RimWorld 2018

Released: October 17, 2018
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS) · Simulator · Strategy · Indie
Platforms: Linux · PC · Mac
Developer: Ludeon Studios
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Is it still worth playing?

Ludeon Studios' colony simulation, designed by Tynan Sylvester, released in full in 2018 after early access that began in 2013. You guide a colony of pawns on a procedurally generated planet, seen from above and played alone. What happens to them is chosen by an AI storyteller, which generates events, and you pick which storyteller to play with. Each pawn has needs, and unmet ones cause mental breaks. Their way out is a research tree that runs from tribal technology to spaceship parts, since building or finding a spaceship ends the game. Its saves can be set to commitment or to reload anytime, and an active modding community exists on PC. A story that comes from moment to moment play, with events matched to how the colony is doing, still means no two colonies play out the same today.