In this mode combat largely takes care of itself, though it can be oddly dull given the lethargic speed of the animations. Your party will attack based on AI scripts, and use skills, items and abilities at their own discretion. At the lower difficulty levels when you just want to enjoy the story and dominate fights, the real time mode is perfect. While you may think this is a question of preference, it’s actually more a question of how difficult you want the overall experience to be. When in combat you’ll have the option of playing it turn-based like a more traditional CRPG, or in real time. During camp you can assign everyone certain roles, as you’ll need a hunter to find dinner, a cook to repair it, and lookouts to keep watch, all of whom will interact with one another in sometimes surprising ways, maybe divulging traits or hinting at secrets in the world. To begin with it’s a fairly straightforward quest sim, as you travel a world map, deal with random encounters and make camp to heal and form bonds with your characters. But the character is only a small part of the experience, as you’ll also be managing your party and a fortress to keep them in as well. You can mix up classes and races and pick from hundreds of skills to forge your initial character, and dialogue options let you further refine the experience. The story is as compelling as these stories ever get, which is not a denouement but rather an observation on how difficult it is to maintain a thrilling plot while you essentially meander around an enormous world for hundreds of hours, getting into adventures and heading off down tangential paths just to find a new sword or cloak or pair of boots. The reward is a Barony, land and riches and power, but all that is threatened when Jamandi’s home is beset by assassins and your hero is tasked with hunting them down – which itself becomes a race against a rival group of adventurers led by a particularly devious halfling. Hired by Jamandi Aldor, the ruler of the land of Restov to take down the Stag Lord, your hero has glory in their sights.
The scope to create any kind of character you can imagine is huge, and the world you then plunge them into – based on Paizo Publishing’s pen & paper RPG – is vast and deadly.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker – Definitive Edition is the kind of old-school RPG experience that will eat up hundreds of hours of your time – and that’s just in the character creator.
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