Pathfinder: Kingmaker
Pathfinder: Kingmaker is a PC role-playing game developed by Owlcat Games. It centers on area exploration, combat and party setup, and character progression, with controls and information arranged around keyboard and mouse, with a controller where the game supports one.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.9 / 10
About this game
Pathfinder: Kingmaker is a PC role-playing game centered on area exploration, combat and party setup, and character progression. Story beats, exploration, and progression resources support a longer campaign, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Characters, world building, environments, and music carry most of the atmosphere, while resolution, graphics settings, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio, text scaling, and hardware performance need to preserve action, state, and text readability together. The genre-specific limitation is that dense text, menu layers, repeated battles, loading, or language dependence can slow progress. Platform conditions also include OS and hardware requirements, installation media, patches, drivers, DRM and launchers, key binding and controller support, save locations, mod compatibility, servers, and era-specific OS compatibility affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
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Windows PCAI review
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Deep builds and political choices with demanding pacing and guidance
Pathfinder: Kingmaker connects party adventuring with the responsibilities of governing a territory. Classes, feats, spells and companion allegiances offer substantial room for personal decisions, while diplomacy gives those choices a broader setting. The free Enhanced Edition expanded character options and revised parts of the balance and management interface. This remains an experience that rewards careful study rather than casual improvisation. Adventure and administration compete for time, and long waits can sit alongside consequential deadlines. Its fantasy environments and characters form a coherent world, but the PC build assessed in April 2020 still had rule-related defects and limited guidance. This historical base-game assessment excludes paid expansions, later combat modes and assumptions about present patch quality.
Strengths
- Substantial character and party customization.
- Consequential territorial decisions.
Weaknesses
- Waiting and deadline pressure disrupt the rhythm.
- Historical bugs and limited guidance.
Who it is for: Players who enjoy complex rules and long-term party planning.
Play notes: Historical 2020 PC Enhanced base game; current patch behavior is not asserted.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Abundant content has uneven pacing and consequential management deadlines. | Reviewed | 7.3 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Builds and decisions have substantial depth behind a demanding ruleset. | Reviewed | 8.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Detailed traditional fantasy settings give characters and spells a coherent identity. | Reviewed | 8.1 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Useful difficulty options coexist with bugs and limited guidance in the assessed historical build. | Reviewed | 6.9 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Owlcat Games
- Publisher
- Deep Silver
- Release date
- 2018
- Platforms
- Windows PC
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Role-Playing · Primary genre
- Tags
- Third PersonMain Story 20–50 HoursSolo-friendly3D GraphicsExplorationTurn-based CombatFantasyStory-drivenLong-term ProgressionLevel Progression
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Not provided
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- Windows PCWorldwide2018
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