Kenshi on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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 cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Kenshi is a open world, sandbox and rpg game developed and published by Lo-Fi Games.
Released on December 06th 2018 is available only on Windows in 9 languages: English, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Japanese, German, Russian, French, Simplified Chinese and Korean.

It has received 95,436 reviews of which 91,127 were positive and 4,309 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.4 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 26.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 8.99€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Kenshi into these genres:

Open World Sandbox RPG Survival Strategy Building Base-Building Singleplayer Post-apocalyptic Crafting City Builder Indie Adventure Simulation Management RTS Character Customization Ninja Alternate History Steampunk

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Windows

OS:64-bit Windows
Processor:Dual-core 64-bit
Memory:6 GB RAM
Graphics:Pixel shader 5.0 capable card
DirectX®:11
Hard Drive:14GB HD space

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

i played only for 3 hours on steam but over 3000+ hours as a pirate, this game was good (or addictive) enough that it persuaded a life long pirate living in a third world country with a devalued currency to make a legal purchase. best endorsement i can think of to be quite honest

Feb. 2025

After playing Kenshi for over 1,000 hours I think I have realized what makes me love this game so much. It is related to the idea that nothing can be beautiful without the existence of something hideous. The lows that your characters can sink to in this game are, for me, previously unimaginable in a video game. But because of that, the highs are very rewarding. Starting out at rock bottom and having to struggle your way to some kind of stability and safety is more satisfying than starting out as the chosen one who is destined to become the hero. Also, you get to decide what being a hero means. It is complete freedom to engage with the world and experience the terror and glory that said freedom allows.

Dec. 2024

you start as nothing, you are nothing, you will always be nothing, unless you do something about it, so what do you do you try to kill a lone bandit. ASS BEAT. you try a starving guy. ASS. BEAT. you try steal some bread to live and a guard sees you, next thing you know you have 6 ninja guards all chopping you up. you havent even left the first town.

Nov. 2024

I started as a thief, spiraled into becoming Pablo Escobar. Started kidnapping officials from around the world. And managed to ruin a world that was already ruined twice. Excellent game.

Aug. 2024

My Story in Kenshi so far. I made a female starter character. Started in the Hub and just went out into the desert. Met my first Starving Bandits and got knocked out. They took my food. Found a bar to restock my supplies and discovered some ore nearby. Mined for starter money, while narrowly avoiding more bandits. Took my meagre earnings to built myself a base, but got a visit from a patrol of the Holy Nation. They reported me to their inquisition and returned with reinforcements to burn me for being a woman. But I knew the area by now and baited Black Dragon Ninjas into their raid. The inqusition won, but suffered heavy losses and had to retreat, which left me in a field of wounded and dead. I took their equipment as loot while the crippled survivors got eaten by scavenging Bonedogs. I vowed to take my revenge on the Holy Nation and destroy them without leveling up other troops, just with this one character. So I started training, beat up Dust Bandits and explored more of the world. My travels yielded better loot and better tech, my outpost was growing, and then I found a rare crossbow. In a dessicated world of unarmored targets, speed, range and a copious amounts of bleed inflicting bolts are king. I began to utterly destroy bandits with this crossbow. Improved my stats and hunted down bigger bountys to measure the strength of my character. After some time, I found myself in the Ashlands, an even more desolate lategame area. In the ruins of a fallen civilisation, I stumbled upon a powerful "skeleton" (think mad max samurai terminator). Kiting him to hell and back, I somehow managed to knock him out... and took him back home with me. Now I'm very much tempted to return his monstrous weapon to him and throw him in the capital of the Holy Nation, so he can nuke their cities. So yeah… I am about to start a war. 10/10 This game is amazing.

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