RimWorld

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

RimWorld is a colony sim, base-building and survival game developed and published by Ludeon Studios.
Released on October 17th 2018 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 24 languages: English, French, German, Polish, Russian, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Hungarian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Finnish, Korean, Romanian and Spanish - Latin America.

It has received 202,107 reviews of which 198,038 were positive and 4,069 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.7 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 31.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified RimWorld into these genres:

Colony Sim Base-Building Survival Strategy Sandbox Management Building Simulation Singleplayer Moddable City Builder Open World Procedural Generation 2D Sci-fi Indie Space Tactical RPG Cartoony Western

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 or other shader model 4.0
Storage: 1 GB available space

MacOS

OS: macOS 10.12
Processor: Core 2 Duo
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 or other shader model 4.0
Storage: 1 GB available space

Linux

Processor: Core 2 Duo
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 or other shader model 4.0
Storage: 1 GB available space

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Sept. 2024

After over 3500 hours of RimWorld, I can confidently say this game is less about colony management and more about watching my carefully laid plans disintegrate into chaos as I scream internally, 'WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS?!' Picture this: It’s mid-winter, your colonists are starving, the food stockpile is low, and your hunter just decided to wander into a grizzly bear's lunch zone. And instead of hauling food back, Karen the Crafting Goddess has decided to have a mental break because someone insulted her hat three months ago. So now, she’s walking around the colony naked, smashing furniture, and punching alpacas, while I’m left wondering if uninstalling the 'Twitchy Temperament' mod was a mistake. And let’s not forget Randy Random’s impeccable timing. Just as you’ve recovered from that toxic fallout, he’s graciously gifted you with a tribal raid… during a solar flare… while your freezer melts, and the colonist with the only decent weapon has food poisoning. Thanks, Randy, really keeping it spicy. Then there’s that one colonist who refuses to do anything useful. Can’t fight, won’t haul, allergic to manual labor. But the second a social fight breaks out, he’s front and center, breaking up relationships like he’s auditioning for RimWorld's next reality drama spin-off: "Raiders of Love Island." Meanwhile, your pet warg is eating raw potatoes in the middle of the hospital while your best doctor has gone berserk and is now fist-fighting the guy he just saved from malaria. Mods, you ask? Oh, I have mods. Hundreds of mods. I don't even know what the base game looks like anymore. I’ve added everything from lightsabers to genetically engineered supercows to a mod that lets me create an army of psychotic squirrels. But still, none of them can save me from the existential dread that is my colonists constantly forgetting how to use doors. In conclusion, RimWorld is the best nightmare you’ll ever willingly subject yourself to. If you’ve ever wanted to simulate the sensation of managing a daycare full of toddlers armed with flamethrowers, please, join me. Just be prepared to explain to your family why you yelled, ‘THE CORPSES NEED TO BE BURNED BEFORE THE COWS GET INFECTED!’ at 3 AM.

March 2024

Amazing game, its hard to describe it! Want to follow the base game and role play a group of spacefarers crash landed on a Rimworld, struggling to survive, build tech from neolithic to scifi, navigating politics of the new world seeking allies and defending against hostile factions, insects and robots? Sure you can do that, but the mods, my god the mods! Want to role play a squad of Warhammer 40,000 Space Marines? You can do that. Starship Troopers? You can do that. Want to add realistic nuclear power plants with turbines, cooling systems, fuel rods, storage pools etc etc. Sure add the mod in. Want people to use the toilet and have a bath and get cranky if they don't. Done. Want to role play evil cannibals that worship vampires as gods and have a vampire as your colony's leader. Done. Prisoners work the vast fields of rice and corn rather than just wasting away in a jail. Easy as. Tired of having your colonists doing all the work, make androids and robots do all of the heavy lifting. Build a space ship and have space combat, raid space stations? in 1.2 I was having a blast with that. If you get bored with high tech, make the game become a fantasy world with elves, gnomes, goblins and orcs - wizards, witches, warlocks, weapon masters, drunken monks and barbarian warriors. Maybe create a viking village that just want to grape the women, steal the horses, enslave those too weak to defend themselves and bring glory to your clan and gods? You can do that too. How about a castle/village commanded by a demon who feeds off of his subjects, who uses his army of zombies to raid villages to capture more man flesh for the demon king. Yep you can do that. Or a humble way station with stables, restaurant, high born inn, low class flophouse, and of course a tavern, just trying to get by in a crazy fantasy world to turn a profit by providing goods and services to anyone with enough coin to pay? You can do that. So yes, I've played thirty one hundred hours of this game over seven years because I can make it do whatever the heck I can dream up and that's freaking awesome!

March 2024

I got mauled by a bear in the first ten seconds. He just showed up, ate my entire civilization and left. big

March 2024

My dreams of running a drug-farming gun running human trafficking organ harvesting capitalistic cannibalistic colony run by gene-vat soldiers that rely on liquid cocaine to survive and have ZERO social skills can finally be achieved

March 2024

Pawn gives birth, it is not a healthy birth, unfortunately the baby passes away. Another pawn has an extreme mental break which results in them digging up a corpse and wanting to show it to everyone. Guess which corpse she dug up and who she showed it to. 11/10

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31.99€

9.7

198,038

4,069

Online players

21,083

Developer

Ludeon Studios

Publisher

Ludeon Studios

Release 17 Oct 2018

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