Kenshi
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the…
Kenshi is an adventure developed by Lo-Fi Games, released 6 December 2018 on PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $11.99 at Steam. The main story takes about 137 hrs to finish.
What Kenshi is
Kenshi is an adventure game developed by Lo-Fi Games and released in 2018. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on OGRE.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Kenshi is a real-time strategy action role-playing game developed and published by Lo-Fi Games for Windows. The game focuses on sandbox gameplay features that give the player freedom to do what they want in its world instead of focusing on a linear story. Kenshi's development was primarily led by a single person over the course of twelve years, and it was released on December 6, 2018.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Kenshi holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 15 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 84, across 78 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 137 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 273 hrs, roughly 2 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $11.99, that works out to about $0.09 per hour of the main story, or $0.04 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual-core 64-bit, 6 GB RAM and Pixel shader 5.0 capable card. An 6GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 14GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $11.99 at Steam, 60% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Kenshi launched on 6 December 2018, within three weeks of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Gris, Battlefield V and Dusk. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Gris, Battlefield V, Dusk.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Kenshi yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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