Kenshi

4/5, it's fantastic, well on its way towards a 5 out of 5, however once you become self sufficient with your established base, and make your fortunate, it can become a little boring - but what games doesn't eventually become boring. Still a very solid recommend!

phenomenal game to have been made by one person, works okay on steam deck.

game can be really finnicky at times but i guess thats part of the charm. did not like the combination of aimlessness with stat-checks in every direction, but it forces you to be clever and resourceful. super hard to play this blind on steam deck in that regard

good game 8/10

Honestly it't my favorite game at this point. A truly dynamic narrative that emerges as the player navigates this eco system of survival mechanics, factions, economy and one of the most brutal and unforgiving rpg grinds of any game ever. Highly recommend.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ Pixel

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boy
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leader boards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☑ You'll need a second live for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☑ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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After whole 8 hours I am still grinding base metals for sale to upgrade my house which I bought.
The feeling is unlike any other when playing this game.
Open world mixed with open play style makes it somehow similar to "Elite Dangerous" but noir-black.
Unique music/audio makes feel it like you were there struggling with each day to survive.

what a game! aesthetics thoughts and the gaming experience. its a great adventure for both player and the developing team.

A grey canvas for your post-apocalypse role-playing imagination to run wild on. If you lack the imagination, then sadly the game will be extremely boring and worthless to you. There is lore (very good lore) if you pay attention, a theme to it (a dark one), but you will not be hand-held. YOU make the game, And it is fun.

TL:DR - Just fucking buy it, dude. You won't regret it. You might regret all of the time you spent playing it though.

If this game is on sale, which happens pretty regularly, give it a try. It is ABSOLUTELY worth the full cost, in my opinion. Kenshi is a game unlike any other I have ever played. It is a 'sandbox' in every sense of the word. I would call 100-200 hours of playtime a "sampling" of the game. I should add, you should definitely mod the shit out of Kenshi because it is buggy as fuck, it crashes a lot, and the world can be a bit bland sometimes, but when you start modding it (much like Terraria) it becomes one of the most fun games I have ever played. You start off basically just trying not to die, and getting your ass kicked constantly until you find your niche in the game; a one man army, a farmer or drug dealer safe behind the gates of their fortified base, a traveling thief looking for the best loot (Meitou weapons), etc. Me personally, I like starting undercover assassin cults. Kidnap a few people, convince them to join your squad. Train as quickly as possible, or bypass it with mods, or by editing your characters in FCS (You will almost certainly be using the Forgotten Construction Set, especially if you're adding mods or making your own) because you've already suffered enough times and just want to get to the undercover takeover of the continent. The game is great. Random shit happens all of the time that isn't scripted, the game just lets it happen. for example: Everyone hates this faction called the "Starving Bandits", and town guards usually beat the absolute dog shit out of them on sight. One day I was getting my ass kicked by another faction that everyone hates (the Dust Bandits - these are your entry level enemies), and while running for my life in hopes of keeping my new play through going, I ran through a crowd of Starving bandits. Instead of attacking their hated nemesis, said Dusty Bois, they both started chasing me to a town you will know and love called "The Hub". At this point there was a pretty huge mob following me, more than the guards could withstand. I run into the Hub, and into the house I've purchased there to safety. I look outside and a guard accidentally hit another guard while trying to attack a Starving bandit. This caused them to suddenly fight each other, as well as the horde of bandits. Then a Dust bandit with a bow accidentally hits a Starving bandit while trying to hit the guard that is now savagely mauling a Starving bandit. Suddenly everyone is fighting everyone, reguardless of faction. Even the shop keepers come out to get invested in the battle. I decide enough is enough, and go to my rooftop with my other characters sitting on an overwhelming amount of harpoon turrets, and open fire on both groups of bandits. Unfortunately one hits a guard. Now the guard are breaking into my house to beat my crew and I to death. I'm forced to kill a guard by way of harpoon to the skull. This tanks my relationship in the Hub with everyone else. My crew and I are chased out of town while being stabbed. I kidnapped the barkeeper on my way out, just because fuck everyone else. And then I set up shop in Black Scratch (the best town imo) and continued my endless game of kidnapping and indoctrinating new members before we inevitably kidnap all of the cities leaders, throw them in a "Peeler machine" and watch civilization quickly collapse upon itself. It's the best. I love it. Buy it. You won't regret it. Just watch some videos made by Reggie, Best Guest, and AmbiguousAmphibian to solidify your choice. You will lose days of your life implementing new mods, and new ways of doing whatever it is you enjoy doing in the game, like said kidnapping assassin cult. Good luck, and don't be afraid to make your own mod load order. You'll break your save file over and over again, and still go back for me.

Graphics? They make you use your imagination.
Story? There for you to explore and discover.
Performance? Loading and minor bugs but the foundation is solid enough to overlook the flaws and realize that just when you think you cracked the surface of what you are able to do in the game, there is more.
Overall? One of the best experiences I've had in gaming in years. I literally thought I was losing interest in gaming.

The price tag of 30 dollars is cheap for the actual experience. It's brutal, it's unforgiving, and it's like coming home.

I played 40 of my first 48 hours with this game. One of the best games i've ever played. 10/10 Cant wait to see what Kenshi 2 has to offer.

Over 600 hours of gametime and only just learned skeletons can lose limbs. Now Agnu can keep up with his BFF Cyber Beep.

I still don't know why I love this game so much. I only discovered it this year. I saw my boyfriend playing it and I was like, "What's that?" He told me. I bought it. Haven't spoken to him since. He's probably around somewhere. Sorry, busy Kenshiing. Just found this place called Tower of Spiders. Sounds cool. Checking it out.

For a classic RPG-lover you first hate it. It seems and appears ugly, and the world feels empty. No classic quests, no hand helding and you get your ass kicked by first bandits you encounter.

But..

But after a while, you get it.
It's a masterpiece.
You just have to experience it yourself.

I thought this game was pretty good and normal, then I played it and learned that it was amazing and strange. 10/10 game.

One of the best games ever made. AAA companies should aim to make games like these rather than the cinematic garbage they're pushing out now.

I just hope Kenshi 2 comes out in my lifetime

Interesting and fun.

Pros:

- World feels like it lives and breathes, your decisions have consequences, both for you and the world
- Lore is deep enough yet short enough to not become a wall of text
- Excelent combat system
- Excelent skill development system
- Nice construction system
- Sheer flexibility

Cons:

- Interactions with NPCs could be better. Example: I thought guard to be dead, tried to strip him, guard woke up, skreamed 'thief', resulted in trader refusing to trade with me forever and refusing to trade with squadmates he never saw before. He still doesn't trade after my squad became strong enough to wipe the floor with the trader and his guards. There is no way to pay reparations or force the issue with either violence, intimidation or reputation
- Some UI elements could be better
- There are some odd limitation with cities
- Production is surprisingly inflexible, ex: no production limits for things like construction materials or food, it goes on untill all relevant inventories are full or all raw resources are used up.
- Some minor bugs are still around, but arguably that's expected with the game of this scope
- State of the game in relation to ranged weapons is kinda odd, effectively everything is melee or at the range of a thrown knife, it is notiecebale, but doesn't clash with the setting too much.

This game has the potential to be the perfect individualised experience.

I solo'ed it, - i explored the world, i learned everything there was to learn.
Stealth and speed was my weapon, and my family was my backup.

i built a family - they got eaten by monsters
i build a village - they got hunted down and killed by lunatic fanaticks
i build a city - now i am strong, enough to take care of myself,
and my plans of world domination can finnally happen

i send an expedetion - build outposts several places over the map,
not all survived, watching your friends scream as they get eaten alive,
while you try and crawl away, bleeding to death, missing an arm and a leg,
is something that builds character.

some prospered, i sorta was already rich, but now i have ease of acces to everything,
my industry is complete. my people are training in, crafting, building, and not least of all combat.

my might and influenze in the world grew.

i grew an army, even larger raided and destroyed the world.
just to see what would happen, and then i did it again.
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Good game

Have fun

One of the funnest games I have ever played. It can be very brutal, but with a little luck you can survive and become tough enough to accomplish some team building. Then the fun really starts.

Can be hard to get started, but once you do, it's impossible to quit playing.

First play through, was jumped and eaten alive in the fog by weird blue aliens 10/10 game would recommend

One of the best games i have ever played.
You actions have impact to the world.
Do NOT let outdated graphics deceive you, the gameplay is amazing. Soundtrack great.

Kenshi feels like a game that is near indescribable. The breadth of Kenshi is greater than, I would say, most games on offer today. While there are some aspects or mechanics of the game that could be improved, (Kenshi 2 is in in active development, here's hoping for that!) there is so much on offer that can be forgiven.

Kenshi is a... RPG/RTS/Base Builder/Open World Exploration/Suffering Simulator game with more hats than old time haberdashery. You will more often than not start small, and very rarely end big. In Kenshi, you can essentially do whatever you want, within the confines of the engine/design. Say you want to...take over the world. In a sense, you could more or less conquer all of the factions of the world. Or maybe you want to get rich trading goods across the wastes. Perhaps you fancy yourself a criminal, and want to get rich off ill-gotten gains. Or maybe you're just a gods-damned psycho that wants to kill everyone you see with your bare hands. All of this and more is possible in Kenshi, which I consider THE open-ended game.

Kenshi is also...just a mean, mean game. At the start of the game, no matter your start, you WILL be weaker than basically every other NPC in the entire game. Malnourished bandits with rags and clubs will beat you to unconsciousness, wild beasties will eat you alive, wandering ronin will hack your limbs off, and you WILL be enslaved. Kenshi is rude as all hell, but with every rising stat (this is a fantastic game for fans of 'numbers go up' leveling styles) you will get stronger and stronger, beating enemies that once bested you effortlessly, until your rag-tag group of nobodies becomes the biggest threat in the world, toppling empires for fun and breaking the rulers of the world over their knees.

You can spend the entire game not putting down roots anywhere, or build a sprawling cityscape of...well, of a relatively small amount of people, all things considered. It's quite the easy thing to get a mod to expand the recruitment cap, though, which is a pleasant segue into modding. This game's modding scene is quite extensive, with built in workshop support and fairly frequent featuring from the developers themselves. Currently, I'm playing a drastic overhaul called Project Genesis, which seems to add a LOT of things and rework basically every town in the game.

Forgive me for this review being all over the place, but truly there is no better way to describe Kenshi. If you see a mountain, you can climb it. If you see an item in a store, you can steal it. If you see a man or woman, you can kill them. The entire world is your oyster, your viciously, obscenely dangerous oyster.

If you have the money, get it. Support these fantastic devs, and wait with the rest of us for Kenshi 2, may it arrive one day.

This game is just awesome. It's hard to learn, but once you've got there, it's unbelievable fun and addictive. I'm really looking foward to Kenshi 2.

Brutal, unforgiving, ruthless game. Mercilessly cut you down, and let you watch your main character bleed out for 10 minutes.

Feel like you have grinded enough to take on some starving bandits? Maybe, but the 3 skin spiders on your ass say that it doesn't matter because you're about to be eaten alive.

Feel like you have enough people? No. Never.

Feel like you are ready to leave your little town and explore outside your comfort zone? Allow me to remind you everything wants you dead.

I have played all 21 hours of this game. I have 8 people. Almost all research done with normal books. Lots of supplies. I am so scared to take everyone and find our new home.

This game is so great because it is horror and relaxing. You can be selling copper 1 minute and then jumped by 10 guys the next.

10/10.

If you are looking for a quality single player game, with hundreds of hours to do, then this is it!

It's one of those game you keep coming back to.
The atmosphere is great, the gameplay is fun and all the little bugs or exploit you find in game somehow give it more charm, it reminds me of Oblivion in that regard.
The community is huge and there are so many mods that can greatly change or improve the game.
I can't wait to see what they are cooking for the next game which take place 1000 years prior to that one.
In the meantime play it an enjoy.

Complete sandbox. Lots of bugs, but insane amounts of love and intrigue. Mods are great as well. The charm this game has is bottomless, and has me coming back constantly over the course of years. Worth the buy, even at full price for any RPG or RTS fan. Hell, I would pay 60 for this game easy.

EXTREMELY engaging- hard to learn at first definitely (especially the user interface, which can be overwhelming to new players), but it is definitely worth the amount of hours of escapism you get in return. Starting a game means you will probably lose 50-100hrs of your life getting good gear.

I love the mechanics of this game, especially the random encounters, which ensures replayability and makes every hour of gameplay unique from the last. Another positive is how large the map is, combined with the random encounters, makes for an extremely unique and exciting experience. Lore within the game is very subtle and not "in your face" which I love, I find many open world games force you into their world in too harsh of a way (especially in later TES games where you are forced into the main quest without knowing any politics or your way around the world).

Some minor flaws with this game includes some bugs with character path finding, and how some mechanics in the game are "permanent" where I think over time or with correct choices, could be reversed. (e.g. stealing from a shop makes everyone in your squad unable to purchase from said shop for the rest of your playthrough- steal wisely. I think a good reversible would be having good town reputation or apologising/reimbursing the shop owner).

Overall, this game is very addictive and has excellent replayability and world-building, definitely recommended to play.

One of the few games that I've been able to sink 300+ hours into and still really enjoy the game. The modding community is great and you can easily add 200 hours and not even be close to exploring the whole world. The game will crash from time to time but don't let that deter you. This is a hidden gem that I know for myself have really enjoyed.

Janky? YES
Awesome? ALSO YES

Kenshi is an open world sandbox set in a far future looking post apocalypse. Full stop. There isn't really a story. There isn't really a goal. You just get plopped into a place and do whatever it is you're going to do (probably die and get eaten by something).

Pros:
Made by one mad genius in a basement and it looks like it
Awesome world
Great art design and music
Cool concept
and solid, well thought out game play
Cool map design with some great locations

Cons:
Made by one mad genius in a basement and it looks like it
This game is HARD, it's as much a frustration simulator as it is a sandbox
The JANK, duke, the JANK
Once you know how to do stuff and have the game figured out there's not ALOT to do other than play in the sandbox. No random maps, no new stories to explore. it's just you doing your thing on one map.

In a world where games are more about visual polish than they are about mechanical shine, Kenshi stands out. The graphics are not bad, but it is clear that the effort of this game went into gameplay first and foremost.

It is a challenging experience, but as I reflect on that, it was only challenging because I made it so. I could have simply chosen to live in The Hub. I could have lived my days mining copper, purchased a house and thrived. The game does not beg you to explore the world, but natural curiosity drives the challenge.

Why settle as a humble miner when I can be a great conqueror or run a thriving enterprise?

You WILL get beaten up in this game. It will happen a LOT. You will slowly realize that your starting character is nobody special, and the game can go on with or without them in play.

That makes it great. All of the lore and story in this game has nothing to do with you or your endeavors.

The sound in this game is hit or miss. I don't personally enjoy the ambient music, but my wife finds it relaxing. I don't know what else to say about it.

I think if I were to summarize this game in a meta way, I would call it "Singleplayer Runescape (classic) With a Wide Difficulty Scale."

iwatched many videos for years on Kenshi but i never bout the game... it was odd, so for my birthday this years i got it... now i cant stop playing it. with mods without this game is awsome

Kenshi is one of those games that make you realize how much potential gaming has a medium in itself (without just copying every single Hollywood trope) and how much of it has been squandered by recent titles in the name of over-realistic graphics, ballooning budgets (most of which going into overblown marketing stunts and celebrity voice acting), online multiplayer/live service everything and moral/social engineering gamers for brownie points (and investor money from shady companies).

Kenshi is a very simple game: you make a character (via an admittedly somewhat limited character creator), then set them on the loose in a vast open world and it's entirely up to you what you want your character to do. No checkpoints, no journal logs, no Skyrim minimap marker egging you towards the next objective. Like Soulsborne games, this game gives you the tools and mechanics and lets you have fun with whatever idea you have going on in your head. Want to be a mercenary outfit? Go out picking recruits and train them. Want to build the perfect citadel? Go out mining and make enough money to buy building materials. Want to be a bounty hunter? Steal yourself a crossbow and just work your way through the wanted list. Too many games these days are so deathly afraid of letting the players work things out for themselves and it shows in the design choices that constantly push players to the next action set piece or drama. Kenshi on the other hand just goes "Yeah why not" and lets you charge at beak things just because (the consequences of which are of course on your head)

Speaking of things Kenshi does really well: the world design is just absolutely stunning to look at and it does a great job of making your character(s) look small in comparison. Also the ability for the player's actions to trigger certain "world states" is neat and gives it a dynamism you don't see in a lot of other "open world" games. The creatures and races are very alien and sci-fi looking and despite sharing the same dozen assets between them, the towns are interesting and feel lived in.

For criticisms, I'd say:
>>The graphics, while not mind-blowing, do seem to put a strain on your chips with their size and the retexture mod does help tone it down.
>>The xp leveling system while intuitive and works great for some stats (STR, Athletics, Stealth, Lockpicking) is a bit obtuse for others (DEX, Precision Shooting)
>>Very limited weapon and armor spread. You'll see all the stuff there is to see within an hour of playing the game.
>>Outpost development is pretty rudimentary and honestly could have been scrapped in favour of buying and developing towns like The Hub or Mourn
>>Character creator is a bit limited without mods, especially if you like being a Skellyboy like I do.

I really adore this game and I can't believe I took such a long time to get it.

I did not like Kenshi at first. First off, I hated the camera. I like looking at my little digital fella on screen, and being so zoomed out that my guy just looks like a pixel, just was not doing it for me. I also hated that I was getting my stool pushed in by every enemy I met. It's like, damn, I get it, hard game, but man that's just too much. But now, 100 hours later, I'm picking the slave starting story, and punishing this game by spanking it's ass, and the journey from 0 to hero finally clicked. This is the best game I have ever played, hands down. It dethroned Morrowind in my top 3. Kenshi 2 better be dope or I am going to cry for several days, my family will be worried for me, and eventually my wife will cheat on me due to not being able to get out of bed. So, in other words, Kenshi 2 better be godlike or I am writing a tersely worded letter to whomever is in charge.
Buy this game, and quit your day job. Be a pro Kenshi player, I implore you.

I've sank quite a few hours into Kenshi. I started vanilla and added mods eventually as the base game does come quite empty. The game overall has an enjoyable system that rewards actively participating in the game world. However, for some reason there are hard coded mechanics and features that make the game absolutely unbearable, especially if you plan to play the game for the long haul. These issues are known by most Kenshi players but yet there hasn't been a patch to address play issues even though there has been a surge of new players to the game. Unfortunately, even though this game has received a lot of attention, it has been abandoned. Kenshi could have been a great game, it's a shame.

absolutley love this game and the old school graphics and exploring the world, each run is an amazing real life time adventure.

Kenshi is amazing. I love it. Do yourself a favor and try playing the game where you do not create your own character. You use what the game randomly generates for you. You never save scum even if the game pulls some BS on you. If you lose a character, keep going! This is the heart and soul of Kenshi and makes the game so much more fun. Accept your punishment!

What is Kenshi? A survival game? Sandbox RPG? Base builder? RTS? What if I told you it's all of the above?

Kenshi is buggy, janky, and you will want to download several mods just to lower loading times, but beneath the jankiness is one of the most unique, addictive, and enjoyable gameplay loops I've ever experienced. Mostly made by a single man with a dream, the strengths of his passion project shine through the bugs. Never have I had to save and load a game so often just to get AI to resume doing what it's supposed to, yet I keep playing because this game is worth dealing with the minor inconveniences that pop up every now and then.

This game is ultimate freedom. No quests, your goals are what you decide. Do you want to become the world's greatest solo badass? Make a team of ninja's who stealthily take out unsuspecting NPC's to sell into slavery? Run a drug farm out of a swamp? Take out each major faction in the game to become the ultimate warlord? With time and commitment, it's all possible.

Kenshi has quickly become one of my favorite games of all time. It is absolutely a niche that isn't for everyone, and if you're someone who must have achievements and/or needs to have NPC quests with much dialogue, this isn't for you. If you're the type that enjoys games like Rimworld, or games where you want to be free to go wherever and do whatever while fighting tooth and nail to level up to become strong enough to take on ONE starving bandit, Kenshi is the game you've been waiting for. If the premise looks interesting, I cannot recommend this game enough. Kenshi is a buggy masterpiece, and by the time I finally put it away, I'm sure I'll have several hundred hours under my belt.

It's Fallout on crack.
Buggy and janky controls here and there but the RPG aspects are rich and feel almost limitless.

Kenshi has an unrivaled level of exploration and discovery in its setting, from the environmental storytelling to the dialogue between characters - I highly recommend this game with as few spoilers as possible!

In terms of gameplay, control your character (or squad of characters) through engaging combat and hazardous environments as you explore new, strange lands, or simply settle down and create your own town to make a living in the hostile world. A variety of different factions and monsters create a tangible feeling that the world is not one in which one can ever be truly safe - but that applies to the other inhabitants as much as yourself. As much as you may get beaten down or defeated in combat, surviving always ensures that you come out stronger from every encounter, even if you lose limbs or get enslaved. The only way to live in Kenshi is by getting back up, no matter how bleak the situation may seem.

There are a few flaws, however. Some performance issues are present (make sure to use V-Sync!), and some areas take a while to load. Overall, the only issues in Kenshi are various minor technical issues - there are no problems with the core gameplay loop or any of the game design. Even still, the active modding community provides an easy way to customize your experience if you want any changes or want a fresh experience, ensuring an experience that is always fun to come back to, no matter how much you've played.

I highly recommend Kenshi to anyone who wants an immersive RPG in a world where the player can control the fate of what happens in a world rich with lore, stories, and some truly unique encounters!

This is a great game! It's super easy to create mods without coding knowledge. Very immersive and you find yourself playing long poast you should until you look at the clock and say "Come on man not again".

20+ hours pseudo modding.
40+ hours of waking up for work at 5am to kenshi still running with everyone dead.
150+ hours of unforgiving, brilliant chaos. 10/10.

Kenshi isn’t just a game—it’s a dystopian sandbox where every choice has consequences, and survival is never guaranteed. A masterpiece in its brutal beauty.

This is a game that I like but it is it's own worst enemy.

Many of the mechanics of this game are very fun. Stealth, thievery, martial arts, and some of the various weapons can be an absolute blast but you have to survive long enough to become skilled and the RNG can wreck your face at a moments notice. Pets are fun as well and the use of pack animals and even training them is a very cool feature. The map is MASSIVE and it can take hours of real time to get from one corner to another. You can build your own bases, though I highly recommend you avoid that for reasons given below. The factions are diverse and interesting and I don't want to spoil too many of those but I will say one or two want to invite you over for dinner and not in the fun way.

As for base building, it has some fantastic elements that are engaging and fun to experiment... Or at least they were until a certain patch... There were earlier versions of the game where base building worked great and was fun to play. Then one day there was a random update and it took the fun right out it. I absolutely hate the fact that factions and random enemies show up to your doorstep demanding money or just outright attack you in numbers you have almost no chance of beating. You have to spend so much time leveling up characters in towns that by the time you can handle these random shakedowns they are beyond too easy.

Gaining skills is a bit frustrating as some training tools have maximum skill levels and their next versions only get you so far. Even if you have the best training dummies and structures that won't be enough to get you very far in the game. There are places in this game where death isn't just possible, it's guaranteed. Even if you are prepared. Wandering through the desert and just happen to run into a bunch of scantily clothed hungry scavengers? You better be faster than they are or you are getting robbed blind and left crippled in the desert, at the mercy of the first beast or traveler you encounter as you crawl your way back to a town (sometimes this takes many, many real hours, assuming you even survive the RNG encounters).

All in all there is a lot of fun to be had here but as I said in my opening, it is it's own worst enemy. The game is hard in it's own right, at least until you start hitting the upper levels in skills. Many mechanics decisions are unnecessarily unfair, beyond the unfairness expected in such a bleak and post apocalyptic world. Anyone can enjoy this game but there is a lot to learn and do before you can have anything close to freedom and autonomy. Thank goodness there are mods and customization tools you can use to fix some things (but not all and not the most important detractors).

An excellent game worth the money and time. It's a post-apocalyptic simulation of adventure, combat, forming a team of companions, crafting, story and morality. Decide what you will with your character. Create your own story. Many possibilities are available in this game. An excellent sandbox adventure.

A semi-perfect game (perfect if it is not crashing) - the God game for micro-management character, Resource management, Survival and the best that i want is Base Building

I woke up in a desert missing an arm, being chased by a giant beetle-looking monster. I tried to run to the nearest town but was assaulted and robbed by local bandits, then enslaved and forced to mine iron for the nobility. After nearly a month of captivity I slipped my shackles and escaped into the night. A bounty was declared on my head so I could not enter the towns in the region, so I escaped north, where I was promptly eaten alive by some sort of giraffe dinosaur.

10/10 experience.

Took a minute to get used to this game, but it's quite possibly one of the best games ever created.

What can I say? Start as a slave, get your arms and legs chopped off and left crawling in the desert... but maybe you can end up as the greatest warrior with your own army and taking down the Emperor of the holy nation after ripping through his guards... this is the ultimate dystopian life simulator. Build a base and defend it. Mine resources. Rob people. Get robbed. Kill and be killed. Brutal, unforgiving game but also incredibly forgiving at the same time - because you can do anything and everything. The more you do something the better you get at it. Just a phenomenal masterpiece, better than most AAA titles. This is everything a computer game should be and more.

Right off the bat, I would like to say that the gameplay is grindy as hell. Every playthrough involves me running in circles for 30 minutes or getting my ass beat by homeless people several times to train skills; it's really slow and monotonous. However, once you get going it's really fun to demolish people with your group of ninjas, but I feel like the process of getting there could be less tedious. Everything else about the game is fantastic though. Despite running on an ancient engine the graphics aren't that horrible. The world has interesting lore and is filled with places and biomes to explore. The ost is excellent and the main menu menu is a certified hood classic. Plus, it was (mostly) all made by one dude, you gotta respect that. Kenshi is one of those games you play the hell out of for like a couple weeks or so, forget about it, then come back and do it all over again.

A huge, open world to explore, lots of travel, free slaves, get a posse together, find a place to build a base.
Get your teeth kicked in, become a better (or bitter) person because of it.
You literally can make your own story, or let a wacky story unfold in a direction you can't possibly predict.
It's as if someone decided to throw in a bit of Fallout, Land of the Lost, The Warriors, Dune, Lord of the Rings, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Mad Max, Lawrence of Arabia, put them in a blender and voila: This frickin' beast of a game.

It's addictive. Too addictive. I should kick my friend in the pants for getting me into this game.

This is my favorite game. You can do anything in it, including getting screwed over. You can rebuild civilization, enslave everyone, be a bounty hunter, a drug smuggler, all sorts of crazy stuff. It never gets old.

One of the rest RPG i ever played, while also being an incredible story generator. It may look clunky, but the feeling this game gives is like not other. From starting with a scrawny good for nothing to building your own city, and wiping out factions. amazing game all around and cool af lore.

It constantly goes on sale, and right now is under 11$ MUST BUY