Taking the time off to write this review was not easy. I had to suppress the fear of my cat attacking and possibly eating my colonists, and pray that a random tornado would not wipe out my entire colony. “A cat? That seems way too random.”
RimWorld is a deep, addictive and always surprising strategy game appearing in 2018 for PC, now ported to consoles by Double Eleven.
Your colonists are not professional settlers – they’re crash-landed survivors from a passenger liner destroyed in orbit. You can end up with a nobleman, an accountant, and a housewife. You’ll acquire more colonists by capturing them in combat and turning them to your side. So your colony will always be a motley crew.
If you're looking for a game that breaks expectations in terms of depth and discovery, RimWorld Console Edition will sate that storytelling hunger.
I went ahead and got this game, and three hours in and there’s nothing happening. It’s just the same three starting characters mining and trying to plant rice before it eventually gets blight and I have to cut it all down. I’m clearly missing something. And research takes forever. Three hours of one colonist dedicated solely to research and it’s maybe 13% done
