A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a mercenary, a business owner, a doctor, a bandit... the list goes on. Aid or oppose the various factions in the world while striving for the strength and wealth necessary to simply survive in the harsh desert. Purchase and upgrade your own buildings to use as safe fortified havens when things go bad, or use them to start up a business. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors. Carry your wounded squad mates to safety and get them all home alive.
Update 0.42.2
I'm uploading update 0.42.2 right now. It fixes most of the major bugs that have been reported.
Apr 29, 2013 News
Now on Steam!
Kenshi has just been released on Steam, and is one of the top sellers!
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For some reason, desura wants me to buy the game before I can download it again. I started out with the demo, then upgraded to the full version. The game was working fine until I got an error and tried to uninstall then reinstall. That was when desura said I could have the 15$ version or the demo.
Sounds like a job for Desura support. If you still have your key code somewhere, you will be okay regardless.
Thanks for the help. I sent a message to desura support.
I bought kenshi a while back, and now found it on steam, is there any way I can have it in steam without buying it again?
Just use your Desura key in steam, it'll work ^^
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You can right-click on your character's portrait to make it follow them.
erm not sure if its my computer or the game but i have been playing the game for the last 6 hours, at 1 point i took all my stuff i had in storage and i have been to the closest town. there, all the merchant and merchant counter dint pop, so i quicksaved and quickloaded and the merchant and counter were there. so i sold my stuff, recruited a new guy and i returned to my village (2 house, 1 stone mine, 1 stone processor and 4 villager hardly a village but its a start.) So when i got there, one of my house was not there, tryed quicksave and quickload and its still not there. (Was kinda an important one to its had my research, bed and storage in it. :/) So now i try to quit game and relaunch, wish me luck. :/
Ok quiting and rebooting the game fix it but its hapened again 3 hour later, guess its not game breacking but its kinda anoying. :)
i got this on steam :P add me my name on it is the_shadow_ninja2