This is always the most fun parts of games for me. Freeing slaves in Morrowind, destroying the legion in NV, it just feels good. Please provide me with your recommendations on where I can :JB-shining-aggro: , thank you :fidel-salute:
This is always the most fun parts of games for me. Freeing slaves in Morrowind, destroying the legion in NV, it just feels good. Please provide me with your recommendations on where I can :JB-shining-aggro: , thank you :fidel-salute:
Kenshi is a fantastic little indie game with two very prominent slaver factions that you can totally obliterate. It's very janky, which I find charming, but you should be forewarned going in
Kenshi is definitely not little, that game is flush with content and can eat your life.
Kenshi has been recommended quite a few times, it's been on my radar for a bit, maybe this is what gets me to give it a shot :curious-marx:
It can be tough to get into with some arcane mechanics. You're going to get beat up a lot and that's usually a good thing because it helps your characters get stronger. Don't try the base building stuff until you're used to running a handful of characters around, that's an entire different animal.
Most of all, try not to look stuff up or check out the subreddit. The game is at it's best when you're discovering it and it's pretty easy to break once you know how things work.
Second on don't try the base building until you're pretty tough. Rough and unpleasant people will start coming by to collect "taxes" and that can be real bad if you're not prepared to deal with them.
they said two factions of slavers. there's arguably three. the two they mentioned are countries though.
Another vote for Kenshi. I’ve had 2-3 long, relatively successful games but I always end up just setting up a desert settlement near the religious slavers and growing my squad by taking out their work camps and recruiting the newly freed. It’s a good game loop.
For me at least, it is a slower game. I’d guess a couple dozen hours to comfortably face anything but the weakest tier of combatants, at least first game. A few goats will 100% maul your ass
Another vote for Kenshi. I’ve had 2-3 long, relatively successful games but I always end up just setting up a desert settlement near the religious slavers and growing my squad by taking out their work camps and recruiting the newly freed. It’s a good game loop.
For me at least, it is a slower game. I’d guess a couple dozen hours to comfortably face anything but the weakest tier of combatants, at least first game. A few goats will 100% maul your ass
I have been considering Kenshi, but it seems so addicting
I put 300 hours in to it the first time I played, so that is a legit concern. You will become incredibly attached to your little people and their efforts to survive and become Shonen anime protagonists. I started out cheesing bandits with cross bow emplacements and ended up at war with, and defeating, an entire country of religious slaver fanatics. and there were large parts of the map I never even visited or explored.
There's actually a mechanic where you can be enslaved if you get beat up and knocked out, and you have to stage your own escape unless you want to work in a field for the rest of the game.
One thing to note going in; You get tougher and stronger by getting beaten up without actually dying. This is one of the core mechanics of the game. You have to lose a whole lot of fights and get your crap stolen, and spend a whole lot of nights huddled around a fire starving and hoping the Beak Things don't get you, before you start making progress on your way to becoming an unstoppable kung fu badass who could single-handedly defeat an army of 10,000 men. It's a big complicated RPG/Tactics sim set in a truly, piteously cruel world. You're going to lose a lot before you figure out how things work and start winning.
It's not, like, mechanically addicting, like Civ or Factorio. The joy in Kenshi is exploring the weird and wonderful world, and beefing up to kick the shit out of all the enemies who kicked the shit out of you and stole your dust sandwiches in the past. Also in teaching robots to do kung-fu. And also smuggling hashish.