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RimWorld
Developer Ludeon Studios
RimWorld is a construction and management simulation video game developed by Canadian game designer Tynan Sylvester and published by Ludeon Studios. Originally called Eclipse Colony, it was initially released as a Kickstarter crowdfunding project in early access for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux in November 2013, and version 1.0 was released on October 17, 2018. The game was ported to the PlayStation 4 and… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
926 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
96
LovedLoved
671 positive · 26 negative
95% range 95–97%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 671 | 26 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 63 | 4 | 94 |
| Lemmy * | 7 | 0 | 28 |
| Mastodon * | 5 | 3 | 25 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Overwhelmingly Positive
140,915 of 143,884 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
97% recommend · 282 yes, 8 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 290 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Overwhelmingly Positive (242,294 of 247,628 positive).
Players describe RimWorld as highly addictive, with many reporting thousands of hours played. [1][2][3] The game offers immense freedom, allowing players to shape their own stories from cozy farming to war crimes. [4][5][6] Some players criticize the high cost of DLCs, feeling they are overpriced and rarely on sale. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [4]
My boyfriend and I sit two feet apart... He's playing a game filled with war crimes, mass causalities, horrific factories and lifestyles that make you wish you lived in poverty. I'm playing a game with cozy farming, long standing benevolent kings and queens, and personal homes designed for each person... And somehow, we are both playing the same game. Rimworld is like that, its up to you to figure out how you want …
- [11]
Story time: So I once opted to live entirely under a mountain during a game. I was fed up with raids getting through my defences or crashing through my roofs, so the only way in or out of the base was down a long tunnel with a big castle gates at the end that the attackers would need to smash through. Either side I built bunkers that I could fire out of, but the attackers couldn't get into, with the only access to …
- [10]
I pirated this game in 2016. Just bought it officially. Make of that what you will. RimWorld isn't really a colony sim. It's a course in systems thinking. Food affects mood. Mood affects work. Work affects defense. Defense affects everything. You don't learn that from a tutorial — you learn it when your best crafter has a breakdown in the middle of a raid because you forgot to build them a bedroom. I'm genuinely …
- [3]
My playtime of 17k+ hours speak for themself. Amazing game design. Endless replayability and endless mods make this my favorite game of all times.
- [1]
Peep the playtime. That should be review enough. I am a disgusting maniac for this game. Beyond help.
Summarised from 34 of the 410 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 10, 2026. How summaries are made
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RimWorld sits at 96% positive across 697 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
RimWorld has received "generally favorable" reviews for Windows according to Metacritic, a review aggregator; the Xbox One version received "universal acclaim". Nomura Hikaru of IGN rated the game 9/10, describing it as "an all-in-one package for management simulation", and writing positively of the way it handled the player failing and its ability to tell a story. Sam Greer of PC Gamer gave a generally positive review, declaring that it was "a rich colony sim" and finding that its mid and late games were entertaining, while disliking the early game. Brendan Caldwell of Rock Paper Shotgun wrote positively of the game, commending its ability to create drama. RimWorld has been favorably…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 926 · most liked firstRimworld fan comic - Ship Designs Doing some game fan comics to get back into drawing lol
neutral · AI labelView post →Peep the playtime. That should be review enough. I am a disgusting maniac for this game. Beyond help.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sorry for torrenting the game illegally. i love it so much bought it nice n raw and im gonna earn each DLC with my hard earned money
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Passed 4k hrs over the weekend, so feels about time to leave a review, summarise my experience, and describe my experience of the game a bit... Good game (thumbs up)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Announcing RimWorld update 1.7! It moves the game from Unity to Waylith, our in-house engine, and runs 2-4x faster in our tests. Try it now on the unstable beta. Oh, and RimWorld isn’t the only game on Waylith... Read on Steam: store.steampowered.com/news/app/294100/view/672882362547178633
neutral · AI labelView post →My boyfriend and I sit two feet apart... He's playing a game filled with war crimes, mass causalities, horrific factories and lifestyles that make you wish you lived in poverty. I'm playing a game with cozy farming, long standing benevolent kings and queens, and personal homes designed for each person... And somehow, we are both playing the same game. Rimworld is like that, its up to you to figure out how you want to play it. I play it more like the sims, I want my pawns to have a long…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After spending what I feel is an adequate time to make a proper determination, I would say it's a very good game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I came for The Sims. I stayed for the chaos. 1,295 hours played (with Biotech, Anomaly, and Odyssey). I’ve never really considered myself a “gamer.” I grew up playing The Sims, Nintendo DS games, Bratz, interior design games, and whatever else my 90s childhood threw at me. What I loved most was creating something, watching it grow, and escaping into a world I could shape. Then I found RimWorld. At first, I almost didn’t buy it because it looked… overwhelming. Every screenshot made me think,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Story time: So I once opted to live entirely under a mountain during a game. I was fed up with raids getting through my defences or crashing through my roofs, so the only way in or out of the base was down a long tunnel with a big castle gates at the end that the attackers would need to smash through. Either side I built bunkers that I could fire out of, but the attackers couldn't get into, with the only access to the bunkers being from within my mountain base itself. This worked really…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Probably in 20 years, AAA studios and universities will be studying how RimWorld managed to stay popular for over a decade without battle passes, seasons, or any of the other nonsense.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Back 8 years ago, I genuinely used to feel crazy for playing Rimworld. Like who are you gonna talk about to about that one crazy pawn who keeps setting your stockroom on fire over not eating at a table? Or about the first time you ever had to deal with a drop pod raid? Despite all that though, I find myself looking back on everything. Not just the game itself, but gaming as a whole. And it opened my eyes to see Rimworld as more than just a game I play, but as a massive project countless…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Drew a moment in my Rimworld game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Don't buy this game if you value your time, it'll ruin your life. You'll put off doing anything productive in favor of playing this piece of software that can only be described as virtual crack. Your colonists' lives will be more important than your own, and soon enough you'll be homeless and won't be able to play anymore, meaning you'll have to sell your body behind a wallmart to afford running the game at a cybercafe or something. If you're fine with going through all of that, then…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good game. Just wished the DLC did not cost as much as the base game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →think I'm starting Control today. Kinda wanted my next game to be Star Wars Outlaws as I've heard it's quite a bit better than maybe average public opinion says, but I want to do that one on PS5 and I'm away from home, so... Control? Rimworld? ...more Caves of Qud? decisions...
neutral · AI labelView post →Fantastic game but around £120 to play the game with the dlc is insane.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My playtime of 17k+ hours speak for themself. Amazing game design. Endless replayability and endless mods make this my favorite game of all times.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →dumb stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game i hate it i had a good colony going but every step of the way my colonists had to be micromanaged like little babies so they wont starve to death and wont kill themselves then a single raider came and killed everyone because my loser incel colonists had temper tantrums about eating raw food without a table (there were 30 lavish meals in storage)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'd love to recommend this game to my friends, but every other year it becomes a more expensive product, and I just... can't. People will use arguments like, "The base game is perfectly fine, just play it and if you want more, get the DLCs later." This ignores the fact that game developers commonly leave out features that feel like they belong in the base game so they can sell them later. I'm not claiming that's what happened here, but it easily could be, and nobody would be the wiser for it.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →urmgnnhgh i looooove rimworld but i cant play it because then i'd get fat... but its soooo good
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rimworld Devs: Here is a game about brutal, uncompromising survival on the edge of the universe. Prepare for blood in the dust. Me playing Rimworld: My interplanetary spaceship's paleontological museum is finally complete! Now I can focus on making my dragons a bedroom that's not in the library
positive · AI labelView post →Fuck Geoff, whats YOUR Game of the Year? I don't even care if it came out in 2025, what was THE game that got you through the last 12 months I'm going with Rimworld, the new expansion absolutely sucked me back in like an endless vacuum, just typing this makes me want to play ig again
positive · AI labelView post →So.. in Rimworld, I like to name the pawns after OCs. In a game I just started I randomly named them Charlie, Dave and Ivanna. Within mere minutes, Dave had hit on Ivanna, got engaged to Ivanna and got Ivanna pregnant. Dude works fast. (This game is a hoot.) #DuckyArt
positive · AI labelView post →The game I have more hours in than any other is Rimworld. Offline. Single player. Regular updates for free, DLC at a reasonable price every few years. Active modding community. 2000+ hours logged. Not every damn fucking game needs to be a live service to stay alive and viable. Christ.
positive · AI labelView post →some interesting math for me. this game plus all dlc is 114.95 as of where and when I am at this point. 114.95/6007.8 is my play time. that not quite .02 cents each hour of gameplay at this point. I think ive got my moneys worth wrung out of the game. I wonder how low I can make that stat. we will have to find out in a few thousand more hours.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When I make cannibal rat cultists in Rimworld ( every game )
neutral · AI labelView post →This week I will NOT!!! be doing 11 hour streams!!! But we do have some Deltarune, game trailer reacting, Noita with @patstaresat.bsky.social, Rimworld, and Hildibrand with @benbevoicing.com !! See you there!! 🎨 @cherulean.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Fentanyl laced crack would probably be healthier and less addicting than continuing to play this game 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is great and so far I cant stop playing it but the DLC's are a bit overpriced
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this is how you beat the game Rimworld; it's not actually about going to space, it's about making friends with the giant bugs and making cozy little beds for them
positive · AI labelView post →---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☑ Decent Depends on mods,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This isn't a game it's an addiction. You start a file. Everything goes wrong. You learn things (hopefully). You start a new run. You do better, something else goes wrong. You start a new run. And another, and another, and another. Time becomes meaningless. 10 minutes turns into 4 hours. Life begins to make sense. The questions of the universe unravel as you realize we are the silly little pawns who keep ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ up every task they're given and the great creator is yelling at their…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had 60 chicks suffering from hypothermia. I sold them to a vendor. When the vendor left, they all collapsed and died. I basically got paid for murdering a whole generation of chicken.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Play Marvel rivals! Play Deadlock!!!" Me having a existential crisis since last year and clocking the 6000th hour of Rimworld cause I wanna play a game where I can harvest organs and poop to make money while torturing my colonists. "No thanks."
positive · AI labelView post →dlc is overpriced and rarely ever on sale. very little content for what you get.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Best longterm offline Linux friendly games? Give me your best!. cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48176362 > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48176361 > > I like community builders and games that I can keep a world for years and grow, watch it evolve. I enjoy Rimworld. ARK evolved series is good. > > > > Bonus if it's multiplayer capable LAN and not online. > > > > Oxygen not included is nice but mentally taxing sometimes. I prefer laid back chill games with economy and…
neutral · AI labelView post →I pirated this game in 2016. Just bought it officially. Make of that what you will. RimWorld isn't really a colony sim. It's a course in systems thinking. Food affects mood. Mood affects work. Work affects defense. Defense affects everything. You don't learn that from a tutorial — you learn it when your best crafter has a breakdown in the middle of a raid because you forgot to build them a bedroom. I'm genuinely smarter because of this game. Not in a "I know more facts" way — in a "I now…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think the four digit 'Hours played' says alot, but I'll add this: Rimworld can be whatever you want it to be. It can be stardew valley, it can be project zomboid, it can be XCOM, it can Starcraft. All you gotta do is set it up. And fear not Randy, Randy is your friend. Cassandra is the enemy.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I hope you’re all excited to ruin my Rimworld game for my birthday stream on Thursday
neutral · AI labelView post →I will literally play Stardew, Rimworld and FTL over and over again before I'll rent a virtual game console and I will never get bored.
positive · AI labelView post →Started a new game of Rimworld: Just A Guy. This character loves animals and an iguana self tamed, so even though we have nothing I must do everything in my power as the guardian to keep his iguana safe. He goes on caravans barefoot and naked across the desert with the loyal iguana. This is gaming
positive · AI labelView post →10/10 game, You can imprison your enemies, Harvest their organs for sale then eat what remains of their body
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't know why I waited so long to play this game. I kept waiting for a crazy sale, and the game never seemed to have a REALLY good deal. I eventually caved in and bought it when it was only like $5 off normal price. There was a small learning curve to the game since you've got to manage all sorts of things with your colony, BUT it's completely doable and is amazing. I put about 20 hours into the game, restarting a new colony a couple of times before I realized that I was completely…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finally started playing Rimworld after watching people play it for ages. It's a lot for my simple brain lmao. But man, what a good game
positive · AI labelView post →Rimworld is really a dangerous game, sometimes you keep reloading things with a 300 mods every load screen takes 15 minutes and then you give up, sometimes you just start playing and look up and it's been five hours
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is an ADHD prison. If your loved one is a bit neurotic and you need some time off, just buy them this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game that does avoid this is Rimworld, with Ideology, because you can enforce, in the mechanics, very explicit limits and directions on your community that channel you into otherwise 'suboptimal' or 'exciting' modes of play.
positive · AI labelView post →Best longterm offline Linux friendly games? Give me your best!. I like community builders and games that I can keep a world for years and grow, watch it evolve. I enjoy Rimworld. ARK evolved series is good. Bonus if it's multiplayer capable LAN and not online. Oxygen not included is nice but mentally taxing sometimes. I prefer laid back chill games with economy and farming. 2d or 3d doesn't matter. I don't mind trying indie games. Survival based games are nice. I'm not super pick and…
neutral · AI labelView post →I am writing this review while my current colony actively burns to the ground. Recommended | Playtime: 373 hours (and counting) I bought this game on a complete whim because I thought I was getting something like Stellaris; a grand, sweeping sci-fi strategy game where I’d conquer the stars. It wasn't like Stellaris at all. It was so much better. Instead of commanding fleets of battleships, my first few runs consisted entirely of my colonists getting completely wiped out by something…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It’s only secondarily a survival game, but I’ve always found it a little ridiculous that RimWorld has intricate, multi-phase substance abuse and withdrawal mechanics, but no one ever needed to pee. “Dub’s Bad Hygiene” is a mandatory mod, for me.
positive · AI labelView post →Still the best colony management game ever made, hands down. And with the robust and healthy modding community, the most consistently replayable game I own.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →bought this game 19days ago, i already have 200+ hours on it. Yes, buy it. I've forsaken my remote job for this. Nothing else except the colony matters.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No internet for the past few days, but at least I can still play RimWorld while Dave sleeps on my lap
neutral · AI labelView post →Shocking the article left out the last surprising note on the update blog: Ludeon Studios says Rimworld isn't the only game running on the new, homemade Waylith engine. 😉
neutral · AI labelView post →You'd think after nearing 2800 hours in this game (And nearly a decade) I'd be able to write a solid and cohesive review for this game. But honestly, I still am at a loss for words. I spent the first 50ish hours trying to learn it, and the rest of the time just having fun. It's a brilliant colony management sim that you can play in more ways that I can count. Whatever happens in one playthrough, likely wont happen in another (Even if you start nearly exactly the same). After the amount of DLC…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am an actual deranged pervert for Rimworld, my second most played game of all time is Team Fortress 2 with 524.8 hours!
positive · AI labelView post →This stuff should be regulated and access strongly limited. I lost my life the day I bought this damned game. Every waking minute is spent watching the stupid little people and screaming at them to stop doing stupid stuff and return to normalcy long ceased to be an option. 10/10, would not recommend this game even to my worst enemy
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Decided to start a normal, peaceful game. 1 hour later I was selling organs to caravans. 11/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i honestly dont know how to feel about this game. When it comes to almost all features, it does them perfectly. It truly is one of the best Colony Sims out there. There are an endless amount of reasons why its good. However, the base game with no DLCs feels bland, there simply isnt enough to do. And obviously, this is why the DLCs exist. But at the end of the day, they cost so much money. Why do i need to pay enough money to buy entirely seperate games, for just extra addons to a vanilla game?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →10/10 i harvested someones organs and they were mad for some reason but since i took all their limbs too they couldnt do ♥♥♥♥ about it
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