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Kenshi

95% positive of 98,852 Steam reviews

To finish: 82 h
To 100%: 273 h
Released: 2018
Steam Deck: Playable
Platforms: Steam, GOG, Epic

Made by Lo-Fi Games.

About the game

A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Tagged by players

Samurai
Swordplay
Party-Based RPG
RTS
Real Time Tactics
Strategy RPG
Stealth
Post-apocalyptic
Base Building
Crafting
Building
Immersive Sim

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Overwhelmingly Positive

What players say

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Kenshi: I Lost My Arm and Found Myself Regret: 7% (lost two limbs, gained character development) Kenshi does not care about you. You start with nothing, get beaten up by bandits, get sold as a slave and lose an arm. That's the tutorial. Everything is out to kill you, and you have no idea what you are doing. Then you slowly get stronger, build a base and eventually get a robot arm. By the end, you're running an army…
59 h played when written. 64 found it helpful.
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Recommended
I wish I could telepathically communicate the basics of this game to every new player, so they wouldn't ditch it before scaling the steep cliff that is its learning curve. Just take a little time out with this game and a search engine of your choice. Skim the wiki, ask people on reddit or something if you must, but I'm begging you: get a handle on this game, and it'll actually entertain you forever, 'unintended…
666 h played when written. 37 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
Every strategy to level up is purely based around cheese. The gap between early and mid-game is far too vast. It's not really a sandbox til you get well into the game. Extremely overrated and janky.
12 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.
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