A free-roaming squad based RPG.  Focusing on open-ended gameplay features rather than a linear story.  Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a mercenary, a business owner, a doctor, a bandit... the list goes on. 

  • Original take on the RTS-RPG hybrid genre. No "hero" characters with artificially stronger stats than everybody else-  Every character and NPC you meet is potentially an equal, and has a name, a life. 
  • You are not the chosen one.  You're not great and powerful. You don't have more 'hitpoints' than everyone else. You are not the center of the universe, and you are not special. Unless you work for it.
  • Freeform gameplay in a seamless game world stretching over 400 square kilometers.  The game will never seek to limit you or restrict your personal play style.
  • Variation and possibilities of gameplay. Be good, be evil, be a business man, be a thief, live in a town, live in the desert, join the army, fight the army, travel alone, travel in hordes, build a fortress, raze a city.
  • Purchase and upgrade your own buildings to use as safe fortified havens when things go bad, or use them to start up a business. 
  • Carry your wounded squad mates to safety and get them all home alive.
  • Dynamic, ever changing world. Support or hinder whoever you wish, or keep to yourself, the world won't stop moving. This is not just a "game", you are living and surviving in a simulated world.
  • Absolutely no Level-scaling.  The world does not level up along with you, and the shops don't change their inventory to only items matching your level. At the start of the game almost everyone will be stronger than you, and survival will always be a struggle.
  • Realistic medical system that affects gameplay.  A character with a wounded leg will limp or crawl and slow the party down, wounded arms means you must use your sword one-handed or not at all.  Lose an eye and it will affect your field of vision.  Blood loss means you can pass out, and the blood will attract predators.  Exhaustion affects performance and is increased by equipment weight, weather, blood loss and thirst.  Severed limbs will need expensive robotic replacements.
  • Intelligent AI that allows for characters to reason and work towards long-term goals and desires. Squads work together and carry their wounded to safety. Characters can be setup to take care of micromanagement for you.
  • Aid or oppose the various factions in the world while striving for the strength and wealth necessary to simply survive in the harsh desert. 
  • Independently developed with no design influences, or alterations dictated by men in gray suits who have never played a game before in their lives.
  • Original game world. There are no fantasy-knock-off cliches. No magic.
  • Realistic physics simulation. PhysX Technology provided under license from NVIDIA Corporation. © 2002-2011 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved.
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29 comments by captain_deathbeard on May 30th, 2013

I've been very quiet the last month, and those who know me by now will know this means I'm doing a lot of work for a big update.  So it's about time I told you all what is coming next.

I'm finally integrating all the character art that my freelance team of master artists has been working on for the last 9 months or so. 

  • The male base model has been totally replaced. 
  • The character editor now has facial editing features
  • Characters can now have hair.  The range of choices will increase over time
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All clothing and armour is being replaced, and with it all the factions are being overhauled.
New gear

High priority for following updates:

  • Female characters
  • Beards
  • Armour crafting

Female characters take time to add, because it requires all the clothing and armour to be adjusted or re-modelled to fit them.  That's why I'm getting all the male character models and stuff in place first, it makes things easier for me.
All these changing models are going to be quite a shake-up for your existing save games.  You may find a lot of your old clothing and armour doesn't fit your characters anymore.  It's being phased out, and in future updates it will vanish completely so I suggest you sell it after the next update.
There will also be "Plastic Surgeon" NPCs in bars, these guys will re-activate the character editor for you so you can modify your existing squad of clones.
I'm also looking at tagging certain gear as "Uniforms".  Meaning if you loot a samurai for his armour, and get seen walking around wearing it, then other guys from that faction will be all like "Oi! Where did you get that armour?"  which will damage your relations with that faction.  In a future update I'll also make it possible to use as a disguise to infiltrate faction bases and stuff.  Looted uniforms will also have a lower re-sale value.
The main benefit to doing this is that it puts more emphasis on purchasing or researching and crafting your own armour in order to get the good stuff and catch up with the rest of the world.Update ETA: a few weeks or so.

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Kenshi 0.40.4

Kenshi 0.40.4

Mar 22, 2013 Full Version 14 comments

Full game, and playable demo, all in one. If you like it you can purchase a key code from Desura or from the main Lo-Fi Games website listed on the right...

Kenshi 0.40.0

Kenshi 0.40.0

Feb 23, 2013 Full Version 20 comments

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Kenshi 0.29.6

Kenshi 0.29.6

Oct 2, 2012 Full Version 25 comments

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0.25.4

0.25.4

Jun 21, 2012 Full Version 4 comments

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Kenshi 0.24.3

Kenshi 0.24.3

Jun 9, 2012 Full Version 4 comments

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Kenshi 0.22.0

Kenshi 0.22.0

Feb 20, 2012 Demo 6 comments

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Doriphor
Doriphor Jun 15 2013, 8:44pm says:

What the hell wasn't this game in the Groupees build a greenlight bundle, I remember getting it and trying it out and now I don't own it anymore? >:(

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captain_deathbeard
captain_deathbeard Jun 16 2013, 11:36am replied:

Kenshi has not been in any bundles other than IndieFort.

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nobodx
nobodx Jun 13 2013, 6:46pm says:

is there a way to download the pach directly ? the autoupdater keeps failing after downloading @50kb/s =/

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captain_deathbeard
captain_deathbeard Jun 16 2013, 11:37am replied:

Try using your key to get a Steam version, that will use the Steam updater.

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ChaeSu
ChaeSu Jun 11 2013, 6:53pm says:

im having issues playing it keeps saying Ogre cant creat settings file?

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captain_deathbeard
captain_deathbeard Jun 13 2013, 10:44am replied:

Make sure its not installed in the "Program Files" folder, and try running as admin.

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aidolifo
aidolifo Jun 6 2013, 10:26pm says:

ni loco pago :(

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Ligeia09
Ligeia09 Jun 8 2013, 7:23pm replied:

yeah it derped again... my advanced outpost research is not advancing through -21 hours :/

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johnpauliloilo
johnpauliloilo Jun 9 2013, 4:54am replied:

Haha just wait dude... i think the research rate doesnt work yet... just keep on researching and it will be finished soon enough... some longer than others though...

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Ligeia09
Ligeia09 Jun 9 2013, 8:21am replied:

yeah i found out if i open up the desura window, it goes to the next research item haha

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Highest Rated (71 agree) 10/10

Kenshi is a very ambitious game, it is as of the moment I'm writing this in a very unfinished state, but it's fun to play and it looks like with more love and care, this will be an absolutely great game.

Therefore I'm voting this a 10, I also bought the game to support the (currently) only developer working on it.

Despite the crashes, the content the game has now, made by only a single developer is very impressive in my opinion.

Thumbs up :)

Nov 5 2011, 6:22pm by DuckSauce

Lowest Rated (8 agree) 4/10

In it's current state, it deserves a one.

But because it's being updated and because its from one dude, it deserves a 4.

When its finally released, hopefully it will be worth a 10.
I don't see why people are just spamming 10 on this, lets be honest. in its current state, it is pretty sh*t. But we can all agree it WILL turn out great. (Don't hate me for the low rate, i'll re-review it with a high score as the game is being made. Or when its finished.)

Feb 16 2012, 5:25pm by darklord0211

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Jun 2 2013, 2:52pm

The UK government is getting scarier by the day. The lengths they go to make inconvenient people vanish. T.co

May 22 2013, 6:39am

That awesome short animation "The Reward" is gonna be a series! Kickstarter here: T.co I want them to succeed so bad.

Mar 25 2013, 3:47pm

Kenshi now on Steam! @steam_games: T.co

Mar 20 2013, 2:21pm

This short film is the bestest thing I ever did saw! T.co

Jan 27 2013, 8:18am

Even though Internet freedom day was yesterday.

Jan 19 2013, 6:07am

To celebrate internet freedom day I'm sharing MLKs "I have a dream" speech, even though some dicks have copyrighted it: T.co

Jan 19 2013, 6:06am

Next update now has defensive wall building and gates!

Jan 17 2013, 2:45pm

Weapon smithing bench is ready now, although it won't be in the game just yet. T.co

Dec 26 2012, 10:06am

Unlike AAA developers, the best market for indie developers is the hardcore gamers. They know what they want, and it hasn't been made yet.

Dec 26 2012, 10:02am

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