RimWorld
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
The player can grow, refine, consume, trade, and profit from drugs such as smokeleaf, psychite (flake/yayo), go-juice, wake-up, and beer, with addiction, tolerance, and overdose modeled.
The colony can practice slavery, cannibalism, prisoner execution, and crafting furniture or clothing from human leather.
The Anomaly DLC introduces flesh-horror monsters, entities that stalk and abduct colonists, and an atmosphere of dread.
Players can raid neutral settlements, take captives, enslave people, and traffic organs for profit.
Optional content features cult-like rituals, psychic phenomena, and summoning of a malevolent entity.
Players can surgically harvest organs from living prisoners to sell, and amputate or replace limbs and body parts.
Ranged and melee combat against human raiders and colonists produces blood, bleeding wounds, scars, and downed bodies, viewed as small top-down sprites.
Small stylized pawns can appear unclothed (a nudist trait, stripped prisoners), shown only as tiny top-down sprites.
Hunting wild animals and slaughtering farmed livestock for meat and leather is a routine survival mechanic.
Colonists form romances and can become lovers or marry; any intimacy happens off-screen and is conveyed through text and mood, not imagery.
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What it is
RimWorld is a single-player sci-fi colony-management simulation where you guide a handful of crash-landed survivors as an AI 'storyteller' throws crises at them. Day to day play is building, farming, research, and keeping colonists fed and sane, but the simulation runs deep and dark: firefights and melee combat leave blood and severed limbs, and the game lets you capture prisoners, enslave people, harvest and sell their organs, butcher humans for food, and craft goods from human leather. Colonists grow and use drugs and alcohol with realistic addiction and overdose, form romances that can lead to pregnancy, and can appear naked. Optional expansions add cosmic-horror content with eldritch monsters and rituals. There are no ads, microtransactions, or online interaction with other players.
How it's framed
The game presents itself as a neutral 'story generator' that simulates consequences without moral commentary — dark options like slavery, organ harvesting, and cannibalism are mechanically available and often carry in-game mood penalties for colonists, but the game neither condemns nor endorses them, leaving choices and their fallout entirely to the player.
Details
- Developer
- Ludeon Studios
- Publisher
- Ludeon Studios
- Released
- Oct 17, 2018
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