They'll be accountants, homemakers, journalists, cooks, nobles, urchins, and soldiers.Ī nobleman will be great at social skills (for recruiting prisoners or negotiating trade prices), but refuse to do physical work. In RimWorld, your colonists are not professional settlers – they’re survivors from a crashed passenger liner. There are three storytellers to choose from: The carefully-paced Cassandra Classic, the slower-paced, building-oriented Phoebe Chillax, and the totally unpredictable Randy Random.

RimWorld uses an AI Storyteller (modeled after the AI Director from Left 4 Dead) who analyzes your situation and decides which event she thinks will make the best story. The game creates events like pirate raids, trader arrivals, and storms. It's not about winning and losing - it's about the drama, tragedy, and comedy that goes on in your colony. RimWorld is not designed as a competitive strategy game, but as a story generator. RimWorld is developed by Tynan Sylvester and Ludeon Studios, and we've been improving it since its first public release on November 4, 2013. The game is distributed by DRM-free download. Learn to play easily with the help of an intelligent and unobtrusive AI tutor.įor Windows, Mac, Linux. Manage quirky colonists with unique backstories, traits, and skills.

Build colonies in the desert, jungle, tundra, and more.

Discover a new generated world each time you play. Watch colonists develop relationships with family members, lovers, and spouses. Tame and train cute pets, productive farm animals, and deadly attack beasts. Fight pirate raiders, hostile tribes, rampaging animals, giant tunnelling insects and ancient killing machines. Fashion structures, weapons, and apparel from metal, wood, stone, cloth, or futuristic materials. Manage colonists' moods, needs, individual wounds, and illnesses. Inspired by the space western vibe of Firefly, the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, and the epic scale of Dune and Warhammer 40,000. RimWorld follows three survivors from a crashed space liner as they build a colony on a frontier world at the rim of known space. A sci fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller.

Space colony survival game