Kenshi
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Real-time squad combat against humans and beasts shows blood, severe injuries, and on-screen death as a constant feature of survival.
Illegal drugs such as hashish and stimulants are grown, smuggled, and traded, and the player can run a drug-lord operation dealing in them.
The player can steal, smuggle, assassinate, raid settlements, and capture people to sell into slavery for profit.
Combat can sever individual limbs, with severed arms and legs and the option to fit prosthetic replacements shown on characters.
The world centers on slavery, oppression, discrimination against women and certain races, and cannibals who capture and eat characters, including the player's own.
Enslaved characters, including the player, can be beaten, caged and forced into hard labor.
Combat includes fighting and killing wild creatures and beasts as an ordinary survival mechanic.
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What it is
Kenshi is an open-ended, squad-based sandbox RPG set in a harsh post-apocalyptic desert world with no set story — you build up characters and choose your own path as a trader, thief, warlord, farmer, slave, or freedom fighter. Combat is real-time and unforgiving, with realistic injuries including bleeding, individually damaged and severed limbs, and prosthetic replacements. The setting leans heavily on dark subject matter: slavery, oppression, discrimination against women and fictional races, roaming cannibals who capture and eat characters, and an illegal drug trade the player can run. There is no sexual content, nudity, or online interaction, and no purchases or gambling.
How it's framed
The game presents a deliberately brutal, indifferent world and does not judge the player's choices; you can act as a helpful vigilante or anti-slaver, or as a thief, slaver, and drug lord, with the harsh setting framing all of it as survival rather than endorsing any path.
Details
- Developer
- Lo-Fi Games
- Publisher
- Lo-Fi Games
- Released
- Dec 6, 2018
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