
Kenshi stands out as one of the best Action/RPG titles in recent memory.
90
Verdict
96%
Steam
84
IGDB
Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam (96% positive from 110K reviews)
Active community with 5,366 concurrent players
Critically acclaimed (84/100 critic average)
Rich open world to explore
Still in Early Access — content may be incomplete
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.

Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 18d ago
Many Ukrainians play your game, and we love it. The game doesn’t support our language. We understand that, until recently, not everyone in Ukraine needed or used Russian, but now we need a Ukrainian localization—if not in Kenshi, then in Kenshi 2. Please add Ukrainian.
I feel like it's one of those games you're either going to hate or play like an absolute maniac. It's janky, buggy, and barely explains anything. You'll get your ass kicked over and over again, yet somehow it has this unique charm that's hard to resist. I hesitated to buy it for quite a while because I was afraid it would be too difficult and frustrating. In the end, though, I absolutely loved it. It gave me this strange nostalgic feeling, like being a kid again and playing a game for the first time - having no clue what the hell was going on, yet somehow having the time of my life. I think everyone should give this game a try, unless you're the type of player who really needs clear direction, quest markers, and structured objectives to enjoy a game.
This game often feels half baked and like it failed to use the many lessons learned by the gaming industry since 1990. Often the lore is inaccessible unless you really spend time looking for it. Often the systems are kind of shoddy, and I need to open the Shift-F12 edit mode to fix a bug with base building. Often my faction spends all day picking up an iron bar out of a box, and putting it back into the same box, because the AI logic is just lacking. That said: I. Do. Not. Care. Because this game is so unique, inspired, versatile, interesting, and open. It actually innovates, and when it comes to gaming I'm more interested in new & good ideas. And this has 'em. In my opinion Kenshi founds (or maybe popularizes) a fundamentally new genre: the Open-Ended RPG. So give me the bugs. The ass graphics and lag on my 4090. Because I'll take Kenshi, a game made with love by an amateur, that actually does something interesting, over some AAA profit-driven loot-box packed dopamine-dispensing, uninspired, re-hashed nonsense. Any. Day. And I am excited for what the future may hold, if we ever get a Kenshi 2
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