

Almost immediately I ran into some starving bandits that wanted to say hi by clubbing the life out of me with iron pipes as if I were some plump seal on the shores of Norway. I bought some provisions and headed out with my new companion.

Alright, my first quest, I thought, the naive child I was. I met an old man called Hobbs that spoke of some old cave or artifact somewhere up north. I figured I’d go to the bar and see if I could learn something from an NPC in there. You just plop down at the gates of one of the cities, with some simple tutorial messages as your only company.

When I first started out with my human, one of four races, I had no idea of what to do or where to go. What’s more, it tells you almost nothing about how to do this upfront: it is a learn as you go kind of experience. Do you fancy being a merchant or a thief? A bandit-ninja or a Samurai-enforcer? Or is farming and building more your thing? Perhaps I could entice you with some open warfare and invading city-states? All of this and plenty more is possible in Kenshi. But that would be a gross reduction of what is one of the most unique gaming experiences I have had in a long time.įor starters, it is ridiculously open-ended there is no storyline to follow at all and you can basically play as almost anything. On its face, it’s an open world action RPG set in a post-apocalyptic Mad Max world that interbred with some old Akira Kurosawa movies. Game and want to purchase it, you can support the developers by doing so here.Pinning Kenshi down and giving it a proper description is a rather hard thing to do. This download is completely free and won't cost you a penny. Then, launch the game through the desktop shortcut.

