For a fantasy journey built around a party, tactical fights, and consequential choices, Pillars of Eternity has a clear appeal: you can switch freely between real-time combat with pause and turn-based encounters. Its 87% rating from 17,028 reviews adds context. At the tracked low, it costs ≈ $2.39 at Kinguin, making this a fitting entry point if this kind of role-playing adventure is already on your list.With a 87% positive rating from 17,028 reviews, Pillars of Eternity pairs party-led exploration with switchable combat modes; ≈ $2.39 at Kinguin is the tracked historical low.
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87%Steam Reviews17K reviews
Released: Mar 26, 2015
RPG · Fantasy · Isometric · Story Rich · CRPG
KinguinPillars of Eternity Hero Edition Steam CD Key+2·Platform:Steam·~ $31.42-92%from~ $2.39(~ €2.13)ALL-TIME LOWSave $27.60 vs SteamBuy now
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All-time low ~ $5.95across Steam & third-party storesat the recorded all-time low
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Historical Low~ $3.052026-07Current Low Across Stores~ $29.99Kinguinvs. Historical Low+883%
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Lead a party through a fantasy realm, explore dangerous dungeons, and seek lost treasure and ancient mysteries. Choose your character’s race, class, and skills.Fight in real time with pause or in turn-based mode, and switch between them during the adventure.Your choices and reputation affect which factions you side with.Steam player rating: 87% from 17,028 reviews.Released March 26, 2015.
$3.052026-07-30 · KKinguinBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.
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Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-20
02Before you buy
Two combat modes
The Steam PC version offers real-time combat with pause or turn-based combat, and you can switch modes during the adventure.
Language
English is listed with full audio. Seven interface languages are listed, including German; subtitles are listed for those languages.
03Frequently asked questions
What is the adventure about?
Lead a party across a fantasy realm, exploring monster-infested dungeons for lost treasure and ancient mysteries.
How can I customize my character?
Choose from six races and eleven classes, then use five core skills to handle situations.
Do choices affect the story?
Your actions and reputation affect which factions you side with and shape your story.
Popular Steam reviews
Native-language selection · 10 reviews
Selected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.
RecommendedSteam player
I'm 17 years old. I'm sitting in front of my Pentium II PC and I've just finished installing Baldur's Gate. I've crafted my perfect character, and I'm now adventuring through a gorgeous world. I've fallen headfirst into the game reading novels worth of text and not noticing as hours melt away.
It's 17 years later. I'm 34 years old. I'm doing it all over again and it's like I'm travelling through time.
Every aspect of this game is perfect. I wouldn't change it even if I could. I find myself wondering how in-game mechanics work and I'm tempted to alt+tab and google what spell is best. Instead I just keep playing and figure it out myself. I can't even *remember* the last time I didn't look up this sort of info in a game. Who cares if this sword does a little more damage than that spear? My character likes that spear and he looks awesome wielding it.
This is the first Kickstarter decision I've made that I am completely happy with. Thanks Obsidian for taking me back in time and reminding me that you don't need gamefaqs to enjoy a game.Show moreShow less
22.3 hours at review2,674 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Game is alright. But cannot support this kind of behavior
Paradox raised the prices of all their games to make extra profit during summer sale. Please do not buy this game if you respect your hard work and money. Also, their DLC policies is worsening at every release. Giving little to irrevelant content, and asking for a high price. (That's even higher now, despite everyone complaining about their pricing, which was already bad back in the day.)
So I suggest anyone else to NOT fall in their pathetic policies, and AVOID at all costs any of their games.Show moreShow less
25.5 hours at review2,373 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Dear Baldur's Gate fans,
welcome home.Show moreShow less
20.6 hours at review1,741 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Paradox raised the price of their games to profit off the Steam Summer Sale. Do not support this practice.Show moreShow less
19 hours at review1,662 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
I noticed that most people reviewing this game have previously played similar games. I don't have much experience with CRPG'S at all, thats why I thought my view of the game can give another perspective on things. That means I have not played games like Dungeons & Dragons, Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale or Neverwinter Nights before playing this game.
Pillars of Eternity starts of with a character creation. The amount of options that you have here is absolutely crazy. You can probably spend hours here, changing every little detail. You pick your sex, race, class, attributes, culture, appearance and finally voice.
This game have many difficult settings and are obviously made for replayability. Pillars recommend that you start on easy difficulty, so I did. I most say that easy in this game isn't that simple!
Loadscreens while you rest are pretty and some other environments in the game, like dungeons and forests. I like the details on the characters, it's very sharp, even when you zoom in. The only complaint I have is that some backgrounds are a little blurry and low res, which looks a little bit silly when it's next to a very detailed character. I get that they went for an "old-school look" but I still think that doesnt really match. But when you zoom out that won't really bother you.
I recommend that you crank the volume up for this title, because background noise and sounds, in the dialogue and in combat, are great. It will help you get into the story and atmosphere better.
Ventors in the cities and villages will buy all the trash you loot from enemies. You can buy camping tools, weapons and potions from them. If you have many followers you can carry more items, and all items can be transfered over between anybody in your party, which is great. So if I find a staff as barbarian I can simply open up the inventory and equip in on my mage.
You will have to read most of the dialogue yourself, although some story related things are read for you. I still wouldn't recommend this game if you hate reading, because there's a lot of it. You can right click on items and spells to read everything about them as well. Some are just lore stuff, others are actually useful information.
The story is dark and mysterious. Combat in done with real time and pause. You can also use slow motion in fights to make things more manageable and easy. As you level up your character and possible followers, you gain points which you can spend on things like sneak, survival, etc. You also get to pick spells.
You can create really silly partys if you want. You can combine all the races and even have animal followers like bears. It's entirely up to you who you bring along the quests and you can choose how they will look like, what weapon they will use and what role they will have in combat.
Options menu is very good. You can customize everything they way you like it in terms of controls. The graphics options are not as good, but for this type of game I wouldn't say its needed.
The replayability is obviously insane when you think about how many races, followers and difficulty levels this game has. You can play the entire game solo, or you can choose to bring mages, dwarfs, godlikes, wizards, humans...and so on, with you. You can also create different kinds of humans, elfs, etc. It's fantastic.
Obsidian Entertainment has created a great game overall, that even new CRPG players like me can enjoy. I have barely scratched the surface of this game, but I can already see that amount of work put into this title.
It's fun, dark and mysterious and im having so much fun playing and learning new things everyday.
Highly recommended title, if you don't mind reading of course.Show moreShow less
64.2 hours at review1,142 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Usually games get cheaper the further you get from release date. This one gets more expensive.Show moreShow less
9.2 hours at review1,300 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Full VIdeo Review - https://youtu.be/-SEA-LZRtCc
Short Version:
1. Pull a sickie from work
2. Send wife and children to grandparents for a week
3. Buy Pillars of Eternity
4. Remember to use bathroom and eat occasionally.
5.. See you in a week.Show moreShow less
41.9 hours at review534 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Pathetic price increase right before summer saleShow moreShow less
21 hours at review929 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Pillars of Eternity is an isometric party-based computer RPG using real-time-with-pause combat.
What is Great about this game:
- Complex and deep story that moves the game along incredibly well
- Deep character creation and multiple classes each with multiple viable playstyles bringing significant variety to your own playthrough
- Rich and appropriate back story, lore, and flavor text added throughout the game that is worth reading
- Enjoyable tactical combat with numerous options for pausing and other options to make the game more enjoyable
- Unique and sometimes fascinating quest lines with multiple alternative methods for success (e.g. talk yourself out of a combat encounter)
- An ending storyline that was possibly the most thought-provoking and intelligently written as any I have experienced
What is Good about this game:
- The game looks quite nice but could have used more art/animantions to improve it further
- The voice acting is quite good where it exists
- Good use of Steam features (cloud saves, trading cards, achievements, etc)
What is Bad about this game:
- The combat could have been significantly improved (although still very good) by including methods to automate companions similar to the systems in FFXII or Dragon Age: Origins
- Given how story heavy this game is, it would have been much improved by including more voice-over work. The voice acting is very good, but is only available sparsely. The writing is more than worth reading, but having it spoken would have been that much more engrossing.
Conclusion:
Pillars of Eternity is the current pinnacle of story-telling in RPGs with a great combat system and a classic style.
9.5 / 10.0Show moreShow less
35.3 hours at review426 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Vanilla game costs as much as WItcher 3 with all DLC.
While story is fine, game doesn't even come close in any other aspect. Thus, why pay for what this game isnt worth?
Avoid till normal prices will return.
UPD: Apparently, right after sale price was returned to normal. Disgusting moneygrabbing policy.Show moreShow less
0.3 hours at review759 people found this helpful
Source: original Steam user reviews. Helpful votes are an archived snapshot, not live data. Last collected: 08/15/2026.
