The worth of a human (or meta-human) life is not that much higher than the asking price of a loaf of bread in your hands, for which certain people will bludgeon to death. The feelings and experiences you gain from playing “Kenshi” are not completely unlike those that you encounter in games like “Rimworld”, starting with a nobody in the middle of nowhere. You might have heard of “Kenshi” as a game that had a long time in development and you potentially glimpsed at the interesting and incredibly alien setting in form of screenshots, watching videos, or reading other articles. Instead, I propose a different sort of “hard fun” by telling you about different game altogether: “Kenshi”. A popular example for a videogame that works with the premise of “hard fun” is the “Dark Souls”-series and pretty much anything else the developer From Software produced all games that I might take a look at one day but that are not what I want to talk about in this article. They are forced to develop and test new strategies, gain confidence in their own abilities, and finally defeat the foes or master the task at hand.

Do you know the term “hard fun”? As far as I know, the idea of “hard fun” mostly exists in education and seems to stem from activities regarding videogames: The player is set a challenge, which might be (overly) difficult and might not even be finishable at first try, but with time the player will be forced to adapt to the situation, learn how to manage their own feelings of frustration, and potentially turn those emotions into the drive to succeed.

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