I would recommend this game, even when I ended up fed up with it. 2 attempts, where first with my own character builds up to level 6 or so, and a 2nd attempt with character build I found online up to level 9 or 10. The main reason why: it feels very slow, with too many interruptions.

What I mean with that:
For me there was just too much down time.
Basic movement speed on the world area's feels slow. When click a large distance away from your characters, they start running. This movement speeds feels 'good enough'. However, when you make a small adjustment to where you need to move and you are within a certain range the character start walking, significantly dropping their movement speed. This aspect of the movement system I found very, very annoying.
Then there is the overworld map, which also features somewhat slow movement from point A to B, and breaks the flow for needing to rest at campsites or managing rations at vendors. I understand it's part of the time maangement aspect within the game, which sets the pacing of how the story escalates. I just don't enjoy it.
Then there is the kingdom management itself, which requires your party to be in certain area's of the map around certain times. If you don't know those locations ahead of time because it's you first play through, I felt like I'm wasting time sometimes going back and forth between what I wanted to do, and what the game was telling me I should do or face the consequences if I ignore it. Or needing to wait for '2 weeks' of time to spin by are you doing a kingdom upgrade.
Or there is some worthless random encounter of 3 weak sauce kobolds that get one hit and then you proceed. After having experienced 1 loading screen, and getting rewarded by another loading screen back to the map.

In their own right, they are all quite interruptions to actually playing the game, or experiencing the story or exploring something. But they add up and build up my frustration over time slightly more and more and more.

Combat in this game is quite brutal, even on easy. My first attempt was with my own characters. I've played D&D before, as well as Pathfinder, so I was a bit familiar with how to make a character. I chose a decent mix of support, DPS and tanky characters, sticking to the classes I chose and oh my word... my team often got messed up by some encounters. Had I not played on easy, I probably had to go back to previous saves way more often in hopes of better rolls. The 2nd attempt I took some build from people online, and combat felt so much more smoother. Those builds were multi-classing to get additional early attack and damage bonuses and the difference felt like having 2x the damage output and 1.2x better defences. It seemed that 'normal difficulty' was built with these 'optimized' builds in mind, which is as shame. I would have liked to just play through with characters of my own creation, but my character building skills are no-where near what this game demanded of me :P Playing someone else's characters was fine, just less engaging for me.

I like that some of the story parts had voice acting and I appreciated the quality of those people doing the voice acting. The story was... okay? It didn't really hook me in. The main premise is about being granted a title with land, to basicially grow your empire. And over the span of time, problem arise that you need to deal with. And I just didn't really care much for it. There seemed to be an overarching plot tying those problems together, but it was a bit too vague for me to really care about.
As for the kingdom building, I don't think I played far enough for the things that I did to matter. And maybe, that would have remained even after going up to level 20 or whatever the levelcap in this game is? I honestly don't know. I like city building games, I like playing tile based games with adjencency optimization puzzles and the town building is having those aspects. But the resources available to you seemed to have been scarse. I already planned out my main town, and was only able to build maybe 1/3 of it with the available resources in the 2nd playthrough... and I didn't really notice anything positive for doing all that effort. Kind of felt wasted.

I think this game really caters to people who like theory crafting their D&D characters and optimizing the hell out of them. I believe for those people, this game offers a nice environment for character building and testing their builds in.
For people who love story driven RPG's or atmostpheric RPG's, like I tend to do, I'm not convinced this game will be to their liking. May be more hit or miss for those people, and for me it was sadly a miss.

Some of the characters you meet at memorable and fun. I like the bard, the 'villain' gnome at the start, and the barbarian and alchemist gnome. Also a troll that tried to be peaceful with humans, and some forest sprite who I'm not sure if she's who she says she is...

Maybe, I'll give this game another try after some time. Maybe my mindset has changed and the pacing of the game then better suits me. And maybe, that'll mever happen. I can definitely recommend you to give this one a try if you think this game is for you!

No es Baldur's Gate 3, pero no tiene nada que envidiar. Si vienes de ahí, el salto es diferente, pero si te gusta explorar, manejar recursos y subir de lvl con mil opciones, te puede gustar.

the writing kinda sucks and the combat is frustrating and uninteresting