It significantly increased my appreciation for games like Icewind Dale and Dragon Age: Origins.

It offers turn-based combat as an option, allowing me to actually enjoy the game (at least what I've played of it). (I find real-time-with-pause to be a horrible combat system, combining the worst aspects of turn-based and real-time.) (With that said, apparently the most recent patch broke some things in turn-based, so I would advise waiting for the next hotfix patch before giving the game a go.)

You can play as a witch, and even get some abilities that aren't per-day if you do so. (Note that shamans also do, and that both classes are represented each by a companion, though for roleplaying reasons a large portion of players will likely take only one of them along.)

Mythic levels are implemented, albeit with mechanics very different from the tabletop version.

There are tons of different options in character building. (Unfortunately, that also means there are a lot of trap options, and the system is not set up to allow fixing of mistakes without a full respec.)

There's no RNG involved in character creation or leveling up. (This is very unlike, say, classic Wizardry or even something like Baldur's Gate (or Demon's Winter, for that matter, or Stranger of Sword City).)

There's some really good music. I especially like the theme for the Trickster mythic path.

Since they dropped Linux support (and even seem to have abandoned the Linux support for Kingmaker), I saved a lot of money by not buying the $100 edition on release day. And I continue to save a lot by continuing to not buy it.

Sorry. I actually like Kingmaker, and will probably eventually buy WotR as well, since it's probably more of the same (good mechanics sandbox, at least, even if the character interactions aren't to my taste). I'm just a little miffed, still, since I felt the rug was pulled out from under me when it seemed they dropped Linux support at the last minute (although they were probably planning that all along). And running games under wine, even if they work "platinum" is not the same, at all, no matter what other people tell you. And now that I've switched (back) to Debian, I can't as easily maintain 8 different versions of custom patched wine (or even one w/ what I consider mandatory patches) on my system. Or build them at all, really, with Debian's weird x86 support. So maybe I'll never buy it, because maybe I'll never run another Windows game again.

Character dynamics and dialogue writing are great, the atmosphere is fantastic. A great game for long winter nights.

and i save £billions£ every day by all the things I do not buy. just imagne all the ££££ I save on not buying fish, as I don't like fish. or as a male, I save even more in menstrual products!

Remember when copyright owners were estimating their losses based on numbers of pirated copies? Just realized they could simply take into account every living person who didn't bought the thing.

I tried to like it and failed spectacularly. Wrote my first game review as a result. Started a new Dragon Age playthrough and am feeling much better.