Kenshi 0.40.4
Mar 22, 2013 Full Version 13 commentsFull 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
By captain_deathbeard | Released Oct 29, 2011
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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Latest News: Update 0.42.2
18 comments by captain_deathbeard on Apr 29th, 2013
I'm uploading update 0.42.2 right now. It fixes most of the major bugs that have been reported.
Now I've hired a freelance programmer to do a few auxiliary jobs. First he's going to implement Wwise, a professional grade audio engine. After that I can hire a professional sound designer, and the game will finally have sound. Good sound too, I'm not cutting corners.
That will take a while though, if after the next update anyone starts going "Where's the audio? You said you did sound" then they will get a slap.
As for me I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing next, but it will be a bigger update this time. So I'll be going off radar a bit and focusing on work. It might be the new character creation, possibly even the new bigger world map. Then I can have famous foliage modder Vurt make the new biomes.
Here are the changes for the last update:
0.42.2
- Integrated on-screen character name texts with GUI, so they don't appear on top of other panels
- Characters now choose storage boxes to get resources from, before resorting to the machine outputs.
- Characters now choose the nearest storage box if there are several to choose from.
- Research speed is displayed at the top of the research window
- Added Steel Refinery to make steel bars from.
BUGFIXES
- Fixed Holy Servants having no weapons
- Fixed complications when multiple characters tried to pick someone up at the same time
- Science skill now applies properly to research speed
- Fixed building power on/off buttons
- Fixed game freeze when building if you still had gates
- Fixed characters sometimes freezing after build mode
- Fixed newly crafted items not saving when left in bench
- Fixed the shopkeeper inventory crash
- Fixed the quickload problem when not all the map zones would be loaded
- Fixed the crafting window list being too short
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Kenshi 0.40.0
Feb 23, 2013 Full Version 19 commentsFull 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 0.29.6
Oct 2, 2012 Full Version 24 commentsFull 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...
0.25.4
Jun 21, 2012 Full Version 4 commentsFull 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 0.24.3
Jun 9, 2012 Full Version 4 commentsFull 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 0.22.0
Feb 20, 2012 Demo 6 commentsFull 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...
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Highest Rated (70 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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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
You are crazy if you don't buy Deus Ex and Mirrors Edge on Steam right now.
Dec 21 2012, 7:40am
The abilities of a programmer are measured directly by how many dirty cups are on his desk.
Dec 12 2012, 3:37pm
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For some reason, desura wants me to buy the game before I can download it again. I started out with the demo, then upgraded to the full version. The game was working fine until I got an error and tried to uninstall then reinstall. That was when desura said I could have the 15$ version or the demo.
Sounds like a job for Desura support. If you still have your key code somewhere, you will be okay regardless.
Thanks for the help. I sent a message to desura support.
I bought kenshi a while back, and now found it on steam, is there any way I can have it in steam without buying it again?
Just use your Desura key in steam, it'll work ^^
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You can right-click on your character's portrait to make it follow them.
erm not sure if its my computer or the game but i have been playing the game for the last 6 hours, at 1 point i took all my stuff i had in storage and i have been to the closest town. there, all the merchant and merchant counter dint pop, so i quicksaved and quickloaded and the merchant and counter were there. so i sold my stuff, recruited a new guy and i returned to my village (2 house, 1 stone mine, 1 stone processor and 4 villager hardly a village but its a start.) So when i got there, one of my house was not there, tryed quicksave and quickload and its still not there. (Was kinda an important one to its had my research, bed and storage in it. :/) So now i try to quit game and relaunch, wish me luck. :/
Ok quiting and rebooting the game fix it but its hapened again 3 hour later, guess its not game breacking but its kinda anoying. :)
i got this on steam :P add me my name on it is the_shadow_ninja2