
One thing I strongly recommend when you first load in, is to simply run. are leveled up by actually doing the desired skill. Kenshi is a huge game not necessarily in the scale of the world, though that is impressive, but in the idea that every attribute or skill available in game, such as athletics, strength, stamina, sneaking, crafting, etc. After spending a solid thirty minutes deciding your race, name, and other attributes, you will pop right into the game. Fun fact about the character creator … you can make some truly horrific looking and malformed characters. Each race has their pros and cons, but for pure aesthetics, I ran with humans as they are the most neutral throughout Kenshi. If you have managed to avoid those fates in the early days, then in the early days, you will probably be eaten by the roaming packs of wild dog-things (seriously, those things suck).Ĭharacter setup is huge and intricate with a pile of races to choose, from the bug-like weird-o’s, to spikey tentacle-faced oddities, to standard humans. Failing that, you will most certainly end up in prison on account of the fact you will most certainly screw up and steal or attack someone you should not have. You will, without a doubt, be crushed by a band of roving slavers, bandits, or one of the opposing factions.
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Kenshi is almost exclusively about trial and error, where “error” is the name of the game. You do not need to partake in glorious battle or skulk through the night thieving your way to riches, oh no … you can be an adventure, exploring new areas and peoples, you can be a trader, hawking wares to settlements far and wide, or you can take the route I most commonly did, and simply work to crush anyone that stood in my way of world domination … Kenshi is huge, complex, and though extraordinarily difficult at times, a wonderful way to pass the long hours of a weekend. Set in a massive open world, Kenshi is more than a simple open world, it is a pure sandbox adventure where prison, starvation, and war are around every corner.

I have struggled to truly define what Kenshi is based on the tags and general definition by the good folks at Lo-Fi Games, it is a “free-roaming squad based RPG” and while that is absolutely true, it is so much more.
