Kenshi

Kenshi

Lo-Fi Games · December 6, 2018 · Immersive Sim, Open World, Party-Based RPG, Real Time Tactics, RTS

Buy the Kenshi key for Steam from YUPLAY at $7.16 — the cheapest of 14 stores we compare.

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Overwhelmingly Positive96% · 117,05375Metacritic4,179playing now
Best price 57 Good deal
$7.16-73%
$29.91lowest tracked $4.49
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Where to buy Kenshi — official stores

GamersGate
GamersGate
Standard Edition · Steam
-10%
$26.99
$29.99
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GreenManGaming
Standard Edition · Steam
$29.99
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Humble Store
Humble Store
Standard Edition · Steam
$29.98
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Steam
Steam
Standard Edition · Steam
$29.99
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GOG
GOG
Standard Edition · DRM-Free
$29.99
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Epic Game Store
Epic Game Store
Standard Edition · Epic Games
$29.99
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Cheapest Kenshi keys — keyshops

Keyshops are third-party marketplaces — keys are resold and can be region-locked or a different edition. Check the listing's region & edition before buying.

YUPLAY
Standard Edition · Steam
-76%
$7.16
$29.91
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Eneba
Standard Edition · Steam
$7.18
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Driffle INC
Standard Edition · Steam
$7.54
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Gameseal
Standard Edition · Steam
$7.77
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Keycense
Standard Edition · Steam
-74%
$7.78
$29.52
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Loaded
Standard Edition · Steam
-74%
$8.09
$30.99
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CJS CD Keys
CJS CD Keys
Standard Edition · Steam
$8.18
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Kinguin
Standard Edition · Steam
$9.48
Buy

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Kenshi price by region

Kenshi costs £5.40 in the United Kingdom, €6.46 in Europe (EUR), $7.16 in the United States, $7.16 in Georgia (USD), CA$10.20 in Canada, zł30.04 in Poland, NZ$36.99 in New Zealand, A$38.66 in Australia and R$42.52 in Brazil right now.

Cheapest Kenshi offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £5.40 −74% £20.69 £5.40 11
Europe (EUR) €6.46 −73% €24.29 €6.46 14
United Statesyour region $7.16 −73% $26.99 $7.16 14
Georgia (USD) $7.16 −47% $13.49 $7.16 14
Canada CA$10.20 −70% CA$33.99 CA$10.20 7
Poland zł30.04 −46% zł55.34 zł30.04 8
New Zealand NZ$36.99 −10% NZ$36.99 — 6
Australia A$38.66 −10% A$38.66 — 6
Brazil R$42.52 −27% R$57.99 R$42.52 8

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

Trailers & screenshots

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About Kenshi

✦ AI summary

Build a squad and survive in a massive desert sandbox where you can be anyone—trader, thief, warlord, or slave—with no hand-holding, no level scaling, and permadeath consequences for your actions. Every NPC is your equal, injuries have real consequences, and the world keeps moving regardless of your choices, making survival itself the ultimate goal.

A free-roaming squad based RPG focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals.
Research new equipment and craft new gear. Purchase and upgrade your own buildings to use as safe fortified havens when things go bad, or use them to start up a business. Aid or oppose the various factions in the world while striving for the strength and wealth necessary to simply survive in the harsh desert. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors. Carry your wounded squad mates to safety and get them all home alive.

FEATURES

Freeform gameplay in a seamless game world in the largest single-player RPG world since Daggerfall, stretching over 870 square kilometers. The game will never seek to limit you or restrict your personal play style.Custom design as many characters as you want and build up a whole squad to fight for you. Characters will grow and become stronger with experience, not just in their stats but their appearance too.
Build a base where you can research new technologies, upgrade your defences and craft new gear.
Original take on the RTS-RPG hybrid genre. No "hero" characters with artificially stronger stats than everybody else- Every character and NPC you meet is potentially an equal, and has a name, a life.
You are not the chosen one. You're not great and powerful. You don't have more 'hitpoints' than everyone else. You are not the centre of the universe, and you are not special. Unless you work for it.
Purchase and upgrade your own buildings to use as safe fortified havens when things go bad, or use them to start up a business.
Variation and possibilities of gameplay. Be good, be evil, be a businessman, be a thief, live in a town, live in the desert, travel alone, travel in hordes, build a fortress, raze a city. Devote yourself to freeing slaves, or maybe end up a slave yourself.
Dynamic, ever changing world. Support or hinder whoever you wish, or keep to yourself, the world won't stop moving. This is not just a "game", you are living and surviving in a simulated world.
Get captured by cannibals and eaten alive, or sold off by slavers and forced to work in the mines. These are not scripted events, just a regular part of this chaotic world that ruins your life by chance. Anything can happen, yet anything can be overcome if you have the strength.

Absolutely no Level-scaling. The world does not level up along with you, and the shops don't change their inventory to only items matching your level. At the start of the game almost everyone will be stronger than you, and survival will always be a struggle. The game won't hold your hand or help you when you're down.
Realistic medical system that affects gameplay. A character with a wounded leg will limp or crawl and slow the party down, wounded arms means you must use your sword one-handed or not at all. Severe injuries will result in amputees needing robotic limb replacements. Blood loss means you can pass out, and the blood will attract predators. A character’s stats are affected by equipment, encumbrance, blood loss, injuries and starvation.
Intelligent AI that allows for characters to reason and work towards long-term goals and desires. Squads work together and carry their wounded to safety. Characters can be setup to take care of micromanagement for you and run production in your base.
Aid or oppose the various factions in the world while striving for the strength and wealth necessary to simply survive in the harsh environment.
Independently developed with no design influences, or alterations dictated by men in grey suits who have never played a game before in their lives.
Original game world. There are no fantasy-knock-off clichés. No magic.

Kenshi — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Kenshi is a game where players experience brutal, consequences-driven gameplay that frequently results in their characters being defeated and enslaved, which some find frustrating while others view as engaging roleplay opportunities. The game lacks first-person perspective and modern conveniences like microtransactions, which some players feel limits its appeal, though the sandbox nature allows for creative playstyles like criminal enterprises. Common sentiment suggests the game's punishing difficulty and niche design create a love-it-or-hate-it experience with dedicated fans but limited mains

Recommended Oct 1, 2026
This is one of my favorite games. The only downside, is that it is a single player game. It is an open world game, that you can do anything that you'd like. There isn't a straight forward storyline past survive. It's easy to learn, but you will die a lot until you learn the ropes. I highly recommend this game if you like killing things, base building, leveling your character, and looting. Plus there are so many different mods that you can add to enhance your gameplay, the way that you like it.
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Recommended Oct 2, 2026
Absolutely outstanding, there is no other game quite like it.
Recommended Oct 2, 2026
There's simply no videogame for me that captivates a vibe of a desolate, post apocalyptic world better than Kenshi. This world is very bizarre. It's full of weird factions with extremely radical laws where people seemed to have lost their minds, strange looking and almost always violent creatures that will kill you for sport and food, and stories that you, the player, will create with your characters. The game is quite difficult at first, as you are no hero. However I strongly suggest to avoid "optimizing" your experience (aka don't go to youtube and make all the right choices). Let the world be as difficult and unforgiving as it wishes. Maybe eventually you can overcome the violence it brings onto its' inhabitants or join the chaos and continue the perpetual cycle of destruction - the choice is yours dude. Also, the game has a very lively modding community! Strongly recommend for RPG lovers who also have a thing for some RTS action.
Recommended Oct 2, 2026
Yes
Recommended Oct 1, 2026
one of the best games of all time, even with the weird stuff that happens
Recommended Oct 1, 2026
SLAVERY YAY

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