I've been playing since 0.14. The insane amount of stories I could tell about this game, I swear. There are no games that consistently calls me back to it like Rimworld. I join the multitudes screaming at the top of their lungs that this game is the best thing ever. If you enjoy randomness, colony building and micromanaging, please do give it a try. As a bonus, you can mod this to your heart's content for whatever type of game play you desire, or you can play vanilla, choose whatever DLC you want to have active, you can do whatever you want! Your colonists will suffer, sometimes they will lose, sometimes they will win, you will laugh, you will rage, you will curse the name of Randy forever, you could receive 72 wooden feet from a cargo drop, everything will go to hell and that's okay, it will be worth it. P.S. The end credit song is awesome :)
RimWorld
- Release Date:
- Oct 17, 2018
- Metacritic:
- 87
- Developer:
- Ludeon Studios
- Publisher:
- Ludeon Studios
- Platforms:
- Windows Mac Linux
Game Tags
About This Game
You begin with three survivors of a shipwreck on a distant world.
- Manage colonists' moods, needs, wounds, illnesses and addictions.
- Build in the forest, desert, jungle, tundra, and more.
- Watch colonists develop and break relationships with family members, lovers, and spouses.
- Replace wounded limbs and organs with prosthetics, bionics, or biological parts harvested from others.
- Fight pirates, tribes, mad animals, giant insects and ancient killing machines.
- Craft structures, weapons, and apparel from metal, wood, stone, cloth, and futuristic materials.
- Tame and train cute pets, productive farm animals, and deadly attack beasts.
- Trade with passing ships and caravans.
- Form caravans to complete quests, trade, attack other factions, or migrate your whole colony.
- Dig through snow, weather storms, and fight fires.
- Capture refugees or prisoners and turn them to your side or sell them into slavery.
- Discover a new generated world each time you play.
- Explore hundreds of wild and interesting mods on the Steam Workshop.
- Learn to play easily with the help of an intelligent and unobtrusive AI tutor.
RimWorld is a story generator. It’s designed to co-author tragic, twisted, and triumphant stories about imprisoned pirates, desperate colonists, starvation and survival. It works by controlling the “random” events that the world throws at you. Every thunderstorm, pirate raid, and traveling salesman is a card dealt into your story by the AI Storyteller. There are several storytellers to choose from. Randy Random does crazy stuff, Cassandra Classic goes for rising tension, and Phoebe Chillax likes to relax.
Your colonists are not professional settlers – they’re crash-landed survivors from a passenger liner destroyed in orbit. You can end up with a nobleman, an accountant, and a housewife. You’ll acquire more colonists by capturing them in combat and turning them to your side, buying them from slave traders, or taking in refugees. So your colony will always be a motley crew.
Each person’s background is tracked and affects how they play. A nobleman will be great at social skills (recruiting prisoners, negotiating trade prices), but refuse to do physical work. A farm oaf knows how to grow food by long experience, but cannot do research. A nerdy scientist is great at research, but cannot do social tasks at all. A genetically engineered assassin can do nothing but kill – but he does that very well.
Colonists develop - and destroy - relationships. Each has an opinion of the others, which determines whether they'll become lovers, marry, cheat, or fight. Perhaps your two best colonists are happily married - until one of them falls for the dashing surgeon who saved her from a gunshot wound.
The game generates a whole planet from pole to equator. You choose whether to land your crash pods in a cold northern tundra, a parched desert flat, a temperate forest, or a steaming equatorial jungle. Different areas have different animals, plants, diseases, temperatures, rainfall, mineral resources, and terrain. These challenges of surviving in a disease-infested, choking jungle are very different from those in a parched desert wasteland or a frozen tundra with a two-month growing season.
Travel across the planet. You're not stuck in one place. You can form a caravan of people, animals, and prisoners. Rescue kidnapped former allies from pirate outposts, attend peace talks, trade with other factions, attack enemy colonies, and complete other quests. You can even pack up your entire colony and move to a new place. You can use rocket-powered transport pods to travel faster.
You can tame and train animals. Lovable pets will cheer up sad colonists. Farm animals can be worked, milked, and sheared. Attack beasts can be released upon your enemies. There are many animals - cats, labrador retrievers, grizzly bears, camels, cougars, chinchillas, chickens, and exotic alien-like lifeforms.
People in RimWorld constantly observe their situation and surroundings in order to decide how to feel at any given moment. They respond to hunger and fatigue, witnessing death, disrespectfully unburied corpses, being wounded, being left in darkness, getting packed into cramped environments, sleeping outside or in the same room as others, and many other situations. If they're too stressed, they might lash out or break down.
Wounds, infections, prosthetics, and chronic conditions are tracked on each body part and affect characters' capacities. Eye injuries make it hard to shoot or do surgery. Wounded legs slow people down. Hands, brain, mouth, heart, liver, kidneys, stomach, feet, fingers, toes, and more can all be wounded, diseased, or missing, and all have logical in-game effects. And other species have their own body layouts - take off a deer's leg, and it can still hobble on the other three. Take off a rhino's horn, and it's much less dangerous.
You can repair body parts with prosthetics ranging from primitive to transcendent. A peg leg will get Joe Colonist walking after an unfortunate incident with a rhinoceros, but he'll still be quite slow. Buy an expensive bionic leg from a trader the next year, and Joe becomes a superhuman runner. You can even extract, sell, buy, and transplant internal organs.
And there's much more than that! The game is easy to mod and has an active modding community on the Steam Workshop.
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User Reviews
this game is so fun and has so much replayability I'm scared of it. I fear it will claim a sizable amount of my finite time here on Earth. I'll cherish every minute.
I think RimWorld may be one of the very few games, if not the only game, where you can truly do whatever you desire. I don't mean whatever you want as in the confines of what the game is capable of but instead as a whole. There have been so many "out-there" and at a point "theory crafting" playthrough ideas, base ideas, and the entire concept of a colony only for me to realize that you legitimately can just do that in the game. The only limit is your moral compass and RimWorld allows all of it to manifest - it's truly fantastic and it could and should be used against you in a court of law. To avoid meme posting about X crazy and wacky thing happening in RimWorld it really is just a phenomenal game. At it's core, a story generator, it does create some very memorable stories and scenes that you just won't forget. There really is something about Randy Random and having a truly random storyteller dictating your entire playthrough that will never, ever get old. I still have an attac...
No Special review from me. Just felt it finally deserved a thumbs up after playing it for a bit.
the game is fun enough but the pricing is what kills me. the base game has a lot but in it of itself is kind of bland and while mods might fix the problem, a lot of mods need the dlc's to run and without a sale (excluding the newest dlc which will never go on sale anymore) you will undoubtedly be dropping a fortune on the game in order to play it at its fullest. if you have everything it is an amazing game you can play so many different ways and i love all the creative things the modders have done with the game but if i hadn't gotten the game on sale when there was only 2 dlcs i would never get it now under its current price point. i understand that developers want to get their money's worth for their efforts and rimworld does give a bit more than SOME like it (im looking at you stellaris and the sims) but if you don't want to alienate anyone who isn't pirating your game then: make the base game free, merge old dlcs with the base game, release some content as a free update, or someth...
Listen, I went into this game thinking I'd build a peaceful little colony and maybe grow some crops. Boy was I wrong. Within my first week, I had accidentally created a cannibal death cult that worshipped a golden toilet seat. My colonist Jerry had a mental break and decided to punch every single wall in our freezer, causing all our food to spoil during a heat wave. Meanwhile, Sarah was having a romantic affair with a lamp because apparently that's a thing now. This game taught me that human leather makes excellent cowboy hats. My grandmother would be so proud. THE GOOD: You can turn your enemies into furniture! Finally, a game that understands interior decorating. Organ harvesting simulator disguised as a colony builder. Modern medicine has never been so profitable. My colonists have survived nuclear fallout, plague, and mechanoid invasions, but god forbid someone eats without a table. Priorities. Successfully convinced my wife this was an "innocent farming game." She walked in durin...
Reviewing (mostly) every game (or DLC) in my library, part 320: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆ (9/10) [i]RimWorld[/i] is what happens when an AI storyteller, a colony management sim, and a fever dream of moral quandaries all come together in one sandbox of endless chaos. It’s a machine that generates tragedy, hilarity, heartbreak, and horror with a straight face. Whether you’re running a peaceful utopia or a cannibal cult,[i] RimWorld[/i] doesn’t judge. It just gives you the tools—and the consequences. 🔋 [b]Pros:[/b] [list] [*]Narrative sandbox with infinite replayability. The core loop of[i] RimWorld[/i] is simple: crash land, survive, thrive, escape. But the real game is what happens in between. Colonist dynamics, random events, animal attacks, disease outbreaks, mechanoid invasions—it’s all filtered through the lens of AI storytellers (Randy Random, Cassandra Classic, and Phoebe Chillax), each with their own rhythm and cruelty. No two pla...
This game is less a story generator and more of a War Crime Simulator. If you can think of an Atrocity to commit, you can. And if you cant, you can with a mod. 11/10 would totally break the Geneva convention on a random Rimworld again.
I just love this game. After a hundreds of hours on youtube i decided to get this game, and its just perfect down to the less damn thing
Welcome to a game where you crash on a unknown planet with three people that survived and a random animal and you have to try to survive and get back to space and research and try not to die and make it to space to beat the game. Also if you have money buy biotech and odyssey and I don't know what else.
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System Requirements
Minimum
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Core 2 Duo
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 or other shader model 4.0
- Storage: 1 GB available space
FAQ
How much does RimWorld cost?
RimWorld costs $34.99.
What are the system requirements for RimWorld?
Minimum: Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Core 2 Duo Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 or other shader model 4.0 Storage: 1 GB available space
What platforms is RimWorld available on?
RimWorld is available on Windows PC, macOS, Linux.
Is RimWorld worth buying?
RimWorld has 97% positive reviews from 100 players. Metacritic score: 87/100.
When was RimWorld released?
RimWorld was released on Oct 17, 2018.
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