Kenshi

There is some fun in this game. The idea is good, the design is average, but the implementation is very bad. Lots of annoying bugs, too much grind. I don't thing the game is worth even on sale.

I always need to reload the game, since after half an hour it starts lagging hard. If u have settlement, its worst, if u have BIG settlement, its worst than worst

Yeah, we get it, it's "a sandbox". But when the sole dev chose to reinvent the wheel with the UI, THE UI NEEDS TO BE EXPLAINED. And I don't mean the popups that are constantly blocking part of your view. Recruit people. HOW? Gather food. HOW? Learn to "git gud" at combat. HOW?? The interface is constantly pushing you to "build buildings" but you have no idea what the buildings would be for or how to build them. I have a staff in my inventory but no idea how to equip it or use it. How does combat work? NO IDEA. You're told to "click the 'Defend' button to defend but you won't ever attack". That's the sum total of information about how combat works! An alleged "Tutorial" only tells you that combat is nearly always fatal, you should never go out in the desert alone. The vast majority of NPCs are completely non-interactive. Of the very few that are, a minority have dialog and want four digit money to join you--many times the money you have. Okay, so how do you get money? NO IDEA. The UI keeps warning you about hunger. Okay, where do I get food? NO IDEA. I see a bartender has food for sale, so I buy some. Now I'm completely broke. The food sits in my inventory. How do I eat it? NO IDEA. I wander into the desert anyway. The cursor changes over a pile of rocks. I click. My character is now pounding the ground with a pickaxe. Am I harvesting some kind of resource? NO IDEA. Nothing is spilling out on the ground. Nothing is added to my inventory. After two hours of screwing around with this nonsense I uninstalled the game and will probably never touch it again. If you want people to play your game and choose to use a non-standard interface, YOU HAVE TO EXPLAIN HOW THE GAME IS PLAYED. Don't make the brain-dead excuse that "it's a sandbox". Leaving your players clueless and wandering around aimlessly... that's not what "sandbox" means. This is a proof-of-concept project you give out to friends. Not something you CHARGE MONEY FOR and pretend it's a game.

The dev had some interesting ideas I'll give them that. The limb damage system had potential, some of the crafting mechanics are inspired, the very few RPG elements that exist are ok, and the character creation is nice. That said Kenshi is just not fun to play. There's no story, no quests, no real point to anything really. This is one of those "make your own fun" games which most people use as an excuse for the developer who was too lazy or too inept to actually design a proper video game. You should also be aware that most of these "masterpiece" perfect scores are people parroting their favorite youtuber shill's opinions. No one who's played another video game in their life will award a 5/5 rating to a game where you spend at least 15 minutes real time running between locations in an empty world only to occasionally stumble across bandits who auto detect you from miles away and chase you until you die. That's not good game design and you'd have to be smoking meth to think otherwise. It's also worth mentioning that the combat system is also terribly boring and not fleshed out in the least. It's just click on an enemy and watch your character flail around for five to ten minutes until the enemy dies. The various stances do nothing and several don't work properly, in fact there's several popular mods on the nexus to fix what the dev never did. If you lose an encounter you are knocked unconscious and must wait at least five real time minutes for your character to finally wake up while enjoying the view of multiple NPC's stopping to loot your body and steal all of your belongs. This is your average Kenshi experience. If that somehow seems interesting to you then go for it but I think your time would be much better spent playing good games that weren't abandoned.

The game is woke. If you don't like that kind of stuff in your games' stories, then don't bother with this one.