The RPG Created By 1 Man That Is Embarrassing Top Developers

[@MitchManix]

Want to see more of Skibidi and Arthur's Kenshi adventures? Check out the dedicated channel for more episodes!: www.youtube.com/@KenshiTi FYI: One of these characters was named far before I was aware of the toilet related nonsense.

[@dezusa]

MOARRRRRRR

[@kevinlawrence6368]

MUUUUUR SKIBIDY 🤤 love his character design, you took your time I can tell

[@galadballcrusher8182]

Hell yes

[@erosanji1694]

You should take a look at stellar tactics, it's not "done yet" but it is the same story and it'll probably will have the same success.

[@MollyHJohns]

Hey I just heard about Kenshi these two three days. Where can I find it? I hope I can play it on my laptop 😢

[@umadbroimatroll7918]

When I first got kenshi, very early on. He would send an personal email to every person that bought the game, he thanked me and said he was using the money to buy the best audio that he can get for the money, that email was very nice.

[@hiiambarney4489]

I mean, he wasn't lying, Kenshi got some pretty distinct tunes, the soaring bittersweet intro and all the atmospheric tracks that really set the tone.

[@umadbroimatroll7918]

@@hiiambarney4489 yep, he used our money well :D

[@verihimthered2418]

🦊👍

[@hito-sama]

@@umadbroimatroll7918 the opposite of Bet hes da 🤣

[@wavehellhole]

@@umadbroimatroll7918good devs are so precious in this day and age

[@SSZaris]

The developer of Kenshi is a really cool dude. I remember nearly 10 years ago I got an early demo and when I switched PC's I had lost my install and access to the download. He took time out of his day to help out and get access back to me. Was probably really simple for him but he made a life long fan since that day.

[@TheBoringInvestorMan]

That's a lovely story, thanks for sharing

[@nopekeinPlan]

Shows passion and understanding for what it's like to be a gamer... that's what is needed more, triple 💚 instead of triple A ( n triple millions 😂)

[@MrCatlegs]

Listen here Mitch. We have emotional investment in these characters now so yea, you better continue their story! 😂

[@MissFirefly11]

Hell yeah! Well said!

[@brindle21]

Hear hear🎉

[@heckinharvey]

Ive been begging for more long term stories since star wars

[@lfemomo77]

@HeckinHarvey 💯 that Star Wars epic was so good

[@TheKsenpai]

yep, I expect a 2 hour full movie, kind of how Uberdanger did his Fallout New Vegas video.

[@joshjohncy9376]

The best part of Kenshi is that each playthrough you go, the story you create is entirely unique so it never gets old.

[@etholus1000]

Yeah my first playthrough was something, essentially started as a lone miner trying to make ends meet to having a whole company making bank and building a outpost, forming a merc squad to do dirty work for more “unethical” cash flow. I was a corporate big shot in the wasteland Lol

[@NotHappening-b8t]

not so sure about that. at least for me. u know the world after first run. the grind lvling stats is godly time consuming at the end. thankfully there are mods to make things a lot easier and or quicker. and to help match the style of game we want. but overal yes this is a great game. and there is no 1 way to play. each play can be different for sure. it is a rare true open world game if u allow it to be. deaths, prison etc.

[@Abuhan47]

@@NotHappening-b8t u might be min/maxing instead of role-playing. Everytime I play I have an idea of who my character is, his backstory, and make decisions based on what I think that person would do. I always have completely different playthroughs and avoid grinding, just play and let my character skill up naturally.

[@MartialArtsNk]

@@NotHappening-b8t You don't know how to play the game is the problem, this ain't an insult by the way but what the man said. You're supposed to immerse yourself in it and in the story. Forget about the maxing stats just for the sake of having max ones, enjoy the story you go through and create instead a bit.

[@TheJpf79]

@@NotHappening-b8t Is that the royal "we" or do you carry a bag of mice around with you? The game YOU want isn't the game everyone else wants.

[@witchdoctor1]

Kenshi is legitimately one of the best story generating games I have ever played. It truly deserves every bit of praise it has gotten over the years.

[@butchcassidy9791]

One of the best games, hands down.

[@gawaniwhitecrow2731]

Win winner 🐓🍛

[@sirshay6156]

Its literally up there but in a second place after the game known as Rimwolrd

[@witchdoctor1]

@@sirshay6156 RImworld is definitely one of the best story generators as well. It gets absolutely bonkers at times.

[@johnrackham8429]

Agreed but to the people in the replies let's not get ahead of ourselves, how can you mention RimWorld but not Dwarf Fortress? It is currently the best story generator in the whole planet and no game has surpassed it in that area since its inception

[@lepidusstupidius2956]

The funniest part is that to find the Shinobi Thieves, he literally could have taken a short stroll down a road northward to find the nearest Shinobi location.....and instead traveled the ENTIRE FREAKING MAP to find them.

[@matthewmammothswine4395]

This is a why its such a great game. It lets you make mistakes, learn, grow. Such an organic RPG experience.

[@lorrewyb4641]

Reminds me of my first playthrough. When one of my guys lost a limb for the first time near Catun, I travelled all the way north, to the UC in the desert, because I had heard those cities sell robotic limbs. Of course I discovered much later that we could have just gone to Flats Lagoon 😅 Good times.

[@numberguy1]

He did it for story reasons. You know the saying the journey is more important than the destination. It's his version of the story you're watching, and that's the point of the game: You decide what goes on in your playthrough.

[@lepidusstupidius2956]

@@numberguy1 I think it's also entirely possible he just didn't know. There are a number of other legitimate reasons to go that far north.

[@ShadaOfAllThings]

Props as well to Natalie, Chris' sister, who wrote the lion's share of dialogue, lore and factions.

[@JamesMadisonsSpiritAnimal]

Strobe😔

[@eboninkdeathliquidnecrosis]

Damn I never knew that. Guess you learn new stuff every day.

[@GrammarPaladin]

Then she is a fantastic author, Lore of kenshi is actually pretty dope

[@Gr13fM4ch1n3]

Power duo. We're lucky to have them.

[@secretname2670]

May those who know what @Shada didn't mention be blessed with forgetting it.

[@leogazebo5290]

I love how in the beginning Ski was carrying Arthur to safety, but at the end it's Arthur carrying his buddy Ski to safety. Friendship goals.

[@jopera2087]

One of the best games i played, no amount of shiny graphics can make me feel otherwise. This is what games could have been if they were made by players for players..fun!...and not corporate clowns milking every penny out of you.

[@rumplstiltztinkerstein]

The feeling when you are running with your party in the wilderness, looking at the environment and deciding where to go, is amazing

[@Jorendo]

You mean how games used to get made back in the 90's and early 2000's? Before gaming became mainstream and the suits flocked the industry for quick cash grabs?

[@butchcassidy9791]

@@Jorendo yup

[@dayegilharno4988]

:) Staging a prison break in Rebirth has got to be my favourite RPG gamestart of all times!

[@legitplayin6977]

Oh god no, I mean it’s fine if you enjoy the game. I personally don’t and soul loathe if every game becomes like it

[@vedrisca]

2014 backer here. Loved the RTS-like approach to the Alpha at the time. Loved how many players advertised the game by simply making day-by-day journal entries and weaving those entries into a longer-term story. Played on various shitty laptops until I built my first rig in 2018, then went into the deep end with a genuine 1-man-army run while unpacking every single secret the game had to offer and talking lore on the Discord. This game was pretty much everything I expected out of a functional early-access: lots of jank, but meaningful progress with every update (and there were few, which kinda runs against the usual grain of people being overly transparent and active with their communities) and a patient audience that was willing to stick through with things for the long term. It actually kinda floors me how many other developers fail to achieve the balance and grit that Chris (and now his team) has for making games.

[@mowvu]

thanks for investing in him. i didn't get a pc til 2016 and you helped make this possible for loads of us

[@fumarc4501]

I’ll never forget that someone played Kenshi as an RTS with some minor mods. Very impressive.

[@unironicallydel7527]

The RTS systems would have been way better if you werent constantly raided. Raids are fine, but 4-5 every single day was a bit much.

[@ugib8377]

@@unironicallydel7527 Until you find the source of the faction sending those raids. You can ransack and wipe out their HQ to cut them off entirely.

[@jowern0224]

@@unironicallydel7527 raids? i call them free training!

[@hylabrookbooks]

@@unironicallydel7527 You can mod the consistency, and if I'm not mistaken it is an option in the menu included in the default game

[@umadbroimatroll7918]

@@unironicallydel7527 seems like you picked a bad location with many overlapping raiding zones

[@gagepetersen4533]

It's always so heartwarming to see people rediscover and continue to love kenshi

[@MisterNightfish]

Kenshi is so good. I am way more invested in Beep's nearly entirely organic story to become the strongest than I am in most AAA protagonists. All it took was a few well written lines of dialogue and the ability to make it happen. Sure, he lost a few limbs along the way, but we rebuilt him. Better. Stronger. And he even acknowledged his metal arm with a floating text line. Amazing.

[@unironicallydel7527]

Its actually amazing that characters have realistic banter. You'll be walking along the road with a party, then someone starts telling a story and everyone responds to it. That just doesnt happen in most games.

[@aoihitori]

Beep character development was like Edgy Anime Protagonist. He will abandon his Hive genetics just to become stronger warrior of them all.

[@visionaeon]

Cyber Beep is the god of Kenshi.

[@RevantheBlack]

Beep is good, Agnu is better

[@legatuslolicon]

@@RevantheBlack Beep and Agnu together is best

[@Captain-Cat]

Mitch you seriously need to turn these adventures into a series!

[@Vonatar74]

I don’t think a better video showcasing the magic of Kenshi has ever been made. This HAS to become a series! OMG it was just so good, Mitch.

[@PunkDogCreations]

Please refrain from blaspheming.

[@anonihme5142]

this video was great and a huge compliment to the game. But no kenshi video can beat the torso squad kenshi video xD

[@skop6321]

@@anonihme5142 there is another (Sseth)

[@KhreamedKhorne]

​@@PunkDogCreationsJesus Christ you people are annoying, I mean good God already just stuff it

[@kohaiame2691]

​@@PunkDogCreations I read omg as oh my goodness, or simply as the acronym, but I digress... Anyway, I do have a prayer I do recommend memorizing for such times. ​Say the Golden Arrow prayer; especially whenever you see or hear the Lord's name being used in vein. May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most mysterious and unutterable Name of God be always praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified in heaven, on earth, and under the earth, by all creatures of God, and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Amen. Our Lord said that "This Golden Arrow will wound My Heart delightfully, and heal the wounds inflicted by blasphemy." In times such as this; remember this prayer, and spread it to other Christians to try to make reparations on behalf of the world uttering blasphemies, using the Lord's name in vein, sacrilege, and the countless other offenses happening daily.

[@berrybluebird3842]

Kenshi was already my favorite game of all time. This just makes the feeling all the more special.

[@thejurkshot]

Your base can eventually become a Capital in the game so NPCs can come and trade with your shops and NPCs can also buy items from you in your shop. Base building is amazing in this game and there are so many surprises that I dont want to ruin when it comes to exploration. You should totally continue your journey because it will be an amazing one.

[@justinfourie3422]

wait hold on a moment your base can become a capital?? I thought you were restricted to like a small village or outpost and not being able to build a town/city. Man now i'm really glad that i bought the game

[@ticktockgotalocktock]

@@justinfourie3422 yeah thats not true?

[@LecherousLizard]

​@@justinfourie3422 Eh, not exactly. The size of an outpost scales with the number of residential buildings (though gates also count as one), which increases their claim range (this is important solely if you want to make a "wide" base, because if you go outside the range, they may get claimed by nearby settlements and you can't use them, such as they wouldn't get any power from your outpost). On the world map the size of your outpost is indicated by the icon, going from a simple X through villages up to the same icon as the biggest cities. There is no other benefit strictly tied to making a bigger base. NPC visiting depends on whenever you allow it (there's a box to tick, if you don't tick it, neutral/friendly NPCs can't walk through the gate or patrol around) and whenever NPC actually come through the area you settled. Trading inside your base is a joke though, because without mods NPCs will only buy food and meds and have an almost non-existent budget for it to begin with.

[@justinfourie3422]

@@LecherousLizard ah still it's awesome to learn of a mechanic that i've never utilized properly before and considering i've started playing with mods i'll also start to look into mods that allow for better trading with npcs, hopefully there's one that lets others in your group do the trading automatically without micromanaging.

[@LecherousLizard]

@@justinfourie3422 Automatic trading? No, I don't think there's one. The best you can get is when you have a crafting queue set up, then the crafter will dump any excess from the crafting station and their inventory to a relevant container, but I personally haven't tested if they'll put it in those trading counters. That'd be the closest you can get to "automatic" in Kenshi 1, because the game isn't particularly mod friendly when it comes to more... complex ideas like this.

[@drpavel_]

You really do get organic stories, I love how in the early game you're literally starving and don't know where your next meal will come from, so you set off into the wild out of desperation and pick up people along the way. My current game had my party in the swamps in Shark trying to buy hashish to sell and chaos breaks out with it being raided by bandits. After thats settled I pick up another party member and then i get into a bar fight and while thats going on suddenly its swarmed with blood spiders. I eventually make it to Heft and resupply there, go to head out and get swarmed by Beak Things. My most recent recruit is eaten alive and my main character loses his arm.

[@arvendekoh2266]

This game is seriously one of the best games to cover all your gaming wants. Rpg , persistent world and characters, survival, RTS, base building.. this ones a true gem, not having brought my PC on vacation I'm rly hoping you've got more gameplay already up. I didn't realize how much I missed this game until I saw your immersion in it :)

[@wallacesousuke1433]

This game has nothing that interests me

[@alexschwarz4749]

@@wallacesousuke1433 Good for you 🙂

[@Dilligff]

Kenshi is to gaming what Ink was to indy films. It is low budget and wears that fact on its sleeve, but manages to surpass in quality what so many studios with exponentially higher budgets manage to put out. Kenshi took the idea of 'sandbox' and turned it up to 11. Having had the foresight to include the ability to (relatively) easily create user mods for it makes it one of the most unique replayable experiences out there period. I'm still anxiously awaiting for further news on the development of Kenshi 2 which will be utilizing the Unreal Engine this time.

[@lowlygrinder2977]

Honestly, games like God of War and the Last of Us don't wow me, Kenshi wowed me a lot, it deserved an award.

[@LecherousLizard]

The new God of War games are just walking simulators with very simple gameplay. It's like Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice. It's not a game, it's a cutscene with walking sections that make you take breaks, because the finger responsible for holding Shift (so the MC lightly jogs instead of crawling around) starts hurting. And Kenshi? Kenshi is pure gameplay.

[@john792A2]

same.

[@thomasrial4444]

@@PostalDude_1997 that’s a story perspective though. Gameplay it’s so linear that you can’t play it as long as Kenshi. Kenshi’s gives freedom of player choice and god of war is catered story telling. It’s really based on personal preference and what kind of gameplay your looking for.

[@takebacktheholyland9306]

Gow3 Was it's gameplay Peak, but Gow5 is where it's narrative peaked

[@Morfe02]

@@takebacktheholyland9306 narrative ? being a Marvel movie ? also all the second characters except the gods and dwarfs are trash LOL

[@Vixzenn]

Thank you for highlighting one of gems out there that so many people had never heard of. I came across this on Steam when it was at $12 😊😊😊 Hours of FUN vs $$$ I am so far out in front it feels wrong. I even asked the dev to add "support your work" DLC, they added the sound tracks DLC around the same time, so at least I feel less guilty. By the way, some of the weather sound effects and music put a lot of AAA's to shame. I love that you gave this a story immersive run. It really does have that thought provoking story telling seed that takes root in your mind. I know in a lot of games having another member join your team is just to get more done faster, however in Kenshi your mind wanders and wonders about the new squadie. I actually use this game as the scale. "On a scale of 1 to Kenshi how would you rate it?"

[@Far_Dee]

I was astounded how hard Kenshi gripped me, and how often I go back to it. It's still got a lot of jank going on, but there's so much cool and unique stuff going on it's easy to overlook it. Stoked for Kenshi 2.

[@MissFirefly11]

There's a kenshi 2 coming? :O but I just found the first one lol

[@strellettes8511]

@@MissFirefly11 dont worry you have years to get to know Kenshi 1 before 2 comes out.

[@Vishampi]

@@MissFirefly11 Not any time soon, don't worry

[@marltonmanks9891]

ive been playing it for a few years now and there are still plenty of areas ive never really been to. never been to purple sands or berserker country, i rarely go to the leviathan coast or shrieking forest (in fact i avoid it like the plague since im using shrieking bandits expanded. went there once, got fucked up badly by a foot), and then i completely forgot that shun is even a place

[@powerdude_dk]

I REALLY love this video format instead of just a normal review!!

[@RobynLeSueur]

Indie devs are the saviours of modern gaming. That and Japanese devs who are still making AAA bangers like Elden Ring and Tears of the Kingdom.

[@-pressxtostart-]

😂

[@MissFirefly11]

Agreed!

[@ulrichleukam1068]

No! most people do not play Indie games, so they do not save the industry. I will say the saviour of the industry are thos publishers willing to pay $100Mil for AAA games without stuffing them full with MTX and lootboxes. Like say Nintendo, Capcom, Embracer Group, SONY etc

[@ZaLewdWarudo]

Tears of the kingdom sucks. Fucking open world trash.

[@DuskyDk]

Agreed, its thanks to indie devs, that we get interesting games, with new concepts, unlike most AAA games, as well as creating unique gems of games.

[@imnothere6906]

"bandit with two broken arms" I am sold. Get me this RPG asap!

[@KaisersGB]

I love how you shared your characters stories while simultaneously telling us about the game! You are extremely talented my friend and look forward to seeing more of their stories if you get to come back to this game! 🍻😄

[@theextrabeardedpug7229]

Okay okay okay you caught me with pants down with this one and it's gone from not liking the game to now wanting to play the game. I'll give you credit there you really do know how to get me hooked in!

[@ShigadyShigadyShwey]

Absolutely excellent introduction to your channel, I adore this game, and this highlights just how fulfilling even the smallest scale actions and stories can be in the game. Need more of the Epic of Skibidi.

[@brindle21]

Do watch his Galactichad movie

[@Pyrithe]

I bought this game years ago and has quickly become one of my two favorite "story generator" type games, the other being Rimworld. I enjoyed others, but Kenshi has a well crafted world that balances beauty and danger. The other thing not really mentioned is you can also mod the game, so if you don't like a particular aspect, chances are, someone fixed it. I use mods to do various challenges, like building a mercenary city out of prisoners who earned their freedom by combat (instead of using dummies, my people trained against prisoners and those who survived and accrued skills would be recruited by a mod that lets you recruit prisoners). We'd send out squads, build new squads as we recruit, suffer losses, and just seek combat. I had another where we were constantly attacked by The Holy Nation and we managed to defeat, capture, and recruit one of their "Inquisitors"... those guys were op, they'd wipe out everything else single-handedly. Over time, I built an army of 20 ex-Inquisitors and began an Unholy Campaign to wipe out the Holy Nation using the very weapon they sent against us. Another playthrough, I wanted to become a wandering samurai and traveled the world, fighting and defeating the various bandits and taking loot to trade for food and Cats (the currency of Kenshi). However, no matter how powerful I became, I was still mortal... eventually, death came as I experienced my first ever Beakthing... Honestly, it's the kind of game that will always be fun as you find new and creative ways to play. I've done games as wandering merchants, as shopkeepers, bandits, mercenaries, so many different playthroughs and all were a blast. If anyone else wants to pick it up, I recommend it. I can't wait for Kenshi 2 ^.^

[@brindle21]

Really makes me want to play this game! Would love to see more adventures. Thanks again for another great video Mitch😊

[@FollowerOfClay]

Play it! And stay away from goats!

[@343sinbad]

@@FollowerOfClay and watch out for beak things

[@MissFirefly11]

Do it :D

[@MissFirefly11]

@@FollowerOfClay what's wrong with goats? 😂

[@FollowerOfClay]

@@MissFirefly11 they are too friendly

[@C3darCr33k]

This looks like a game that is more fun to watch creators play than actually playing myself.

[@punani_slayer4209]

Very true. I have the game and it's extremely boring. You gotta have a good imagination to play something like this lol

[@1978rrf]

Yeah I agree. I love the videos, but don't want to play 😂

[@ReiseLukas]

Sometimes you have to put some of your own fun into games like this. This is something I would like to stream

[@peb475]

This is pure gold. Please continue this story! Also, I just love your channel dude, top tier content. Your GW2-series got me to try the game again after many years, and now I'm hooked. I sincerely wish you all the success with your channel!

[@ASavageEye]

I have said it for years, that it does NOT cost tens/hundreds of millions to make a game, no matter how big it is. The vast majority of that money gets blown on expensive workplaces, too many overpaid staff, unneeded equipment, workers outings and boss bonus's that can be up to 10 Mil or more. Some of the greatest games ever made were done for under 1 million, and some for just a few thousand. Developer greed is a huge reason we dont see way more games being made.

[@CoolKidCroc]

Kenshi really is something special. There's a lot of reasons why so many players spend hundreds to thousands of hours in the game, great video ck!

[@adriannarafel5225]

I always knew this game took a lot into account, but I never knew how deep that went. Frankly speaking it's genuinely incredible how much little details the game remembers for even little interactions. I love that kind of stuff, and it made me feel weirdly nostalgic seeing it.

[@casanovafunkenstein5090]

If you feel like doing more Kenshi content I would be very happy. I feel that it's a game where I wouldn't have the patience necessary in order to to get the most out of it, but hearing about just how good it is at creating emergent narratives really fascinates me. I do think that one of the best decisions in making the world feel reactive is ironically the insignificance of your characters: only a select number of people would realistically know what you've been up to and nothing the player has the capacity to do is going to upset the balance of power on Kenshi, so when you do see recognition of the things you did or nearly get found out whilst laying low it's legitimately engaging in a way that few RPGs really manage when these interactions would be part of a predetermined narrative set by the developers.

[@arcanumelite4853]

well... except with work you can actually do something to change the balance of power... for example you can actually completely wipe out and eliminate the holy nation by killing all their leaders... at which point the city will fall with no one to lead it and it will fall to ruin.

[@hiiambarney4489]

Yeah I get that. The game is a reaaaal grindfest in the early stages. Mods do fix that pacing issue quite a bit, all in the name of the game, being a sandbox and all! I found it quite disheartening at first that I had to use mods for pretty basic changes that, to me, belong in a sandbox environment. (Like changing XP I get for killing or make the character start out with max stats and wreak havoc as I see fit) It is probably more a narrative sandbox rather than a true sandbox game though, so it's fine!

[@GambolMuse]

Never heard of this game before today and now I really, really want to try it. Excellent video and superb storytelling!

[@aeden8008]

Dude Kenshi was an amazing journey. Going from 1 man with an ambitious dream, to volunteer artists donating models, to a full blown dev team and a whole sequel in the works. So glad I found this game, its a little rough around the edges, but the freedom and difficulty are legendary.

[@suenzhong7891]

YOU'RE COVERING KENSHI?! This game is one of my favourite games of all time.

[@chrismugleston8625]

I'm looking forward to watching more of Arthur's and Skipipis adventures. New subscriber. Absolutely in love with Kenshi

[@danskeeloNotHacked]

Great video! You Mitch are a narrative master! I'm going to have to check this game out.

[@majormoron605]

This game looks like a goldmine for an edited playthrough given your kind of humour and narration skills. More plz

[@ericcornish1983]

This game looks amazing and hits the nostalgia button for me seeing you play it, it reminds me of some games I used to play back in the day on my (at the time badass) pentium 2 350mhz windows 98 PC with a voodoo 3 AGP graphics card; and those games were die by the sword Baldurs Gate. The graphics in this game even looks like a graphics engine that would’ve been used back then and it’s awesome, we need more games like this with the emphasis of just fun and not being so uptight about how the graphics look in games today. Awesome video man, also please continue skibidi and Arthur’s story

[@TheChronboy420]

It's kinda crazy mitch plays and enjoys all of my favorite games, it's to the point where I would just take his word on a new game if it's fun or not

[@MissFirefly11]

I blame Mitch for my new Kenshi addiction 😂

[@kingofgames259]

This video was just excellent, brings me back to the days of watching lets plays after school. Skibidi's quest for greater strength 11:18 will be a story arc for the ages Please do more I love these characters already! Cheers

[@deeliriyum]

Yes! Please continue the series! Kenshi is nothing but war stories and retelling of how you got those scars.

[@SVJRBBY]

This is one of the most well-made KZbin game-related videos I've watched in the past 5-10 years. Absolutely amazing Mitch. Thank you for the hard work

[@lowang9708]

Wait, he just created the best character in videogame history... Mitch you should show us more of these two, especially Skibidi.

[@lukmaanpratomo6866]

Kenshi, one of the few RPG games that truly lets you play however you want and become whoever you want. All those keywords the game has ain't lying either. Hell, you can even edit your characters' stats with its built-in modding tool (the FCS) to further the roleplay aspect of it.

[@WilliamHPastey]

Kenshi is amazing. Sunk a lot of hours into that one and barely scratched the surface.

[@MissFirefly11]

I started a couple of days ago, may have stayed up most of the night playing it 😂 it's so addictive!

[@WilliamHPastey]

@MissFirefly11 when I first started I swear I played 100hrs in the first week...then started over and sunk a few hundred more

[@MissFirefly11]

@WilliamHPastey its mad isn't it! I'm not sure I remember much else about my weekend, it's been a long time since something gripped me this much, maybe discovering project zomboid was the last time.

[@xzxxx-km4vy]

After a week of modding this game i can never delete it again from my drive. It has reached perfection, the ultimate simulator. You can almost literally do anything in my game with the amount of bat sht crazy mods that there is available. Everyone personal favorite is probably the peeler machine, can never get enough human skin

[@cattysplat]

This reminds me of the random RTS games you could find in the 90s and early 2000s, usually made by little studios full of creativity, wacky interactions and goofy humor. Good times.

[@lukaszimmer1973]

Frontpigs😅😊

[@mcmerry2846]

First video of yours I watch... Exquisite 🧐🍷

[@ayuvir]

Kenshi is an absolute tour de force. I remember getting a key when steam EA first got implemented. It was one of the first games there if I recall, absolutely massive adventure, can't wait for Kenshi 2.

[@hasyy151]

will there really be a 2nd one?

[@ayuvir]

@@hasyy151 I'm pretty sure the dev has announced they were working on K2

[@crustybomb115]

@@hasyy151 yeah kenshi 2 is in the works at the moment... it was announced almost a year and a half ago if memory serves...

[@lokepameGG]

​@@hasyy151the story of Kenshi 2 is before Kenshi 1 so maybe we'll get to know the past of some of the unique npc

[@chonachona1507]

Enchanting storytelling. Loved your choice of music during the video. Suscribed!

[@lostnumber08]

Kenshi is a masterpiece. Full stop.

[@FollowerOfClay]

WORD

[@TheSometimeAfter]

Exclamation!

[@MasterOfYoda]

Ah yes. I remember visiting the OGRE engine forums back in 09 where it all began. I still can't believe he picked that engine and made it work, been following the development for the longest time and the release year was an experience no other activity, chemical or drug can deliver.

[@RevantheBlack]

Yep, I bought it on Greenlight and he about given up hope until the map change happened

[@AntonGully]

"I still can't believe he picked that engine and made it work" - I have almost three thousand hours in Kenshi but it is janky as hell. Nothing that should put anyone off, but Ctrl-Shift-F11 should be on the loading screen.

[@MasterOfYoda]

@@AntonGully The pathfinding navmesh is actually a separate standard thing I think. Generating it from the OGRE mesh format does not help though. I didn't say it works well.

[@JessWLStuart]

Looking forward to seeing more of this journey!

[@PinkLotus-ow2gd]

I just love your videos 😊, sometimes I even watch them to improve my mood because your approach and narrative is just on EPIC scale, bravo BRAVO my friend 👏👏❤

[@SilverionX]

If the story generation in a game can even be mentioned in the same conversation as Dwarf Fortress, you're doing a pretty damn good job. I definitely think Kenshi is in that category of games. Not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but I can still remember some stuff that happened in my last playthrough which was many years ago. I recently started a new run and I'm hoping this time I can push through the grind and get to explore some of the more dangerous parts of the world. Adventure awaits me soon!

[@toasega]

I've subscribed to your channel and willingly given a Like for the first time in recent memory (we're talking since KZbin first got started as a site), JUST so I can watch your Kenshi story unfold. Please continue this series, you're a great storyteller, and I'm learning a lot about creating and maintaining a narrative.

[@MitchManix]

Thank you mate

[@klobesclips7109]

me and my roomate bought kenshi a year ago, we both swear its one of the best games ever

[@gergelytabi1976]

Hell yeah would definitely watch a Kenshi series by you. Really hope you make it happen :)

[@aldrixlevy228]

Skibbidi's personality and voice is just top-notch. Kudos to you, youtube man.

[@polartest122]

i honestly get more joy from watching people play this game then actually thinking about playing it myself. just the way people describe their adventures is almost like a visual novel lol and theres so many things that you can do

[@Zer0Gunner]

I've spent countless hours in Kenshi from early access to his 1.0 build. Lets not forget to mention the abundance of mods and characters you can incorporate into your game. You didn't even touch on base building or setting up your own outpost to make the world alittle more alive. I love this game so much I always go back to it year after year, thanks for spotlighting this gem.

[@josiedavis3792]

The first four times I played Kenshi I died in increasingly gruesome ways very early in my playthrough. However after learning a lot about the game through those deaths I've had a playthrough going on and off over the past two years where I have been building up a character to take down a bunch of slavers way up in the North. She's currently living in a village full of Fishermen and protecting them from a gang of cannibals.

[@empreurzerne9153]

one of the nicest place to up your stat at low level, but always keep someone out of fight to avoid getting eaten.

[@stevenclark1662]

Please continue this series! Kenshi is so hreat for making stories and you're such a great storyteller!

[@badlogic7]

I'd love to hear more of these two characters and their journey's through Kenshi's wasteland, was thinking about this game again so this video was a really welcomed surprise!

[@hedgeearthridge6807]

Having 2 skeleton squadmates was what solidified Kenshi as one of the most incredible games ever made. How they would talk about things they see in the landscape and how it used to be, how grieved one got when the other mentioned Cat-Lon, how they explained that skeletons are always crying on the inside, etc. Then studying the lore and learning why they're so depressed.

[@xantishayde-walker4593]

Glad to see someone else discovering this diamond in the rough and enjoying it as much as the rest of us do. Also, yeah, I can't wait to see another Kenshi playthrough. With your sense of humor and buttery smooth, British accent, it would be a treat to see what kinds of shenanigans you could get Arthur, Skibidi, Loada and Wee into and hopefully out of. Cheers!

[@BloodSteyn]

Ok... SOLD! Thanks for the great intro, you got me to buy it even before I finished the video.

[@KniightYz]

Love your videos Mitch, would love to see more Kenshi vids too

[@Morhgoz]

Play as skeleton or go home... But I would love to see more of Arthur's and mates adventures!

[@MissFirefly11]

I'm obsessed 😍 😂🎉❤ Please keep this series going, I need to know what happens to skibidi

[@MitchManix]

Is a game that truly takes a hold 😊

[@Azure9577]

​@@MitchManix make a video on Cataclysm DDA

[@luisjdavis]

Old SGT. Davis chiming in... I have logged many many hrs in this Gem. I have been on deployments in places that required a certain mind set that KENSHI helped cultivate, I've been put in groups of people that I had absolutely nothing in common with Except for KENSHI. My freakin Divorce Lawyer played KENSHI ! It is the most UNDERGROUND, Sneaky Snake hidden game EVER ! Low FI saved us. Replayability yes I have been killed so many times I cant count that high but that is the way we play, LOVE THIS. Subbed for this . AWESOME CONTENT !!!

[@Mogsey1972]

One of the best reviews of a game I have ever had the pleasure to watch. You sir are a legend! Oh and yes, I am now buying the game.

[@Maite-AileenBrandt]

Lol, your way of pronunciation / you talk, @MitchManix, (it especially became clear to me during your outro) reminds me of the kurzgesagt guy - nice, I love it, and want to thank you for your great work! :D

[@snazzydrew]

Kenshi is a masterful peice of gaming that any sandbox fan should take a stab at. it can be really rough to start, but my starting tip is to travel with friendly caravans so that you encounter hostility, they can help you fight and serve as distractions.

[@thememeilator2633]

Whenever someone has to say something like "it's tough at first" or "it takes some getting use to" i am immediately sceptical about if I'm going to enjoy it. I don't doubt that once you get past those hurdles it becomes better but Why does every apparently fantastic game have these casual proof barrier to entry style starts?

[@snazzydrew]

@@thememeilator2633 it's because the more complex and natural systems you introduce to a game, the less intuitive and user friendly they can become. It's up to players to learn how to play as not every game can be easily simplified without losing the intent or goal. Think risk vs checkers.... The barrier of entry for risk is higher than the barrier of entry for checkers because one is more complex than the other. This is the a case of "it's gets better as you play". It's a case of "this is an immersive life sim wasteland sandbox that doesn't hold your hand but offers many solutions to the various problems the world would present." There are a variety of start options. Each with different levels of starting difficulty. I say the hardest thing about Kenshi is learn how to lose a fight properly. The game just naturally gets easier the more you play as knowledge helps.

[@thememeilator2633]

@@snazzydrew i appreciate something not holding your hand and all that. I just remember hearing incredibly similar things about Morrowind, people constantly praising the game for being so good when i am thinking about what it isn't good at. For some insight, the majority of my gaming skill is purely off of reaction timing and strategic thinking. This comes at a cost of every game i play needing to feel smooth or dynamic. When i play older games i fight the controls more then the game itself. I tried playing my favorite old Zelda games recently Ocarina of Time and Majoras Mask and i hated it! I was fighting the controls and jank the whole time and it never got easier nor did i get use to it. It was a struggle from beginning to end. My point is this i guess. I don't doubt that this game is good, i bet it really is something to behold however i'm not sure if i really want to commit to playing it just for the games jank to rear it's ugly, unpolished head and make me frustrated.

[@snazzydrew]

@@thememeilator2633 I get it but I generally find it reductive to compare games in such a way. Just try something. See if you like it. You don't have to like something that a lot of other people do. Gaming is meant to be enjoyable. The life sim genre is for people who enjoy mild gamified suffering.

[@snazzydrew]

@@thememeilator2633 you ever consider that you might be bad at enjoying some games. I know I am. I don't even fight it at this point. I just embrace that I some games don't fit with my playstyle. You should look into the MDA framework. It's a game design framework that kind of explains and categorizes the variety of interlocking play aesthetic that attract each of us to gaming. It's a really cool way to think about games.

[@OrichalcumHammer]

Kenshi - I might have to try it out. Your short story put a smile on my face since you took the story seriously albeit in a funny way playing out the decisions naturally based on backstory and the situation you are in.

[@soldjahboy]

Kenshi is indeed a masterpiece and one of the best games of all time. Throw in a few mods and you've got a game you can play for hundreds and hundreds of hours and still barely scratch the surface in many ways.

[@Lucifronz]

lol, "best games of all time" Sure, if you put absolutely no other games up next to it, it's the best. I just tried it. This game is beyond awful. It has all the appeal of its sandbox world, but it doesn't do *anything* well. Stealing from a chest on a separate floor is apparently something you can *fail* and easily (and then get arrested by every nearby and far away aggroed guard). Every item that is stolen is marked as such as if we're playing fucking 2000s Oblivion all over again where guards are omniscient (at least Oblivion understood looting something when no one's around shouldn't have the whole town on your ass over it), and the controls, while acceptable once you get used to them, are pretty janky and awkward. It's like the developer has never played a point-and-click game in their life and thought they had to build it from scratch. This game deserves to be forgotten. You have to enjoy being fucked in the ass to enjoy these shitty survival games.

[@soldjahboy]

@@Lucifronz Spoken like a true Gen Z with no life experience, patience, or relative comparative nuance. Go play your Fortnite and CoD games, and leave the intelligent people to play the games for smart people.

[@VinceP420]

OK. Two things my dude. 1: I seen the game, wondered about it. the reviews look great. put the thought aside, never came back to my eye till now. got it, on sale too, because of this video. 2: I am now enthralled by this story. Emotionally invested if you will. What happened to our beloved shogun-training-soon-to-be-bad-asses? I mean I need some context here. at first I didnt care, I was checking out the game. Now I want to know what happens next. I gave a like and a subscribe for this follow up, and your content in this video. Great work!!

[@DaDoubleDee]

Kenshi is one of the best games I've played, one of the most unique settings and art styles I've seen from a game. The only thing that is holding it back is the draw distance, no matter what mods I use, it will always stutter and lag 😢

[@liselotteline8596]

I turned on fast zone hopping in the settings. Because the map was constantly loading when running around. It helped a lot, if you mean that.

[@LecherousLizard]

Don't forget to slap the game on an SSD too. Also there's an option regarding the size of chunks or something, that sped up loading a bit.

[@Vishampi]

Check out SCARaw's performance mods, it's really good. Particle systems, pathfinding fix, mesh updater, they all made the game much smoother for me.

[@tadasbeiga2376]

such a nice video man and great editing, would love a part 2 on this game

[@Agamemnon-w9x]

Saw this game on steam since last year, and finally got it at the beginning of this year, this is clearly one of the best games I ever bought. Let the gaming world taste and see how good Kenshi is!

[@AzagXul666]

Man, I had some flashbacks of seeing some TempleOS videos a while ago. If TempleOS was turned into game, this would be it. So utterly weird! I love it!

[@Ludiotic]

Sorry, can we just pause at 5:13 and reflect on the line "but revenge was not freedom." which could be the most powerful line I've ever heard. 0_0

[@ShurikenSean]

I was wondering why the thumbnail looked familiar and clicked on the video, immediately remembering kenshi which my brother has told me alot about, including my favorite character beep. I played it breifly and was suprised to see familiar places in the video, such as the Shek settlement with the recruited member and the shinobi town I snuck into the training grounds to train when I had no money/

[@zyloctal]

You are a master of story telling, and very humorous as well :)

[@thepackardgoose5180]

Kenshi is one of my favorite games of all time. It's one of the few games out there that has made me suffer happily

[@MitchManix]

Well put 🙂

[@donaldbell2554]

just started kenshi your video is awesome

[@worldbuildermatt]

One of the greatest game experiences I ever had

[@steamworkzombie7873]

I have been playing this game for years now and it is by far one of the best games I ever played. I'm so happy it's getting the recognition it deserves!!

[@Lakefront_Khan]

Can't you beat this entire game without arms or legs?

[@DadBodFit]

Yes lol..

[@fang4223]

Yup. In fact, loosing limbs is a way to make yourself objectively stronger. The more advanced prosthetics come with stat boosts that will make you stronger in the areas where it counts.

[@NPC-mu9oq]

There's no winning scenario technically so you win when you say you won

[@theancientsam]

this game is like the logical extension of the elder scroll games, taking the things that really works and improving on them like your race impacting the game and character interactions, and leaving the things that didnt work, like the rest of the game

[@skourch.]

Indie games are the past, present, and future.

[@takumithao1992XD]

it was the music of kenshi that got me in, played it. was slow at first I'll admit but it eventually grew on me. Definitely a worth while game!

[@deidadada89]

NGL I thought it’s Concerned Ape