About Kenshi

What is Kenshi?

Kenshi is a single player sandbox PC game set in a vast and atmospheric ‘Sword-Punk’ style open world. With a mix of RPG elements, squad-based control and city-building features, gameplay is completely free-roaming and open: enjoy the freedom and potential to do whatever you want.

Set in an unrelenting world of bloodthirsty cannibals, starving bandits, brutal slavers and wild beasts, survival alone is a gruelling struggle… 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 centre of the universe, and you are not special. Unless you work for it.

Features

Character Customization 

Edit your characters, build up their strengths and watch them endure and grow. Train Your Skills in Robotics, Thievery, Engineering, Medicine, Weapon Smithing and more!

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Squad-Based Control

Play with one character or control a whole team; an army, even. Combat is Real-Time Strategy style with a choice of ranged and melee fighting styles

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Build Your Base

Create and run your own city, manage an empire or simply wander the lands as a lone drifter. Research upgrades such as industry tech, weaponry crafting and trade goods

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Wounds Affect Gameplay

Complex medical system where injured characters limp, crawl, bleed to death or pass out from starvation. Stem blood loss to avoid predators and replace lost limbs with robotic prosthetics

World

Open-ended Gameplay

An original sandbox world. Lay siege as a warlord or make your riches as a trader… There are endless game style possibilities and the world will never stop moving

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Train hard

There is no level-scaling, the world does not level up along with you. At the start of the game almost everyone will be stronger than you and you’ll have to use your cunning to survive

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Survive

Escape capture from deadly slavers & cannibal prisons, rescue your squad mates from grisly death and get them all home alive

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Start A Faction

Keep to yourself, form an alliance or oppose other factions and territories of the world… good or bad

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And More…

See our roadmap to read more about upcoming features…

PhysX by NVIDIA. PhysX Technology provided under license from NVIDIA Corporation. © 2002-2011 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved.

System Requirements

Minimum

OS: 64-bit Windows
Processor: Dual-core 64-bit
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Pixel shader 3.0 capable card
DirectX®: 11
Hard Drive: 14GB HD space

Recommended

OS: Windows 7 64 Bit
Processor: Quad-core 64 Bit
Memory: 8 GB RAM
DirectX®: 11
Hard Drive: 14 GB HD space