Kenshi

Brother buys kenshi and plays for hundreds of hours while i watch and say nah not for me.
play it once to get him to stop talking about it.
play for six hours.
keep asking for a wee bit of kenshi time.
play for hundreds of hours.
buy my own kenshi.
life is complete. i don't need any other game. (give me kenshi 2)

Very nice, very open world, it's not the kind of rpg where you choose a lot of dialogues (it's mostly absent) but it's like the sims in a post apocalyptique where you can also play age of empire ish.
It's very hard to start so I highly recommand watching a tutorial otherwise the brutality of the game will take you down.

you start as nothing, you are nothing, you will always be nothing, unless you do something about it, so what do you do you try to kill a lone bandit. ASS BEAT. you try a starving guy. ASS. BEAT. you try steal some bread to live and a guard sees you, next thing you know you have 6 ninja guards all chopping you up.

you havent even left the first town.

In Kenshi what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

Get your ass beat? Now you are slightly tougher.

Haul some looted weapons into town? Now you are stronger.

Smack a starving homeless person with a stick? Now you can hit better.

Do this over and over and eventually you become an anime protagonist.

Now I'll tell a story about the mighty Beep.

See Beep was a weak pathetic little twink living in a city shrouded in fog. Then one day a group of travelers came into town. Beep went up to and "beeped" at them. They took a look at him and decided to adopt him. They managed to traverse the foglands without much trouble and only had to deal with a small group of fogmen as they left. And then the bonedogs attacked. See bonedogs are large and hungry creatures and they felt they were in the mood for hiver. So they came at Beep and his merry band. The party fought to the best of their ability until one of the bonedogs ripped off Beeps leg. Now Beep may be weak of body, but he is strong of heart. So Beep crawled towards the bonedogs yelling "BEEEEEP. BEEEEEP. BEEEEEP." he was down, but not out. Luckily the youngest bonedog got excited and ran off with the leg, and well the other bonedogs just could not let that stand, so they ran after him leaving the party with their severe but survivable injuries. Beep had to be carried, but he eventually got a new metal leg, and he took that will of his and his new leg to become a master swordsman. Just like he always dreamed.

Imagine wanting to serve yourself a glass of water, you go to your fridge, take out a bottle, and then realizing it's physically impossible to place the water inside a cup, so the way you're supposed to drink water is spilling it on the floor and licking it off, that's what playing kenshi is like

Kenshi will always be far too buggy and janky to ever truly be my favorite game, but damn does it come close.

There's something about this game and its world that really draws me in. It's utterly alien yet undeniably human. It's not for the faint of heart, grindy, unforgiving, confusing, maybe even at times empty and lonely. But the stories this game tells stick with me.

And once you're bored, play it with mods. Fool around with the in-game editor to make prettier towns. Learn the FCS and make your own content. This game is some of the coolest shit I've ever played, truly a diamond in the rough. It's kinda what you make of it though, like any other sandbox game.

To this day kenshi really shows up modern development studios, and demonstrates that a game can be great if it isnt infected with the business investor CEO parasites demanding modern audience appeal and in game transactions

Literally one of the greatest games ever created. Absolutely deserving of the "Overwhelmingly Positive" ratings it has.

I don't know how to describe it, once you understand Kenshi, you just understand. It can go from 1 to 100 in a minute. Just give it a go...

I autistically played this game for like 2 weeks straight, giant world to explore very unique environment. Get attatched to your rag tag squad that has lost all their limbs and gotten their flesh peeled. Get chased by the holy inquisitors and run away from everything in the game that can and will kill you. The game goes on even after you die which is cool

The story stars with Dingle Joe (a slave), a greenlander working in the mines of rebirth. Dingle Joe decides he wants to escape the mine in a month. The goat started training day and night, stealth, lockpicking, assasination, strength and athlethics. Around 1 am of the 31st day, Dingle Joe escaped the mine, runing all the way to floodlands untill he lost the guards chasing him. There he found a skeleton, Burn. Burn was a retired adventurer. Dingle Joe convinced Burn to go on his last adventure. Thats how the story of two friends started.

game is a complete mess of bugs and things that make no sense but it's awesome and i can't stop playing

hardcore (not necessarily the gamemode) minecraft players will likely enjoy this game. you set your own objectives, and figure out how to accomplish them, while still being being able to maintain a sense of direction. the game is also just as modable and seems to have a dedicated fanbase

Seikimatsu style (Fin de siècle syndrome) + post-apocalypse + sci-fi background (kinda like Star Wars-ish), with survival mechanisms, loseable limbs and some pretty hardcore difficulty setup that may take a lot of patience to overcome. You either follow the laws of the land you tried to live in, or become a slave to the slave traders, or build a new place of your own somewhere in the wild and become your own ruler with your own powerful armies. Taking over the world? Yes it's possible. Trying to live a low life as a thief or slave? It's possible too! And the NPC AIs in this game is either going to make you laugh out loud at their surprising moves (these are rare even in nowadays modern games) or make you cry out loud when you fall victim to those AIs brutal decisions (If there's ever an AI crisis where AI turned on human, this is probably that simulator of how the world might become)...

Overall, it's a game one can sink hundreds of hours either being tortured by the NPCs or tormenting the world in your own brutal invasion depending on your preference and playstyle... plus, mods and community contents that adds more play time and flexibility keeping things fresh... And due to this total freedom and flexibility, there's a high learning curve for new players before they can totally feel "at home" and enjoy this game. So... i won't say it's game for everyone. If you can appreciates it, you will sure love it. If it's not your style to learn a bunch of stuffs to "settle down" in a game, then this probably isn't for you. Advise to check out the gameplay on youtube before buying (and for some people, it's probably more fun watching others suffer than suffering themselves...)

Spawn in first run as cool robot. run around for a bit while reading tutorial. While reading a group of Catholics calls me slurs then kills me

Okay

Spawn in second time as dude with dog. Starving to death in desert. Get close to a town before getting captured by naked people. They then proceed to eat me

I see

Spawn in third time as nobody in a run down town. labor for money, train against only people who are bigger losers than me, Buy friendship. Get strong. Make own base. Instantly get curb stomped by weebs and kicked out of my own house. Train more, come back stronger and faster. Politely ask them to leave after kicking their teeth in. Make most prosperous town this side of Black Desert

Now every individual in my main expedition group is capable of taking on even High Paladin solo.

This is a game about the journey. Learning where your place is in it and pushing your boundaries. It's like spaghetti western meets Si-Fi. This game is the game you told Star Wars outlaws not to worry about.
Recommended.

I'm really enjoying this game and would happily recommend it to anyone who likes a sandbox. However you do need to be aware of Kenshi's shortcomings first.

It's janky as hell. There are a lot of daft things, characters clipping through the environment, random difficulty curve, no overarching plot or story, long loading times... As a game it feels unfinished and in dire need of polish. Random crashes and a plethora of minor issues mar the initial experience but if you stick with it there is a lot of game there.

More of a base building/RTS over an RPG, it's a weird fusion of the two. A unique experience, certainly worth your time and money if you like your off-kilter micromanagement games. A true sandbox, you can engage with the world and play for/against the in game factions or you can eff off to the edge of the map and raise veggies by yourself. Close to genius in many ways, but needs a high degree of commitment to enjoy.

Old but still cool. Lots of exploring and yes, a few bugs here and there, but outshone by the heart and soul of the game. Cant wait for the sequel.

A completely factual tally of all encounters in the game
50% "it wants to eat me"
25% "it wants to enslave me"
25% "they're poor"

In Kenshi my money making started nice, just mining ore. Once I got a base and smithing abilities I became an arms dealer. Bought a pack animal and was a drug runner. Now I'm a literal head hunter, tying fogmen to poles and killing their princes. I've escalated to morally grey

The game that came out in 2018, looks like it came out in 2003, and appeals to people who hate video games but love numbers and intricate mechanics more than most other games in it's genre

I started as a thief, spiraled into becoming Pablo Escobar. Started kidnapping officials from around the world. And managed to ruin a world that was already ruined twice.

Excellent game.

I tried fighting...Plant was immediatly lost...Yosuke's leg ripped off....my whole posse was lying there dying....but ehn some guards walked up and enslaved us all.....this all happened within the first 3 min of starting this game not knowing wtf i was doing...while tripping balls....the 1.2 hours at review time was me trying to leave spawn....if that doesnt sell this game to oyu....idk what will....also the soundtrack...BOMB AF

This game is a virus, gets into you and sucks you. You know you are infected and you just accept it. Now I need to return back to the game and watch my man at the copper mine, because those retards will stop working when 5 copper is mined. I have to put that into their backpacks and repeat it until they are full.

This game is unique, hard to get into, difficult but very addictive. This game is a micromanagement horror, the legendary combo for success is using SPACE BAR! otherwise you will suffer, you will suffer anyway but less with pressing space bar every 5 seconds.

I still think there should be automation for basic tasks and there should be a skirmish mode.

Still a great game and of course it has great mods at the workshop.

If you've ever played in the world of Dark Sun and thought it held your hand too much with its access to defiler magic, perhaps this form of digital punishment is more up your alley.

Spend an hour designing your character, start the game, die horribly to bands of roving bandits. Try again, learn to run, still die horribly or be captured by slavers. With some practice and careful hiding, you might even be able to survive an ambush with most of your limbs intact. Perhaps even both your legs. Then one day, after stitching yourself back and recuperating for a few weeks, you could start your own gang and mug people!

I can count on one hand the games that I liked as much as Kenshi. Sandbox, Survival, Freedom whatever you want to do. Play with 1 character,3,5. ALL OVER THE CITY. Trade, develop, fight. The worst thing is that you will finally reach the point where you have done everything you could do and you are waiting for 2 versions of the game,

I'm not even attempting to review this game. IT IS GOOD. YOU WILL FEEL LIKE EVERY OTHER CHARACTER AND EQUALLY WORTHLESS.

Absolutely breathtaking sense of scale and immersion. Will prob stream a play-through hopefully soon.

Awesome game for people who love a strategic challenge and management tasks

Grind your balls in a meat grinder for 4 hours to get basic necessities, only to have it immediately taken away. Rage start another game and try to speedrun it.
Get killed in the first few minutes
Start a new game. Spend 4 hours as a slave mining rocks.
Escape finally to the nearby town.
The guards knock you out and send you back to the mining camp.
Start a new game...

Perfect loop

Spawn in and die 6 times
Get decent start as robot man and yearn for the mines
Get second character
Fight goats
*Voth is unconscious*
Robot carries Voth and leads goats to guards like lambs to the slaughter
Fight more animals
*Voth is unconscious*
Robot helps voth and leads goats to guards again
yearn for copper
yearn for the mines
fight hungry people but they are just meat to us
*Voth is unconscious*

First 3 hours of kenshi and it just gets better from there
Voth will one day be a god of men

KENSHI

I wasn't sure if I liked the game at first, it is so different compared to games i've played in the past. It is difficult and i've had to savescum a million times to make progress. I started with the default playstyle with one character beginning in The Hub, and now I have a mix of animals and people, 11 living beings in total in my party. Combat was impossible initially, but hauling copper and iron for hours made me stronger, allowed me to gear up and expand my party, and finally clap back at every bandit that tries me. I'm learning how to build a base now and learning everything that comes with it. Wish me luck.

walked outside got attacked by starving bandits dies 10/10 is awesome but brutal if your up for the challenge and have the patience and time for it I recommend it. While brutal and unforgiving so far the immersion and atmosphere are hard to beat.

So as a personal first i want to say i payed full price for this game to show support for the developer, i had a not so legit copy i found online we shall say at first.

Kenshi is a game that approaching you have to be a player that doesn't really care about flashy graphics, not to say i haven't gotten lost in the environments and world its just not super polished. With that as well the mechanics can come of as clunky and to someone just entering the game things can be rough there isnt any set way to start it is really a choose your own path of sorts. After a good bit of play time i can say this game is brilliant, you can really sit there and by yourself create massive epics and stories from the journeys you put together and create, you can create your own city practically and bring down scourge of the holy nation. or just have a dedicated campaign to end slavery. or just be by yourself poking around, it can also be super unforgiving and death is around every corner, i will say in the end that this game has just been a go to for my depression i can get lost in it and enjoy it. i wouyld really recomend it to anyone.

Word is very vast and open with much to explore. This is quite literally the most "open world" game ive ever played. Game may start of confusing or overwhelming because of how much you can truly do. But once you find out the basic function you can do basically anything. Nothing in this world is off limits.

This a Great Game I love it but tend to not get far into playthroughs as i have a problem where i start one game where i want to for example be a drug lord but then an hour or two into that i want to be a bounty hunter or a scavenger and start over and never get far into playthroughs but that is a me problem not a problem of the game if you have a hard time giving your self a goal and sticking to it like me this might not be for you but i still recommend it

This game doesn't click with everyone, but if it gets you, it grabs you by the balls and takes you for the wildest ride of your life.

If you can stomach the struggle of the first few hell hours, definitely recommend

been playing this game for 90-88 hours Kenshi is a good game worth your money too last a long time till kenshi 2 comes out

This game single-handedly saved me from obesity, cancer and the loop of inbreeding. I also have a newfound appreciation for slavery.

This game is fun. However, you may have the problem that I had. I play the game for about hours and it ran fine. I came back and the game is lagging. I had to delete all the save files and start over. The same thing happened the second time. I try looking it up and it could possibly be corrupted saved files. I have a high end PC and it should not be lagging like this. So, I'm uninstalling because I dont want to waste time to have to start over again .. and again. If anyone have a fix then let me know.

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