Why Kenshi Is So Awesome 

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the graphics are honestly pretty good when you consider the fact that this was a game made primarily by one guy over the course of 12 years

I discovered this game by total accident, and I swear, never regretted playing. THIS GAME EVEN HAS MODDING, so that's a huge plus.

best Kenshi story... I tried to build an outpost in Shek territory, the Kral's Chosen deemed me unworthy, beat all my guys down, then slavers showed up and carried off the survivors in shackles. Then the slavers rand into a pack of beak things and got themselves wrecked. I managed to save most of my team. Most. Some were eaten alive by the Beak Things. Love this game.

Slave start at Rebirth, no reloading if something went wrong. two Greenlanders, husband and wife. While trying to escape, the paladins caught up to them and cut both of them down, but only healed the husband, leaving the wife to die. The husband, who had the fitting name of Stone because that’s what he mined all day, managed to escape, and joined up with the Flotsam Ninjas. They were kind enough to escort Stone to The Hub, where he could finally start building his army. The first small army he led ended up getting killed, with Stone being the sole survivor. Once again, he was alone. Wandering aimlessly, he met a skeleton, who was also beaten and broken down by The Holy Nation. Stone convinced them that together, they could build the army capable of taking down Holy Lord Phoenix and his slavers. But first, they needed to train, and they needed money. Bounty hunting was the answer. Across the land, bandit leaders would fall, and brought to the Sheks for payment. The roads became safer, free of bandits, and more and more money was used to further his efforts. Other anti-slavers were recruited, and soon, Holy Nation outposts were assaulted, and slaves were freed, some joining him in his cause. A base was built, called “The Oasis.” A place where everyone was equal. Stone, now known for his fists hitting so hard, it’s like they were made of stone, finally had an army capable of assaulting Blister Hill, home of The Holy Nation. With the help of the Flotsam Ninjas, Stone, and his faction he named “The Rebellion,” slaughtered their way through the town. There were major casualties on all sides, but Stone was victorious, and carried the unconscious Holy Lord Phoenix back to base. The celebration lasted days. Phoenix sat in a cage, watching as people drank rum, sang songs, and ate decadently, while he starved. During the party, Stone then put him in a peeler machine, tearing off all of his limbs, but keeping him alive. His screams were music to everyone’s ears, dancing to his shrieking. After it was over, Stone alone took his limbless body to a nearby hill. He watched the sunrise as the leader of The Holy Nation, the person who had taken his wife’s life, took his last breath, and succumbed to starvation. Stone had finally gotten his revenge, and was finally at peace. Of course, that wasn’t the end. The United Cities, and their slave-owning and greedy leaders, all met the same fate. The Sheks weren’t evil, and their help early on was surely needed, but their blood-hungry ways weren’t in tune with the way the world was moving forward. Their leader was killed in battle. The Hiver factions who couldn’t band together with non-hivers to form a better world were also killed. Cat-Lon, a once proud warrior and anti-slaver, who had since lost hope in humanity and attacked him, met his end as well. The Flotsam Ninjas and the fellow Anti-slavers faction formed an alliance with Stone and his Rebellion, and together they formed a new empire. The Third Empire, capable of standing the tests of time. And Stone was the leader. Miner, Laborer. Diplomat. Scientist. Blacksmith. Strategist. Master of combat. Battle-scarred, limbs either torn off by beak-things, or cut off by swordsmen, and replaced with more powerful robotic limbs. Stone created a world free of slavery, where no one, whether man, woman, shek, hiver, or skeleton will face adversity without the aid of the empire. He sits at his throne, not lording over subjects, but leading all life to a better tomorrow. His legend still grows. He has not taken another wife. (This was my best Kenshi play-through, and probably the most fun I had playing any game. This is why Kenshi is my favorite game of all time. Thanks for reading, if anyone does. If not, it was still fun to type.)

The fact that this was also made by one person, makes it 100x better. I go back and forth on this game, will play it for days. Such a good game, and with mods you can further increase your play time. 10/10 even though some people don't find it graphically appealing, I do. It has a certain Je ne sais quoi as the French would put it. If it looks any bit interesting I recommend you check it out! Hyped for Kenshi 2 xD

The best moment I can think of from Kenshi was when I passed through the shrieking forest. There are these huge bands of crazy people running all over that place and they all communicate through screaming. I managed to luck my way through a dialogue encounter where I understood nothing of what I or they were saying. Then I ran with the bandits, and it was an amazing experience. Just hordes of people running, back and forth for seemingly no reason, their shrieking cries all around me. It was so unique and weird that I never forgot it.

When I first played Kenshi, I spent the first irl week scavenging around the grey desert getting enslaved every other day, escaping and then hiding within minor settlements... 3 years later and on that same save file and same characters; I created a 200 unit strong Hiver supercity that controls over 3/4ths of the map, patrols trade routes to every major city, and produces essentially 75% of all trade products on the planet... Rags to Riches. Wandering beggar to Warlord. All on my own successes and failures. All on my own terms... Hell of a game👍 8/10

My first playthrough actually went really well. I ended up trying to play like a trader with an outpost. I ended up fleeing Empire territory, because I didn't want to pay taxes. Settled in the Swamp region because the people in the local city were actually the only people who seemed nice to me for the first time (Also willing to buy hard drugs and stolen goods with little complaint). Settled there and was found by a legion of the local people. They made me an offer that I can stay there totally for free, they just want me to grow drugs for them and give them a cut of it. This was amazing so I immediately started setting up the plantation. Unfortunately, the local wildlife kept eating my drug crops, I couldn't build strong enough walls fast enough to keep them out. When the swamp-people came back to demand their drug tax, I couldn't pay up, so they subsequently slaughtered everyone in my outpost. Still think it was the best place though! They even gave me one more chance to pay up the first time they came around! But I still couldn't get everything up by their 2nd return. But the overall leniency was appreciated!

Oh boy. My story? When I first started, I was a mere wanderer with nothing but rags and a rusty stick. It took some time but I began to build a party. We quickly became thieves with decent combat performance and eventually, we became a town. From a mere group of 5 petty thieves stealing gear and food just to get by, to a small self-sufficient town with farmers, cooks, smiths and other workers, we rose from the ground up. I made a squad specifically for combat consisting of 7 people to take on dangerous tasks: Tengu, Lynn (formerly known as Fish), and Streak are the backbone and muscle of the squad. I had recruited the 3 of them at the same time in a bar and since then, they've been inseperable battle sisters. Then there was Hamut and Garr. One volunteered to come with me, and the other was one of my town's former builders whose combat stats I felt were wasted staying in the outpost. Both had decent thievery skills. The sixth is a Shek woman known as Set. She was an escaped slave who attacked us on our way back to the outpost. After convincing her, she now runs around with us as a combat medic. Finally there was I, Davkes. The squad leader with stats above the rest. Together, we called ourselves the Vanguard and we thought ourselves invincible. No passing patrol or beast could kill us or knock us out without being annihilated in their futile attempt. One day, as the Vanguard returned to the outpost with weapons from an ancient armory, a man dressed in simple clothing came up to me. His name was Thumper and he came looking for us to join our ranks. I was hesitant at first because he seemed weak and I didn't really have a need for another mouth to feed. Nonetheless, I reluctantly said yes and made him our second medic in the Vanguard. I gave him what spare armor I could and one of our recently looted weapons. Now there was 8 of us. At first, he moved and fought slowly due to the heavy armor, and a blunt weapon to fit his best weapon stat. It was almost laughable as he swung that thing over his head in vain effort. As a field medic though, Thumper performed his duty well. He kept the combat squad alive time and time again even in the most perilous and dire treks. He spent many nights under the nightsky around the campfire with the others as they healed in the camping beds he had carried along. After countless battles with bandits, guards, slavers, and beasts alike, he was now able to hold his own and keep up with the squad. Interestingly, whenever we returned to base, he would always seem to go straight to the medical building where a woman named Pia (the medic of the original 5 thieves now turned town doctor) resided. I think they liked each other. She didn't seem to mind having him around. Soon, we had explored every ancient building there was to see in the South and Southwest side of the map. Everyone had new gear and our workstations were upgraded as a result. Yet, our outpost was in need of more research resources and so we started exploring further North, away from the safety of our home. We began exploring through Hiver territory, Holy Lands, and the Fog to reach locations we had learned from previous ruins. Each time, we returned with many riches of the ancients but it was never enough. One day, we went further North than ever before and encountered a sizable group of berserkers. After suffering moderate injuries and fighting them off, we kept going only to be ambushed by a group of cannibals. Now our injuries were beginning to show as Tengu and Set were knocked out during the battle and we needed to find a place to rest. Along the way, Thumper had fallen slightly behind everyone else. It was at this moment, while we all looked away, another group of cannibals knocked him out, took him away toward their village and locked him in a blood stained cage. We gave chase, but our broken bodies and heavy armor kept us from catching up to the wicked flesh-eating assailants before they got there. Fearful thoughts engulfed our minds. Despite our injuries, we did not stop. We couldn't. We charged toward their village with weapons in hand, and rage in our hearts. As we approached, one of the savages were beating Thumper in his cage. He screamed and wailed with each whack at him. My emotions were now a mix of anger, disgust, and sorrow. Their village came out to meet us and we fought. Without any mercy, we swiftly wiped out the village, freed Thumper, and patched him up.. but something was wrong.. Thumper was dying. His blood levels were dropping despite Set's healing. Our poor friend is now bleeding to death and it seems he left the camping beds back at the outpost.. Now we were desperate to find a town but we knew where nothing was in this new land. Every place we went was just a cannibal infested hellhole. After running throughout the night fighting cannibals and bandits looking for a place, we came across an old village of rubble and dirt. We went inside what looked like an old Orkan church. I checked the map to see how far the nearest friendly town was. His blood levels were already too low. He wouldn't make the trip. There was no chance of saving him anymore.. I had Tengu, Lynn, and Streak guard the door. Garr and Hamut stood behind Set and I. We laid Thumper on the floor of the ruined church, and took off his and our helmets. Our youngest member would die minutes later. I took back the Edge 3 blunt weapon I gave him originally, and Set took his medical supplies. I placed him in the back of the church ruin so the cannibals and bandits won't find him. The thought of returning to base and not seeing him run to Pia filled me with a great sense of remorse. In respect to him, I left him with his full specialist grade Samurai Armor and his secondary katana, as well as one food ration to acknowledge he will forever be one of us. Now we were back to 7 squad members.. We called ourselves the Vanguard.. and we thought ourselves invincible.. RIP Thumper. I still visit that building to leave one food ration and a katana for him in other play throughs.

never thought id see robokast make a video on kenshi but unexpected suprises are always the best

I think the lack of transportation is a design, a long and brutal journey is what makes kenshi

My favorite minor thing in the game is banter between party members. Also Ruka is the best girl and must be protected

Context: the goats/animals The general rule is, if something is strong enough to survive in the wild, it can kill you Also, robo limbs = speed

There is a mod call “take over the world” with three different types which of course allows you to take the towns/cities of kenshi. All you have to do is kill the leader then it’s yours

Rebirth start can surprisingly be op. Human and Shek used it to learn basic skills while being fed and mostly safe, eventually decided to escape. Released a fuckton of prisoners at once one night and made a break for it. About 10 prisoners followed my guys while the rest scattered and were mostly caught. We leave by one of the backdoors and only 4 decide to join my party, surprisingly they’re all fairly skilled in combat. Unfortunately in the confusion we took the wrong gate, it lead us to a dead end in the mountains with some ruins, blood spiders, and a bit of loot. My human snuck in, grabbed some weapons and items, and we booked it. By then however starvation and wounds taken in the escape started dropping my guys. Half of them literally had to carry the others out of those mountains on their backs. Somehow no one died and we made it to the shack, healed, fed, and equipped we made our way to the United Cities. Recruiting as we went, we set up shop in a town to do research, get money, and gather materials and manpower. Eventually we were ready for my master plan: Sell drugs. Hemp only grows in certain areas and FUCK the swamp, so the next best option was…. The border of the cannibal plains. Weird as it sounds there’s water, farmable soil, no nasty animals, and no taxes! You just have to deal with hordes of screaming cannibals assaulting your base every day. But they’re naked and stupid unless you mod them. Good base design and turret placement sees them off. From there it turns generic, research, farming, building, looting ruins for artifacts for profit, selling Hash in the United Cities. The only other weird thing was I had a mod that let me crucify people so I lined the road to my base with slowly starving cannibals begging for the sweet release of death. You know, normal Kenshi stuff.

I think one thing that also makes this game amazing isn't JUST your decisions. Random things can happen due to NPC only interactions. The hub and all vendors, even the shinobi thieves can all get wiped out randomly. Nomads can accidentally end up at war with the city they are visiting. Beak things can kill off entire cities of hives, all without you doing anything to influence it.

This game looks so realistic in his difficulty. It isnt unfair, it's real. Kind of green hell or rimworld type of difficulty.

I want to add that this game is booming rn in the spanish speaking sphere due to a youtuber called JUJALAG. He legit made my irl friends try out Kenshi, even though I insisted for months. There are also comics about his runs with all the characters, their arcs, and deaths. This game is trully something else. Thanks Chris Hunt.

I once built a base in the Swamp between the gang villages and made a ton of money crafting with hemp and selling hash all across the map. Then I cranked up the population factor and kidnapped Emperor Tengu. The UC sent an absolutely gigantic army after my base, but they had to travel past the gang villages to reach me. The UC army was hostile to all the local factions so whenever they passed by a village (and I could see since I had recruits farming hemp) there would be a huge battle with hundreds of people on each side. The UC samurais are OP so they'd come out on top, but each time they'd take heavy casualties, and then they'd take even more losses from the blood spiders all over the swamp. In the end they were held off long enough for my allies from the Swamp Ninjas, Rebel Farmers and the Sheks turned up and finished off the survivors. Really just a fantastic game

Woah! The man behind the microphone finally appears 0:14! I like the new style!

Really loved the video. Totally zoned out and watched it through, think the mix between facecam and gameplay is excellent. Keep it up :)

I purchased Kenshi a month ago and have over 100 hours in it...and I've only been in the upper right portion of the huge open world map. It's quickly become my fave game of all time.

Kenshi for me personally is awesome because it's a bit of "a story that shapes through gameplay" type of games. You do nudge your character(s) certain ways, yes, but more often than not, it's up to the game to decide what the outcome is going to be, no matter how good I get at it. It has sort of DnD vibe because of it, and I wish I knew about more games like this.

No idea who you are. I just wanted a Kenshi video to watch while I ate my midnight pizza dinner, but regardless, it's cool that I'm not the only one who just recently realized how awesome Kenshi is. A lot of people have been as of late, apparently, and that's fuckin' neat.

I love positive videos like this! I can listen to people talk about Kenshi, Rimworld or Project Zomboid for hours.

why tf would lawyers sponsor a gaming channel lmao

on one of my more recent playthroughs i played a stealthy hive, eventually i had a group about 4 members strong and we were able to take on most low level threats with minimal difficulty. on a journey from the hub to go and recruit best boy (beep) my group was ambushed and captured by fogmen, we were all knocked unconscious and only woke up to find my character and the rest of the party tied to stakes, i had to watch as they were all eaten alive one by one and the only reason my character didnt die is because i was hive and my athletics skill was through the roof because i trained my speed, toughness and lockpicking after spending a month in game time trying to escape slavery until i was finally fast enough to escape. i counted my losses and eventually found beep and basically started from scratch.

My favorite playthrough was one where I became a martial-artist. I started by training up my strength and speed in the hub, mining heavy rocks and carrying them in a long circuit around the city, paying for my food with the rocks. I eventually got some other characters and started them training as well. Eventually we managed to buy and rebuild a shack and started research to gain training dummies. Soon we had our own beds and training dummies and began training 24/7. We Eventually could make clothes and good ones, trading for our money and making standardized uniforms. All the while continuing our training. Beating up bandits and animals with a rescue team in case things go bad. We Eventually set up a couple of farming outposts around the area, manned by our little clan of now incredible martial artists. We eventually rebuilt the Hub and had our faction HQ there, where we brought new members there for training. We also wiped out all the local bandit groups, and regularly patrolled, at which point I stopped playing, having successfully built an order of hardass martial artist monks.

Kenshi is an absolutely wonderful game. I find the graphics to be charming and fitting for the theme. My favorite story was when I was being chased by bandits. My character was still too weak to fight them. I was close to the smugglers bar though so I thought maybe they’ll have guards. I get there and like 7-8 grey slayers are guarding the bar. These absolute units just wreck the bandits. Well they took some Injuries and had some guys limping after the fight as they tossed bodies out. Well I’m picking up loot and selling to the shop when an even bigger band of vagrants walks up. I book it into the bar, get to a corner out of sight. And watch as the grey slayers absolute punk this group of vagrants too. It was so intense to watch.

I'm a simple man, I see a kenshi video I upvote

Kenshi is the only game I've ever played where on multiple occasions something outrageous happened, I then sat there slack-jawed staring at my screen for a minute, then mumbled: "this is the best game I've ever played." Like many, I started as a meager starving peasant in the Hub. I tried on multiple occasions to make a bit of coin mining nearby ore veins, only to be stabbed in the back by bandits and left for dead. I quickly realized that I couldn't cut it out in the wilds, so I joined the Shinobi Thieves and took up petty thievery in the relative safety of the towns. I stumbled upon the town of Stack and it's fanatic Holy Nation populace. I was greeted like a king thanks to my pale greenlander skin. I made a comfortable living for a while thieving what I could, but as soon as I amassed enough coin to recruit a few helpers (of various different races) I quickly found I was no longer welcome in Stack. So we departed and found the fertile valley of Okran's Pride. "A perfect spot to start our little farming commune," I thought. I couldn't have been more wrong. Most of us survived the river raptor attacks long enough to erect a meagre walled base, though some of my fragile farmers were torn limb from limb. That was the least of our troubles. No sooner had I built a house to sleep, we incurred a hostile takeover from black dragon ninjas, and they weren't leaving. We set up a makeshift camp outside my occupied fort and scrounged up enough money to hire 2 teams of mercenaries, we assaulted my base and won it back by the skin of our teeth. Our farming operation soon flourished, our population expanded, and I really felt like we were building a vibrant community.. then the Holy Nation came. They must have caught wind of our "multicultural" farming operation and declared us enemy Number 1. We were just simple farmers, and every time a high paladin or inquisitor came knocking on our gates there were only 2 options: run or die. So we ran, we hid, many of us didn't make it. After many months of struggle, we decided this injustice must end. We needed weapons, lots of weapons. And how did we acquire these weapons? Through the sale of narcotics of course. We converted our farms into a massive hemp growing operation and grog distilling facility. I implanted my greenlander spies in Holy Nation cities, and sold them enormous amounts of liquor, I became exceedingly wealthy exploiting the vices of this supposed "holy" nation. My outpost soon rivalled the largest Holy Nation cities in size. I felt like the Jim Jones of Kenshi. One fateful day an inquisitor came knocking with his band of cronies, but this time we didn't run. We gunned them down with high-powered harpoon turrets. We captured the inquisitor and took turns beating him unconscious as a sort of petty revenge for all our fallen comrades. I was on top of the world, but still unaware of the course of events I was about to set off. The Capital must have caught word of our transgressions, and they declared War. In one fell swoop my liquor operations in Holy Nation cities were routed out. All my spies were enslaved or killed. But none of that mattered anymore, all that mattered was revenge. I took my strongest warriors and set up a second outpost on the edge of the fog islands. The entire area was in the midst of a turf war between vicious cannibal fogmen and Holy Nation miners. We descended into the fog and killed with reckless abandon. Fogmen, paladins, it didn't matter, we slaughtered them all with our cold steel. Tonight we make our final march on Blister Hill, seat of the Holy Lord Phoenix himself. My Lieutenant and greatest ally, Beep, is a fully cybernetic killing machine that wields an Ancient Meitou Katana. My Shek Generals Kang, Ruka, and Rane the Giant hew limbs with their massive swords as if they were blades of grass. Tonight, it all ends. We either send Lord Phoenix to meet Okran himself, or we die trying. "This is the best game I've ever played."

*I would really like the developers to create a medieval fantasy game, exactly like kenshi, but with orks; elves; building of castles; deserts with "Moorish" peoples; navigation and sea monsters.. it doesn't hurt to dream that one day this will happen.* 🥺🥺🥺

Subbed for the sheer fact that you made such a good video on Kenshi and I'm always down for more people entering that fun and painful meatgrinder that is kenshi! Thanks for the video!

Have 700+ hours in Kenshi, it's my favourite games and mods make it infinitely replayable!

Kenshi is great and I'm really looking forward to 2. I hope community suggestions, like your idea of being able to capture towns, makes it into 2. Also mounts are something I've wanted forever lol It has such a great foundation for even bigger and more ambitious content.

Great video, keep up the awesome work! Kenshi is such an amazing game and I always love seeing other player's experiences compared to my own. Kenshi isn't just a game, it's a way of life... I think it's my most played game on steam. The way that stories happen "organically" and aren't just a bunch of scripted events is I think what always keeps me coming back. And then there are the mods...

"time or energy" Let me tell you the story of kenshi. Development for kenshi started before many of your audience were born, and it ended when they were old enough to play the game. That's how long it took. That's why it was so good. It was a labor of love.

My best story so far is my current one. I'm playing as a Hiver Prince, starting at rock bottom, searching for his long lost brother, Beep. He found himself in the United Cities desert, confused, and with little memory. He however does remember his brother, and feels a calling to seek him out. He begins to work freelance mining jobs, gathering ore and selling it, along with scavenging items off the bodies of bandits. His first city went well, though some United Cities Heroes did try to beat him up because "that bugman looked at me funny". By the second city however, this got worse. He started working, saving more money to replace his arm, which he had somehow lost. As he was mining, a group of slavers decided they wanted to try and pass him off as a slave, and so they attacked, taking his items and enslaving him. The Police did nothing, and even had him stored in the prison till morning. After he awoke, he started to pick both the locks on his shackles and prison. He eventually got them open, and waited for just the right time...and made a run for it. 6-8 Samurai chased after him, but luckily as they got closer a skimmer took the attention of most of them. The last two that still chased after him struck him a couple times, but were attacked by rebel famers, allowing him to escape. He trekked across the desert to the southern border of the United Cities, where after lying low for a while, began to work mining copper again to get enough money to finally replace his arm. He avoided detection for a while...but I shit you not the literal moment after stepping out of the robotics shop from buying his arm...he was recognized as a slave and he had to run again. He escaped most of the police, but one of them tracked him down to the border of the eye and stuck a near fatal blow. He was stuck unconscious on the desert floor for a whole night...but eventually he rose, perhaps by the will of the gods, to continue his quest. He's currently staying at a rest-spot with some tech hunters near the border of the grey desert, ready to continue his journey, rested and rearmed. He heard a rumor from a skeleton at the outpost that a bugmen matching Beep's description was reportedly seen making his way west...that is where he must go next.

sink around 1000+ hours on Kenshi, i must say this is the best 5$ ive ever spend on a game.

Ah I remember when this game came out in alpha. There was no sound, no food heck there wasn't even a hunger bar. How far the game has come is just amazing and I'm glad I took the chance on it when I did.

You are the goat bro thank you for bringing light to underrated games like these. every new this game is so awesome video you post another great game is added to my steam library

one of the greatest games ever created by human kind - kenshi. hands down. period. no questions asked. years of hard work paid off. i hope it will get more and more and more popular by the time 2nd part comes out.

probably the best story I have is how I have beep as the weakest in my group, then building him into a leader of his own squad that liberated the slaves in the holy nation, prolly the same way other players build him as

Watched it from beginning to end. Here's to hoping that youtube doesn't scrape you of all your inner person and you stay consistent, sane and put the same effort in your content. On my part, I liked the video, but I know it's not enough to justify this quality content. God bless you 🎉

The game was on my "ignored" list in Steam. Then I saw Sseth's video on Kenshi and added it to the wishlist. Today I have over hundreds of hours of pure fun and I still have talked to any important characters or anything. LOVE IT!

Good review, two more thing I love about this game though is the lore, holy crab it can get real depress and twist and feel immersive if you discover them by yourself and another thing is character dialogs while my caravan travel with each other

I'm still on my first playthrough because I aim to do a Let's Play that's more narrative focused. Telling a story where there isn't one. That being said, I never really had any failures. By the time I found out about Kenshi, I had already watched hours and hours of content from people making me laugh. The game seemed like a genuinely good time since you can cause conflicts by the virtue of proxy. What I mean to say is I will totally antagonize a group of beak things, and run them into a Cannibal village, because both groups of degenerate scum deserve each other! It always make me laugh whenever I accidentally or INTENTIONALLY cause a conflict. Fortunately due to all my time spent watching videos, I knew exactly where to go, what to do, and how to do it. I started off with stealth, assassination, and lockpicking. Lockpicking got me my money, stealth allowed me to bypass so many things, and assassination meant that I could cheese stronger opponents for their gear. At this point in my game, I'm swatting full skin bandit raids on my base like they're mere pests in way over their head. The amount of damage THEY DO NOT DO is hilarious. So cute for them to think they could try. But with that being said, you wanted us to share our stories? Because I'm not challenged by the vanilla game anymore. I downloaded mods, and LOTS OF THEM. Early on in my honeymoon phase of exploration, I went out to Obedience just to explore. Now keep in mind, I downloaded a good 230+ mods without knowing where to go in order to find them. I figured that would be the only way I'd find new things. And OH BOY did I! I opened an "ominous tower" and to my shock, there were "Mist Ghouls" that came sprinting out of the doorway. I could already run well past 20 mph at that point if I had chosen to flee, but I attempted to fight. Three of my workers killed immediately... And me left with one arm less and on the verge of dying. Thank god I didn't bring ALL of my soldiers with me, otherwise my main character never would've been saved. My reaction was somewhere along the lines of; "OOOOH I FUCKED UP..... I FUCKED UP.... I FUCKED UP SO BAD!" And although it was not funny right away, I now look back at it and laugh. Especially now that I am fully capable of going back to that place and soloing their whole squad and bullying them out of existence. Overall I think Kenshi works so well because games are a recipe for success when you are bullied and motivated to BECOME the bully and get some measure of payback. You struggle to grind your way into decent stats, not because it's necessary for survival, but because you're about to show those bastards who they fucked with! And then the Doom Music kicks on, and 30 minutes you are LITERALLY in a pool of your enemy's blood. The irony of Kenshi is that when you actually take out all the major factions who commit unspeakable horrors upon the world, you'll find that your impact has left whole place worse off than when you found it. And with no more enemies plaguing your path to paradise, you're left all alone upon a mountain top watching the sun set. And all of that violence brought you no more closer to the friends you lost along the way, or the happiness you imagined you'd have by now. There's a subtle genius to Kenshi. Because it's so simple. They don't give you much, but they give you just enough for you to realize that sometimes........ You were your greatest enemy all along...

It will forever make me smile to see more people discover this game and get absorbed in it. Also, there IS a faster way to travel around the map: Chop your legs off and get some new ones!

Hell yeah, I've got over 200 hours in Kenshi and pretty much killed every strong character in the game. And even then, I sometimes get surprised and brutally killed (looking at you Hive King). I was also surprised at how good the lore and worldbuilding was in this game. I really can't wait for Kenshi 2!

When I first played Kenshi, I made the mistake of letting my character wander into the swamp. I went in figuring that maybe I'd be able to find some expensive stuff to sell and get a headstart. Getting in was easy enough, made it all the way to the city of Shark without trouble. Getting out, however... Now, I'm a more casual player. I had no intention of starting a new playthrough every 5 minutes and I wasn't above loading an older save. I think it took me nearly an hour to get out of the swamp, not because it was a far distance to walk, but because I kept running into Red Sabres or Swamp Ninjas or Blood Spiders, who'd tear me to shreds in 2 seconds and then leave me to bleed to death or, in the case of the spiders, start eating me alive. Roughly an hour of save scumming, running, sneaking and dying until I made it back out, having almost nothing to show for it apart from a few skill points and severe psychological scarring.

Hey my guy, love the video, I absolutely adore the law firm endorsement right from the beginning of the video! It's like the young Padawan has finally mastered the Kenshi grind in real life. However, I must say, endorsing law firms can be a bit tricky, like trying to steal eggs from a beak thing. I hope he has enough athletics to outlast any potential legal and ethical dilemmas with that sort of endorsement for a sleezey law firm. ;)

I had the revenant moment. I was traveling far south of mourn searching for beakthings to train my martial arts on. when a gigantic horde of over 50, something beakthinds saw me. I hauled ass until I found a group united cities samurai. The fight between beast and man started. I was running around to try and get some hits on the beakthings and it was going pretty well. Then all hell broke loose. In the middle of the fight gorillo bandits also came charging in. Turning the battle into complete chaos. While I was trying to dodge a beak thing, a bandit dun kicked me. Thus, my leg was pecked by the gutter. I didn't fall yet, but I couldn't dodge the next peck. So there went my other leg broken. Luckily, I didn't lose my legs. But my character was so injured they kept falling in and out of consciousness. After a few minutes, the battle ended. A few beak things left as the Victors feasting on the bodies. Luckily, they were feasting on all the other bodies around my character, and now started my 3 day crawl to mourn. It was just the longest moment in the game for me. It seemed like an eternity crawling to mourn avoiding the boneyard wolves and other beakthings. The first night went relatively well crawling. But the second night tho holy moly had a horde of beakthings walk past me. Luckily there was a slight hill so the couldn't see me. After they passed I continued. Everything went well afterward aside from almost going red to hunger. I made back to mourn I had enough funds to buy some simple bandages and healed myself up and threw myself in bed for 2 days. That was a fun adventure.

Great video. Nicely described all the the things I love about this game

My first game of Kenshi ever happened yesterday. Started out fine, until I ventured into a place called "the swamp", where I was promptly beaten to a pulp and kidnapped. As luck would have it though, the bandits were all killed by blood spiders, who ignored my comatose character. I woke up ran towards the Hub, only to be attacked by another pack of blood spiders, who ate me alive. 10/10 would recommend.

I got this game because of general Sam. A lot of games I have I bought on my own accord that I sometimes notice get popular, but there has been a few games I’ve wanted to play purely because of a youtuber, kenshi is one of those games I picked up from a youtuber and I’ve played it for 400+ hours. I’ve spent days just building skeletons, hivers, humans, sheks and all of them to incredibly destroying monsters, my most favorite being skeletons. My most interesting story was that, I had built an outpost near sho-Battai, I barely had one guy who would grind copper to sell to pay the annual tax, soon I would buy slaves to help get the money faster but when I thought I had the required amount of money they’d beat me up and kill my slave forcing me to work up money to buy another slave and work up the money then to pay them off so they wouldn’t kill me. It was a brutal time and in the end I was raided by bandits and they left me for dead in the dust. This game along with mods have made go through so many different characters that I personally spend hours making into beasts of hand to hand combat, sword combat, tool combat, gun combat, as well as modded combat. Each character I train becomes a practical god in about 50 days because I’ve played this game so Damm often I know the cheap tricks of the base game and a selection of mods which I personally added but you don’t have to to make your characters beastly. You can also take the long route which offers a more painful but hooking onto your character when your there when he loses his 50th fight but gets back up, this game is difficult as hell but when you conquer it you feel as if with time, you could beat anything. This game always has me crawling back for more, a definite keeper.

With max athletics (or stealth) it takes about 30 seconds to traverse the map on 3x speed, provided you aren't actually following the character. This is because if you DO follow the character, you'll instead get 30 second load screens pop up every 3-4 seconds as you move into new map sectors. It's quite easy to hit max athletics/stealth when using gear/cybernetics that buff it. **Also, there is a demo that lets you see what its like, you can only hire one companion and skills are capped at 20 (instead of 100) besides that you can explore and play freely 18:00 there is a pretty comprehensive mod that does just that, when you conqueror a town/outpost ownership gets transferred to you, and can then be raided the same way as any of your settlements. I think its the "living world" mod. highly recommended.

I once started a colony as a skeleton. One big mistake: The Holy nation. The Holy nation doesn't have taxes, but each week they hold prayer day, where you go and pray to our lord and savior Okran. Turns out, they absolutely HATE skeletons, so I was swiftly punished for my existence by being dismantled. Very fun.

I grinded hard at the iron and got a crew of maybe 10 people all with the most expensive armor. I trained them as much as I thought was necassary against starving bandit then dust bandits until i was at a point I could take on a large group of starving bandits or a group of around 20 dust bandits. I felt like a badass and decided to head northwest. The creature were a little difficult but I snuck past a lot of them until I hit a point where I was so deep into the land and had saved enough while sneaking that no matter what I could think of my people just got stomped to death and eaten until finally I gave up.

Never in my life have I been more excited for a game than I am for Kenshi 2, and Im 35yrs old. When I started playing I kenshi I upgraded my pc literally just to get more performance out of Kenshi with about 60 mods. Higher single core performance. I have never regretted that decision.

Robo, you've changed a lot man! Congrats on your growth. I used to watch your videos back during your unturned roleplay videos. ❤❤

Thank you. I'm thinking about to give it a try

Started with a band of 5, the leader lost a leg very early on. Used them as training weight for the crew until I could afford a prosthetic. Now my standard introduction ritual is putting recruits into the peeler machine and reinforcing them with limbs.

I love Kenshi and all the crap that you can get into, found out about it quite a few years ago I'm glad to hear it's going even better. Also can't help it, I gotta mention DF had tilesets for a long time and not just this year.

The people might look ugly but the world and landscapes are so beautiful and diverse. Ive sunk almost 200 hours into the game and i havent even explored some parts of the map yet ❤

Thanks for giving me a reason to start a new run. Im thinking prisoner escape this time.

First time I'm watch a law ad, I hope this pays off. Love your work, keep it up!

In my current Kenshi playthrough I started as a slave with 2 guys. Keys and Crag. Now, Keys and Crag tried to escape a few times but got seriously beat up. They regrouped and realized they'd need to be sneaky. Maybe get some food and convince other prisoners to rise up against our Holy Nation captors. So Keys, during the night, started lockpicking and freeing random prisoners. No pun intended. And then they'd sneak around trying to get food. They were able to rally quite a following of slaves and one night they tried to escape. The guards absolutely beat everyone up. Once Keys and Crag recovered it was clear they needed a new plan. One night, Keys was being held up in one of the barracks. And right by his cell were the beds of 2 soldiers. An idea. Why not... steal the enemie's weapons? Within a few days there were Holy Nation slavers running around naked. One night a fight broke out in the barracks. 2 naked slavers against Keys, Crag and other prisones. Some now armed with the stolen weapons. We knocked out the 2 guards, and another naked one that came from the barracks next door. We quickly locked them in cages. *Save, Exit Game 'cause real life called* I was laughing pretty hard tough, can't wait to go back.

I had it in my Steam wishlist for a while and then finally bought it yesterday. Absolutely worthy purchase. It's glaringly an aged game but the mechanics, the world-building and absolute chaos in said world makes for some very memorable adventures and encounters. There's always something happening in its world and I really like that, makes the world feel alive. I just witness a 1v1v1 war between The Holy Nation, The Cannibals and The Samurai of the UC. I would say it surpassed Skyrim-level of NPC interaction chaos.

To me, a game starts off on the wrong foot if it's very "visually appealing". Instantly signals to me that there's a heavy focus on appearances, which is typically my lowest priority in games. So they tend to disappoint me in other areas.

I like the soundtrack because it stays in the background but if it wants to pick up and then it picks up

i had this video on my second monitor, looked over and saw your face. i was in shock to say the least

My beat story was about Kig, a hiver who dreamed about becoming the biggest bounty hunter, but his luck was the only thing that stopped him, making Kig become the most wanted terrorist over Kenshi. Started all over when slave traders caught him, he developed a strong hate towards the TG and the UC, then he was chased by the Holy Nation. In the end, Kig led an army of freedom, seeking to free slaves and sacrificed himself to the rebirth to burn that place down from inside. Kig was known by every drifter, being told as a fairy tale for the children, a tale about theft, war crimes and terrorism

I stumbled on this game by accident the week it hit steam and ended up recommending it to people and was blown off because of how it looked. Im glad people are finally enjoying it.

Made my character bald, added a mod that lets you get black tank tops, added storm goggles and…BOOM instant Riddick role play experience

Rain World is a great game if worlds that couldn't care less about the player tickle your fancy. On top of the amazing art, wonderful music and seemingly unfair difficulty is extreme depth, from simple to advanced movement tech, all the way to the constantly-simulated, functioning ecosystem, of which you are not the main character of. You are just part of the food chain, doing your hardest to survive and explore.

It's really easy to mod it for beginner modders as well. It's one of the best modding communities and the forums have a bunch of people willing to help. Watch out for comission modders, just make your own. Some that seem really talented are dishonest.

Kenshi is one of my all time favorite games. Love seeing one of my favorite youtubers appreciating it like i do,

Perfect Review. Loved it!! Exactly what I felt...

best thing I did in kenshi was making a skeleton/hiver outpost in the swamps. The hivers mainly farmed and made the hashish/booze that the hive princes would smuggle with their athletic bonuses. The skeletons mainly were protection, like manning turrets/running the weapon and armor workshops. Made a ton of money and tried to go to war with the bug master, ended up losing cause I only had about a 30 man army with combat stats ranging from 30-50, spider horde was just endless and basically could two shot the hivers, the few skeletons I had ended up breaking down after a day or two of constant fighting

the completely left field Morgan & Morgan sponsor caught me off guard

This video convinced me to get the game on Steam it sounded very cool also your video was pretty cool!

I’ve sunk far too mutch time in Kenshi. My first play through I built in the borderlands and then expanded a base into the holy nation and absolutely decimated them. Now I’ve got like full masterwork edge type 3 blades and like 5 meitoo weapons on a hit squad with crab and samurai armor they are op af.

Im checking out this because i love kenshi. I pay for RU-vid premium. I don't want legal advice personally, just kenshi

Been thinking about this game for whatever reason for the last week, and this was uploaded yesterday with enough good arguments for me to buy it right now. Plus for 8 bucks i can't really go wrong 😄 Thanks for that, very informative :] Edit : 3hours into it and I got beat up by some guards after trying to steal clothes in an empty room, locked up, sent into coma in the middle of the road and got patched up by a lone traveler after a woman stole dried meat from my backpack. 1000% would recommend 🔥

I started my playthrough with the man with a dog. I forbid myself from recruiting other NPCs because I want to do a duo playthrough with only my main and my pet. Even though it was very hard at first, I was able to feed ourselves to the point my companion became an adult bonedog. While we were travelling over the swamplands with little to no preparation, I was actually amazed at how laggy the area is. It is infested with swamp ninjas, flesh spiders, elephant turtles and raptors, but we were able to survive nonetheless. We eventually arrived at a certain swamp village that a certain female druglord owns and manages. She hired us to smuggle hash to a united city. We were able to finish the errand and made my way to return to the swamp village. After giving the profits to her that we obtained from the illegal trade, she taught us on how to farm the plant that we can use to produce our own hash. I then made my own quest to become a solo druglord with a trusty bonedog to keep me company. While I was gathering up and researching all of the necessary tools and tech to be able to farm hash in any kind of environment, I was able to build at least 4 outposts containing nothing but hash. To save food and labor, I recruited skeleton bots to guard, farm and craft my product automatically. At this point, I broke my rule where I will never recruit any other NPCs. Eventually, after hundreds of hours into that save, I was able to bank up so many cats to the point that I don't even need money anymore. I actually went mad with raiding that swamp and made that territory my own. Overthrowing an unwanted master that I didn't respect but grateful all the same. It was one hell of a ride. I actually like checking out cities and villages to see if they will buy my produce for a profit higher than 100%. I've added in mods just so there are NPCs visiting my outposts just to buy my hash in the thousands lmao

It's the Spirit of RPGs that has died amongst a flood of games that marketed themselves as RPGs but lacked any meaningful stat/rpg elements. EDIT: Also Kenshi's environments and the atmospheric sounds for each biome are beautiful.

Funny that you posted this just as I was playing kenshi and my friend was asking me for some youtube links presenting the game lol.

im so glad That Morgan & Morgan is sponsering youtubers

I decided to start as a slave, i got given 5 people to start of in. I did the whole slave thing for a while, to build up strength but needed to get out in the wild. So i had 1 of me "followers" district a bunch of the Holy Guards, didn't quite work as planned, he got over run in a moment, beaten half to death, but survived, he was still shackled, (didn't think about that) Thought about it a learned to picklock, and sneaking took in game days, and i had a plan...i un shackle each of the people then... I sent 3 of the "followers" to different sides of the gate to round the Holy Guards, there was about 15 of them, got the 3 of them to run in circles and attack the Guard (they got rolled) but i made a run for it, it worked (so i thought) with my last two i ran for the hill of the camp, got a near to rhe top and there was two more guards walking back from patrolling, so one had to be a hero, she went for it and attacked them both and with my last guy (he was the fastest) i ran and ran. Made it to the other side of the canyon. So out of 5, 3 died and 1 back in the cage and one was free with a "looks like a slave" all over me. So there i was in 800+ square kms of map all alone. It was my most ruthless start. Turned him into a absolute unit, KLM limbs and mk3 katana. Unstoppable.

Wow! Robokast finally Reviewing Kenshi!

Grub woke up in a field. From there he settled in a nearby holy empire city to train before setting off. Managed to stock up on goods as well but quickly realized that he would need a beast to carry some of his burden. So he set off to find a nomad village. Along the way, he was waylaid by a pack of long necked beasts who knocked him unconcious. While sleeping off his injuries, a band of slavers arrived to banish him to a prison. Grub hadn't planned on that and had no idea how to pick locks. He learned quickly though. Lost an arm in the escape. By chance, grub found a dead body and salvaged some new clothes and gear. Desperately trying to get home, he encountered another roaming band of bandits outside the city walls. Grub tried to defend himself but unfortunately lost a leg and his other arm. Crawling to the city gates, the guards quickly came to his aid. Only to throw him in prison for being an escaped slave. It's there, he died.

That lawyer ad was wild...

I haven't played this game in over 10 years, I'm surprised it is still around, looks like I should check it out again.

wow I bought this game like 6 yrs ago and now it looks like this is amazing!

The thing about kenshis graphics is that while its not 'visually appealing' in the traditional sense, the game finda a way of showing it's beauty in unexpected places, contrasting the beauty it does have with the rest of the game in a way that allows you to appreciate it for what it is in it's entirety. For example: Perhaps your party has just had their ass whooped by beak things, the few that managed to escape are wandering through a sandstorm in the great desert trying to find shelter from the dangers of the desert, and as they limp along the sun begins to rise and it suddenly the game is one of the most beautiful things you've seen in a long time. Thats kenshi, beautiful despite its 'imperfect' graphics, you don't get to see that breathtaking beauty all the time in kenshi, but when you *do* see it, it stands out in a very simplistic yet powerful way in contrast with the rest of the game, and as such, you never get entirely used to the visual beauty the game has to offer. (and of course this phenomenon is only enhanced by the amazing world design of the different biomes.)

I for one think Kenshi looks great honestly.

I’m building a band of techno barbarians who are going to craft the best weapons and armour as well as get better limbs. Then go to war with the holy nation, then the United Cities. I’ve also just brought a platoon of broken skeletons back to my base who I’ve locked in cages for their own safety. This will also let me outfit them with better gear (hopefully limbs also). It’s ridiculous and I love it

I never had trouble with the UI I found it lightweight but gets all the info across that's needed. Just goes to show you how people can interpret things differently.

In my latest playthrough I started a criminal gang that festered the United Cities...we mostly stuck to thievery barely able to make ends meet but after a hundred days or so I've got 4 gangs in 4 of the cities, we run several shops, have a booming drug industry that's flooded the market so much we can't even sell most of it, and we routinely rob 100k worth of items every single day nation wide. We've even had a gang war with the "heros guild" and...they're wrecking the floor with us 😢 but we got so much money it doesn't even matter.