How would I fare in this hostile landscape? Let me tell you the saga of the Gurpson clan. My favourite line in the trailer is: “nobody will help you when the fog-men are eating your legs”. It’s set in a single-player fantasy Japanese world of skeletal robots and bony animals of burden and it’s got a reputation for toughness. I mention Wurm Online only because this feels like the closest comparison. Or you could call it a chaotic jumble of good ideas stitched together via a user interface that would make a Wurm player eat their keyboard in a blind rage. You could call Kenshi an RPG, you could call it a survival game. This time, the hot mess of genre that is survival-strategy-city-builder-RPG Kenshi

It's funny the freedom you have with your characters, but I doubt that will be the experience of newbies so it'll be good to have patience.Every week we cast Brendan into the early access badlands in nothing but rags. The people in the YouTube videos have clearly played the game for hundreds, if not thousands of hours, as they are successful enough that they can apparently survive playing characters who have no arms or legs and are just crawling through the sand as if they are worms. I just randomize all the dials to make it go faster. If you don't want to 'save scum' like I am doing while I try and learn the game, you'll probably be making a lot of new characters. It's not inherently hard, it's just really dynamic and I think you'll need to familiarize yourself with the basics before you really get anywhere that doesn't result in you being cannibalized or enslaved. That's my experience about two hours in so far. I was able to play as the bone dog, though, but I'm not sure how useful of a character a dog would be when it can't interact with NPCs for trading purposes. So I had to reload again and I'm pretty sure I died of starvation running another direction, as I couldn't find a trader or town in time. Then I was shortly ambushed by cannibals. So I reloaded again and ignored the river raptors since they seem to travel in a pack, and met some NPC selling goats for c.7000 when I still only had c.13. I saw a small pack of 'river raptors' that looked like maybe they were easy prey for my bone dog and my two swords but I clearly bit more than I could chew as we only killed 3 of them before the others incapacitated us. Now my hobo looked like a samurai with two swords but still needed some food so I figured I would travel slightly north to where the shoreline was, as surely I'd find some animals or a town that was built closer to the ocean/a water source. So I had to reload and decided I would sneakily carry one of the bodies back to the homeless camp to loot them there instead. I was mostly hoping they'd have some bread on them or something. Apparently the NPC took offense to me impersonating their faction. One of the NPCs who I initially thought was dead, then woke up as if they were a zombie and killed me and my dog right as I put on some cool boots on my once barefoot hobo. I saw an opportunity to wait until the fighting was over where I looted some samurai gear or something.

Then I noticed two factions fighting one another outside of the camp. I spawned in what I guessed was the homeless camp further north, discovered a prisoner pole and interacted with it but was unable to escape after accidentally cuffing myself to the pole and decided to reload. But then I ended up choosing the one where you could play as a homeless person with a dog as more of a joke, thinking it'd be more funny. Where maybe there was a goal and objective which was more predetermined so that I could work towards it while simultaneously learning how to better play the game. So I restarted and chose to make a new character in hopes it would spawn me somewhere else more adventurous. There was a town marked on the map that I ran to afterwards but still had no idea what to really do to obtain better gear and more money. It started me in some town and I had no idea what to do apart from looting some miscellaneous junk from the nearby, destroyed buildings, to resell to the nearby barkeep. You'll create a character based off of a certain archetype, and the game mentions that the 'wanderer' class is how it was meant to be played, so I chose that character first assuming it'd be the easiest to play, as I figure this is a game which has a learning curve with all of its mechanics and systems. It's certainly a game where you should not feel any shame in searching for tips/advice online, though. Not that I would have refunded it, anyway. I just bought the game earlier today and have played it beyond Steam's guidelines for a refund, so I guess I'm keeping it in my library.

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