I've played a lot of games over the years. And across the myriad of hours spent I have never played anything like Kenshi.

Kenshi is old school. It's slow. It's hard. It's punishing. It's grindy and often pointless. Yet also incredibly compelling and unique. There's nothing like it in existence, it's both ugly and beautiful. The UI is a mess, so get the Dark UI mod at the very least and avoid burning your retinas away.

The biggest achievement you'll make is to simply survive as a samurai on a post-apocalyptic and alien world. I've done three play throughs over the last three years and spent over a hundred hours learning the ins and outs and I've barely scratched the surface. There are places I've never dared to tread and there are enemies I've never dared to face.

If you enjoy making your own goals, and can put up with graphics that feel two decades old, then Kenshi might be for you. If you can accept your characters getting beaten, enslaved, losing arms and legs to giant desert cockroaches, and press on learning from the experience, adapt and overcome it. Returning with mechanical prosthetics and farm those same cockroaches for meat to feed your alien bull then Kenshi might be for you.

In truth I don't know if Kenshi is really for me, but I've enjoyed a hundred hours trying to find out. It's unique and slow, a brutal world full of atmosphere that lets you create your own stories, leaving you to chase your dreams at your own pace. But it's frustrating and certainly wont hold your hand or help you along the way. To sum it all up; if you preferred Morrowind to Oblivion, then Kenshi is probably a game you'll enjoy.