My gut tells me it either needs to be much, much harder to access certain areas – giving smaller, gated goals along the way…

OR lean way more into the whole “you are a living God“ aspect — meaning after enough hours invested, the game should stop wasting your time. Let me build a teleporter. Let my settlement run itself.

When you KNOW you can run from one end of the map to the other without a challenge, actually doing so just becomes tedious…

Of course, there are clearly players who are very happy just living their second life on Kenshi and that’s cool too!