Kenshi
A free-roaming squad based RPG focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Research new equipment and craft new gear. Purchase and upgrade your own buildings to use as safe fortified havens when things go bad, or use them to start up a business. Aid or oppose the various factions in the world while striving for the strength and wealth necessary to simply survive in the harsh desert. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors. Carry your wounded squad mates to safety and get them all home alive. Features Freeform gameplay in a seamless game world in the largest single-player RPG world since Daggerfall, stretching over 870 square kilometers. The game will never seek to limit you or restrict your personal play style. Custom design as many characters as you want and build up a whole squad to fight for you. Characters will grow and become stronger with experience, not just in their stats but their appearance too. Original take on the RTS-RPG hybrid genre. No "hero" characters with artificially stronger stats than everybody else- Every character and NPC you meet is potentially an equal, and has a name, a life. You are not the chosen one. You're not great and powerful. You don't have more 'hitpoints' than everyone else. You are not the center of the universe, and you are not special. Unless you work for it.
Game Discussion
Steam User 579
i played only for 3 hours on steam but over 3000+ hours as a pirate, this game was good (or addictive) enough that it persuaded a life long pirate living in a third world country with a devalued currency to make a legal purchase. best endorsement i can think of to be quite honest
Steam User 366
>Made an outpost
>Taxed 4k a week by the United Cities.
>Doing well.
>Traders guild sends a diplomat asking for a cut.
>Not a trader so I tell them to piss off.
>They send goons and raid my outpost.
>A day later they send slavers, shackling 6/8 crew.
>Main toon escapes and flees, gathers forces and spends the next in game week rescuing the gang.
>We are now recognized as escaped slaves and are considered 'property' by the United Citites and Traders Guild.
>Destroy the outpost, pack up everything on a bull and head south, where we find a new city governed by the Tech Hunters.
This game has radicalized me and i am now on the warpath to abolish slavery with a mechanized general named Tinfist.
10/10
Steam User 152
After playing Kenshi for over 1,000 hours I think I have realized what makes me love this game so much. It is related to the idea that nothing can be beautiful without the existence of something hideous. The lows that your characters can sink to in this game are, for me, previously unimaginable in a video game. But because of that, the highs are very rewarding. Starting out at rock bottom and having to struggle your way to some kind of stability and safety is more satisfying than starting out as the chosen one who is destined to become the hero. Also, you get to decide what being a hero means. It is complete freedom to engage with the world and experience the terror and glory that said freedom allows.
Steam User 153
Grindy as all hell, a slog to play, everything kills you in a heartbeat and 2 swings. But there's that one character that manages to patch himself up just in time, run just a little faster and not get caught stealing from the shop that one time... That is when a legend is born! That's how a story is told, on the backs and corpses of ten thousand others that did not make it.
Steam User 155
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.
Steam User 130
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.
Steam User 135
This is one of the games that has small but devoted fanbase. Its like dwarf fortress, rimworld, factorio, project zomboid and other indie games with overwhelmingly positive reviews.
So Kenshi....you create an ugly ass dude and are put in ugly ass world (the game uses ugly ass engine from early 2000s).
You get beaten by literally everyone and have no idea what to do and how to play.
Then you keep trying, dozens of hours pass and then you are the greatest force in the ugly ass world who can beat anyone, anywhere.
Its 10/10