worth it! It really is. Every time I rage quit from having a whole turn where all participants (enemies and teammates alike!) missing all attacks, I reopened the game 5 minutes later to continue exploring the world. The overarching story is the classic chosen one format, but the side quests and smaller moments are really really well executed. I'm not usually a side quest person, but this game's were the most fun part.

I've played these types of genre since Baldur's Gate 1 & Icewind Dale. Pathfinder WOTR so far is the best CRPG surpassing if not all in my opinion (on par with BG3 in their own flavor). The only thing that needs to be added is to have pre-autobuffs for any skill/spell option. These tons of buffs are very time consuming esp. for people w/ busy lives/career. I know there is a MOD for this but its best to integrate it. Hands down the BEST!!!

This game is awesome. Now that I'm 128 hours in, I'm finally done with character creation. I can't wait to see what the story holds.

Okay but in all seriousness, this is a great game with an enormous amount of depth. The sheer variety in itemization and customization is a thing that many contemporary games shy away from in the name of simplicity. I, for one, love to be treated as an adult with the ability to read. Enormously rewarding game. I managed to get it on sale for three bucks, and in retrospect this is probably one of the best values of any game I've ever played. I have committed to playing every available owlcat CRPG basically because this one is so great.

This game has a lot of good things going for it, but it is unnecessarily hard. Like, way too hard. I want to love it, but I have to reload so many battles that it doesn't feel worth the time sink most of the time.

Ember my dear ancient daughter I'll force all the gods to chill out and help people just for you.

A good game if you enjoy d&d tabletop and have a couple hundred hours to spend.

In the nomal/lower difficulties it's ok to let the system auto-level, but if you have to level manually, prepare to waste 30 minutes each time you level up reading/thinking your options.

I tried hard to like this game, but 75 hours of trying to look past the flaws with hope of a better time to only encounter more flaws is just too much.

The balancing in this game is shit. It is not a matter of being too easy or too hard, that is what the difficulty options are for. It's a matter of being too easy or too hard inconsistently. The crusade can be a grind, unless you use a mage general, in which case you win all fights before enemy gets to move. The actual party gameplay is mostly a comfortable breeze except for when you take a turn down unmarked fork in the road and encounter 'optional fight' that will slaughter you in one turn because the way to beat them is to know they are there and prebuff accordingly. I've kept track of how stupid these optional encounters were and so far, the most stupid I found is an enemy full *18* levels above my party with 14 permanent buff spells on them. It is immersion ruining to have to reload because of something you had no way to see coming.

Also default builds. Default builds can't beat default difficulty. I'm not asking them to be minmaxed destroyers of worlds, but when your most armored companion with best armor you can scrounge dies in one round, something is wrong.

Performance issues are absolutely unbearable.

Stuttering issues, frame loss, vsync doesn't even work correctly.

They attempted to make a custom script to "optimise" the game.

Added a bunch of useless features that obviously don't work at all.

Despite the fact that as a system pathfinder is maybe one of the most esoteric and unnecessarily complex TTRPGs on the market, the game is still fun. That does come with some caveats, pacing can feel off with some acts being too long and others too short, the last act is the most content bare and unpolished like most other CRPGs, and there are seemingly banal choices you can make that just make the game straight up less fun. Despite that the characters and aspects of the story are generally excellent, there is a bunch of content, and the moment to moment gameplay is more serviceable than in most CRPGs. This is also a game that requires a lot of reading so that is something to be aware of, though if that was a problem for you its unlikely you got to this point in the review anyways.

Kinda insane that this game is still getting updates. One of the best CRPGs on steam

honestly a massive failure of game design. Nothing in the game is intuitive, so unless you are a pathfinder nerd then enjoy spending 10 hours reading how anything interacts. Act 1 has some cool moments, but the hook isn't super great. Act 2 literally stonewalls you with some time gated tedious war mode where you have to manage units and your progression in the already dreary story is blocked. Great MORE menus for you to navigate and learn. Random DLC content shows up in act 2 that you cant even do unless you are already level 8+. Scaling in this game is comically out of control, some builds are tactical nukes, others are wet noodles. Enemies having 100000s of AC is not fun game design, cheese or don't win. Just like pathfinder kingmaker this is another failed entry from owlcat. If you really enjoy pathfinder I'm sure you can find a home here, but as an avid enjoyer of EVERY CRPG IVE PLAYED THAT ISNT AN OWLCAT GAME, I'd say it's a hard skip. Also, so many paid DLCs is a massive turn off when they add barely anything to the game. Hard skip this game if you value your time, because the devs sure don't.