Pathfinder Kingmaker is a real home run by Owlcat, in my opinion. It's not perfect, but given the actual size and experience level of the developers, it's really ambitious and impressive. I think their next game will be spectacular.
As for Pillars 2, I think it's a very well made game that improves upon its predecessor considerably, yet I've struggled to finish a playthrough of it. The whole ships/pirates/Pacific islands/age of sail theme doesn't interest me at all, unfortunately. It's definitely a great RPG, but it never seems to hold my interest long enough to complete it.
The game that I REALLY liked in this new renaissance of isometric CRPGs was Tyranny. Original setting, memorable companions, intriguing story, cool magic system. It did a lot of really neat stuff. I'm sad that it probably will never get a sequel.
But Baldur's Gate 3 is absolutely blowing me away so far. Yes, there are some ridiculous Larianisms throughout it, and some questionable house rules. But despite those things, I feel like it's hugely better than any of Larian's prior games, and a true, new flagship D&D title like we haven't had since, well, the Infinity Engine era.
Something that I really like about Pathfinder Kingmaker is the environmental descriptions. I think that's something you kinda miss out on with voice acted games ( the game has a little voice acted content tho ). I like when the game describes in more detail what my character is seeing, facial expressions etc. I find it to be very immersive.
Ofc you can do that visually with cutscenes too, but in Baldur's Gate 3 the cutscenes aren't detailed enough to convey that.
