2026-05-25 19:51 UTC · PC Gamer · Justin Wagner
Kenshi's whole deal is best summed up with one of its game start conditions: "rock bottom." When you start at rock bottom, you begin the game stranded in the desert, surrounded on all sides by enemies, with a 1 in all stats. Oh, and you just lost your left arm, and you're malnourished in a territory where starving is illegal. This is a game that sold three million copies... Read more.
2026-05-25 17:02 UTC · Community Announcements · Khalm
Greetings Kenshi crew Since its original launch in 2018, Kenshi has found its way into the hands of more than 3 million players. In recognition of this milestone and the community that helped us achieve it, we wanted to take a moment and express our thanks. To the people who picked Kenshi up on a whim. To the modders, fan artists, storytellers, Beep enthusiasts, and content creators. To everyone who's ever pointed a friend toward Kenshi, posted a screenshot, or clocked more hours than they’d care to admit. Thank you. We wouldn’t be here without you. New Steam Points Shop ItemsTo celebrate this
2025-11-24 18:02 UTC · Community Announcements · Khalm
Greetings Kenshi crew,Work on Kenshi 2 is keeping us plenty busy, but we wanted to take a moment to share a few updates from around the studio: new faces, new merch, and a quick look back at something you might’ve missed over Halloween. Fresh Lo-Fi FacesWe’ve recently welcomed a few new members to the Lo-Fi team to support Kenshi and the ongoing development of Kenshi 2. Johnny is our new Publishing Director. As you might expect based on his title, Johnny directs all things publishing - marketing, community, partnerships, and the general business of getting our games out into the world. On the
2025-07-09 12:36 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun
I'm a month late on this, but since we don't appear to have written about Kenshi for about six years, I figured this was worth highlighting. Chris Hunt and Natalie Mikkelson of Lo-Fi Games recently put out a video chatting about Kenshi 2, their approach to design and, uh, their shared hatred for fondue. It's a lovely, unadorned look at game development, with Hunt and Mikkelson talking through how they basically learned to do everything on the fly, from Kenshi's beginnings to Lo-Fi Games's current size of 30 people. Read more
2025-05-13 00:41 UTC · PC Gamer · Christopher Livingston
Open world survival RPG Kenshi can be cruel, especially in the early hours. As our reviewer put it back in 2018, "basic survival plans can be easily derailed by a city guard who plants drugs on you then demands money you don’t have, or by finding yourself deep in a region inhabited by vicious alien giraffes.".. Read more.
2025-05-12 17:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Breakoar
Hey Kenshi crew, We’ve just released a new video: Kenshi: Meet the Makers. It's an informal look behind the scenes with Chris Hunt - creator of Kenshi and founder of Lo-Fi Games, and Nat Mikkelson - Lo-Fi’s Managing Director and Lead Writer on Kenshi 1 and Kenshi 2. Simply put: the video is a short conversation to give you a little insight on our thinking, and a glimpse into the creators’ minds while Kenshi 2’s development continues behind the scenes. You’ll find some chatter from Chris and Nat on how Lo-Fi Games began, where the ideas for Kenshi came from, and what it’ll mean for Kenshi 2 pla
2024-12-19 18:01 UTC · Community Announcements · Breakoar
Well then sandblown strangers, how fares your journey? Here’s to hoping you find a rare pause to down your tools and take stock; a fleeting breath between berserker screams and the gnashing of cannibal teeth to ponder another year’s end. Perhaps you’ll hunker down by the fire’s crackle, cook up a cut of gutter meat, open a can of grog and lean into the warmth of your loyal bonedog’s embrace. But don’t linger too long - out here, peace is just a mirage, danger always rides the horizon and the only thing coming down the chimney is trouble. Preposterous post-apocalyptic prose aside, we mean it -
2024-10-30 18:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Gumstar
Hey Kenshi crew, it's that time again – welcome to Community Spotlight #18! We've got a fresh showcase of our amazing community’s creative output for you once more, and as a Halloween bonus: some Kenshi pumpkins. Community Spotlight #18 Our favourite picks for mods, screenshots and fanart can be found every week on our social media before they’re added to these compilations, so do make sure to give us a follow if you’d like to see this kinda content on your feed. A huge thanks to all the creators we’ve featured this time and in previous blogs; we really do appreciate your effort. If you’re a c
2024-09-16 17:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Breakoar
Welcome back, Kenshi crew! Today we’ve got an absolute monster of a Community Spotlight: check the fresh, unbridled creativity coming from the mod community, a swathe of gorgeous new fanart, and a bunch of tasty screenshots from our favourite community photographers. In case you weren’t aware, we pop all this content on our social media on a weekly basis before we compile it into these videos and blogs, so make sure you add us wherever you have an account. We’ve started posting regularly on Threads, so if you’ve made the venture over that way then give us a follow. We’d like to send a massive
2024-04-16 15:01 UTC · Community Announcements · Kirstals
Hey Kenshi crew, how you doin’? First up - in case you missed it, we recently posted a blog with a little Kenshi 2 news and a brand new Kenshi Free Camera mode. Check it out if you’ve not had the chance. So why are we here again so soon? Well, we’ve a pretty big milestone to celebrate: Kenshi hits two million sales milestone {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/4597640/1ddf410d52fb5560eb6d7298dd6aad0ccfb80d12.jpg We’re overjoyed to announce that we’ve sold 2.3 million copies of Kenshi. Not only that - more of you folks bought yourself a copy of Kenshi in 2023 than in any other year. Wild. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/459
2024-04-10 16:26 UTC · PC Gamer · Joshua Wolens
Kenshi is one of the most utterly strange games I've ever had the pleasure of playing, and it holds a special place in my heart. It was the impetus behind one of my first-ever published pieces of games writing, which means you can probably blame it—at least in part—for the fact you have to keep reading my yammering on this very website. Thank you, Kenshi, we'll never forgive you... Read more.
2024-04-01 18:15 UTC · Community Announcements · Kirstals
1.0.68 Added free camera mode for screenshots and videos. Toggle with ; If you experience any issues after the update, please read this post on how to report crashes or bugs and make a post in the Lo-Fi Games forum, ensuring that you’re nice to our lovely moderators. https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/I4LoiDE-pxefCcflp5AKHUXZeh2M9AthqGP3N75T7xrJ7J7IPJGpnE_joWxfQC1UjAU0DH1aQQqZn24vQDBDChH28T-8za2EiI1LqYaJy5zl_tLcvMUK0vULCg9u_tzi1kz5SFXDKWLK-X8G1-R2ps8 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/4597640/b8ae5854788dfa521e31a00e4da732bf980337b4.jpg
2024-04-01 17:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Kirstals
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/4597640/60a3b2f688a09d376e25d27eeca6f5a15e3d264a.jpg It’s 1st April again. Fancy some Kenshi hashish? Wanna find the Hive Queen a date? Kenshi Team Racing anyone? This year we’re changing things up and giving you something real: how do you feel about a cheeky little Free Camera Mode Kenshi update? How about some Kenshi 2 news, a new screenshot and a Lo-Fi Q&A? We got you fam. First up: Kenshi 2 when? {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/4597640/47e6c185758a609b26f9dcf085855e8fa74805cd.jpg Well, we’re not saying just yet. I once read that it’s bad practice from a marketing perspective to say “
2024-03-26 15:09 UTC · Community Announcements · Kirstals
1.0.67 Added free camera mode for screenshots and videos. Toggle with ; If you experience any issues after the update, please read this post on how to report crashes or bugs and make a post in the Lo-Fi Games forum, ensuring that you’re nice to our lovely moderators. https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/I4LoiDE-pxefCcflp5AKHUXZeh2M9AthqGP3N75T7xrJ7J7IPJGpnE_joWxfQC1UjAU0DH1aQQqZn24vQDBDChH28T-8za2EiI1LqYaJy5zl_tLcvMUK0vULCg9u_tzi1kz5SFXDKWLK-X8G1-R2ps8 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/4597640/b8ae5854788dfa521e31a00e4da732bf980337b4.jpg
2024-02-22 15:31 UTC · Community Announcements · Lo-Fi Games
FCS 2.14.1 was causing a few issues for some users, this hotfix should address those bugs. If you experience any issues after the update, please read this post on how to report crashes or bugs and make a post in the Lo-Fi Games forum, ensuring that you’re nice to our lovely moderators. Fixed issue causing fonts to increase to 825 instead of 8.25 in regions where commas are used in place of decimal points Fixed NPCs accusing you of trespassing when committing any other type of crime outside Fix for a bug where guards wouldn't investigate alarms https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/I4LoiDE-pxefC
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