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Rimworld is a colony sim game where you manage survivors and try to keep them alive on a planet full of ruthless people, mythical creatures, animals, and machines that all follow the same creed: "Your stuff is mine, and if you don't give it to me I kill you." It is a title where you spend as much time fighting the climate, lack of food, and all sorts of complications that come with establishing a new colony for your survivors to thrive (or perish) in.

What makes Rimworld such a masterwork cult game is that the game is truly fascinating in how realistic and dynamic its interactions play. People love each other, but they hate each other, if you get hurt and you don't treat the wound it becomes a major problem, you can get food poisoning and sometimes your survivors will decapitate enemies in seconds while other times they miss all their shots or have a mental breakdown. Each pawn has their needs that need to be satisfied like a human does in real life, they need to be fed, need to sleep, have fun, feel safe, and feel like their lives are both fulfilling and an achievement.

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It's thanks to such an intricate system, that Rimworld is outstanding when it comes to roleplay. Whenever you want to be a Royal Knight and be honorable, save stragglers, make a difference, or run a cult of secluded cannibals that will hunt down anyone in their territory, Rimworld lets you shape the beliefs and technology of your civilization. The Ideology DLC takes this to the next level, giving perks that are both incredibly useful and frustrating based on what memes your colonists believe in. The game is all about making your own story as you play.

I did five playthroughs before reviewing the game, and those colonies all perished horribly except for one. Each run felt fresh to me as I could pursue multiple directions to take my colony, but the best one was playing the modded race Ratkin and becoming a vassal of the Empire. Establishing my own medieval Kingdom where we use ballistas, and double swords (like Dark Maul from Star Wars} and getting Psychodelic magical powers by pleasing the Empire was incredibly fun. I loved the hunt for legendary weapons that can give you fame and power, and using necromancy and techno-magic I was able to create an everlasting society that will stand the test of time.

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In another playthrough, I was a lone Ratkin (I love my rats) with three androids, and the gameplay changed drastically from my previous 3 Rats in Royalty. With androids, you can make things happen faster because they never sleep, hence having a 24/7 minion becomes extremely useful and desirable but for all their pros, androids cannot do tasks like cook or be social, which affects how you approach the game as you only have one colonist doing all the stuff androids won't do. It is in that philosophy that we can see Rimworld is a game one can play for ages. I don't play games for a long time, and you can check my hours and know I enjoy my time in Rimworld and will continue to do so! I don't even like Sims management games so that speaks volumes!

That being said, some minor frustrations here and there. Sometimes the game would bug and require development tools to fix it, while at other times the game can kind of abruptly end your tale. Is realistic but not super fun when your awesome melee fighter instantly gets taken out in one smooth swing (personally, I wouldn't be thrilled about it) while in other opportunities the co-writer to the story called the StoryTeller (an AI that decides what events come your way) can be your best friend that sends you milk or your worst enemy that woke up one morning and said "yeah you are getting raided 7 times today" (big shoutout to Randy Random, best storyteller in my humble opinion) so in those cases, you might need to modify your experience to get the most of it, whenever that be an easier difficulty, a particular approach or starting with more knowledge(or hitting the super hardcore difficulty, I mean, if that is what you are into!).

Rimworld is a very expensive game, like for real, an extremely pricey game to get. To get the most out of the modding community and the game, you are basically looking to pay 120 bucks, and trust me, while you can enjoy the base game and no mods, Rimworld is a game MEANT to be modded. Is like day and night without it and mods depend on the DLC so not having the DLC means some of the best mods won't work at all.

That being said, you can acquire this in pieces. Personally, I played the base game on my first playthrough, modded the second, and for the other three, I got all DLC and 200-ish mods. When you get into the meat of it, Rimworld is a game you can play forever and is awesome to see how the community always brings something new and exciting to it, how the players keep the game not only alive but expand it with crazy goofy ideas that are marvelous to play through. My personal fav goes to the Ratkin and Vanilla Expanded, french kiss mods that make Rimworld one of the best games you could ever play.

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As for the DLCs, personally (hot take incoming), I disliked Biotech for a while, then I loved it, and now I am like, "Hmm, it's okay, I guess." I know it is a fan favorite, but I am just more into Royalty and Ideology, where I make my own culture and develop it over time. Anomaly is also incredibly fun, but only for a playthrough or two, very limited but enjoyable nonetheless. Oh right my justifications, uhh...I dislike Biotech cause research takes a lot of time and resources are a pain to get, I love Royalty cause who doesn't love shooting ice bolts or resurrecting enemies to serve as minions from death, I like Ideology cause I get to make my own rules with pros and cons, and finally I enjoy Anomaly cause touching a funny rock and summoning the invisible skinwalker is just gonna do wonders for my colony (sips coffee) not. Curiosity does kill the cat, or in this case the funny rock (I cannot leave it alone, help).

No. I jest, YES IT IS! Rimworld is honestly one of the most amazing games I played, worth every cent and every minute. Is a fantastical journey where every playthrough is a story to be told and a tale of success, sacrifice, drama, and loss. When you lose a colonist, you feel it in your bones, is painful and sad but that's what makes them valuable, the joy (and frustrations) you share with these little bits of data.

Whenever you want to be more medieval and destroy hi-tech people (like I do) make alliances or I don't know, be a cannibalistic colony with a lot of flavors of "I exploit everyone else for my sake" (feeling daring today aren't we?} Rimworld is a mirror, through which you can explore infinite stories and have all the emotional rollercoaster that the experience is forever. Do yourself a favor and get the game, I mean I don't like sims games and I love it.


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