It's absolutely criminal that I have not left a review on this game considering the amount of time I have poured into this game.
The world of Kenshi is desolate, unforgiving, and brutal. Three major factions - The Untied Cities, The Shek, and The Holy Nation vie power on what little the wastes have to offer. This is where you come in, you are a nobody, a scrub just trying to make their way in this world where strength is power, and weakness is death (or slavery).
If you like open world, no hand holding, the world is your sandbox type of games... Then Kenshi is the game for you.
There are no quests, there is no story but the one you make yourself. In the games I played, I was a hero of the slaves of the United Cities, I was a prominent member of the Holy Nation, I was a drug dealer working out of the swamps on the Border Zone. I flayed men alive for trying to kill my most beloved doggo because they tried to kill him. Is this game perfect? No. But boy, can you tell a story if you let yourself become immersed in it.
Understand the game mechanics, understand how this world operates, and I guarantee you will be up all hours seeing where your story goes next.
This game only puts out as much as you put in, and if you are ready to put all in, this game will surprise you 10-fold.
The gameplay is like an isometric RPG to start with, but depending on how you progress, can evolve into an RTS, and that is the magic, you can play this game the whole time being a lone wanderer, or with a small group of misfits (Isometirc RPG) the whole game, or you can scale up, build an outpost, which turns into a town or city? Then the game progresses into an city management/ RTS game, when you can become a power to rival the nations of the world.
The stories are unique to every playthrough...If you have any interest in the above gameplay mechanics and have the patience to make your own story and doesn't need to be led by quest markers and an over arching story...please try this game.
Make your own way in this lovingly crafted world and it will reward you with lasting memories, however, if you are a person that needs a rigid story or over arching questline, then this game would not interest you.
Make your own questline up, make your own story up, you can do this in Kenshi and it rewards you so much for it.
