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Kentum is a single player and multiplayer open world platformer game with comedy and post-apocalyptic themes. It was developed by Tlön Industries and was released on November 6, 2025. It received positive reviews from players.

Stranded in the year 10,000, Kent—an average Joe turned clone—must survive, explore, and rebuild civilization with the help of his quirky robot companion. Craft, farm, and automate in this 2D craftervania adventure as you uncover Earth’s secrets and kickstart humanity, one machine at a time. KICK START HUMANITY AFTER A 7,000 YEAR SLUMBER After a record-breaking nap spanning several millennia, Ken…

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83%Audience ScoreBased on 80 reviews
gameplay7 positive mentions
grinding15 negative mentions

  • Unique and addictive blend of Metroidvania, base building, and automation with engaging exploration and progression.
  • Fun and charming writing with humorous dialogue and strong voice acting that adds personality to the game.
  • Beautiful art style with distinct zones, creative creature designs, and cozy atmosphere enhancing immersion.
  • Excessive grind and tedious micromanagement, especially due to manual plant watering and fast spoilage of items.
  • Combat and platforming suffers from clunky controls, frustrating hit detection, and limited moves making fights tedious.
  • Base building and automation feel incomplete with limited QoL features, inventory management issues, and bugs hindering gameplay.
  • gameplay

    17 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    41% positive mentions, 41% neutral mentions, 18% negative mentions

    The gameplay offers a mix of exploration, crafting, and base-building with polished mechanics and engaging additions like traversal tools, but it can become tedious due to repetitive micromanagement and shallow combat. While initial stages are praised for fun and innovative elements, many find later gameplay frustrating and overly time-consuming. Overall, fans of crafting and exploration may enjoy it, but those seeking deeper or more varied gameplay might be disappointed.

    • “If you’re into exploration and crafting games, you’ll absolutely love it — those are its core mechanics.”
    • “The gameplay has a very polished and designed feel.”
    • “This game is always throwing a new goal at you and some new mechanic that lets you further explore or get a new gadget.”
    • “All in all, I'm annoyed with the shallow gameplay, the combat is limited and frustrating, and the demo seems purposefully designed to mislead.”
    • “The gameplay itself is mostly a drag; too much micromanagement of the base (and spoilage!), the basebuilding part is shallow, repetitive and is mostly about getting as many farm plots as you can, which you constantly have to water and initially when you can't afford robot-arms you also constantly have to farm them, until your organic materials spoil (did you know branches and regular bird feathers spoil and become unusable within a few days?).”
    • “The start of the game was interesting and fun with great voice overs, but later gameplay just becomes tedious and irritating.”
  • grinding

    16 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    6% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 94% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game can be repetitive and tedious at times, especially with spoilage and manual resource hauling, but automation and adjustable mechanics help alleviate this. While some find mid-game grinding tiresome, exploration and constant unlocks keep it engaging, making the grind feel purposeful rather than filler. Overall, grinding is a mixed experience, balancing between enjoyable farming and occasional chore-like tasks.

    • “The crafting system is genuinely so tedious because of the spoilage system and lackluster automation.”
    • “This quickly turns into an incredibly tedious chore that dominates most of your playtime, forcing you to spend huge chunks of each session just running around watering.”
    • “Ultimately, the game appears to promise a unique structure for building factories combined with world explanation while you wait for your factory to run, but really ends up being a game about grinding resources and never feeling like you can walk too far away from base, mostly running between your auto-miners to haul resources back.”
  • story

    14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 29% neutral mentions, 21% negative mentions

    The story is engaging, humorous, and well-voiced, providing a cozy and enjoyable atmosphere with great settings and light exploration. However, some find the narrative abruptly stops midway, with main quests devolving into tedious item collection that detracts from the overall experience. Despite this, the story is praised for its fun dialogue and potential for future expansions.

    • “The ending definitely leaves the door open for a sequel or expansions—there are so many directions this story could take for an even more relaxing and fun experience.”
    • “Great setting, cozy sound/music (mostly ambient though, which is fitting but maybe not for everyone) and quite interesting story/humor with good voice acting.”
    • “Solid mechanics, beautiful art style, an engaging story full of fun and witty dialogue.”
    • “Edit: also, as another review mentioned, the story just abruptly stops.”
    • “Like you are with your robot buddy in space in the intro talking about this and that and then you land on the planet and start building the base with some missions here and there and then you find a machine aaaaaaaand... then it stops.”
    • “It starts with a lot of story, but then just stops.”
  • graphics

    13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    69% positive mentions, 8% neutral mentions, 23% negative mentions

    The graphics are widely praised for their fun, gorgeous art style and distinctive, well-designed creatures and environments. The visuals contribute greatly to the game's engaging and atmospheric experience, complementing the humorous writing and solid gameplay.

    • “The art style is gorgeous; every zone feels distinct and special.”
    • “Absolutely gorgeous game with a fantastic art style and cool flora and fauna.”
    • “I played Kentum back when it was just a demo, and I instantly fell in love with its atmosphere, visuals, and mechanics.”
    • “- no dedicated graphics card :/”
    • “- amd ryzen 3 pro 2200g with radeon vega graphics 3.50 ghz”
    • “I love the art style and the creature designs (even if I hate some of them!)”
  • humor

    12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The humor in the game is widely praised for its clever, well-written, and balanced comedy, often enhanced by strong voice acting and charming character interactions. Its witty writing resonates especially with certain audiences, delivering a cozy yet entertaining atmosphere through amusing dialogue and side stories. Overall, the humor adds significant charm and enjoyment to the gameplay experience.

    • “It is surprisingly captivating and funny with terrific voice acting and writing.”
    • “The humor is also very well done; it hits especially well for all the corporate slaves.”
    • “It is well written, balanced, and funny.”
  • music

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The music features cozy, mostly ambient tracks that create a fitting atmosphere, complemented by pleasant soundtrack elements and good voice acting. While the ambient style suits the setting well, it may not appeal to everyone.

    • “Great setting, cozy sound/music (mostly ambient though, which is fitting but maybe not for everyone) and quite interesting story/humor with good voice acting.”
    • “The game looks quite nice, the atmosphere hits and the OST is quite pleasant to listen to (when it plays).”
  • stability

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game experiences significant stability issues, particularly noticeable as major lighting glitches when placing a puffback in a large vita, which can disrupt gameplay immersion.

    • “Huge lighting glitches occur when placing a Puffback in a large Vita.”
  • optimization

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game is well-optimized, running smoothly with minimal image stuttering.

  • emotional

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The emotional aspect is understated, with combat functioning adequately but not emphasized, reflecting the protagonist's limited fighting ability. Enhancements like penalty for contact with enemies or reduced enemy damage could deepen emotional engagement.

  • atmosphere

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Users praise Kentum's atmosphere for its captivating and immersive qualities, highlighting it as a key element that complements the game's visuals and mechanics.

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Play Times

16h Median play time
13h Average play time
5-20h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 2 analyzed playthroughs
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Kentum is a open world platformer game with comedy and post-apocalyptic themes. Common tags for Kentum include exploration, gaming, metroidvania, building, base building and others.

Kentum is available on Xbox Series X|S, PC, Steam Deck, Windows and others.

On average players spend around 13 hours playing Kentum.

Kentum was released on November 6, 2025.

Kentum was developed by Tlön Industries.

Kentum has received positive reviews from players. Most players liked Kentum for its gameplay but disliked it for its grinding.

Kentum is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.

Similar games include Nova Lands, Solarpunk, Core Keeper, DYSMANTLE, Above Snakes and others.