Posted on: February 12, 2022

Keeradin

Игр: Отзывов: 11

Unique gameplay and atmosphere

This game is the vision of just one man and it shows. There is no design by committee. The combat mechanics are engaging while still being easy to understand. The story and tone are more than just yet another post apocalyptic wasteland, and rather than the usual lip service to a harsh society, this game goes all in on the mechanics of slavery, cannibalism, and looting. The action rpg elements remain fun throughout the playthrough as there is always someone more dangerous than you out there but the real game starts with the base building, resource gathering, trading, and researching. The one downside is the lack of bells and whistles. This game feels more like an economy and military simulation at times than an rts or an action rpg. There is no voice acting, no cut scenes, just the sandbox. The emergent behavior of all the things being simulated creates a lot of fresh gameplay but it lacks artistic scripting. There are some manually crafted characters and dialogue but for the most part it is procedural programming that tells the story and shapes the experience.

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Posted on: April 17, 2022

_Ryan_2017

Игр: 138 Отзывов: 31

Not for the Faint Hearted

It's a pretty hardcore survival game, initially you will struggle, a lot. But when you hire a companion and have two of you, the game becomes much easier. Always keep someone around to pickup your character(s) when they go down. If you are playing with just one character, when you fall in combat no one is going to save you and you'll just bleed out and die. The trick is to getting 2, 3, 4 characters on the go as soon as you can then pretty much it's hard to lose. After my 3rd playthrough I now have a full squad of ninjas and bulls and dogs and can take on the Holy empire paladins quite easily.

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Posted on: June 16, 2022

Honved2016

Владелец игры

Игр: 55 Отзывов: 29

Brutal start, hard, cruel world

Kenshi is mostly a desolate and barren wasteland, with a few strips of arable land and some even more inhospitable zones where you need protective gear to survive at all. The setting is very well fleshed out, akin to one of the Elder Scrolls games. You control a character or group of characters, and each of them gains in ability directly through doing, not by spending "experience points" to increase something they've never actually worked at. Initially, you are by far the weakest thing in the game, and the only way to improve is by doing (mainly losing), so you end up grinding at mining (or enslaved) to feed your character(s), as well as getting into fights against enemies who (hopefully) won't actually kill the character, just loot or enslave them until they escape. Either you do the long RPG grind until your stats improve, or else cheese the mechanics (such as by sneaking everywhere to build up Sneaking skill, or drastically overloading the character's inventory and then walking around to boost Strength). After 50-80 hours of play, it's pretty obvious to me that Kenshi gives you a brutal starting experience, until you eventually hit the point where your character(s) is/are stronger than almost everything else out there. At that point, it turns into another city building sim, where you build, fortify, and defend your fortified town or outpost against attacks while building up industries to make it self-sustaining. Even if you download one of the gazillion "harder" starts (starting with limbs missing and other handicaps), it's just a matter of grinding longer until you hit that "overpowered" point, going from being prey to everything to top predator. Overall, it's a pretty impressive bit of work (especially since it started as a one-man project), but your level of enjoyment may vary a LOT from player to player. Many players will definitely NOT like it. For me, it's good, but a bit too "all or nothing" with only a short sweet spot between the two.

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Posted on: July 31, 2019

The Boomer Brain

Игр: 48 Отзывов: 7

"I was not the monster."

Kenshi was programmed by one guy for most of its development time. This means that it's a shambling mess from time to time, kinda looks like poo, and runs like eggs, but it also means that it was made with one very specific vision in mind - and that very specific vision was one of post-post-post-apocalyptica, where two catastrophic events happened thousands of years apart, and the world is gasping for breath. There is no plot, only a fleshed-out world that you're dropped into. You make your own plot. If you aren't good at setting your own goals, Kenshi isn't the game for you - but the world is so rife with interesting shit to look at and stats to train and mouths to feed that it might coax goalsetting out of you. It's squad-based, and it controls like an RTS. To level up, you do things: to not die to every sword slice, you first have to get the shit knocked out of you over and over again without dying so that your Toughness skill can increase. While you're getting the crap beat out of you by goats and starving bandits, the guy healing you back up (train Toughness with two people!) will gradually get better and better at his Medic skill. All NPCs in the world are built using this system with no exception, meaning that there's no essential characters or characters that aren't something you could eventually achieve yourself. The catch is, you start as an insignificant random NPC, so you have no stats for a *long* time - most of the early game is picking your fights very carefully so that they don't cut you to death. This is absolutely not a game for everyone. It's really tedious. Some gameplay loops are more satisfying than others. The sheer size of the game is daunting the first time you start it up - the map is HUGE! But it's one guy's very specific vision, and it feels like a labor of love from the bottom of his heart. If you dig shit like Morrowind, HoMM, Mount and Blade and Plainscape: Torment, you'll dig the hell out of Kenshi.

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Posted on: January 4, 2019

phatman360

Владелец игры

Игр: 66 Отзывов: 1

Perfect if you like sandboxes

I have had my eye on Kenshi since it entered early access ages ago, but had been holding off on purchasing it until its 1.0 release. In the years since, I’ve heard Kenshi compared to Morrowind due to its uncompromising alien world and player freedom. I’d heard it compared to Mount and Blade due to its strategic party management and unguided sandbox structure. This was enough to confirm that this is very much my game. I bought it shortly after release, and have only played a few hours so far. On my first save, I tried to rob a villager in the starting town. He called for help, and a warrior came over and beat me into submission. He carried my unconscious body to a bar and left me outside. When I came to, I crawled into the bar in search of help. Three warriors beat me with sticks and threw me back outside. Then, a gang of slavers cane and looted my body and carried me out of town. My second save has gone much better, but has been equally interesting. Despite my short playtime I can tell this game will be one I get a lot of enjoyment out of.

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