Kingmaker was further helped by the efforts of some amazing modders even without official mod tools who basically added in enough extra features that would qualify to be expansions by most standards. Such as the turn based mode that granted the ability to switch between both TB and RTwP at will, even mid combat, that is now an official standard for the series moving forward. Now it enjoys great word of mouth, and the sequel ended up raising more than DOS2 did through Kickstarter somehow.
I haven't been following Kingmaker 2's development but it's nice to hear it's going well. I started playing the first (and am indeed yet playing, game's massive) way after they fixed all its issues and i think it's honestly as close as we can get to a spiritual successor to BG2.
