Kenshi
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Not to be confused with Kenshō.
Developers | |
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Lo-Fi Games | |
Engines | |
Ogre | |
Release dates | |
Windows | December 6, 2018 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 75 |
OpenCritic | 76 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Continuous turn-based |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view, Free-roaming camera |
Controls | Multiple select, Point and select |
Genres | Action, Building, Hack and slash, RTS, Simulation, Sandbox |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Western, Japan, Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi |
Series | Kenshi |
Kenshi | |
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Kenshi | 2018 |
Kenshi 2 | TBA |
Kenshi is a singleplayer bird's-eye view and free-roaming camera action, building, hack and slash, RTS, simulation and sandbox game in the Kenshi series.
General information
- Official Discord server
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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GamersGate | ||||
GOG.com | ||||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Humble Store | Provides a key to be used with the non-Steam, developer-released version. | |||
Steam | DRM-free when launched directly from an executable.[1] Provides a key to be used with the non-Steam, developer-released version. | |||
Amazon.com (unavailable) |
- A demo is available.
Essential improvements
Mods
- Shidan's Tweaks and Fixes - A collection of various simple bug fixes that have yet to be implemented by the developers.
- CTD Fix Patch - Fixed some crashes and an alert for a broken save file.
- Fixing Clipping Issues - Fixes clothing clipping issues.
- Animation Overhaul Mod - Adds missing crafting animations.
- Automated Drills Build Fix - Makes drills upright on slopes.
- Raptor Island Fix - Fixes clipping issues on Raptor Island.
- Grassbushfix.mod - Fixes broken grass texture.
- Fix - Unleash the hair - Makes your hair correctly appear on your head when face pieces are used.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\[Note 1] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/233860/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\Kenshi\save |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/233860/pfx/[Note 2] |
- Saved games were previously located at
<path-to-game>/save
and were relocated to the user profile as of update 1.0.50.[2]
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | Use borderless fullscreen mode to avoid issues on 21:9 resolutions. | ||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | FXAA | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Framerate beyond 60 FPS causes physics issues with ragdoll bodies and body parts, but gameplay is otherwise unaffected. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | Can also invert the X-axis. | |
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Music, Ambient, SFX, VO, UI | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Simplified Chinese | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Korean | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
Russian | ||||
Spanish | ||||
Polish | Fan translation. Available on Steam, NexusMods, and ModDB. |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 11 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | 64-bit only. |
Middleware
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 7 | |
Processor (CPU) | Dual-core | Quad-core |
System memory (RAM) | 6 GB | 16 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 14 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | DirectX 11 compatible Shader model 3.0 support |
- A 64-bit version of Windows is required.
Notes
- ↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/233860/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (233860) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Kenshi is DRM free so if you can't launch through steam, try launching the exe directly. - last accessed on 2021-05-29
- ↑ Steam Community Discussion - Kenshi v1.0.50 - last accessed on 2023-07-19