Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Party-based fantasy combat against bandits, monsters, and undead shown from an isometric view with blood and visual gore effects.
Alcohol is consumed in taverns and fantasy potions and drugs are referenced and used within the setting.
The plot dwells on curses, betrayal, psychological torment of your companions, and a nymph's centuries-long suffering and vengeance.
Demonic cults and summoning-style rituals appear as antagonist elements within the fantasy setting.
Companion romance arcs include references to sex and sexual acts through dialogue, with no on-screen depiction.
Some suggestive character art and revealing outfits; the game itself contains no explicit nude visuals.
Undead crypts, a lich, and grotesque beast-transformations create some frightening imagery.
The lawless Stolen Lands are overrun by bandits, and alignment choices let the player rule harshly or act cruelly.
Combat includes fighting wild beasts such as wolves and bears as ordinary enemies.
Cruelty and torture of captives are referenced in dialogue and dark story beats.
Dialogue includes occasional profanity and coarse insults among characters and enemies.
Who can reach your kid
What it is
Pathfinder: Kingmaker is a lengthy single-player, party-based fantasy role-playing game where you build a character, recruit companions, and carve out and rule your own barony in a lawless frontier. Play is a mix of exploration, dialogue-driven quests, and tactical combat (real-time-with-pause or turn-based) against bandits, monsters, undead, and rival rulers, with blood and visible gore during fights. The story leans into mature, heavy themes — curses, betrayal, and psychological torment — and includes drinking, potions and fantasy drugs, coarse and sexual dialogue, and optional companion romances that can imply sexual encounters without showing them. An alignment system lets the player choose kind or cruel responses. It is offline only, with no chat, microtransactions, or online play.
How it's framed
The game frames choice and consequence as central: your alignment and decisions as a ruler shape how companions and the kingdom fare, and both heroic and villainous paths are available and played straight. Violence is standard adventuring against threats, and darker content — curses, cruelty, the suffering behind the antagonist — is presented as serious narrative weight rather than as spectacle or reward.
Details
- Developer
- Owlcat Games
- Publisher
- Knights Peak
- Released
- Sep 25, 2018
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