Ship to the stars, or a custom ending. Most players stay for the stories.

Phoebe for learning, Cassandra for classic pacing, Randy for chaos.

Unofficial mods. Vanilla is single-player.

Losing is fun — that is the slogan. Lower it until it is.

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The story is the raid you were not ready for

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The loop

RimWorld is a story-generator colony sim. You draft pawns, build a base, and survive Randy or a milder storyteller. The fun is the disaster you caused with a poorly placed battery.

Land, shelter, grow food, research, then fight raids with a killbox or a principle — until a fire, a heart attack, or a thrumbos.

First moves

1.Crashland on a temperate forest with Cassandra or Phoebe, not Ice Sheet Randy, for the first colony.
2.Prioritize a freezer, beds, and a growing zone. Mood is a resource.
3.Draft and practice a simple choke. Three unarmed pawns in a hallway still lose to a manhunting pack if you panic.
4.Read the work tab. Doctors should not be hauling during surgery.