Now *that* is innovation, when even losing a fight results in a huge gain.īeyond all of that, you can smuggle illegal narcotics, grow crops, craft armor, weapons and more, from leather to steel and all in between.
A great feature of Kenshi is that if you lose a fight and your characters don't outright die, you can regain your health with first aid skills and you actually gain points in the Toughness stat for taking such a beating. You could be traveling for days, which in most cases is always a tricky situation as you must feed your group but also stay alive if you get into a scuffle, or worst, lose a scuffle. The game features dozens of unique areas and many biomes to go along with the plethora of factions and monsters to slay. There is no procedural generation in terms of the landmass, it is all there for you to explore as you wish - if you can survive. And yes, you heard it right, it is handcrafted. It should be noted that the map is the largest handcrafted map since Daggerfall, sizing up at an incredibly impressive 870km squared. The game is very dynamic and there is always something surprising around every corner. If you build an outpost expect bandits to test you, demanding sums of money in return for not razing the place, or the occasional raid by hungry Garrus who want to eat your hard-worked on crops. The Holy Nation, for example, will attack Starving Bandits on sight, and also give trouble to any non-human character as they are extremely xenophobic religious zealots. These factions also have reactivity within them. You can create your own faction in a world that is already littered with a few dozen factions as it stands. Yes, you can build bases in Kenshi, and not only that - whole cities. Recruiting companions is an important part of Kenshi, as you'll want to create a squad of warriors, tech specialists, armor smiths, field medics and more that can not only withstand the punishment of bandit ambushes, bonedog attacks or blood spiders trying to eat you alive, but that can also hold up an outpost if you choose to build one. The world is your playground and Kenshi gives you every imaginable tool at your disposal to play with.
There are so many options to choose from that you can literally do anything you want in the game - if you can get away with it. You could also decide to become a trader take some goods from one town, hire some mercenaries and make a trip to a faraway land to sell and make a profit. Or, you could go the less savory route of thievery, complete with lockpicking, sneaking ability and even the option to KO a victim so you can move about freely while they are laying on the ground unconscious. This could mean mining iron or copper ore to start, selling it at the local town and affording enough to feed yourself and maybe hire a companion or two on board. In Kenshi, you'll want to try and survive by any means necessary.
You not only write the story, you ARE the story. The game is so rich with "toys" and gameplay mechanics that yourself coupled with your imagination leads to a more intriguing story than any author can pen. You won't find NPCs who tell you long, drawn out stories about what enemy to slay or what item to go gather for them from a local cave. You won't find many prewritten quests here. It blends elements from several genres survival, real-time strategy, RPGs, and even borrows from games like Total War. The name of the game is survival, this is not your typical or traditional CRPG nor is it a typical survival or strategy game. You get several choices, each deeply impacting how you start off the game and the situation you are in.
So please keep in mind that I haven't really gotten that far, but I've gotten far enough to know that this game is a huge breath of fresh air for the gaming industry.įirst, you get to choose your background and starting options. Let me start by saying this is not a feature-complete review according to Steam I have played 57 hours in the past *several days* and that is barely enough to even scratch the surface of this behemoth of a game.
Kenshi review 2019 Pc#
I've never played anything like it in my life before, and I've been playing RPGs both on console and PC for roughly 30 years. It changes the way you think of gaming, the way you think of innovation and what could be done within the gaming medium and think of all the possibilities that could happen because of it. What can you say about a game like Kenshi? Once in a blue moon, no, a lifetime, a game may come out that completely changes your world. I gush a little in it but I really do like the game a lot.
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