Initially I didn't find much I tried punching trees (a survival game staple) but it wouldn't let me but after some wandering I came across some copper deposits so I set about mining them. It also looks pretty awful and has a gui that would make an interface designer drop dead from shock it's bars and buttons and tiny text a complete mess.Īnyway I started off my adventure as a basic traveller called Jallsop (I forgot to name them and it picked something random) with limited resources and a stick as my weapon I used my limited funds (the currency rather alarmingly is called cats) to purchase some food and a backpack at the small settlement I started in and wandered out into the wastelands to see what I could do. It has some ingame tutorials but they often miss out whole swathes of information.
It's one of these open ended affairs where you can do a lot of things and like those games it suffers from throwing you in the deep end. Rockpapershotgun did a thing on it and it intrigued me so I gave it a go and found it a combination of compelling and frustrating.
I picked up this early access game called Kenshi which I had seen floating around a single player sandbox rpg survival game.
