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ActionIndieRPGSimulationStrategyOpen WorldSandboxSurvivalStrategy RPGImmersive Sim

Kenshi

A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Developer
Lo-Fi Games
Publisher
Lo-Fi Games
Franchise
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Release date
Dec 6, 2018
Store page updated
May 20, 2026
Price
$29.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

89.7/ 100

Based on 424 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 94% of 892
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 96% of 116,706
“addictive gameplay with nothing else like it”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+1.50
Freedom +4.29
“absolute freedom to be anything, world is your canvas” (101)

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+2.67
World +3.84
“beautifully crafted biomes, grim setting, cohesive unique experience” (47)

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+3.31
Volume +4.14

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+1.08
Visuals -1.53
“looks like it was made in 2004” (22)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
+2.72

Not enough data — only 6% of reviews mention this.

Community +2.44

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
-0.22

Not enough data — only 4% of reviews mention this.

Balance -2.10

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
-1.65
Performance -1.98
“significant performance issues, painful loading between minions without essential setting” (18)

🔒 3 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
60%70%80%90%100%
Mar 2013Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 875 reviews, peak 51/day
050100
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 424 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English27%
  • Russian20%
  • Portuguese12%
  • Chinese12%
  • Spanish11%
  • French6%
  • Other12%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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