Kenshi

Robot that scraps with everyone to distract himself from the existential dread of being a robot in a decayed ruins of a civilization is probably my new favorite LARP.

>be beak thing >walk into town >eats all the inhabitants >refuse to elaborate >leaves

Sneaking into a bandit camp Knocking out bandit leader Dragging him to a secluded place Waiting for him to wake up Once he wakes up you go "you are awake, we spar now" This is SUCH a robot thing to do

-Creates a very OP character -Challenges the strongest NPC in the game -Wins and kidnaps him -Trains with him for a bit -Drops him near the sea and gives him his sword back -Refuses to elaborate further -Leaves Madness

I think I met Chris Hunt or at least one of his team members about a decade ago at an indie game dev hangout in Bristol, England. I remember having Kenshi described to me and thinking it was unworkably ambitious for such a small scale indie development. I've seldom been so pleased at being so wrong. Kenshi is a triumph of indie game development.

7:37 No Kenshi playthrough is complete without accidentally causing a civil war in Shark.

Kenshi 2 is in development. They're using Unreal 4 now, instead of the OGRE Engine. The OGRE Engine was responsible for a lot of the performance issues and instability, so hopefully the game will be much more polished out the gate.

26:58 That is almost word for word dialogue that will sometimes happen between starving bandits and a player squad of only skeletons. After your skeleton yells at the bandits they don't eat and don't have food, the hungry bandit leader will say "...Oh." And then de-agro and walk away dejected.

Kenshi is one of the greatest indie games ever made. It's one of those games you wish you could forget, just so you can play it fresh all over again.

I really like how you played this game, not much people do a "one character" playthrough

Despite having no narrative I fucking _LOVE_ the world building in this game, it's so detailed and deep, so alien, there's so much stuff hidden everywhere in books, dialogue, the scenery... Oh god, the scenery, there's some epic grand scale regions in this game that can't help but make you be in awe... There's nothing quite like it. I love this game, one of my favorites.

Ah yes, Kenshi. The attempted surgery simulator. (No seriously, the first time I defeated a bandit and he wasn't dead yet, I kept healing him up, then attacking him again, repeating the process until I FINALLY managed to cut off one of his limbs. It takes so much effort to dismember a character!!)

Kenshi is absurdly good at simulating that oriental style adventure we sometimes crave. Not really a game about saving the world but is more about perfecting youself or the group you decide to lead. That or simulating the samurai/kung-fu movies stories we love. Since there is no game over when the initial character dies too i always enjoy choosing disciples when i get too powerful, like i'm some sort of ancient master of Kung Fu. Amazing video by the way thank you very much. If you want a suggestion for another Kenshi playthrough try a group start or Beep Martial-Artist only playthrough, the dog start always tells my favorite starting story of a starving guy who couldn't kill this poor starving puppy and so he fed and raised him working as a miner and suddenly got a killing machine helping him in his adventures.

WOW. First time. Solo. Didn't die. Skeleton. Defieted 4 bosses. GG bro. Greate Game.

I love how your reviews are stories. It's just the most interesting format. Fantastic work like always!

THE VIRGIN ROBO-SKELETON VS THE CHAD WASTE CREATURE also your pronounciation of "chæd" heals me spiritually

Take the High Lord Pheonix. Remove his limbs, and replace them with robot limbs. He's now an apostate to his faith.

I've been playing Kenshi since 2018, and I cannot wait to see what they do with Kenshi 2. They could do so much more with the Unreal Engine.....

One of the things with Kenshi is that, despite being difficult, the game gives you freedom to tweak your adventure however you want via it's modding tool: the Forgotten Construction Set, which is probably one of the most user friendly modding tools i've ever seen. The game isn't afraid of you making customizing your own experience if you want to, unlike Dark Souls and the like, which force you into a specific mind set.

Ah yes, the Torque engine. The only flaw of Age of Decadence, but JEZUS WHAT A FLAW!

Did not expect this, I thought it was going to be Morrowind or Enderal. But Kenshi is very good

Warlockracy, as a recent viewer, I want to thank you for being a youtuber. Your videos are some of the few I genuinely enjoy. I have great respect for a channel the size of yours giving longer, detailed videos for your, YOUR, audience and not constantly "following the algorithm", selling creativity for success. I hope your channel lives long, have a very good.

My favorite moment ever playing Kenshin was when I spent 3 hours trying to escape prison and the second I finally escaped I realized my right legs health was going down horribly so I died like 2 minutes later lol

I can't tell you how many hours I've sunked into this game. Its worldbuilding is my favorite out of any RPG in the last decade. Really looking forward to Kenshi 2 when it gets released.

I like how the later half of the video is just Warlockracy trying to become General Grevious and Samurai Jackbot Oh and kidnapping Robo-Caesar... I guess

I'm in endgame in Kenshi right now. I've killed most of the minor bandit factions, and allied with the Shek. I've got a Shek princess on my squad, who's currently undergoing training to raise her stats to something passable. I've got a platoon of heavily-armored dudes with top-of-the-line mech limbs, and a platoon of sniper archers that support them. Who ain't bad in melee either because of the whole 'secondary weapon' business. I've allied with the Flotsam Ninjas and am fighting the Holy Nation. I'll join up with the Anti-Slavers and fight the United Cities later, after training my last 3 recruits. Then it's time for the Ashlands. Cat-Lon. 30 cyborgs (well, 26 and 4 upgraded robots) against an endless swarm of headless clients and the Mad Cat. And if I ever feel like coming back to Kenshi, I'll import a save, do another lap of the Ashlands, and gather a second copy of the endgame Meitou blades for another character.

As a Kenshi veteran, i'm glad to see this video and your first foray into the world. Exploring the setting for the first time is a magical experience i wish i could have again. On the note of making the game too easy, i've come to the point where i actively avoid using stealth, pickpocket and assassination to avoid the game balance getting smashed to bits. When you "beat" the game using those one time, you really don't want to do it again. So instead i just level my characters to max levels before taking on entire cities in a straight up fight, and it feels infinitely better.

idk why but your "What are we doing...." moment had me in tears. Like that was what was running thru my head when I played this, you sort of just wander around and LARP as a post-apocalyptic weeaboo wanderer. It's quite comfy actually.

Binged all your videos on a bored night while working. Can't believe I only found you now. Your reviews+playthrough, combined with your wit, is just great. Keep up the good work.

I don't know what it is about your videos, but they always get me to pick up games I haven't played in a while, Kenshi included. I would love to see more Kenshi or other kinds of RPG material from you, this is very enjoyable.

found this channel because of the fallout 1 mods and i have to say it's the most interesting content i found this year! nice work you're doing here, if you keep at it i think you can go big cause the content is really well done and unique.

"He's like the beak-thing equivalent of US. He barges into town, eats all the guards, then eats all the townspeople, and then just leaves through the front gate, never to be seen again." Absolutely sublime.

I stumbled across your channel with your video on Tamriel Rebuilt, I have found all of your videos to be thoroughly entertaining and often find myself re-watching them. Your humour is simply fantastic and the presentation of these videos always reels me in. It's always a good day when Warlockracy uploads and I look forward to all your future works!

I really like how this video was made. It functions both as a review and a display of the game's main strength: roleplaying + personal experiences in a sandbox world.

No settlement building? that's a huge chunk of the game though. Also, have you ever thought of making a vid for Kingdom Come: Deliverance?

Playing skeleton have it's perk, you won't get hungry or tired just don't forget to repair your body from constant punishment

Thoroughly enjoyed it, laughed out loud a few times. Kenshi really looks like a great game and I am also planning to play it. Very excited for the Bloodmoon review.

Loved this game and the review. The latter half of the challenge disappearing is my issue with it, but my only issue. I'm typically a lone wolf or small group kind of person with these sort of RPG's. Massive management is a turn off and it makes me rather play something like CK, so I end up never making a town. Just a single home where I drop things off/rest at most. Also you can't drop a Neverwinter anecdote, then I'll want to see your take on it. It's one of my most revered RPG's!

Kenshi is probably the best worldbuilding I've ever seen, and I'm not talking just about games but including things like Dune and Tolkien. The lore divided in very small and sparse tidbits tackles not only the history of the world but how different factions write, view and interpretate its history, and it is done in a very concise manner (the longest book is 3 paragraphs long, most of the story is unveiled through very short item descriptions and through characters barking and bantering, and there's a lot of environmental storytelling). It's incridebly similar to morrowind in that aspect, except it doesn't abuse textual exposition (the many long books and scrolls in the game).

Kenshi is one of those games that I didn't play much but got nothing but fond memories of, the atmosphere is pretty great and hooked me in fast. Loved your take on it, entertaining watch as usual.

Kenshi is probably one of the best RPGs of the last decade, the world, the characters, the epic scale, the lore... eveeryone that has played kenshi for a decent amount of time has a story to tell, about the skin bandits, about cat-lon, about the sheks, the crab-people, the other crab-people. Its truly amazing, i hope Kenshi 2 is even more ambitious and even crazier and alien. The art direction was already amazing but now its going to be more refined and higher fidelity, i'd buy it 5 times over if i had to.

WARLOCK, ENHANCE AND PLAY THE SCORCHING WINDS EXTENDED.

I never got around to finishing my playthrough in this. I was trying to explore and do everything and probably got around 3/4ths done with exploring the map. Also didn't get around to overthrowing the Holy Nation or United Cities. At least I had a lot of fun making a nice settlement in the Fog Islands I'm proud of. Maybe someday I'll try to go back to Kenshi to wrap everything up in it, just hard to find the time for all the games I have yet to play though.

Great video! Kenshi is really one of a kind, and it's great to see it only become more popular the longer it's been out. Also your channel in general is fantastic!

finally realized catlon is the ancient dictator that gave cats their name

I'm very happy to have found your channel. You're videos are my exact cup of tea.

Kenshi one of my fav games to lose track of time in. Amazing work as always, looking forward to more videos!

Clearly a man of taste. Ive tried and failed many runs but one time....I started a Hash empire

Your intro and outro will forever be my favorite kenshi media

Solo playthroughs are quite cool. Can do lots of stuff without worrying about managing your settlement. Although I picked up a companion at some point, it's mostly for carrying extra stuff. But god damn the things you can do. Steal a wanted dude and give him to Sheks and they praise you as a great warrior. Steal that dude again from their prison and give him to United Cities. Double profit + reputation.

Well I suddenly got this channel and other video recommended so I am glad to finally see you!

Your channel is criminally underappreciated

some lore notes: Kenshi is actually post-post-post apocalyptic the skeletons were built by the 1st empire. after it fell to civil war, the technology required to build skeletons was lost. all of them are thousands of years old, and while the game mentions they occasionally wipe their memory, it's also implied through dialogues with the 2nd in command of the mechanists that the memory wipes are a lie they tell humans to absolve themselves of what happened during the reign of the 2nd empire (see: description of general Jang's CPU). mad cat-lon was definitely the leader of the 2nd empire. he admits it during his monologue, and i believe it explicitly states as much in the description of his CPU. also, those headless skeletons wandering in the Ashlands are his thralls. he removed their heads to prevent them from thinking for themselves as punishment for their "treason." it's worth noting cat-lon was driven insane during his reign as emperor of the 2nd empire due to trying to manage humans. he was not the monster. also the shek are likely descendants of the "enforcers," a group of humans genetically modified by the skeletons of the 2nd empire to serve as protectors against pirates and cannibals. also the bugmaster resides in arach, watchers rim is just the rim of the crater of arach. finally, that body of water you mentioned is called an ocean. non-lore fact: when u take people's weapons away, you end up training your attack skill vs their dodge skill rather than their defense skill. that's why cat-lon and the dust king weren't very good training dummies.

Awesome video as always. I like your style of videos and your voice is very relaxing to listen to. Definitely would watch a series on Kenshi that would be kind of similar to your Tamriel Rebuilt series.

I love your stuff the mixture of comedy a playthrough and a review its great

Kenshi has to be one of my favourite games ever

Love your editing style as you make more videos! Always entertaining

I just found this game on Steam having no clue what it was. I read the description and bought it immidiatly at 40% off. Then I came and watched your video. You got me pumped to play it with your awesome naration. This is the first video I've seen of yours but I love the way you told your character's story. I'm hitting the subscribe button. You earned it in spades.

Looks like I should give it a go, somehow it gives me some TESIII and Mount&Blade vibes

Ive only recently stumbled across your videos, but i just want to state my excitement is infinite for this video, and id be equally excited to watch anytime you decided to do anymore with Kenshi if you ever did.

Kenshi is a truly amazing game, I've spent weeks if not months recruiting best warriors, building my base that sprang into city, developing industry of most modern combat armors and sharpest weapons, then I've ventured to the edges of the map. Then I've realized, I do not need a party - I need an army.

Fun fact: The soundtrack for Kenshi is actually very short music bits put together by the game and what plays depends on several factors such as player actions/decisions, location, and possibly the faction in charge of the region.

You do it again Warlock. Best gaming based videos on KZhead

Holy crap this game is huge! So much story telling potential.

the only channel I've got my notifications on for... Hoping for more Elder Scrolls stuff too!

I will say man I love the reviews they are quite amazing. Also you making a Star Trek reference was just golden.

This video got me into your channel and now im hooked! Love your content dude keep it up.

I love the concept of your character. A robot that kidnaps notable leaders of areas just to fight them in the woods for months and then leaves them alone. Just to learn how to Fight Good.

When I play I actually install mods that expand on the party features, and also ad AI scripts to assigns people in a particular squad as patrolmen. after increasing unit capacity to around 200, I built a fully sized city with patrolling guards, crossbowmen mounted on every wall, a farming community with a flowchart of tasks that continually produced and supplied food to all of my residents, and so on. this civilization was established by my main party of 5 who I started the game with. they were all very different in build as I wanted to experience a lot of mixed combat styles, the best one ended up being my martial artist by far, but the heavy armored tank was almost as useful. they were who I considered the founders of the town, who I used to explore the game, take on most mid level challenges, and eventually became the core of my production, skills, and research teams. I also wanted to have that lone samurai experience so after I was sufficiently happy with my automated town and completed all the research, I recruited the unique skeleton named Burn from his tower, and assigned him to his own party. While my ~150 of my pawns operated their lives and fueled my wallet, Burn went on a great journey as my new main character to achieve absolute godhood, similarly stripping his limbs and using my swathes of wealth to purchase top tier limbs of the absolute highest quality, costing 100s of thousands of cats cumulatively. Using black hole magic, I stacked inventory upon inventory of iron ore into a backpack and marched for weeks on end around the Shek kingdom to increase strength. Using a rusted slab of metal roughly proportional to a cars bumper, I slowly clubbed leviathan after leviathan to death, maximizing his heavy weapons skill. I took the mad Katlans greatsword, the meitou falling star, capable of dealing the largest damage numbers per swing of any weapon in game, and finally after dozens of real hours of training across the entire expanse of kenshi wastelands, I led my party of 5 up the steps of the holy empire to battle the waves of the holy guard. Meanwhile Burn, my samurai master, took on the holy lord Phoenix. I made certain my stats at least matched his before attempting this, because I had decided that once I launched my attack, that was it. iron man mode from there, It was a known suicide mission, my assault on the city was the conclusion to my hundred hour long journey, regardless of the outcome. I did the bare minimum of micro , just set my characters loose to finally prove themselves in their greatest fight. I simply watched held my breath. I wont say how it ended in my own game, but the feeling I had during that 10 minute long struggle was unlike anything else ive ever felt playing a video game, driven the very real threat of being able to "lose" when youve worked so long and hard to overcome an arbitrary challenge you set for yourself without really understanding what it would take to accomplish in the first place. every action up till then had been enjoyable as character improved and numbers grew, but this made it all feel like a payoff. like you said, you didnt feel like you really beat the phoenix, even though he was surely humiliated by a shameful death. Thank you for a great video on one of my favorite games.

Oh boy, yeah….Phoenix seems to have some absurd bonuses against skeletons.

I really enjoy this game. I found your channel and saw this video. Long story short I bought the game and now I am playing it like crazy. It's amazing.

Ogre, only one game I know I’ve played on that engine, Jack Keane.

Never really got that into the skeleton gameplay. Though I preferred to start as a slave. Training daily, barely alive, but rapidly growing. Within a month in that time had hardened a lowly slave into a master thief. Unfortunately while strength and toughness were high the character was absolutely green in combat. But hey at least said character systematically imprisoned all the prison guards.

another fantastic video warlock! your doing amazing work man

i love cat-lon's big adventure being capped off with seeing something they probably havent seen in a very long time. Water

Love the story you create for yourself in this cool world.

Playing this game has got me thinking that, in a lot of ways, the skeletons are the true villains of the story. Semi-repentant and remorseful villains, but villains nonetheless. Like post WW2 Nazis that never age, and have an eternity to reflect on what they have done. No new skeletons can be created, not since before the old empire, meaning all the currently existing skeletons are the same ones that were involved in, and directly complicit in the downfall of Kenshi and the cataclysms. The near genocide of all of humanity. You were right to kick the shit out of Cat-Lon. The game strongly implies that skeletons as a whole may be directly responsible for both major cataclysms, and are engaged in a cover up to suppress knowledge of their role in it (it's implied that the reset doesn't actually wipe their brains, it's just a cover story), and hold back humanity's technological progress (whether maliciously, or to prevent another apocalypse, hard to say), leaving the moon of Kenshi in a static tech state and downward spiral. In a lot of ways, the Holy Nation and the Bugmaster are the way they are because of this. The shek definitely, as they were engineered as enforcers of the second empire, but ended up taking their genome-programming and dialing it up to eleven without the guidance of the second empire. And in a lot of ways, these factions are correct in their anti-skeleton views (except the HN anti-women part, haven't found out what's up with that yet.). Broken people in a broken world. This game is suprisingly deep.

Just learned about this game, and it’s one of the most interesting worlds I’ve ever seen. Definitely will check this out

I could never enjoy a game like this but i gotta say i LOVE the art style/aesthetics the world looks amazing

Loved this video, and it's criminally under viewed! You've got a new subscriber!

21:00 was the part that really sold this video and the channel in general. I loved the realisation in the absurdity, and decided to do least optimal thing. Because it felt right. I love this channel.

I remember when I first played Kenshi. It was so engrossing. I could listen to the soundtrack for days, especially the first track. I'm so excited for the sequel. ;~;

I've heard good things about this game, but this video really made me want to play it. Great narration, Warlockracy 👍

The most criminally underrated channel on KZhead.

I know im a year late but WOW, what a good video, man! i love your method of story telling, a little humor and a little pessimism (or is it pragmaticism?🤔) all to accurately portray kenshi for the truly limitless, yet soul crushing rpg that it is. Well done, mate. Immediate edit, also, the way you actually explain the game and its many parts, the races, the cultures, the many varied peoples of many varied lands. All without sacrificing time for exposition, it flows so well.

Hello from RUssia, Dear Friend! Place that gave birth to many fallout mods that you are so enjoy playing (or not). I want to thank you personally for this video - through you i have discovered Kenshi and now its my one of the most played and loved games of all time! Wish you all the best in life and good luck! p.s. - they are making KENSHI 2 but with TEAM and on UNREAL ENGINE now - meaning, it wont take 12 years to finish and it will be way more stable and diverse in possibilities game!

The cartharsis of piecing together the world of kenshi based on brief dialogue, books, and other small details is unrivaled

Awesome to see you mention Swordflight. One of my favorite RPGs of all

Your content is awesome and I'm ashamed I haven't found you sooner. Good shit yo.

I think I might pick this up for myself, looks interesting

Kenshi is easy one of my favorite games of all time. It's nice to see it here in your channel.

It is actually very much possible to sneak by the robotic spiders guarding those sealed labs. You just need absurdly high stealth. Had a character like that in my first playthrough.

Have you heard of the sea dog games there a series of old Russia RPGs about being a pirate and people don’t talk about them enough. the second one was rebranded as pirates of the Caribbean and some of them were published by Bethesda Softworks (and some of the morrowind and oblivion voice actors are in it I know male imperial from morrowind is in the first one)

OH HEKC YEA! Kenshi is pretty good and I love the vague storytelling. Good vid as always. Back to lurking;)

Awesome.

Wow, this is entertaining as hell. Gonna check out more of your videos :D

my favorite homeless crackhead simulator

This is soooo good... I love your content... I demanddd more

The "ninja run" is a tv trope from the 60s. Not at all unique to Naruto. It was meant to stylize momentum for the use of weapons as Ninjas were supposed to be more fluid that the Samurai. Running with like that with a weapon in hand and hitting your opponent made for a more dynamic scene than running with the weapon above your head or just on the side in a "normal stance". So yes it does look stupid if it is done without a weapon ...

One of the best ways to play Kenshi. No mods, vanilla, it never gets old. Throw some mods in.... oh my the spicy endless hours one can have.