RimWorld

 PC
User Score
8.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 621 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 550 out of 621
  2. Mixed: 38 out of 621
  3. Negative: 33 out of 621

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  1. Spidgeon
    Nov 27, 2021
    3
    Greedy developer. $30 each for literal add-ons that for any other developer would be a free update.
  2. curzon_dax
    Apr 12, 2023
    0
    The real score is ~7 but since the page appears infested by paid shills that downvote anything below an 8 I punish them with a 0. The game appears ok for people that are into raw strategy gaming; it appears to have all the features for that and a lot of depth; I hear it's also heavily moddable. For me it doesn't work that it doesn't have any artistic appeal to draw me in; the graphics andThe real score is ~7 but since the page appears infested by paid shills that downvote anything below an 8 I punish them with a 0. The game appears ok for people that are into raw strategy gaming; it appears to have all the features for that and a lot of depth; I hear it's also heavily moddable. For me it doesn't work that it doesn't have any artistic appeal to draw me in; the graphics and music are purely barebones like I'm in 1991; it's like an office job in terms of aesthetics in effect.… Expand
  3. Wiebe
    Feb 26, 2020
    2
    Story telling? Just a very basic game that requires a lot of imagination for a story. Would maybe have been great in 1999, but this is not enjoyable for me today
  4. AspirinMachine
    Oct 27, 2021
    0
    If you ever thought about Dwarf Fortress, but made so PEOPLE could play it instead of Wizards, this is it boys. It took me months to master but years to get good at. Learning about it was the most fun part about it. After that, just war crimes and bug infestations amigo.
    Cheers bros
  5. D3m0nicZ3ro
    Nov 25, 2021
    0
    This is one of my favorite games, I find that it's cheap for the amount of game play and that the dlc's will make you play for hundreds of hours. I stream RimWorld on twitch sometimes and I find that its one of my most popular games to stream. It's entertaining, fun, action packed, and exiting.
  6. Xenos7
    Feb 12, 2022
    3
    I've tried the game with a 10-euros Epic coupon, making for a 16 euros price, which is, well, acceptable for what the game is. I honestly think the enormous success of RimWorld relies on two things, more than on its own merits:

    1) an extremely dedicated, and actually somewhat fanatic, community, which made it kinda of a cult item. 2) Mods Now, mods are very nice but a game should be    I've tried the game with a 10-euros Epic coupon, making for a 16 euros price, which is, well, acceptable for what the game is. I honestly think the enormous success of RimWorld relies on two things, more than on its own merits:

    1) an extremely dedicated, and actually somewhat fanatic, community, which made it kinda of a cult item.
    2) Mods

    Now, mods are very nice but a game should be judged by its own merits. If RimWorld was sold as a pack of developer tools, then fine, but it's sold a stand-alone game and so mods should be excluded from the evaluation. So, what is it? A colony management game with some clever ideas, a detailed character system, random events adding some spice. And then the bads: terrible AI forcing the player into extreme micromanagement and an overall lack of content (as I said, in the base game), even if compared with other indie games. Also, very clunky interface.

    People will tell you this is a "story generator". Beyond the fancy words, it just means the game gives you random events, interacting with your colony and characters, and you make up a story from them. Yeah, kinda like The Sims. It's nothing extremely innovative or surprising. As I said, a lot of people seem to just venerate this game for reasons I don't really understand, and I think it's just one of those cases of perfectly normal products getting a cult following that reinforces itself over time.

    Now, I would have given the game 6 or even 7 if it wasn't for one terrible decision: the game never goes on sale. The Epic coupon was just there for every game on the store, but RimWorld itself is always full priced. And we're talking an old game here (alpha was in 2013). This is extremely anti-consumer and if a mentality like this was to spread PC gaming would go downhill in the blink of an eye: many people, especially young people and folks from poorer countries, would be cut off from the hobby; and the market would concentrate around few extensively-covered, hyped games, because nobody could discover hidden gems during sales, kinda likes console market was years ago. This really shouldn't be supported and I will never buy something from this dev again.

    It's also ridiculous if you think you can get four or five more recent AAA great games, on sale, for the fixed RimWorld price. Right now, XCOM 2 is 3 euros on Steam. Do I need to tell you how much better XCOM is? Really, if you look at the market, you realize that wanting to sell at full price an indie game almost 10 years old with little production value in it (there are no animations, no effects, sounds and graphics are even below indie average) is just arrogance and insulting to customers and other devs.    … Expand
  7. Asparz
    Feb 11, 2023
    1
    boring as **** and with poor graphics

    the worst management game I ever played

Awards & Rankings

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#11 Best PC Game of 2018
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#32 Most Discussed PC Game of 2018
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#6 Most Shared PC Game of 2018

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Metascore
87

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. CD-Action
    Nov 14, 2019
    95
    The diversity of environments significantly enriches the game and challenges experienced players in new conditions every time. It’s a hellishly good game – for me an addiction that makes me go back to it and reach for more and more. [13/2018, p.84]
  2. GameGrin
    Jan 9, 2019
    75
    A satisfying colony-building sandbox with a lot of replayability that suffers from a lack of polish in the UI. A great aesthetic and quirky sci-fi take on the genre mean there is a lot to like here, it just takes a little digging to get there.
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  3. PC Gamer
    Jan 8, 2019
    74
    An imaginative management game but a weak story generator.
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