Pathfinder: Kingmaker

[thrdeye]

Wow. Steam ratings have tanked to ~65%. That really IS terrible.
Most of the negative voices are about the balancing, i.e. many consider the game way too hard. Not just "hard" but straight out unfair, not to mention ridiculously overtuned. And not all of the complaints can be attributed to poor understanding of the PF system. Some of the negs seem to have a pretty good understanding of the tabletop rules and monster balance as far as I can tell.

I bought it earlier this year, so I'm stuck with it. I just now managed to fix a camera bug (I had to disconnect a set of rudder pedals, centered and in perfect working order, from the computer to stop them from scrolling the camera up) so I can't verify this but I'll be able to soon. I have seen many claims of random bandits having 20-25 AC with a +15 damage modifier at levels 2-3 on Normal difficulty, which Owlcat claims to have reduced enemy stats. I'll see.

For what it's worth, the consensus seems to be there's an excellent game lurking under the bugs and balance issues.