One of my most fun games that I'd been playing on and off for a very long time! Despite the number of hours that I have put into the game, I've still not finished it, often because I either mess up in regards to resources, get my ass kicked from a raid or something else happens that makes me just give up and attempt another start up. Mostly I save scum anyway, but it also helps to start up again when you download as many mods as I do!
The game itself is a colony management game, similar to other games that are similar to games like Dwarf Fortress, which is often referenced and other similar type games.
The basic vanilla story/starting you can choose gives you three space explorers crash down to the named world, RimWorld. The goal now being to set up a home, build up enough technology and resources to create a new space ship and then launch off to escape the planet!
Thanks to the developers being such cool people and being so supportive and welcoming of the modding community that the number of mods is close to limitless! Mods that give new wildlife, skills, objections, weapons, technologies, game mechanics and completely new endings making RimWorld become your own blank canvas for whatever you wish to do with this world. Do you wish to simply leave this world or stay and attempt to unlock the Archonexus? Maybe you don't want to leave at all but create a empire of your own and wipe out all other groups? Maybe abuse the tribals to take part in your unethical butchery and removing their organs to sell for huge profit.
There's even mods to set your colony up as a hospitality centre where you make money by renting out beds and selling all kinds of items to the guests and any others who might come passing by. It's insane the amount of stuff you can do in this and how fun and valid any play style you choose can be achieved.
It's a game I love and still play on and off (until I get my PC back, it'll be off for the moment) and the DLC that's been released so far has only just added to the game and brought some real tangible mechanics that others have built upon in mods too, but I'll cover those individually in the DLC listings.
Because of my love of this game and how welcoming the community is, I'm planning to get into modding and adding my own content to this game at some-point in the future to add more fun to this fantastic game.
Here's a stream where I was experimenting with the Twitch Toolkit, allowing viewers to interact with the game on stream and make it that much more crazy and fun! https://youtu.be/dfkEPMPItSo
The game itself is a colony management game, similar to other games that are similar to games like Dwarf Fortress, which is often referenced and other similar type games.
The basic vanilla story/starting you can choose gives you three space explorers crash down to the named world, RimWorld. The goal now being to set up a home, build up enough technology and resources to create a new space ship and then launch off to escape the planet!
Thanks to the developers being such cool people and being so supportive and welcoming of the modding community that the number of mods is close to limitless! Mods that give new wildlife, skills, objections, weapons, technologies, game mechanics and completely new endings making RimWorld become your own blank canvas for whatever you wish to do with this world. Do you wish to simply leave this world or stay and attempt to unlock the Archonexus? Maybe you don't want to leave at all but create a empire of your own and wipe out all other groups? Maybe abuse the tribals to take part in your unethical butchery and removing their organs to sell for huge profit.
There's even mods to set your colony up as a hospitality centre where you make money by renting out beds and selling all kinds of items to the guests and any others who might come passing by. It's insane the amount of stuff you can do in this and how fun and valid any play style you choose can be achieved.
It's a game I love and still play on and off (until I get my PC back, it'll be off for the moment) and the DLC that's been released so far has only just added to the game and brought some real tangible mechanics that others have built upon in mods too, but I'll cover those individually in the DLC listings.
Because of my love of this game and how welcoming the community is, I'm planning to get into modding and adding my own content to this game at some-point in the future to add more fun to this fantastic game.
Here's a stream where I was experimenting with the Twitch Toolkit, allowing viewers to interact with the game on stream and make it that much more crazy and fun! https://youtu.be/dfkEPMPItSo