RimWorld

RimWorld

Steam Deck Verified

Ludeon Studios · Colony Sim · Oct 17, 2018

Yes, worth buying.

It's at its lowest recorded price, $27.99.

98%
Overwhelmingly Positive
244k player reviews
High confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Gameplay: 46 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Monetization: 25 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 12 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Combat: 14 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Performance: 7 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Crashes: 6 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 244k player reviews · updated 4 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
50% of themes are praise20% are divided30% are caveats
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
I have an entire concept document for a spin off title that could be free to play that takes the core of rimworld and turns it into a really bare bones interdimensional co-op optimized community oriented arcana inspired experience that I think would do a great job both aclimatizing newcomers to the rimworld formula and entice people to pick it up and explore it after the simplicity of the free to play spin off proves less engaging, while offering in-app cosmetic purchases that do nothing to affect the gameplay but help support the operation and development costs
46 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Monetization
Players who bring up Monetization mostly praise it.
But the DLCs are wayy to expensive especially considering many of them are like, basically a mod that has access to hardcoded stuff modders can't mess with.
25 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
The art style is also interesting especially because it does exactly what it sets out to do (as far as I understood) which is to be so plain that you end up kinda imagining stuff in your head whilst still providing all the visual information you need to play the game smoothly.
12 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Multiplayer
Players who bring up Multiplayer mostly praise it.
Farmer world PSUDEO MMO (interconnected playthroughs on a loose multiplayer system that creates shared non-combat planets for peaceful growth and civilization building)
8 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
The OST for this game is truly amazing.
7 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love5 themes
Gameplay46 reviews
Monetization25 reviews
Graphics12 reviews
Multiplayer8 reviews
Audio7 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Story and characters60 reviews
93%
Difficulty21 reviews
81%
Players complain% still recommend
Combat14 reviews
93%
Performance7 reviews
57%
Crashes6 reviews
67%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 2 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

Lowest ever recorded

Currently $27.99 (−20%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.

5 points recordedtoday · $27.99

The data behind the verdict

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Player review score
98%
Overwhelmingly Positive
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