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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. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Kenshi is a open world, sandbox and rpg game
developed and published by Lo-Fi Games.
Released on December 06th 2018 is available only on Windows
in 9 languages: English, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Japanese, German, Russian, French, Simplified Chinese and Korean.
It has received 95,926 reviews of which 91,605 were positive and 4,321 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.4 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 26.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS:64-bit Windows
- Processor:Dual-core 64-bit
- Memory:6 GB RAM
- Graphics:Pixel shader 5.0 capable card
- DirectX®:11
- Hard Drive:14GB HD space
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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
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**More updates below** In just 22 hours, this has been my experience: Started with 1000c at the Hub, a run-down criminal dump with only a working bar. I bought a little food and got to mining. I went through the "get beat down, toughen up, build skills, and acquire gear" grind with the character I forgot to rename before hitting confirm in the editor, "Feck." Feck was a loner for a long time. Built a shack, a storm house, stone quarry, stone processing, and a few other production facilities by himself. After awhile I found an NPC who wanted to be free of his master and I paid his contract. Voth joined me and we built a walled camp worth being proud of. We faced countless bandits and wildlife along the way, but we did it. No rest for the wicked, though. We set to making steel and crafting weapons, and probably managed 15 swords and had 8 in the chest to sell when 20 black dragon ninjas showed up to beat us bloody and toss us out of our camp. Feck and Voth recovered and launched a two-man counter attack after some rest, but were beaten again. We recruited mercs and the lot of us managed to whittle their numbers, but now there's "hungry bandits" trying to edge in and our heroes were ousted again. I have spent the last several hours recruiting a handful of new characters to train and arm as elite warriors. Feck and Voth are hardened killers who outmatch any 2 black dragon ninjas. I don't care if we can recover our base, as long as we can make them regret taking what we worked for, I don't care if it burns. So yeah, you could say I'm deeply invested. ** 138 hour update: I am at all out war with the Holy Nation, the Slavers, and every kind of bandit. I've got a team of 30 now, including 2 pack bulls and 3 bonedogs, all over 50 in every stat. Several with strength over 90. Feck and a Shek named Ruka have both reached 90+ in weapon smithing and armor smithing, respectively. Out crew is well outfitted and what we can't make we can afford the best of anywhere we choose to slaughter our way too. I can't even describe how it happened, but I've found myself with a full industrial complex, textile complex, and a Casa de Feck all perfectly situated to compliment each other. Complete with two caravans constantly traveling between either. I have an overabundance of resources and I just finished kitting my guys out with the best gear I can give them. And the crazy part? It feels like the starting point. Like a whole new game is about to begin. Feck and Voth have survived together, Voth the stronger of the two for now. We recruited and lost a few people along the way. Freed slaves who gladly joined us, replaced limbs lost in battle with robotic upgrades. Even made friends with a few skeleton robots who joined out crew. I'm familiar with all 30 of these surviving characters, like they all have their own personas. I edited each one that I could, and renamed a few. Like a skelly named Diesel Wedge, one of my 90+ brutes. I'm going to keep a save from here and let everything going forward ride as it will. I haven't scum saved since my first few hours, and it has made for a pretty amazing experience. ** ** 169 hour update: Joined with the anti-slavers and have been overthrowing slaver and holy nation camps all across the south eastern map. Still based outside of the hub, but spent a few months outside wandering with packs filled with food, med/repair kits, and camping supplies. Lost a few limbs, and one of my guys named Blackfruit got cannibalized in the mists outside of Mongrel. Met and recruited Beep. His life is hell trying to train up to the same level as the others. My skelly Faultline has gotten pretty skilled at robotics and makes masterwork limbs, but I only have the blueprints for KLR legs and some strength based arms. Everyone has Edge 2 weapons and Master work gear, crafted in my industrial outpost. We get attacked costly while in our base by the Holy Nation, the United Cities, and random Elite Hunter groups. One leader of those groups, Eyegore, kept coming back stronger. He's locked up with Feck ((F-E-C-K) I'm not sure why that is censored, it was an auto-gen name) being whittled down until the end comes for him at last. That 79 in toughness is the result of mercy. I lock the gates when they get inside my compound now. I take no prisoners and will suffer no survivors to return as a greater threat later. Being in my outpost ensures I can sell my top class wares, though. I have more than 20 shopping counters filled with Edge 1 and specialist level gear, and under, that easily fund all our excusions. Several beakthing nests and countless bandit camps, fogman nests, and beast dens have been wiped off the map during my faction's quests. A lot of my guys have notorious (lifetime) bounties and end up waiting in a group outside cities we're not allied with. Still finding more and more I can get into. **
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Kenshi is currently priced at 26.99€ on Steam.
Kenshi is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 26.99€ on Steam.
Kenshi received 91,605 positive votes out of a total of 95,926 achieving an impressive rating of 9.41.
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Kenshi was developed and published by Lo-Fi Games.
Kenshi is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Kenshi is not playable on MacOS.
Kenshi is not playable on Linux.
Kenshi is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for Kenshi. Explore additional content available for Kenshi on Steam.
Kenshi is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.
Kenshi does not support Steam Remote Play.
Kenshi is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Kenshi.
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3,098
Developer
Lo-Fi Games
Publisher
Lo-Fi Games
Release
06 Dec 2018
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