Recent reviews by Slava

The definitive game of the Hitman franchise.

'nuff said.

Without hyperbole, I can say this is my favorite LotR game.

It has a little jank, but an extreme amount of play and re-playability.

You can tell cat hags to ♥♥♥♥ off and bring you a dog instead 10/10

Give this game more than the few hours required to break into the actual game, and you will be rewarded with the best GTA clone available.

Actually, I take that back. Calling this a GTA clone overlooks the massive differences between this game and GTA games. Once you get past the surface features of open world, driving, gunplay, and crime, this game is extremely different.

For one, the gunplay is significantly more enjoyable in this game, in my opinion. The stealth action is phenomenal for an open world action title. You will have the ability to pick and choose how much you want to do, and working closely with other crime figures pays off in actual in-game benefits other than plot or roleplay.

The way in which the game's setting addresses social justice issues of the late 1960s and today pulls no punches and puts the N-word into the mouths of many a white man in the game. There are scenes that focus upon the plight of the poor and marginalized, the experience of a returning Vietnam war veteran - a special ops soldier none the less - who just happens to be black and is not celebrated for this among other reasons, subservience of the darker skinned criminals to lighter skinned ones at least in most cases (and punitive measures taken if they refuse); these issues are shown for realism, not for shock or virtue signaling to a modern audience.

Unlike most GTA-likes, the driving actually doesn't feel like piloting a stick of butter across a warm frying pan. Sometimes a bit of jank does appear in the driving, but it is generally only in very specific situations that are not common, like hitting a curb at exactly the wrong angle while doing 110mph, and flipping your car a quarter mile down the street. At least the jank is funny, which is more than I can say for whatever Betheda's latest title is.

There's a bit of graphical jank as well - sometimes the sky goes absolutely nuts. Sometimes a cutscene's sync is off a bit because it lagged when loading.

The introductory portion of the game is a tad long, but it exists to build characters so it's forgivable.

Some of the distances involved are annoyingly large and you end up spending more time driving during a few missions than you spend actually accomplishing objectives. I get the appeal of having a large map, but it becomes a bit tiresome to drive for miles between checkpoints in a fetch quest. GTA-likes in general suffer from this, though; it's not something specifically wrong with this game.

The only serious complaint I have about this title is its inability to keep your mouse cursor anchored to the window the game is running in. You will click outside the game and cause an alt-tab-like sort of behavior. However, this is easily remedied by using Borderless Gaming, so I don't knock the game too much on account of this.

This remastered version looks great and is better in every way than the original release. Buy this when it's on sale with the whole franchise, play the other two games, and then be blown away by how much better the third installment is than what came before it. If you played Mafia or Mafia 2 and were turned off by how much of an empty, confining, featureless clone of GTA that they were, give Mafia 3 a chance and have your expectations far exceeded.

TL;DR: the best GTA-like that's not GTA. If you like GTA, you will like this. Buy it.

Only good if you have a pre-existing friendgroup to introduce you to other people in VRC, and if you or your friends are good with Unity and Blender.

If you're flying solo or want to be able to create things in-game, Neos is a better option. If you want to be able to add items to your avatar without being a game designer, Neos is a better option.

Public instances are trash, being filled with 13 year old racists and people who want to pleasure themselves while staring at their own avatar in a mirror.

I wish I could give this a "meh" rating.

If you liked PSX-PS3 Ace Combat, but always wished it had a more open-ended game mode, you will love this game.

Really can't say more about this game that would describe it better, it's old school Ace Combat with an interesting roguelike mode on top of the more traditional campaign.

Hoping that Steam will give me a refund after 4 hours of play, this game is one of the most repetitive and boring games I have ever played. Looks pretty, but is about as much fun as watching a benchmark program run.

Played through the tutorial, then another two hours. Didn't see much potential in playing further. I thought the gameplay was extremely boring.

Even though I had played just over three hours, I requested a refund and thankfully got one.

People told me that I would like this game since I tend to enjoy games with this type of premise, but I don't get the hype around this game at all.

An open-world, squad based rpg with a steep learning curve. This game does not coddle you; your character isn't special. Trying to survive is the first part of what fun is to be had here, but once you've got some stability the game really opens up, leaving one to become a wandering master or the head of a new empire.

With mods aplenty, the level of customization this game has is insane. You can do anything with the right mod. Want to destabilize a region, leaving power vacuums and sparking wars? You can do that. Want to ruin a local economy by flooding it with wares? You can do that. Run the biggest trading Hub on the continent? You can do that too. You can be the good guy, the bad guy, an anarchist, a brazen capitalist, a pirate, a liberator of the oppressed, a legendary hunter, a scavenger of great treasures, and even a God in your own right.
You can be anything you desire . . . but can you survive your choice?

I also want to mention the deep lore and well-written NPC dialogue, well worth paying attention to and immersing one's self in. NPCs do their own thing and have very distinct personalities.

If you like brutally difficult open world rpgs, this will be one of your favorite games. If you don't like a challenge, there are several cheat mods available to change your diaper while you pay attention to the detailed world. The graphics are ♥♥♥♥ unless you do some modding, but they need to be in order for this game to run on most PCs. Prepare to run into some glitches that force save scumming.

In general I'd give Kenshi 8/10, but compared to other open-world rpgs, this is the cream of the crop, 10/10.

Graphics 3/10 - fixable with shaders, 5/10
Gameplay 7/10 - Otherwise intuitive gameplay is marred by pathfinding and AI issues.
Stability 6/10 - some rare game breaking glitches, and some more common inconvenient glitches. Overall fewer glitches and crashes than a Bethesda rpg.
Replay Value 10/10 - every playthrough can be as different or as similar as you want it to be
Writing (lore, NPCs) 10/10 - Beep. Crumblejohn. Cat-Lon. Enemies that scream"JEEEEEEEP!?" A rich and detailed world.
Binge-ability 10/10 - you can lose hours to this so very easily
Modding 9/10 - the game is fairly easy to create simple mods for, and there are tons of mods available for nearly any need.


From such a small dev team, a game like this is an amazing achievement. Buy this and support their vision, rumors are that a Kenshi 2 is in the works!


Beep is the strongest warrior now.

While fun, endgame comes extremely quickly and once it does, there's nothing left to do. The addition of a map creation tool or support for mods would breathe life into this title, which as it stands has extremely limited replay value.