What type of game?

[stvlepore]

I enjoy Valheim, not so much Forest. Any idea which way this game falls?
Thanks

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

its not like either of those games
Kenshi is a game onto its own. it doesnt really fit in with any other games out there.

there is a Demo listed on the store page. try that, its the full game but with some limits.

[Fryskar]

Guessing by what you own, its at best somewhat smiliar to rimworld.

Getting the demo is the easiest way to check it out.

Yes, it is known that the game has some issues like performance.

[Toki]

Originally posted by Hatsune Neko Gaming:

its not like either of those games
Kenshi is a game onto its own. it doesnt really fit in with any other games out there.

there is a Demo listed on the store page. try that, its the full game but with some limits.

What are the limits? If you have energy to tl;dr the differences.
I'm just curious.

[Fryskar]

Originally posted by Atlun:

Originally posted by Hatsune Neko Gaming:

its not like either of those games
Kenshi is a game onto its own. it doesnt really fit in with any other games out there.

there is a Demo listed on the store page. try that, its the full game but with some limits.

What are the limits? If you have energy to tl;dr the differences.
I'm just curious.

Google says skillcap at 20/100.

[Cattrina]

Here, demo https://www.lofigames.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=8428

Last time I played with the demo you could not get women, skillcap to 20 and cannot use mods.


@stvlepore Rimworld come closest, but where Rimworld focuses on your base building, Kenshi focuses on adventures you do with your people. So Kenshi has actual fighting techniques and mechanisms to allow fe. sneaking. Where building bases is from prefaps, you build the entire house and cannot design your own house plan with rooms, floor and wall materials. In vanilla there is also very limited selection of furniture you can decorate with.

Kenshi also has a bit of a learning curve at the beginning before you can actually survive... Do not get attached on your first character (if you do not want to save-scum that is)

[Toki]

Originally posted by Fryskar:

Originally posted by Atlun:

What are the limits? If you have energy to tl;dr the differences.
I'm just curious.

Google says skillcap at 20/100.

Okay, thanks!

[stvlepore]

I missed the demo, I’ll give that a go. Thanks for all your reply’s

[Big Papa]

This fits into open world, sandbox, RPG. Kinda roguelike dungeon crawler but a massive map instead of dungeons. Imagine a game like morrowind, but top down camera, squad based RPG, without most of the inside caverns, dungeons, sewers. and a completely original story/lore/theme. It's completely unleveled, meaning there are strong enemies from the very start of the game.

[stvlepore]

Decided to get. But I'm getting an instant CTD on loading. Any ideas?

[Double Quarter Pounder w/ cheese]

Originally posted by stvlepore:

Decided to get. But I'm getting an instant CTD on loading. Any ideas?

The demo is CTDing on first time launching? Verify integrity of game files to check if any files got corrupted while you were downloading it.

[Shidan]

Originally posted by stvlepore:

Decided to get. But I'm getting an instant CTD on loading. Any ideas?

Try installing all 4 files in the dependencies folder. Never heard of someone with the demo getting this bug, but it is somewhat common on Steam, so it's possible it happens on other versions too.

[stvlepore]

I had enough to install it but not run I guess. I deleted a game and it runs fine now.

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

just a forewarning
Kenshi save files can reach the GB range. ( this is a known unfixable issue )
But you can combat this in the main game by importing your save often as it clears out history of what you have done in game. ( aka like a fresh new start )
Downside to importing, is if your holding prisoners, they will disappear. will reset world states.

[Friends with Benedicts]

Squad Management Based, Real time with Pause sandbox survival with some RPG elements (mainly on stats). Lack of usual quest system and directions.

[yippeekiay]

I don't use autosave anymore now as if I have too big of a squad it sometimes crashes the game when it tries to overwrite any.
I save my Kenshi playthrough with a simple time title manually, got into the habit now so if anything happens I only lose around 20m or so.
Then when I stop playing for the session I save a proper named title usually of what I am going to do next as I might not play for a few months so need a reminder lol.
Then I delete all but the last 2 saves in the save folder. That keeps the total save files low on memory use - I got plenty of space anyway but just like keeping it trimmed down.