While hordes of bandits raid towns and slave drivers capture unwary Vandans, we can make ourselves comfortable in a local bar and make friends with the other patrons – some of whom might even be willing to join us. This dynamic game world is the highlight of Kenshi: Something is always happening, there are new things to discover everywhere. If you don”t want to spend hours pounding on ore deposits, you can also play as a corpse looter for the first few hours of the game – because in the world of Kenshi there are dozens of different factions, nations and groups that regularly get into each other”s hair. Mining, for example, is the easiest way to get small amounts of money early on – iron and copper are always needed in the rustic world, where there are mostly only forged melee weapons. Nevertheless, we need food regularly to at least ensure our survival. These abilities must first be trained by simply using them again and again. (Kenshi offers numerous building elements: We can even build complete cities.)īut at the beginning of the game all this is a long way off: Our character starts out incredibly weak, he can”t fight, sneak or run particularly fast. You want to join the thieves” guild and get rich as a notorious master thief? Capture crooks and runaway slaves as a bounty hunter? Roam the countryside as a bandit yourself and rob innocent people? Or would you rather, as befits a more honourable citizen, tend a farm or work as a blacksmith? All this and much more is easily possible – and if you invest enough time, you can even found your own empire and overthrow the ruling powers. We are completely free to do what we want with our time in the sword-punk game world (that”s how the developer describes the setting). There is no story, and certainly no ending. We are thrown into the game world without any tutorials or quests to guide us.

But what do we do then? That is left entirely to our imagination.

In Kenshi, we start out as a lonely wanderer in a run-down hamlet – a role-playing game could hardly begin any more clichéd.

What do we like and what don”t we like?.

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous Tips.

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