system that handles a big chunk of the busywork for you, but the game doesn't do a great job of explaining how to use it. Fortunately, it has a crisp and efficient A.I. If you had to manually order every squad member to do every little action, Kenshi would be unplayable. Once your squad grows to about a half-dozen members, you'll spend most of your time managing their activities and making sure everyone's pulling their weight in an efficient and productive manner. Crime is always optional (and you'd better be ready for the very long-term consequences if you go down that road), but every other sort of job is required if you want to be successful within the law.
There are six broad categories of activities in the game: combat, crime, farming, crafting, labor, and engineering. (These are my labels, not Kenshi's.) Unless you want to sustain yourselves with crime (which is viable, but difficult), you'll need to build a settlement and gradually turn it into a self-sustaining town. Kenshi becomes a radically different game as soon as you hire your first squadmate. As for scrounging up enough cash to pay their salary in the first place, check out our money-making guide. They'll also soak up piles upon piles of medical supplies when they inevitably get their faces smashed in by enemies.įortunately, you can use this guide to teach them to be better at that whole fighting thing. They need gear, time and equipment for training, and they need to eat. I use the following rule of thumb: if I can't comfortably spare 10k, I'm not ready to hire a new person. It costs somewhere around 10,000 Cats to hire a 0-level worker and train them to the point of being halfway competent in a handful of skills. If you want strangers to risk their lives for you, be ready to pony up a fair bit of cash. Shockingly, nobody in Kenshi is willing to follow you all over a ludicrously dangerous desert for free. Be sure you know what you're getting into before you sign on the dotted line. But luckily a lot of these inconveniences are fixable with the mods, which can either tweak the game to be an enhanced experience or entirely change the way the game works while staying true to the lore, aesthetic, and of course the feeling of being small and alone.Squad members are a huge boon, but they require a lot of upkeep, too. Mechanically the game isn't all there sometimes, there are some things that start to feel like obvious mistakes and missed opportunities. Surviving is a struggle that'll make you want to quit but thriving makes sticking to it addictive. While the game is nowhere near as harsh as Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead and also nowhere near as complicated, I pin it as a similar game in how it feels. The kind of people I recommend Kenshi to are the people who enjoy seeing growth, who like the nobody to somebody mindset in a game, and who don't mind the cards being stacked against them in the start. Now, some of the reasons to do things take some imagination and injection of roleplay but even that isn't required to enjoy the game at its core. At its base the game looks empty but it opens up when you explore the world and its lore. You aren't going to run out of content in five hours in five hundred I still haven't even explored the entire map. Kenshi is at its worst a game about hurrying up and waiting, and at its best an rpg sim game for those with patience and nerves of steel.
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