why buy and play the game.

[Hatsune_Neko]

For the longest time i struggled with how to explain Kenshi.
but i finally hit a impasse and had one of those moments that clarified it all.

this is a quote from steam

think the OP decided, its shown they re own the game again.

is mining the best start? no, not always, but it is the easiest.
there are many paths to start out, one just has to decide how they want to go about it.
Kenshi is a learning experience all by itself. you have to unlearn how to play to learn how to play it.

In this day and age, nearly all games hold your hand, offer you ways to beat the game, Kenshi doesnt do that, it beats you down. forces you to rethink about how to play a video game.

Dark Souls has nothing on this game. that one is rinse and repeat, Kenshi is learn from your mistakes and move forward. even if you lose people.
so dont be afraid to lose people. it helps you learn.

Like a video game should. give you an adventure that you wont forget. something that has been lost in most games with their endless search for the unending profit margin.

i knew this from the start, hence why i poured what few dollars i earned to help give this game even more of a chance.
to date this is the most expensive game i have ever bought. nearly $300 in donations and 5 years of my life. even when i lost my computer, all i could think about was making sure i could be here for Kenshi. i worried about not being able to see others ideas. even if i disagreed with them.
there is only one other game that even compares to Kenshi when considering taking my time, and thats second life. two games i will always come back to.
i might not hold the record for total time in game, but that pales in comparison with my dedication to this game.
yea it took me 5 years to figure out how to say it, but i finally did.

and to say something i rarely ever do, screw the big game companies, they got nothing on a Indie Dev who knows how to make a damn game worth while, even with all its problems.

Chris. i am here for yea. into your next game. i believe in you and your ability to learn and make a game us gamers enjoy.
but next time, please add nekos.. lol

[Sol Lignum]

For me it's simply the very bestest game of all times! Probably closest i'll ever get to my perfect game. Compared, Dark Souls has nothing when it comes to difficulty, Witcher has nothing when it comes to RPG, FUEL has had something when it came to open world, but that's a diffirent story

[Menace]

I was with you... Really I was... But you totally lost me at: Second Life. That "game" was never, will never, be any good. I wouldn't even call it a game.

You're right about Kenshi though...

I guess I shouldn't give you too much stick about it, since I really love the old game Vampire The Masqurade: Bloodlines...

Oh well, what's done is done

[Hatsune_Neko]

I was with you... Really I was... But you totally lost me at: Second Life. That "game" was never, will never, be any good. I wouldn't even call it a game.

You're right about Kenshi though...

I guess I shouldn't give you too much stick about it, since I really love the old game Vampire The Masqurade: Bloodlines...

Oh well, what's done is done

lol
i got something like 25,000 hours into second life.

[Sol Lignum]

lol
i got something like 25,000 hours into second life.

I once got hooked up on a game called Wurm online, from what i've heard it's quite like SL, but medieval. Played it like crazy for several months, it has had its catches and charms. I know how you feel

[Neteman]

It was Kenshi and Mount and Blade lately for me, but also X3 or the early releases of PES on PS.

Thousands of hours spent there.

[wasgreg]

Why I bought the game

Kenshi had been on my Steam wishlist, but I've had games there for years that never get bought. I'm on a fixed budget and games are a once or twice a year deal for me. (usually on sale as well). I had been watching Twitch folk play another game I had been interested in as well. ShiftAudio, the twitch streamer, had made my list for this other game and was the only person I followed online during a night of insomnia.

ShiftAudio, however, was playing Kenshi that night. I watched him play for about 5 hours. His audience was all Kenshi players as well. Everyone sang the graces of the game, and I became enraptured as well. ShiftAudio, makes it a point to name his squad after viewers that interact with him. I'm proud to say there is a now a wasgreg in his second squad. And I purchased the game before going into work that morning. This past Saturday I accomplished two things, a single load of laundry and fourteen hours of Kenshi.

I'm sold. It is a great game. I've managed to tell everyone I know that plays PC games that this is great stuff. And I have joined the others on Shift's twitch channel expounding the awesomeness of this game to new viewers.

[Menace]

I was with you... Really I was... But you totally lost me at: Second Life. That "game" was never, will never, be any good. I wouldn't even call it a game.

You're right about Kenshi though...

I guess I shouldn't give you too much stick about it, since I really love the old game Vampire The Masqurade: Bloodlines...

Oh well, what's done is done

lol
i got something like 25,000 hours into second life.

What the...?
Did I miss something? When I played second life, the game consisted of a world with people. So all you did was talk with other people...

It has been over 10 years now I guess, I wonder if something changed? It's just 25.000 hours! Wow... Could just go to the local cafe you know :p

[Hatsune_Neko]

you can do that, and build, and play games, RP, dance, DJ, ride the rail road. swim, sail, and the list goes on. its my all time fav game besides Kenshi ( 2150 hrs ) and 7DTD ( 2200 Hrs) and Master of Orion 3 ( about 8,000 Hrs )
They all my top games.
as for SL, i like it because i have disabilities and it lets me do things i can no longer do irl. and irl i have a phobia about being with to many people. i dont get that feeling in SL .

[Vae_Losh]

I bought Kenshi a few years ago, and played the snot out of it fr a good while. It grabbed e even back then, but eventually the lag and the crashes on my potato computer got to be a bit too much, and I let it go for....I think it was Black Flag, or something, cant remember, but I just recently, in the last two weeks, and after another love affair with Stardew Valley, decided 'ah what the hell, lets see what theyve done lately'.

So I reinstalled, and was absolutely blown away. I am not here to shill, but I think this may well end up being damned near the perfect game until we get black mirror tye technology, and I am mindlessly hooked. Ive been beaten, starved, had limbless friends carried for miles on a friends back, just looking for a place to hunker down, Ive had people forced to lie down and play dead while our victorious enemy bandages up their friends before they move on, and seeing my friends bleed out while it happened. In most games this would enrage me, but here I think if anything it gives more character, more background to the traumatized fraction that presses on and gets stronger.

I had shelved this game for quite awhile, but with even the experimental version and mods being stable, and it getting ever closer to full release, this game has eased my financial crises of 'how am i going to afford the great games coming out this year like AC Oddysey, RDR2, etc.....because I think maybe they can wait awhile.

[meepichi]

I've put in 308 hrs into Kenshi and I've only had it for a couple weeks or so I think... It's basically what I do from the time I get up to the time I go to bed... yeah not much of a life, a bad anxiety disorder keeps me from a normal one, but I do enjoy the time I spend in it. I look forward to the new things added to the game to make it even better!

[swillo]

Why buy the game?
Well the main reason that I would give someone is look at this forum.
Many of the players on here have been playing this game non stop for YEARS.
I have seen and played several online games for years. One for nearly a decade. But It's really really rare for find a single player game that stands that test of time. And what is really outstanding; it's not "replayability". I'm still playing the first game I ever started on Kenshi. At current count I have 15 save games that I switch between on a regular basis. And with the last couple updates I'm thinking to start a couple more. And I don't play any of them the same way.

My largest game is over 200 characters. I spend most my time managing resources and outpost building, while sending out expeditions from the fort to look for high value resources. I have relocated the entire company 4 times.
My smallest game it 2 characters. They have no home just a pack garu and a dream of becoming strong.
And I have all sorts of different games in between.

The biggest thing for me is most single player games have a preset story and they walk you through it. My favorite game of all time was xcom (the original). Best squad based tactical game ever. (IMHO) But it ended. Almost all games have an ending. Sure you can start over and do it all again. I have dozens of times. but just when I get my squad up to being great the story stops. The game ends and you have to start over again. Kenshi is not like that. I get to write the story. I get to make up my own stories in my head and play them out. And no one tells me I have to stop. The best feature of Kenshi is the import option. because after all the thousands of hours I have put into playing and creating my own stories I don't have to just dump them because someone else's imagination ran out. I may lose a character here and there. Last week one of my longtime characters stepped in front of a multi barrel harpoon by accident. I just about lost my mind. but after sitting back and calming down I let them go and my crew continued on. (still wish we had tomestones for them).
I found Kenshi and bought it early on mainly based on one promise that I read in the review. That I wouldn't have to stop playing.
IMHO all games should be like that.

The second most important reason to buy Kenshi, is because the devs read these forums! This is the first time that I have been in a beta release where I felt like the Devs actually cared what the players thought. I can't count the times that we have talked about something here and then seen it in the next update. I makes me feel like I'm a part of Kenshi too. Thanks Devs yours the best!

So why should you buy Kenshi?
BECAUSE YOU CAN!

[Valentine]

I like the potential it has especially with mods. I hope it gets a skyrim-like community for mods when better mod tools come out!

I also like building cities and ruthlessly destroying my enemies =p