Kenshi

A true sandbox game. You can do whatever you want. A lot of replayability and exploration - as most sandboxes should have (but don't). I highly recommend it for people who really want a challenge and don't want boring preludes or long winded intros and caveats. The game is honest about what it gives you. And that is great. A lot of games promise a lot, and deliver mediocre results. This game doesn't really promise too much, but surprises you in a lot of ways. However even with all the praise everyone gives it - there's a few things I have to point out. A lot of bugs still plague the experience. Plus a lot of missed opportunities when it comes to worldbuilding. It does it decently, however it's lackluster. Some things that make sense for this game, and are screaming to be part of it, are not. One of them is multiplayer - it would be a co-op dream come true, IF it was actually in the game. I think this is a huge detriment. The multiplayer would've made it 10 times more enjoyable and would've made the experience more meaningful within the game world. The other is procedurally generated maps. The original experience should be maintained, as the developer intended, but an option to manually generated cities, or maps, and dungeon locations would've made for actually interesting playthroughs. Once you know everyhing there is to know, the magic kind of dissapears and you're mostly left with difficulty levels and a tower defense simulator. The RPG elements quickly dry out, and the surprises, once you find out who's who and where's where. A third thing that would make this game even better would've been a nemesis system, not unlike Shadow or Mordor, where individuals within the world would either develop grudges, or goals towards your destruction [ or your benefit ]. These three things would've made for an actual masterpiece. Who knows, maybe with Kenshi 2. Kenshi may be the groundwork prototype for that and more.

Have almost 400Hrs on Steam , this game is amazing , I keep playing and discovering new stuff to do all the time . Oh my goodness the modding community is just amazing . get this game, you wont be sorry.

The scope and depth of this game is just breathtaking. What I love in it, that you can be just another citizen and the world goes on without you. On the other hand you can write your own stories with heroic deeds, revenge, tragedies. Technically not the best games out there and I advise the installation of some mods to take fully advantage of the game (texture, graphics).

There's so many different ways to play this game I can't decide what to put here. The game is just good. If you don't like some aspect of the game you can modify the game files easily with the built in mod tool.

Early game see's your squad dumped in a cruel sadistic world with no real direction and little understanding of the gruesome future awaiting many of your people. It's a brutal but unique game with ideas taken from genres like Mad Max and the early Fallout games. It's funny, confusing, fun, and frustrating. The game rewards with better tech and treasure as it advances but does require some investment of time. The area to explore is massive with many hidden gems containing stories and loot. With such a large and open world to explore or build bases on it's easy to miss the effort put into the smaller details, like how changing stats will actually change a character's physical appearance. I spent a large amount of time in the early stages of this game but found it a little lacking in endgame material. That said it's been a couple of years since I played so I'm looking forward to testing where it's up to. This game is for those who'd love to test out a Samurai survival version of the early Fallout games with base construction and resource gathering. I would've given Kenshi 4 stars but (in my eyes) the lack of achievements kicked it down to 3.