Absolutely brilliant. Hidden under the bad pathfinding, lag, and 2006-era graphics is one of the best games I've ever played. It's difficult and uncaring without being actively malicious. The scope of the map is impressive, and yet it's chock-full of detail in everything from the environmental design to dialogue lines to how the world reacts (elite squads chasing you down if you kidnap an emperor, for example).

You can play it any way you want. You can literally just spend the entire game as a peasant, working some farm and paying taxes and eating rice bowls. It's simply that open-ended. You can play it as a city-builder/RTS with more depth and granularity than some entire city-builder games on Steam today, and none of those games are also full-blown RPGs.

I can't recommend this highly enough, I could go on for hours about it. Kenshi is a labor of love, crafted over a span of twelve years, and it truly shows.

Absolutely brilliant. Hidden under the bad pathfinding, lag, and 2006-era graphics is one of the best games I've ever played. It's difficult and uncaring without being actively malicious. The scope of the map is impressive, and yet it's chock-full of detail in everything from the environmental design to dialogue lines to how the world reacts (elite squads chasing you down if you kidnap an emperor, for example). You can play it any way you want. You can literally just spend the entire game as a peasant, working some farm and paying taxes and eating rice bowls. It's simply that open-ended. You can play it as a city-builder/RTS with more depth and granularity than some entire city-builder games on Steam today, and none of those games are also full-blown RPGs. I can't recommend this highly enough, I could go on for hours about it. Kenshi is a labor of love, crafted over a span of twelve years, and it truly shows.