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. 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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