An amazing immersive medieval RPG. Has a bunch of problems but if you get past those, you're gonna have a really great time. It's much different than what you might be used to from other RPGs. You're just a peasant left orphan and looking for revenge. You are gonna walk a lot, fight much less than you'd think you do, and you'll feel a lot more connected to the characters than in many other games.

Graphics are great, characters are well written and the world is as immersive as it gets. The RPG elements are well constructed, from the skills progression to the different builds and sets of equipment.
Storywise is very well written and makes you intrigued and immersed in it.
The combat system is a weird one, while it's different and goes for a much more realistic approach, it will give you a lot of headaches. Especially in the beginning, it's quite hard to master and while in 1v1s it's a really nice system and a very fun approach to combat, as soon as there is more than one enemy to fight at once, you'll get absolutely destroyed. This is probably my biggest pet peeve against the game, but after a while, you get used to it, start to learn and master it more and more, and it becomes fun to play around.
Another inconvenience would be the save system, while again made in a way to accentuate the realism of the game, it'll give you problems from time to time. To save whenever you want, you'll need a special in-game consumable. Personally, I would recommend just using a mod to get around this but that really depends on the way you want to play.

Regarding the game's technical side, the optimization is quite bad, even on a fairly good rig it will lag sometimes, and will have frame drops. Haven't experienced crashes often, however. I think it happened 2 or 3 times at most in 130 hours of playtime.
Bugs are there, not a truckload of them, but still enough to bother you from time to time. Mostly just minor ones. The worst one I've experienced was getting stuck in the map/inventory/skills screen, impossible to close or navigate and unable to save. So the only thing I could possibly do was force close the game and lose the progress since the last save. Luckily, it wasn't a bug that happened often, only once or twice.
And one minor thing that bothered me a lot was the fact that there is a Hound mastery skill, which will make you believe you'll eventually get a dog and will keep believing and hoping that until you'll finally search about it and discover that the dogs are exclusive to the "A Woman's lot" DLC

Overall, the game was a really great experience, I've enjoyed my time playing it and am looking forward to a second KCD.

An amazing immersive medieval RPG. Has a bunch of problems but if you get past those, you're gonna have a really great time. It's much different than what you might be used to from other RPGs. You're just a peasant left orphan and looking for revenge. You are gonna walk a lot, fight much less than you'd think you do, and you'll feel a lot more connected to the characters than in many other games. Graphics are great, characters are well written and the world is as immersive as it gets. The RPG elements are well constructed, from the skills progression to the different builds and sets of equipment. Storywise is very well written and makes you intrigued and immersed in it. The combat system is a weird one, while it's different and goes for a much more realistic approach, it will give you a lot of headaches. Especially in the beginning, it's quite hard to master and while in 1v1s it's a really nice system and a very fun approach to combat, as soon as there is more than one enemy to fight at once, you'll get absolutely destroyed. This is probably my biggest pet peeve against the game, but after a while, you get used to it, start to learn and master it more and more, and it becomes fun to play around. Another inconvenience would be the save system, while again made in a way to accentuate the realism of the game, it'll give you problems from time to time. To save whenever you want, you'll need a special in-game consumable. Personally, I would recommend just using a mod to get around this but that really depends on the way you want to play. Regarding the game's technical side, the optimization is quite bad, even on a fairly good rig it will lag sometimes, and will have frame drops. Haven't experienced crashes often, however. I think it happened 2 or 3 times at most in 130 hours of playtime. Bugs are there, not a truckload of them, but still enough to bother you from time to time. Mostly just minor ones. The worst one I've experienced was getting stuck in the map/inventory/skills screen, impossible to close or navigate and unable to save. So the only thing I could possibly do was force close the game and lose the progress since the last save. Luckily, it wasn't a bug that happened often, only once or twice. And one minor thing that bothered me a lot was the fact that there is a Hound mastery skill, which will make you believe you'll eventually get a dog and will keep believing and hoping that until you'll finally search about it and discover that the dogs are exclusive to the "A Woman's lot" DLC Overall, the game was a really great experience, I've enjoyed my time playing it and am looking forward to a second KCD.