The RPG Created By 1 Man That Is Embarrassing Top Developers

A journey into the mind of a single developer that achieved the impossible with the incredible world of Kenshi in 2023.
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[@MitchManix]

Want to see more of Skibidi and Arthur's Kenshi adventures? Check out the dedicated channel for more episodes!: www.youtube.com/@KenshiTi

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@gagepetersen4533]

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

[@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

[@Captain-Cat]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@C3darCr33k]

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

[@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

[@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?"

[@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! 🍻😄

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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!

[@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]

@@PostalDude97 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

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@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!

[@GambolMuse]

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

[@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.

[@powerdude_dk]

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

[@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

[@danskeeloNotHacked]

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

[@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.

[@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!

[@Milocinia]

I bought this 10yrs ago. Gave me 7yrs of fun. This makes me want to go back, get crippled legs constantly, and hobble around for hours again.

[@chrismugleston8625]

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

[@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.

[@majormoron605]

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

[@suenzhong7891]

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

[@deeliriyum]

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

[@klobesclips7109]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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 👏👏❤

[@lordgates9180]

With nearly a thousand hours in this game, it does my heart well to see someone stumble into it and see their reactions. Enjoy, good sir. The lore is deep and the world unforgiving. Look up "Kenshi theme be like" on KZbin for a 12-second chuckle.

[@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.

[@Kopie0830]

Start of the video I think this is Kenshi and yep it is. The respect that I have for this dude is off the charts. He worked on this for 15 years and never gave up. respect. Played it first on 2008 and I was good and unique.

[@lowang9708]

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

[@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

[@gergelytabi1976]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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 😂

[@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 !!!

[@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.

[@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!

[@CRTeeny]

admittedly ive only played this game once, but when i say "once" i mean... one *binge.* i played for 3-4 weeks without switching to another game, Kenshi was all i could think about getting into on the way home during my routine. i would wake and sleep on Kenshi, i would watch my compound while eating breakfast, i would mine rocks while reading the news. this game became a consistent backround in my life for the time it had my attention. where did it fall short? it didnt, Kenshi is an amazing game that did what few other games did, it captured me, it held me, and it let me go with great memories. Alas Kenshi was not for me in the long run, but it stuck with me, i can see myself playing it again, and im hyped for the Kenshi 2 ive heard about!

[@lostnumber08]

Kenshi is a masterpiece. Full stop.

[@FollowerOfClay]

WORD

[@TheSometimeAfter]

Exclamation!

[@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.

[@romanograsnick]

Thank you for sharing this gem to others. This video gives me confidence in developing more of my Wolfpit Games, though such a big one needs lots of work. What a genius :D

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@ionequinox6737]

Definitely one of my top 3 games, the stories and adventures are unforgettable. Examples being escaping slavery through the iron valley which is filled with toxic fumes, acid rain, and robotic killing machines just to avoid a “holy” checkpoint. Or getting my favorite, pure, human Welf to 83 strength and instantly killing a cannibal with a 6ft 103kg meat tenderizer finally perfecting his heavy weapon training.

[@thememeilator2633]

Ngl that sound fun

[@KniightYz]

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

[@SkoomaFish]

i've had this game in my steam library since launch, and only logged 15 minutes.. this is the first time i wanna play it again. thanks!

[@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

[@chonachona1507]

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

[@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!

[@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!!

[@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😅😊

[@donaldbell2554]

just started kenshi your video is awesome

[@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.

[@AlexanderosD]

Kenshi is suffering, Kenshi is living! Truly a paragon in gaming history. Chris Hunt and Lo-Fi Games are true game devs. I'm Kenshi 2 hyped!

[@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 🙂

[@Mugthraka]

Kenshi's brilliance is that failure is as much a part of the experience and doesn't mean the end of it.

[@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!

[@stevenclark1662]

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

[@worldbuildermatt]

One of the greatest game experiences I ever had

[@BloodSteyn]

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

[@tadasbeiga2376]

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

[@skourch.]

Indie games are the past, present, and future.

[@grapy83]

I believe Kenshi to be a Phenomenon rather than just a game! I think its same level of leap in game design as the jump from 2D to 3D graphics, but in conceptual sense.

[@deidadada89]

NGL I thought it’s Concerned Ape

[@JessWLStuart]

Looking forward to seeing more of this journey!

[@aldrixlevy228]

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

[@paulofurtado4925]

Bought it the day it came out on steam, £10 for a load of sand and a couple of houses, great game.

[@DS-se3ol]

This is my favorite game. I usually just play my Nintendo switch and haven't touched Kenshi for months, but I think about it all the time and watch random youtubers that talk about it

[@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!!

[@swapertxking]

hearing a hiver panickingly yell "beak things" feels exceptionally correct to the way they still fuck you up no matter how good you're are.

[@MetalGamer666]

Isn't this what RPGs used to be like back in the day? Wasteland/Fallout 1 & 2, Planescape Torment, Daggerfall etc.

[@Darek_B52]

I'm convinced the budgets for modern AAA games is way overflated.

[@daredeviler2088]

As someone who was watching this get developed for years, and was one of my all time favourite games even before release, it was so good to see this game go from getting barely any recognition before launch, to suddenly gaining a massive following when it did, and this video heavily encompasses only some of the great aspects this game has. What's wild, is that this game nearly was dropped. Quick history lesson, the game's engine is quite outdated and is SERIOUSLY strained for how massive this game is, and it running as well as it does is a miracle. During development, people wanted the engine to be updated, but the dev refused; it had already been upgraded once before, and in a much more bare bones state took 6 months to do. That upgrade nearly killed the game, and with how little exposure the game had, the dev didn't want to gamble a second time. With how it is today, it seems obvious, but it used to run SO much worse than it does now, both options had the potential to kill the game. Finally, a little bonus for anyone who read this, this game does something that is extremely rare - the in game lore you discover, might be a lie. The history and mysteries of the world of Kenshi is a puzzle, with many pieces that just don't belong but are still "canon" to the inhabitants that live there.