RimWorld

About RimWorld

RimWorld is a science fiction colony simulation released on October 17, 2018, for Linux, PC, and Mac. It is developed and published by Ludeon Studios and sits in the real time strategy, simulator, and strategy genres, with survival as one of its main themes. The game is played from a bird's-eye isometric view and supports single player only.

Players guide a small group of survivors who have crashed on a frontier world and must build a settlement from nothing. The game focuses on managing colonists, with attention to their health, wounds, illnesses, and day-to-day needs, while also covering small-team combat against raiders, hostile tribes, and wild animals. Each playthrough takes place on a newly generated map, and colonies can be founded in varied biomes such as deserts, jungles, and tundras, each with its own plants and animals.

RimWorld carries an ESRB T rating and a PEGI 16 rating. Its storyteller system shapes how events unfold over the course of a run, so no two colonies tend to develop the same way.