Rimworld Dev Tracker

Originally posted by Siriflex

RimWorld is a great game at heart, the gameplay is open and free to let you do what you want, becoming a humble farming colony, or making and selling human hats on the Rim's Black Market and slaughtering your enemies without mercy, the choice is yours, but, what makes the game addicting?

You could simply say the gameplay is just so enjoyable, it's hard to decide "enough is enough" and close it down for the night at 3am, tomorrow is another day after all, but I could say that the game makes you feel emotions. Happiness, sadness or anger, the game let's you build a sentimental, and valued connection to your colonists. I can't speak for everyone, as everyone is different, everyone conveys emotion different, however when I had my period of "wow I can't stop playing this game", I grew a connection with my colony that I spent over 100 hours building up to what I saw was perfection, and something I could say "I am happy with what I have built".

I was building an army, a st...

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Originally posted by divesyer

From what I’d read before on one of the threads on this sub, the game was intended to be played in less than 10 in-game years (personal preference, debatable play-time based on person) and raising a kid for 16 years to be useful in menial tasks is probably not a very smart option for a bunch of space refugees.

Originally posted by Hobbvots

It should say 'had a picnic +1'

Originally posted by ohgodspidersno

Background

So I think a lot of us are pretty miffed about PCG's dismissive review of Rimworld. For those out of the loop, it's not because of the middling score but because:

1. It was very clear the writer (who I won't name) hadn't even learned all of the controls before passing judgment on them. She is not a senior writer for PCG, nor does she seem to enjoy this genre of game, so picking her to write this piece seems like an odd choice for the most popular colony management game in history.

2. The review derided the game as "painfully heteronormative" because "gay" takes up a trait slot, implying that being gay is in some way part of someone's personality and biology. How horrible. To be fair, I agree that sexuality is not handled as well in Vanilla as it is in the Psychology mod, which among other things replaces the sexuality traits with a sliding ...

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Originally posted by Hyndis

Rimworld has a 97% positive score on Steam. 97% out of 28,885 reviews like the game.

Thats astounding. It truly is. Its one thing if something has a 100% score but only has 3 reviews, but twenty eight thousand reviews later and 97% of them still like it? Thats amazing, thats what it is. EA would sell their own mother in a series of microtransactions to get even half of that.

Tynan did this all pretty much on his own. It was a one man operation back in the days of SendOwl. He's since expanded the development team but it was still mostly Tynan. That level of universal acclaim isn't just to be commended, its a marvel. Its truly amazing. That many reviews and such a positive rating boggles the mind. It shouldn't be possible, and yet Tynan did it. Rimworld is just that good.

u/TynanSylvester, remember when Rimworld first launched on Steam in early access and you were nervous as hell on the first day? What would the...

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