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.
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.