KENSHI Review | SSS Rank: Smuggling™ | Starvation™ | Slavery™ 

Kenshi: Started at the bottom, now we’re still basically at the bottom.

I once spent several weeks worth of profit from my city buying over a hundred goats, all of which became the unstoppable vanguard of my army. My conquest began in the Cannibal Plains. They didn't stand a chance. Next we traveled to Okran's realm. It was glorious. To the Shek Kingdom we went, slaying all in our path. It was in Hive territory that I realized our numbers were beginning to dwindle, and that most of my goat cannon fodder were crippled. It was time to return home. I sent my archers and swordsmen on ahead, and led my goats to a spot we discovered on our journey, but dared not venture into... A Beak Thing nest. With a single tear running down my face, I ordered my entire goat battalion into the nest with no auxillary support or clear escape route. It was a blood bath. There were no survivors. The bleating platoon of horned warriors fought to the very last goat, but were picked clean and devoured by the carnivorous giraffe birds. I made myself watch it all. They couldn't come home with me, because I couldn't afford to feed them. I told my men I released them into the wild, in a valley where they could frolic and play for generations to come. The truth is, I was selfish. If I couldn't be with my goat minions in this life, I would be with them in the next.

Another thing about Prayer Day, you need to have at least one male in your camp when Prayer Day arrives. If all of your residents and player characters at your camp are female, the priest will say the following: _"Woman, are there no men to speak with me?_ _Wait... are there no men on this outpost? It is against sacred law to take up residence without brotherly guidance..._ _This will not do... This will not do at all. You are not welcome here... you will be removed."_ You won't have any dialogue options, and The Holy Nation will attack your residence after 24 hours. Even if the female character that greets the priest is holding a copy of The Holy Flame, it won't matter. Similarly, if a skeleton goes out and interacts with the priest, the group will instantly turn hostile and start attacking, as they would if they were to encounter a skeleton through other means.

Three words, twelve letters. Say it and I'm yours. "Hey hey people"

"A pack of weaboos keep dabbing away with our bread baskets." A single phrase has never caused me so much joy and pain

First kenshi game: -start at hub -buy food -go to squin -try to rob the weapon store -get caught and beaten half to death -thrown out of the city -gets eaten by a group of goats 10/10 would do again

After a long break from Kenshi, I recently booted up the game again and made a new character. A single skeleton named Able who started in a north-western skeleton settlement. I didn't know much about the area aside from previous visits to Flotsam village and World's End, so I just explored by myself for a bit. Able just wanted to see the world and make friends along the way. Eventually, I enter Northern Hive territory. I'd never heard of or seen hivers discriminate against skeletons, so when a patrol came near, I stayed on the road. They spotted me and chased me back to a little human village. I ran into the bar so the guards would attack the hivers, but they were swiftly cut down. They then bashed my head open and left. Nobody else gave a shit, so the bar staff and I bled out. I immediately made another skeleton, but chose the legendary sword start. You get a top tier naginata, but you have a massive bounty from both the Holy Nation and the United Cities. His name? Cain. His goal? To gather whatever decent folk he can find and wipe this rotten world of the scum that plagues it. Monsters shall be hunted down. Savages shall be crushed. Madmen shall be put down. Tyrants shall kneel. Repent, or be put to the sword. 10/10 would lose faith again.

I have recently reached 300 hours registered on this game, all on an budget laptop with only Intel integrated Graphics and a mechanical hard drive... a 5400 RPM drive. No other game would make me download several mods do decrease graphical fidelity beyond the minimum options just to increase performance and loading times a bit. That's how enthralling this game is.

This rev. made me impulse buy the game two days ago. 10/10 didnt expect to find myself become a slaver but it's a surprisingly short jump from stealing cups to stealing people

Amazingly my first Kenshi character is still alive. Started as a slave to the holy empire, worked for a very long time on their damn statue, eventually gathering so many fellow potential escapees that we stormed the gates. Unfortunately only my man made it out. Made my way to the escape shelter and getting slightly geared up and fed. Several days of real time later and I'm running from a horde of very hungry bandits that managed to disconnect me from my very precious legs just as I pass into the hellscape that rains acid. After patching myself up I crawl to the center of the flesh melting pit, seeing as why the hell not, got nothing to lose at this point. Finally make it to the robot city and spend all of my money on a set of very fast robot legs. Ran into the Ashlands, assassinated the big bad robot boss, stole his weapon and brain and I literally dont care about anything anymore as I naruto run at 35 mph with a sword on my back that weighs about as much as I do. Absolutely amazing. 10/10 the game runs like ass, looks like ass and I adore it.

Other games: Friendly tutorial which teaches you how to play the game Kenshi: Bought one bowl of rice to travel to the next city, got raped by 17 bandits because they were hungry and they even took my wooden stick and then i had to crawl to the next bar with a broken arm

"[Crab (Gender Neutral)]" made me laugh more than I should. You are truely blessed with the ability to name.

I, for one, welcome our Naruto-running, Hash-smuggling Overlords.

If I saw a man Naruto running at 26mph, I would be so scared that I would let him do whatever he wants.

Bought Kenshi because of this. Stared as two cannibal hunters, spent about an hour designing my characters. First dude was a robot, he died in about 2 mins while I got captured and swiftly broke out in the night, started a riot, killed two cannibals and ran into the desert in my pants in the ensuing battle. Then got eaten by beak things a week later 🤣 10/10 and I am blaming you entirely for my new addiction.

Saw this video, played the game. Ended up with a colony in the fog islands, anything invading me got taken care of by the locals. And sometimes i had to deal with the locals myself. Got rich off mining a spot and growing food that i exported to the local city, got bored of my fortress and money so i started exploring with a crew of 4 highly trained people. Found some blueprints for metal hands and feet that out preformed my natural limbs so naturally i stuck my 4 highly trained warriors into potato peeling machines with a doctor there to heal them the moment a limb falls off. Ended up with 4 cyborgs who could change their legs from super speed to super sneak when ever they needed, so ofc what did i do? Explored the whole map, kited all the enemies with the 4 superhuman soldiers with crossbows and looted all the things. And it all started with me getting my ass kicked and about to be eaten by canibals outside the first town.

"I've included the bare essentials to make the game playable" *Looks at list* *Sees Crucifixion as one of the mods* I see you are a man of culture as well.

"It's like a game made with 2003 depth and 2003 graphics."

"Kenshi is the result of China after years of famine and an australian invasion" I couldn't stop laughing ps : Also it's nice to know you're left handed (1:39)

I dunno... Can she?

There's a really old Russian meme copypasta where a guy with a bad grasp of grammar asks a gamedev company to make a game with a certain set of features. Weirdly, those features resemble Kenshi a lot.

Pro tip If you have robot arms or legs go to the holy nation areas they love that, might even give you good stuff.

>be me >can't even win against a single starving bandit >over 300 hours later >mow down leviathans and slaughter whole cities

"You can build a outpost wherever you want" Me: builds a outpost in the deadlands with only greenlanders without acid rain protection

This game nearly ruined my life. I put in 166 hours in 2 week. I had to unscrew my monitor from my pc to stop playing it. 10/10 best game ever

Kenshi is suddenly on steam top sellers. Coincidence? I think not.

It's 2 years and I still want to watch this multiple times a year.

So I've just lost 3/4 of my party to the Ashlands, my main skeleton managed to take out Cat-lon, but we ran into like 200 skeletons on our way back. We were loaded with loot too, so running wasn't an option. Bruised and bloodied we try to drag ourselves to Spring to heal up, now we get ambushed by skin bandits, we're forced to drop the corpse of my dead heavy (used the body for storage) to get my scout out of the peeler and some f*cking skin bandit sprints into the room, grabs the body and yeets it into the incinerator... They just burned about 500k Cats of loot. And that my friends is what we call: "the Kenshi experience" P.s.: Agnu carried like 66% of Beep out of there so it's all good.

I like how a guy named Chad 2.0 was kicking ass shirtless with no weapons other than his fists. What a Chad

I was literally just wishing for Kenshi review, and here it is.

The best game I don't have the time to play. Last time I played I accidentally stayed up till 4am after working a 12 hour shift to then wake up at 6am to get myself and my son ready for the day, take him to the babysitter, and then head to work for another 12 hour shift. 10/10

I come here from time to time just to watch the ending of this video. One of the best things I saw in RU-vid in my entire life.

seen this video - tried the game - got attacked by bandits when i stepped out town - dropped unconcious - some kind of animal came by and started to eat me alive - screamed so hard abomination got scared away - came back with five of his friends whle i was crawling away to "relative safety" -got eaten alive Happened in my first 7 minutes of gameplay , 10 rusty clubs out of / 10 blood spiders

Good God, seeing a weed-smuggling Naruto-running Hobbs dash past guards at the speed of sound does my heart good.

Being inspired by Sam's Chadbots Saga, I started as a Rock Bottom skeleton, who tried to settle down in The Great Desert. Constant taxation and bandit raids made me take down my outpost and move far away from there. But not before I've bumped into Burn, with whom we've travelled way down to the Fog Islands, where we decided to set up another outpost. At first Fogmen raids were scary, but now we have established a sturdy wall and a gate, so these idiots stopped getting too close. We also save Holy Nation Refugees from those beasts from time to time. Not everyone gets lucky though. Our next objective is to gather enough research and materials to be able to quickly establish a bigger outpost, get more skeletons and raze the United Cities for all the trouble it gave to my poor one-handed skeleton. From there we may try and topple down Holy Nation.

Just to reiterate, this game kicks so much ass. As someone who enjoys sailing the high seas, it's so good that I'm even going to purchase it just to support the dev One of my favorite aspects that really sets this game apart is the character creation and freedom to make them whatever you want. My first character is named Despiser, an Ashland hunchback with toothpick legs and biceps bigger than your head, standing at a hilarious 3ft tall (I'm assuming anyways), with a permanent expression of murderous rage plastered on his comparatively tiny little head. He's extremely sneaky, I guess because his skin can blend into the shadows, and due to constant, excessive encumbrance, his tiny little legs can carry him at a current 26mph while carrying 100kg on his back. Everytime I take a second to admire my abomination scuttling across the wasteland, effortlessly juking out gangs of bandits because he's just too small and slippery for them to hit, it brings a joyful tear to my eye. And the best part is, _every single person_ who devotes any time to this game can tell stories of their own unique experience with it, and that's just the shit man, love it!

Klean told me to watch this and now I'm definitely buying it

>Australian >Meat Pies and Crystal Meth Accurate

my favorite part of this game is, that you can rip off the limbs of your enemies and replace them with "economy limbs" in the most brutal ways possible.

I'm a huge fallout fan, I think kenshi captures the tone of a fallout game, albeit unintentionally, perfectly. The satire of the world really mirrors the tone that fallout sets. The encounters you come across, like the flesh bots, seems like something you'd come across in a fallout game. On top of that it's a better rpg than a majority of the fallout games bar a few. I don't know this game is still fairly unknown. Its a game that you can always come back to and play an entirely new experience than the last time. Unless you're a brainlet like me and every time you play you just build a city.

once a month experience, well worth the investment. greetings from the merchants guild

>that God Hand outro absolute kino

There are only 2 valid options for how your faction turns out, either you ally with the crab raiders and become a crab master yourself or you get an army of kung fu black belt robots with industrial lifter arms.

Buy hash from the swamps and sell to Flats Lagoon: The Game.

I really like sseth's vidz

This video inspired me. I bought the game because it looked fun. I'm now setting up what will eventually be a nation founded on cannibalism. I'm currently setting up an outpost in the cannibal plains, away from the capital for the time being. My primary food source will be human meat and I'll be using the villages as farms. Cannibalizing the cannibals with deathsquads composed of topless women and skeletons. Also trying to get the human peeler early so I can start setting up a human skin factory to begin setting up trade with the skin bandits. I will eventually ursup Savant using the funds I acquire from his people, peel his skin and adorn a skeleton companion with it. Once the Southern Hive moves in we will enslave them and undergo a sort-of decimation. One out of every 10 hivers I capture will be publicly beaten to death and eaten. Eventually, naturally, the queen will be subjugated and subsequently quartered by a massive ring of cages filled with her people. With the destruction of the two areas Powers I will then establish myself as overlord, build up and expand upon my new territory, and with each world state change will be another people enslaved and cannibalized. Those who can't be harvested or eaten will be turned into shields as my 256 strong squad invades town and city after another. With the total annihilation of all biological life on the continent I will amass enough skin and meat to begin enveloping the entire land in a suit of skin packed with foul meat. The natural decay on such a massive ecological scale will begin to produce bacteria and various fungal lifeforms never before seen or imagined. I will cultivate and begin a program of designed evolution in which I establish an advanced race of beings who will then begin to realise my true ambitions of expanding into the cosmos. I will be the progenitor of the first Eldritch beings, the allfather of gods and goddesses, and my finally my dream will be born. With my cosmological pantheon of incomprehensible beings I will then begin work on my greatest....and final, masterpiece. A CPU capable of handling Dwarf Fortress.

Like every few months I come back and watch thos because it's so damn good, thank you seth

I had multiple characters captured over and over again by the Holy nation, later in the game when had a strong enough team, I captured the Phoenix, build a cage half in a pool of acid in the dead lands, put the Phoenix in and left him to die. You really can have justice in this game. Awesome video ❤

So this is basically Dwarf Fortress mixed with Fist of the North Star

So your telling me that the best ways to smuggle hash is to naruto run through places, with everyone assuming i have a disability so they don't notice? It's fool proof...

In my current kenshi playthrough I am a small group of slaves that have risen up against the Okran worshippers in the main camp with the huge statute. If you stealth knockout the slavers and put them on a rack, the other slavers will strip them of their equipment and make them slaves. I used this to systematically free all of the slaves in the camp and put all the guards in stocks/cages. Victory is sweet.

My first character Jack ‘Bad Luck’ Mulligan managed to make a base. After about 5-7 in-game weeks of dragging raiders back to town for the guards to kill, and only sleeping or doing research in my house in town, I had my first prayer day. That I ignored as I was mining a copper node near town a little bit away. The preacher got angry that I was not opening that gates (I was technically not home, in stealth, and right next to a shek town) and swore punishment! Which I took personally. I immediately stealthed after them and knocked out his paladins, dropping their gear on the ground so they couldn’t pick it up, and after unarming all the paladins, and most of the monks I got caught. Being a squishy rouge, I noticed a bit late and got pretty hurt, But, I had a ace! I ran really fast back to town! Watching as the unarmored and unarmed holy warriors got slaughtered I pawned all the gear and…… put it in my outpost, which was raided by the weeaboo tribe the next day, but hey no prayer day or holy attacks, so whatever. 10/10 assassin for the win!

First time on Kenshi. T-he main man bradders. -not going to live by your rules daddy-o. -Uses my initial money to buy some construction materials and build a shack a little way off so not to bother the locals. -go get some more materials in order to get a nice interior and door going. -while there i accidently get arrested for using the water fountain too much. -only in prison for a day. no trouble -takes a day or so to return. -get home and there are a group of soldiers outside my house, i see them from a while off but it isn't untill i get closer i see what they are saying. -pay your taxes or we'll burn your house down" -crap! i have money i'll just pay them and they'll be on their way! -as i get closer they speak again" thats it! kill him!" -they beat the shit out of me for essentially being in prison with them. -they knock me out and start carrying me back to homebase, i feel good knowing at least amazon wont do well out here with this level of attentiont o tax fraud! -what could the real punishment be i wonder, not getting an answer as the patrol is attacked by monsters killing everyone, leaving me to crawl away as everyone is fighting -back home i go on my last legs -some people in the distance"oh please help me!" -he'll make a good slave -ooh nooooOoo -they carry me back to the home base and put me in the slavepens passed the guards who wanted me for tax evasion. -i spend the night trying to break out of prison -we'll take him, i'll be back tomorrow - i hear from my cage. -fuck i cant sleep, need to escape! somehow manage it! take off my shackles too, like a boss -sneak out of prison, to get stopped at the gates -You didnt pay your taxes! to prison! -they beat me up and put me back in the same sells, i come to in time to get sold to the slavers who take me to there work prison thing. -pretty chill here tbh, they let you do what you want, just dont try and leave, they even let me level up my lockpicking a bit on the cages we are locked in. -the prison city is attacked routinly by crabmonster things -get an idea -during the night, i unlock as many of my fellow prisoners as possible, tell them"you are with me now" -some would rather stay inside, but most accept. -wait for the next attack, unlock one of the slaves working who immedietly makes a run for it, distracting the guards just as the city is attacked, i then command my fellow-slaves to rise up and attack the guards. -they immedietly get wrecked by the armoured guards, -i could imagine there betrayed faces when they called for commands. i have to imagine because i had legged it in the confusion, stolen some armour of a dead guard from one of the many attacks and flead into the desert. -cant go home now, my shack is the lands now. -spend 3 days travelling at night to escape the shitty desert and found a land that can only be described as "gods asshole" -everyone was pretty religious as there was a massive canyon that was constantly getting a lighting bolts striking it. -hello friend -holy crap a friendly guard! "HEY!" -did you do your prayers this morning? -prayers? -HERETIC! and he killed me immedietly. fucking loved that game. 10/10

Anyone else re-watch Sseths vids like 3-4 times per video?

during my first game of Kenshi I just started as a vanilla ass wanderer. since the guy ran everywhere, he got really good at athletics, and since the shinobi thieves were the only faction in the hub i could join i did. best decision of the game. I started following a band of nomads which wandered into the swamp, where I got quickly beat the shit out of by blood spiders. after a reload I started training stealth. soon I discovered the power of the stealth knockout and the fact that swamp hash sells for a lot of money in united city shinobi thief hideouts. this was when my guy became a professional hash smuggler who regularly crossed from the swamps across venge and the great desert and back to make mad bank, until he was able to outrun even beak things and venge lasers, and knock out pretty much every standard guard. eventually I just started fucking with UC slave camps, because the UC sucks, and this is when I learned that freed slaves can actually offer to join you if you help them escape. I made my first ex-slave recruit and from then on built a whole squad of ex-slaves who set up shop in the swamp and made more money than god smuggling hash while continuing to free more slaves.

Loved Kenshi enough to spend time learning the Forgotten Construction Set (FCS) and made some mods. I made one which made every single fleshy factions hostile to me, while making most mechanical ones neutral, or even friendly. This changed more things than I expected, since acquiring basic building materials harder, while making research tech easier (ancient spiders just don't care about you looting their ruins). Early-outpost days was really hard, since every-single-goddamn random patrol spotted me and immediately decided to attack my ass. I had to design a way to make recruiting more skeletons easier (or even possible) since I couldn't visit bars, and there are only very few natural unique skeletons to recruit (i.e. make the Thrall Masters a possible ally, that could sell you thralls or other captured Skeletons). I even introduced Mechanical Spider traders, and a trade caravan based on the Black Desert City's scraphouse. Being forced to play as a skeleton, hostile to every blood-and-bone factions out there, is real fun. No diplomacy with any of the major factions for the most part, just unending carnage. Peace was never an option. Also made a mod with repeating crossbows. Made two patches to other popular mods, and a small tweak patch to the base game. Created an alternative power source mod to get rid of wind turbines which I think really broke the look of bases (it's nuclear power tech, so not exactly early-game stuff). Seeth did mention how customizable the game was with mods, but he didn't really touch upon how easy it is to make your own stuff. I made my first mod because I wanted to do an Apocalypse playthrough but didn't want to spend time slowly getting on everyone's bad side and I couldn't find anything like that on the workshop (or elsewhere). So, it was either learn the FCS and do it myself or give up. All of this thanks to Sseth's video. Kenshi had always been floating on my radar from all the way back, but I probably never would have played it if it weren't for this.

Top Slave Roleplay game on the market. 1160/1945. Fairly recommended.

I bought this game back in 2014 and I thought they would never finish it and I just wasted money on the Early Access cash grab. Glad to see that this game is one of the few that actually made it out and looks really successful. Ill reinstall it on Steam and give it another go. Still, I would love to see a true spiritual successor to Battle Realms.

After i watch this, i started playing. After 3 months, i left my job to play Kenshi full time. Then i blamed the covid19 pandemic to hide my intentions from my parents. 19/10 i would play again.

Little tip when you first start this game, the instant you spawn in at the hub, go to squin and look for a shek named Ruka. She has decent stats so she can fight hungry bandits without much help so she’ll help you out until you level your stats.

One of the crabs was named: "GET TO WORK SPONGEBOB" lol

Me: "Oh hell yeah, this is definitely going on my wishlist to pick up during the next sale!" **click** **stares at the screen for five minutes** "God dammit" **buys game**

You have some of the best and most unique game reviews in terms of amazing taste and what u have to say. keep up the good, refreshing work.

This was both the video that got me into Kenshi & introduced me to Sseth, I now have over 1,000 hours in kenshi & am a member of the merchants guild, truly a blessed gift from Okran.

I am really digging this new season of Naruto

How did a month already pass since the dwarf fortress one?

9:26 For some reason, that bone dog running away with human leg was truly cute. Who's a good man-eating boy? Yes you are! xD

This is definitely my favourite video of yours, probably watched over 15 times now and finally got round to buying Kenshi just yesterday, it's a jank masterpiece.

Dont you dare not reviewing God Hand after teasing us with its theme ((Sseth)).

Anarcho-Capitalism: The Game

4 years later and Kenshi still holds strong with Kenshi 2 on the horizon. Can't wait to start another crucifixion garden of Manhunters and Paladins.

This made me buy Kenshi after watching it for 15 times over the past 3 years and I love it so much that i cannot stop playing at all.

The amount of times I have rewatched this is unhealthy.

How did I ever find this channel... Still the greatest sub I've ever made Edit: I just remembered where I found him, I was looking up rim world and saw his "review". I think that was it, but I coulda just have found him in a random recommendation

Kenshi is SUCH a great game! A real solid experience all around. You review of it really hit that nail on the head hard.

0:57 got me in tears

hey hey people

There is no bad videos on this channel.

This is one of the best videos of all time, i cant stop coming back and watching it

Kenshi purchases after Sseth review: ⬆⬆⬆

Mandalore off his meds again. HYPE. Also Sseth, could you make a video on Chris Sawyer's Locomotion? I know it isn't a very well known game but it made my childhood and I still like playing it from time to time.

| Praise Okran™ | Dab on Skeletons™ | Destroy Narko™|

10:02 This dude just straight up killing everyone with his karate

As an Aussie. Having meth and pies as the two things most associated with our little southern penal colony is bloody hilarious!

After 1200 hours of playing Kenshi I still haven't seen and done everything. Edit: 2k+ hours and after taking a long break started a new game today with even more mods.

That's a shitload of Patreons who want to give you their money. Good job on delivering excellent quality content and making me laugh (But also very interesting, as you deliver a very well thought review) every time. You're the best.

This is one of my favorite RU-vidrs. I love his narration, wit, and how he puts his vids together

hey man appreciate all that you do. stay stronk stranger. The devs of this game owe you. seriously.

You forgot to mention the part where you go out to maim and kidnap strong warriors so you can use them as punchingbags for your many recruits to quickly level stats as they pummel him into a coma only to heal him so that you can continue pummeling delicious stats out of his very being for all eternity.

I only now, after a week of having the game and 50 hours of playtime understand Seth’s statement on watching his life slip away to feed his new addiction

My first playthrough lasted only a few minutes. Left town to scavenge, was attacked by bone dogs, left unconscious and bleeding, was picked up by slavers, slavers were attacked by cannibals and ended up as someone's happy meal. Ngl it took me a while after this to get back into it.

Have to say. This is probably my favorite video on RU-vid. Have watched it so many times over the two years

Nothing in this game matters except prayer day, i speak from experience.

Ssethzentach independent website??? C-c-can we shut it down?? Its annudah shoah i tell you - Nervous Gnomes

So not only are there spooky metal skeletons, but they can become Flayed Ones? Sign me up!

Forgot about this game 3 years ago until my friend got into it and the the Seth memories all came flooding back

This game needs a fist of the north star mod.

I'm glad Hidden leaf deliveries is a successful business in this harsh wasteland

I will watch this video on loop in response to RU-vid age restricting it

finally a good Brazil Simulator. must play!