Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is out on consoles

Thursday, September 29, 2022

Lead. Fight. Ascend

We at Owlcat Games are excited to announce that Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is now available in the PlayStation Store, Xbox Games Store, and on Nintendo Switch Cloud Streaming. All the free DLC we previously released on PC is also included (Faces of War, Love Beyond Death, Paint of War, and A Visitor From Distant Lands).

Console players will get the game’s Enhanced Edition right from the start.

For PC players, the Enhanced Edition is available as a free update (v. 2.0.0) for everyone who already owns the game. And if you’re a newcomer, a 60% discount awaits you on Steam, GOG, and the Epic Games Store.

An image of Areelu Vorlesh, the antagonist of the game, a pale skinned woman with dark wavy hair, red eyes, and two tall horns protruding from the top of her head. The Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous Enhanced Edition logo is overplayed over the image


Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is an indirect sequel to Pathfinder: Kingmaker and takes place five years after the events of the first game in a nation of Mendev, which, led by the ever-young Queen Galfrey, has been fending off a demonic invasion for almost a century. Now, it’s your turn to take on the role of the Knight-Commander of the new crusade and make a difference in the stalemate against the demonic hordes.

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous offers the same vast and versatile class system, familiar to the players of both the table-top version and the video game Pathfinder: Kingmaker, but you can choose from even more classes and archetypes than the previous game.

A screenshot of turn-based battle between the Knight-Commander and her party and ash giants in the lands of the Worldwound


New classes, feats, and abilities are not the only addition to the game’s mechanics, however. In Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, you will receive incredible mythic powers that will eventually allow you to rival the Demon Lords themselves and uncover their schemes. Not only will these mythic powers give you access to unique spells and abilities, they can also turn you into a totally different being. A righteous angel, a fierce demon, a freedom-loving azata, or a lich, who commands the undead. You can also become an aeon, who maintains the cosmic order; a gold dragon, who melts the hardest hearts with its kindness and compassion; or an insatiable swarm-that-walks, that will know no rest until it consumes the entire world! And if none of these paths suit you, you can choose the path of a legend, a hero who doesn’t need mythic powers and draws strengths from their own heart.

An image of the mythic lich, surrounded by their undead servants


You won’t go on this adventure alone—you will be accompanied by a cast of diverse characters who will help you along the way. Some of them will offer friendship, others will be difficult to win over, and there are even a few who will fall in love with you: for example, a former succubus who dreams of redemption, Arueshalae, or a cleric of Shelyn named Sosiel, familiar to those who played the tabletop version of the Adventure Path.

Female aasimar Knight-Commander surrounded by her companions: dark-haired noblewoman Camellia, half-lizard Lann, Hellknight Paralictor Regill, and the iconic paladin Seelah.


The crusade system adds another strategic layer to the game and will truly put you into the shoes of a Knight-Commander. You will recruit loyal generals and troops to fight the demonic hordes, win valuable trophies, and claim the treasures of the Worldwound. You can also build fortifications on the lands you have conquered and make important decisions: establishing supply lines, recruiting political powers of Mendev to your side, and deciding how the soldiers in your army should be trained.

A screenshot of a crusade tactical battle, where the crusader army (on the left) is fighting an army of demons (on the right).


Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous Enhanced Edition will send you on a journey of 80 hours or more to the faraway land of Mendev, the desolated Worldwound region, and even the chaotic realm of the Abyss. Inspire, love, hate, or betray, then lead your followers to victory—or a fate worse than death. To arms!


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Huzzah. I think I may have to give this one a try.


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I got it for the Switch. I have a SwitchLite. Is anybody else having problems? I can't prepare spells or use potions.

Scarab Sages

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Is it online console only like Diablo 2?
If so, I may pass.


Still needs better Companions other than the mishmash of utter lunatics and stat disasters we have so far. Out of all of them only Seelah seems worthy and able to hold her own in a fight. Also yes I do know I can create my own party and that's not what I'm asking for. I'd like Companions with scripted dialogue that aren't insane and useless in a fight but skilled in their respective areas and worthy to join the Inheritor's crusade against the Worldwound.


The game starts somewhat lame, you get forced into a long cutscene, then a random boring city festival, yet another cutscene, afterwards you fight some... vermin, with the camera as your strongest enemy.

Luckily, things improve vastly from there. You can find hotkeys to jump through cutscenes (Space and Return), you figure out that clicking on the compass sets the camera to North and you get to fight the promised demons. Then you find companions that IMO can easily keep up with Baldur's Gate, with very different and consistent world views, a lot of dialogue and helpful abilities. Yes, there is only one shiny LG paladin (two if you play one yourself), but that totally fits the lore (crusade takes whatever is available) and avoids boring most players to death.

Sometimes you will join big, exciting battles with several NPCs on your side - which works rather well on PC. The UI could be more responsive (at least on my machine), but the loading times are ok and the presented hints are actually helpful. Most bugs seem squeezed by now, and the amount of classes and archetypes is staggering for a computer game: You can choose from most CRB, APG and ACG classes plus magus and kineticist (I might have missed a few), and each one has about five archetypes. Some content got houseruled, IMO martials profit more than casters.


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Playing on the Xbox, the bug that I keep running into is my characters action bar functions randomly decided to disappear. Very frustrating during battle when your casters devolve to weak missile combatants that can use their spells.


Cashdog wrote:
Playing on the Xbox, the bug that I keep running into is my characters action bar functions randomly decided to disappear. Very frustrating during battle when your casters devolve to weak missile combatants that can use their spells.

I was on the discord on Saturday and someone from Owlcat was saying they are working on a patch for today (Monday). At work currently, but hopeful for issue fix by end of today.

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