Kenshi is a squad-based survival game. It is a sandbox game where your only goal is to survive in this harsh world. It seems very little effort was put into game design. They created a world and tossed the player into it, without caring about how that will work out. You start with a character that is too weak to do anything interesting. The only reasonable thing to do is mine copper, which is as exciting as it sounds. You can speed up the game, but the first few gameplay hours will just be mindlessly staring at your screen and occasionally hauling ore to the store to sell. You may try trading next, only to discover that there is no proper economy here. Prices of goods are randomized per city at the start of the game, and do not change afterwards. There is no concept of demand-supply. Cities also do not produce goods. Goods pop-up out of nowhere at the end of each day. Buying raw materials and selling manufactured goods is not profitable as goods tend to sell for less than the purchase price of the raw materials. The world is huge, traveling takes a long time, yet there is nothing to explore. You may find cities, villages and outposts, but NPCs rarely have anything interesting to say, any lore seems to be very well hidden and scarcely developed. Combat is solved mostly automatically, and since training your character takes a lot of grinding, is not really rewarding. The punishment for losing can be also quite high. Maybe if you are willing to spend 100+ hours doing dull stuff you might reach some interesting tidy bits, but I do not find it worth it. Whatever this game does is done better by dozens of other games like Mount & Blade, Dwarf Fortress and Rimworld, so you can just skip this one.
