Is this game similar to Kenshi?

[Nemerlight]

I love Kenshi but havent really found anything similar.

[Chip]

What do you like about kenshi? Can you put what you like in detail? There is certain similarities and differences.

[Akahige]

No. It's actually fun and easy to play, despite it's complexity.

[Chip]

Also, had you ever played towns, gnomoria, dwarf fortress, amazing cultivation simulator or going medieval? To me Rimworld is the most fun colony building game of these all. Anything that the game lack can be added via the vast numbers of mods.

[Hoki]

yes and no.

at their core both games are story generators in an preexisting world but beyond that they belong into different (sub-) genres.

kenshi at its core is a simulation/rpg and RW is a colony managment sim.

both games featue the same feeling of openness though if you give them a chance ( tried kenshi as well, liked the story generator aspect but didnt get into all the other stuff)

[Chip]

Hoki said it all.

[Nemerlight]

Originally posted by Hoki:

yes and no.

at their core both games are story generators in an preexisting world but beyond that they belong into different (sub-) genres.

kenshi at its core is a simulation/rpg and RW is a colony managment sim.

both games featue the same feeling of openness though if you give them a chance ( tried kenshi as well, liked the story generator aspect but didnt get into all the other stuff)

Kenshi can be RPG but it also be base builder. Preparing and building defenses for invasions is fun part. Then putting bandits into prisons and recruiting them or killing them...

[Choppytehbear]

Originally posted by Nemerlight:

Originally posted by Hoki:

yes and no.

at their core both games are story generators in an preexisting world but beyond that they belong into different (sub-) genres.

kenshi at its core is a simulation/rpg and RW is a colony managment sim.

both games featue the same feeling of openness though if you give them a chance ( tried kenshi as well, liked the story generator aspect but didnt get into all the other stuff)

Kenshi can be RPG but it also be base builder. Preparing and building defenses for invasions is fun part. Then putting bandits into prisons and recruiting them or killing them...

Well then you will love Rimworld.

[Sepherix]

You'll love it for sure. You manage things much better and you only have to set them once with a little tweaking at times.

Kenshi is a lot more about recovering from struggles, being beaten over and over until you can reverse the scale of power.
Rimworld won't try to kill you immediately, but it will be insidious at times. It will be fair for most of it. You will have losses but they're preventable with experience, and don't matter too much. You'll get more meat to use. The game is a bit generous if you're struggling.

[Nuggs]

thats funny because this is like the polar opposite of what i did. I bought kenshi because i was looking for another game similar to rimworld and kenshi and dwarf fortress were the only 2 that came close.

Obviously rimworld was inspired by dwarf fortress lol but i didnt want to play a far to difficult colony sim i wanted a similar challenge of game and found kenshi. I guess the fact at the moment there just are no other games like kenshi or rimworld. They have been unique to themselves for a number of years. Going medival looks like it will be a good competetor to rimworld once its fully finished. THen you have viking colony sim thats supposed to come out this year and manor lords. Granted the last two have some diferences with rts focuses.

As far as a direct comparison to kenshi tho there are similarities. I preffer rimworld because even though kenshi claims to be a game where you can do anything you want there are a lot of limitations to that claim. I guess same with rimworld, but with ideology coming out in a few weeks and the fact that other than being a colony of slavers you can do just about anything i guess that would be one thing both games have in common. Though rimworld is tied to pretty much whatever map of the worlds cell you choose to play on where kenshi is a true open world sandbox. You can literally go anywhere else in the world in rimworld but unless you're moving your colony to another tile the cell maps are fairly small. But theyre all randomly generated so thats nice. Which i think for me is the big selling point over kenshi. I am a sucker for games with random map generation and rimworld has lots of that where as with kenshi its the same map and factions over and over again.

Theres far to many similarities and differences between rimworld and kenshi to type here. Personally i would say if you enjoyed kenshi you would enjoy rimworld and would be worth your money if you were to buy and play rimworld based on comparison to kenshi alone.

[Watchmaker]

Kenshi and Rim both are un-optimized very, very poorly. Kenshi runs better with mods though and doesn't need as many mods compared to rim.

[8faiNt ı♣ı]

I think rimworld is far better

[Nuggs]

Originally posted by Demonic's Gaming Domain:

Kenshi and Rim both are un-optimized very, very poorly. Kenshi runs better with mods though and doesn't need as many mods compared to rim.

what are you talking about? rimworld runs perfectly fine. I'm on very old hardware and i have zero issue running the game with or with out mods. It also doesnt need mods to be enjoyable. I perspnally only use a few vanilla qol mods. Its a perfectly viable game to play with zero mods though if thats what you want to do. Unless youre running hundreds of mods at once then yeah it might have performance issues. most games do when you have a ton of mods running at one time.

[Auzzie]

Its like kenshi but you are working on your base most of the time, but you can make caravan to explore the map to raid find loot etc. If you enjoy kenshi definitely give this a try! Theres a whole bunch of endless mods so you will certainly get your moneys worth, theres even kenshi ones that iv seen there :)

[奶小的姑娘]

I'm gonna try out Kenshin after reading this.

[Tux]

the main difference in my mind having played both is that Kenish you end up more focused on getting skills up, in Rimworld the skills more rise as you need them because you are spending so much time just trying to get to the next stage.