Kenshi

About the game

Kenshi is a squad-based sandbox RPG set in a huge, harsh desert world, with open-ended play instead of a linear story. You are not a chosen hero: almost everyone is stronger than you at the start, there is no level scaling, and survival is always a struggle. Become a trader, a thief, a farmer, a warlord or a slave, aid or oppose the factions, or simply keep to yourself while the world carries on without you. Create as many characters as you like and build them into a squad that grows stronger through experience. Research technology, craft gear and buy or build your own base, then set your people up to run production while you are away. Injuries matter: a wounded leg means limping or crawling, blood loss can knock someone out, and squad mates carry the wounded home. Getting captured by cannibals or sold to slavers is not scripted, just part of how the world works.