In RimWorld, you play as crash-landed survivors who have to eke out a new existence on a hostile planet, surviving and perhaps thriving between raider attacks, AI uprisings, and swarms of hostile ...

Originally launched back in 2018, Rimworld has gone on to establish itself as a favorite in the colony sim genre. It, like Dwarf Fortress, Norland, Oxygen Not Included, and Clanfolk, offers players ...

What are the best Rimworld mods? There are plenty of Rimworld mods out there to add extras and quality-of-life tweaks to your playthroughs, ranging from basic improvements to brand-new mechanics. With ...

Since the new DLC released, right alongside the game’s free 1.6 update, the game has jumped up the Steam charts. RimWorld has now found a place among the 15 top-played games on Steam in the last 24 ...

RimWorld is a bleakly comedic game that finds fun in three colonists starving to death, clinging to life under the shadow of a nuclear winter — or a whole group of beloved pawns being wiped off the ...

John has been writing about videogames for almost a decade, and playing them for almost three. His greatest passion is for Grand Strategy and immersive RPGs, but he's dabbled in pretty much every ...

RimWorld is boldly going where no acclaimed sci-fi colony sim with a weird cannibalism obsession has gone before: up a bit. RimWorld is leaving the ground behind and heading into space for the first ...

RimWorld following the release of an expansion has shot up the charts to take first place on the Steam Weekly Top Sellers chart (excluding revenue generated by free games) for Week 29, 2025, which ...

John has been writing about videogames for almost a decade, and playing them for almost three. His greatest passion is for Grand Strategy and immersive RPGs, but he's dabbled in pretty much every ...

RimWorld calls itself a story generator, similar to its inspiration, Dwarf Fortress, and there can be no doubt that the colony sim has always been that. The tales of my colonies rising and falling ...

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