One of the best and unique open-world titles of the past decade is celebrating a major milestone. PC indie sensation Kenshi has achieved more than 1 million global sales, painting a rosy picture for its long-awaited sequel.
Despite being one of the highest-rated games on Steam, it took British indie developer Lo-Fi Games’ Kenshi a whopping 12 years of development time to achieve this monumental milestone. Selling 1 million copies is a huge deal, even more, if you are a small independent studio.
That amount of dedication and continuous support shows itself in the sheer breadth of content though. There really is no other game like Kenshi you could compare it to. At the most basic level, it’s a post-apocalyptic survival-sandbox in a large open-world that bolsters heavy emphasis on RPG elements and immersion where you create your own story.
Set in an unrelenting world of bloodthirsty cannibals, starving bandits, brutal slavers and wild beasts, survival alone is a grueling struggle… You are not the chosen one. You’re not great and powerful. You don’t have more ‘hitpoints’ than everyone else. You are not the center of the universe, and you are not special. Unless you work for it.
In Kenshi, you are literally a nobody. At least that’s how you start out. It’s throughout your playthrough that you level up your character, hire goons, buy better gear and weapons, work for various clans, to ultimately grasp at the stars by taking over settlements and clans yourself.
A sequel is already confirmed with Lo-Fi Games having shared a very brief teaser footage that shows the jump in fidelity compared to the original. As you might expect, there’s no release window for Kenshi 2 just yet but with the first one being out of Early Access for almost two years, we at least expect the Early Access launch of it soon.
