Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition
Fair · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $3.59. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 76.8h
- Value
- $0.05/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 3000, 30 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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!
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in June 2024. It has been discounted 72 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $3.59 at 82 percent off still sits 20 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
On value it sits in the top 14 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 67 percent. On the same math Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition ($19.99, scores 81) and Tyranny ($29.99, scores 62) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
1 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 612 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 76.8 hours; clearing it takes 209, which is 2.7 times the campaign.
Still 590 concurrent players, 8 years in.
The drop-off
81% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
590 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
9+/10 if you install quality of life mods. Can also be played in multiplayer using turn based combat and screen sharing.
A tad too long but the story and the gameplay kept me invested till the end. I reached the perfect conclusion for my character. Can't wait to try the second game since people say it's even better!
Being forced to complete companion quests that are contrary to the character that I was trying to play in order to prevent the ending from being terrible was extremely restricting to my choices. I hate it when a game forces you to make decisions simply because of the developers thoughts on how you're "supposed" to play the game instead of allowing players the option to play the way they want to.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/640820/pathfinder-kingmaker-enhanced-plus-editionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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