With several playable races, each with their own unique lore, Kenshi gives the player the ability to become fully immersed in whatever path they choose. With the option to start out as a lone wanderer, outcast, trader, or even a slave, there is no end to where each player’s experience could take them. The player essentially drives their own story in the world of Kenshi, and the choices are truly endless. In fact, most of the lore is discovered by reading item descriptions and finding books among ancient ruins. This review is based on a retail copy of the game provided by the publisher.Just how open world is Kenshi? Aside from some basic lore choices for the origin of the player during character creation, there is very little in the way of narrative. If games like Morrowind and Mount & Blade bring back fond memories of engaging gameplay and a sense of wanderlust, then I think you would jump into a game like Kenshi head first and love it.
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But what I see is a game that you can spend hours upon hours playing, which is something I would have loved as a kid with no money and lots of free time to kill. There is so much here to see and do that I feel like I barely scratched the surface with any of my characters. Kenshi is one of the most difficult games that I have ever had the pleasure of reviewing. But hey, if you are called Lo-Fi Games, I expect nothing more! Seriously though, I am cool with this, but I get it if others are turned off by the dated look and feel. Much like the graphics, the music and sound effects get the job done. After playing through games like Mount & Blade and its sequel, graphics can become an afterthought if the game is engaging and keeps you coming back for more. Graphically, the game is rough around the edges. The game offers you the ability to build and create your own slice of home in the world, and then choose how you want to integrate into it. Eventually, I can build up my own town and prosper if I so choose. I engaged in combat to help the city guards, but never sought out raiders. I recruited a squad to help mine around one of the main towns and was eventually buying and building a house in the city to run my mining/trading company from.
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Trial and error of trying to fight hordes of bandits led me to a life of being a miner/trader. Yet, all the different skills and systems within this game offer you seemingly endless play depending on the type of game you want here. Kenshi does a little bit of everything, but I don’t know if it does all of those things right and/or satisfyingly the map is huge (rivaling Daggerfall in size) and there are plenty of NPCs to interact with, but don’t expect much charisma from them. The difficult curve is steep, but once you start understanding Kenshi, I can see why people have invested a ton of hours into this game. Besides, sandbox games shouldn’t try to pigeonhole you into something you don’t want to engage with them. The world is your oyster and your story will be completely unique. I don’t think there is much of a story here, but that’s okay. Gaining proficiency early is critical to your survival in Kenshi and also because you need to put some food on the table, because your characters need to eat! This reminded me a lot of Morrowind and starting out in Seyda Neen missing a lot of sword swings on mud crabs and dying. You will start as a blank slate in the game, so its important in the early goings to get proficient in something. Leveling is similar to Morrowind in that your character and squad mates become more proficient in their skills by using them. The Shek, Hive, and Skeletons offer more interesting statistical advantages, but they also come with counterbalancing to other skillsets (ie, your big boy Shek can carry a lot of gear, but he won’t be sneaking around town at night stealing from shops without getting caught). Humans are the characters that offer the least resistance throughout the world, but their bonuses are uninspiring. Character customization offers 4 playable races that effect skill bonuses and faction relations. Kenshi offers different play modes from RPG to RTS: your character’s background affects the type of game you are playing and its difficulty. I applaud the scale of this game and can see why it took a long while to get out of early access. The reality is that this world has a lot going on and you and your party are just a small part of it. I died a lot my first few runs until I quit out and read through some wikis online, which were somewhat helpful. It’s a giant sandbox (both literally and figuratively) that beckons you to explore its world while smacking you in the face for doing so. Kenshi is a “free-roaming squad based RPG” from Lo-Fi Games. We’ve become accustomed to a level of hand holding in games that when you encounter an experience like Kenshi, you won’t know what to do. Loading Kenshi for the first time without any sort of research on the game is a mistake.
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