Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

What it is

Wrath of the Righteous is Owlcat Games' second Pathfinder CRPG, following 2018's Kingmaker. A demon army pours out of a rift called the Worldwound, and the player leads a crusade against it — with the game's signature feature being ten mythic paths, each of which rewrites the campaign's story, companions' reactions and the player's power set around a chosen alignment, from angel to demon to lich.

It supports both classic turn-based and real-time-with-pause combat, switchable at any time, and offers dozens of classes and archetypes drawn directly from Pathfinder's tabletop ruleset.

The deepest builder in the genre

Character-build depth is the thing critics consistently point to as this game's ceiling — mythic paths alone can send an identical starting build in wildly different directions, and the class list is large enough that theorycrafting communities treat it as a genre reference point.

That depth comes at a real cost to accessibility: reviewers were broadly aligned that the opening hours ask more system knowledge of the player than almost any other CRPG on this list, and a first-time party without careful building can hit a genuine wall early.

The genre's deepest system, sitting behind its steepest door.

The crusade layer

On top of the RPG, the game layers a real-time strategy crusade-management system — army recruitment, territory control, kingdom events — that runs in parallel with the main campaign. Reception to this layer has been the most divided part of the package: some reviewers found it added meaningful stakes to the mythic-path choices, while others considered it filler between the CRPG's stronger sections.