RimWorld

Download 500 mods, try to use them, complain it loads slow, play anyways, 10/10

Awesome game. But im actually here to trash talk anomaly.

Anomaly—the much-anticipated RimWorld DLC that promised Lovecraftian horrors and eldritch chaos but instead delivered a bloated, thematically jarring mess that feels like a mod someone stitched together over a long weekend with too much ambition and far too little restraint. Strap in.

1. Thematic Whiplash

Let’s start with the core sin: Anomaly does not belong in RimWorld. This isn’t just a mild departure from tone—it’s a full-blown identity crisis. RimWorld has always thrived on grounded, emergent storytelling with sci-fi roots. You build colonies, manage people, and deal with pirates and weather. Now suddenly there are possessed colonists, otherworldly void creatures, and SCP knockoffs wandering around like someone accidentally loaded a corrupted X-Files save file into the game. It’s a Frankensteinian patchwork of cosmic horror tropes that utterly disrupts the established narrative tone. RimWorld is about surviving the chaos of a hostile world, not suddenly becoming a budget cast member in The Thing.

2. Poor Integration with Existing Gameplay

You’d think a DLC would weave seamlessly into the fabric of the core game. Anomaly, instead, feels like it was glued on with duct tape. The new systems—containment, rituals, anomalies, horrors—are barely tethered to the mechanics that make RimWorld enjoyable. They introduce a whole new vocabulary of resources, buildings, and threats that operate largely in a vacuum. There’s no subtlety. The events don’t feel like natural extensions of the world—they’re interruptions. Worse still, they force players into this horror management sim whether they want it or not, unless they completely neuter the content in settings. That’s not immersion—that’s intrusion.

3. Content Bloat Without Depth

In typical fashion, Anomaly throws a buffet of new horrors at you without really fleshing them out. There’s no elegance here. Just an avalanche of half-baked features. Sure, there are spooky artifacts, cultists, and mutation mechanics, but most of them feel shallow and underdeveloped. The DLC operates on spectacle over substance. It’s all very dramatic—pulsing obelisks, screaming nightmares, unkillable beasts—but none of it has the layered systems or emergent complexity that RimWorld's base game (and earlier expansions like Ideology or Biotech) achieved. It’s window dressing masquerading as innovation.

4. AI and Balance Nightmares

Oh, the AI. Colonists are still dumb as ever when interacting with these new threats. They’ll gleefully wander into forbidden horror zones, stare at sanity-destroying anomalies, or try to fistfight interdimensional beasts. The balance is equally laughable. Some events are mere nuisances, while others feel like you accidentally tripped a "lose game now" switch. There’s no nuance, no ramp-up—it’s either a cakewalk or a massacre. It reeks of untested, unbalanced chaos. And not the fun kind.

5. Tedious Micromanagement

Managing anomalies and horrors adds a layer of busywork that feels more punishing than engaging. Containment procedures are clunky, rituals are long-winded and repetitive, and the new facilities require a ridiculous amount of micromanagement. Instead of compelling strategic depth, you get a parade of arbitrary mechanics that demand attention constantly without rewarding it meaningfully. The result? Fatigue. You don’t feel like a clever overseer—you feel like a babysitter for an asylum full of screaming mechanics.

6. Tone-Deaf Storytelling

The narrative elements in Anomaly are the worst kind of horror writing: derivative and try-hard. There’s a lot of dramatic flair—cryptic notes, whispered voices, ancient evils—but none of it lands with any emotional weight. It’s like a teenager’s first attempt at writing cosmic horror after binging too much creepypasta. It lacks the subtlety, mystery, and tension that great horror requires. Everything is over-explained or ham-fisted, and none of it feels earned.




Final Verdict:

Anomaly is not just a misstep—it’s a full-body pratfall down a Lovecraftian staircase. It’s an awkward, overwrought DLC that tries to reinvent RimWorld as a horror game but forgets what made the base game great. It’s the digital equivalent of slathering caviar on a cheeseburger: expensive, unnecessary, and guaranteed to ruin both components. If you want horror in RimWorld, you're better off installing a few well-curated mods. At least those tend to respect the core gameplay loop rather than trample it in platform boots and eyeliner.

Add something with vehicles or features that introduce something of note to the game for God's sake...

One of the best colony sim games I have ever played. It feels like just the right amount of content and complexity. No amount of words could give this game justice.

So many memories: from having epic large-scale battles defending your base in a final stand, to losing an early colony because a squirrel went mad and bit your main fighting colonist, giving them an infection, and leaving them bedridden as a raid comes in.

180 hours in, and I've barely scratch the surface of what this game offers - and I don't even have all of the DLC yet (each which adds a since-able amount of new content to explore)!

Not to mention the modding community: There are so many mods that completely overhaul the game, as well as mods that just provide so much extra QOL. The base game alone is amazing, but with mods, it goes to the next level.

Absolutely love it, 10/10, will lose my base to random animals again.

Great immersive game. So good that I bought it after having pirated it. Goated game

I'm only 4 hours in. The game is fun and i can see that it's really fun. I just find it hard and i've fallen off of it a few times. Don't buy unless you're a pro at these type of games or you're willing to put in the work to get rewarded by it.

God forbid a man wants to have a 400+ mods modpack and get it to work,good game overall,I love to be eat people,commit war crimes,crash the economy and make rituals just to go play rimworld after.
10/10.

very nice game, tons of content, war crimes simulator, cult maker... it's just perfect. tho there's more I could say but it's too dark to talk more about it.

Fun yet challenging, this game makes me feel on edge at times, or laying back in my seat, having fun making strawberries, it manages to perfectly balance challenging with time to calm down and have fun, a must have for those who liked universim!

Genuinely one of the best games I've ever played, The replayability, The storys you can make, the success and the tragedy, endless hours of fun

A Game Where Your Imagination Runs Wild

Sometimes, a game comes along and you know: I am going to replay this game for the rest of my life (or until a new, better part 2 comes out). There is a very short list of this kind of games for me, and Rimworld is one of those.
Like once a year, I start a game and play for hundreds of hours. But I am never fully fed up. Next year, I will start a new game and will be as obsessed as I was for the first game.
Truly a remarkable game that does not need my praise, but gets it anyways.

This game will suck up all your free time and ruin your life in the best possible way. Enjoy!

The best game to spend 30 hours working on a modlist only to not play it for another month.

incredibly deep colony sim with a steep but rewarding learning curve, great music, and addictive gameplay.

Rimwolrd was one of my all time favorite games to play pretty much ever. Until the 1.5 update. Pawns refuse to take care of themselves, refuse to take care of others, and refuse to do any orders. They breakdown now at the drop of a needle. The fact that now for some reason around 10 people causes the game to run like its being ran through a potato. Oh and let me nbot forget the animals. A Hampster will now kill every single one of your colonists because for some reason they refuse to fight it. -11/10 absolutely buttfucked ruined game. DO NOT BUY UNTIL IT IS FIXED

Awesome modding community, and it tickles the 'tism in just the right way

This game is violent and confusing and I love it.

The game is perfect except for the places to start raid events and some events.

Love the game. The building, crafting, war, harvesting and growing are all awesome.

I want to kiss every single person who made this game. Thank you for making me waste hours of my life doing nothing productive. I truly enjoy this game. Play it. I love it.

Great base game.
DLCs add a different ways to play the game and are very different from each other.
Mods add a lot of flavour and improves a lot on the base game.

I do recommend!

If I were to go to a remote location with no internet and could only bring one game, this one would be it.

the more I think about this game and play it, the more terrifying and intricate its possibilities become.

All of my hours were before the second DLC released. That's when the modding scene started falling apart for those without the DLCs. Now, you need to cough up a ton of money if you actually want a fun experience. It's only worth it in my opinion if you know this is a game you KNOW you would love and have never played it before. I've obviously already spent my time with the game and it just doesn't feel worth it to upgrade. And I can't leave a good review because the game I've clocked so many hours into doesn't exist anymore. It's a massive pain in the ass to try and get a modlist going without the DLCs nowadays. Just a disappointment. If you want a game you can sink your time into while knowing you won't be sinking deeper into your wallet like some gacha mobile game, just get Dwarf Fortress.

One of my favorite games. i go through cycles of non-stop playing before putting the game down for months.

this game by default will display your computer clocks real time on the side of the UI

I played RimWorld and accomplished the original goal of the game- to escape. My 3rd play through, I am working on conquering the world! There are difficulties for every kind of player, so you can just play this as a peaceful colony simulator. However...

Did the game developers really envision creating a war crime simulator when they made the game? Yes, you can harvest organs and grow drugs, they knew what they were doing. I explained to my husband that I was giving my pawns drugs, so they wouldn't be too tired to fight. Yes, I was giving my own people crack so they would fight like warriors!

Your first time you play you will struggle, but it's a survival game. A big enough group of deranged bunnies, can indeed kill all your colonist.

Where do I even start with this game?
The most unhinged, beautiful, unfair, and above all else, fun colony sim I have ever played.

One run it'll go from 39 polar bears raiding my desert base -and all dying from heatstroke- to Randy blessing me with 14 hyperweave eyepatches the day that my only remaining colonist lost both his eyes, mere minutes before he gets obliterated by a gold meteor that landed in my hospital.

The next it'll go smooth, harvesting organs, making profits, right up until my genetically engineered melee pawn loses a social fight to a one legged, armless 0-in-melee-having wimp that BIT OF HIS HEAD. This of course caused his wife to have a mental break, binging drugs to the point of an overdose. Which, of course, lead to more mental breaks that spiralled to the point where same one legged, armless pawn had to defend against a siege raid bombarding me with mortars. And he somehow managed survive, only to die of malaria five days later.

The one after that your pawn spawns in next to a starving jaguar and gets mauled 45 seconds in. A mauling that she won't only survive (with no fingers), but to thrive afterwards- down to the point of her becoming your dedicated harp player.

And the one after that will have that one pawn that will stick in your mind forever. Vulture my beloved. Vulture gods greatest mistake. Vulture, the woman that spawned in with a crosshair tattooed on her head, an old gunshot wound (in her head), a 17 in shooting, and the 5-shots-5-destroyed-hearts-in-a-row record. With a dinky, poor quality lever action rifle in foggy weather. Goddamn I miss her.

Every run is unhinged in it's own special way. No moment is safe. Randy does not care about you or anything else. And every last blow he levels against my sanity is another reason to smile and to love this game even more.

🌌 RimWorld isn’t just a colony sim.
It’s a story generator that writes tragedy, triumph, and madness one disaster at a time.

You don’t simply "play" RimWorld.
You lead, build, struggle, and fall apart — again and again.
And somehow, you love every minute of it.

🎮 Why RimWorld is unforgettable:

🛠️ Deep, rich colony management — every choice can save or destroy you.
⚔️ Brutal, unpredictable events — where one bad raid or cold snap rewrites your entire saga.
🧠 Endless emergent storytelling — no two worlds, no two tales are ever the same.
🌍 Procedural drama that feels more real than scripted stories.
🎵 A calm, eerie soundtrack that quietly reminds you: survival is not guaranteed.

Things I mastered in RimWorld:

• A good plan survives exactly until the first mechanoid dropship lands.
• Your best colonist will inevitably die because of food poisoning.
• Never trust "mild" winters.
• Pets are emotionally more dangerous than raids.
• Success in RimWorld isn’t survival — it’s building hope on a dying world.

💬 TL;DR:
RimWorld isn’t about perfection.
It’s about resilience — carving life out of chaos, failure, loss, and stubborn dreams.

You will lose.
You will rebuild.
You will watch stories unfold that no other game could create.

🔥 Final Verdict:
10/10. Would fail gloriously and rebuild civilizations on alien worlds again.

🛠️ Special respect to the incredible modding community — expanding RimWorld into endless new frontiers of madness, hope, and survival.
Your creativity is legendary. 🚀

Simple on the surface, with a ton of complexity underneath. Best game of this genre I've ever played.

DLC's are expensive, but the Vanilla has enough to learn and experience on it's own. Modding community is solid if you're into that. Base game is completely worth it and will keep you entertained for many hours.

I don’t know what kind of spell this game has, but lately I’ve been opening RimWorld only to get lost in thought for hours while it runs silently in the background. It’s like I’m mentally preparing myself to actually play it. Postponing the chaos, savoring the calm before the storm.

500 Hours of my life....gone. 500 hours sacrificed to appease Randy Random as i try and endure the sick and twisted story he plays out for me each and every run. But the movement of the pawns as they survive, build, and thrive is absolutely mesmerizing to me. It just unlocks a floodgate of dopamine in my brain that causes me to come back time and time again, losing hours, days, or even weeks of my time. And the worst part....i let my self repeat the cycle over and over and over....and I love every second of it. So with that...500 hours of my life is gone....and id happily spend 500 more just to keep playing this masterpiece of a game.

100% Absolutely recommend this game. With my accumulated 6831 hours, I can honestly say this is my favorite game of all time. With the wide variety of mods, the modding community, the plethora of playstyles, themes, and genres you can cover, it is nigh limitless in replay ability.

The wind carries the cries of those who did not last the night. There is beauty here, if beauty is the glint of a knife in the dark or the way a man’s eyes go vacant when he buries his third child. The screen glows like a funeral pyre. You tell yourself it is only a game. But the truth is written in the ashes. In the end, all colonies fall. And what survives is not the people, nor their dreams, but the cruel arithmetic of what they did to endure.

really good game i have a cat girl amry but... one complaint wayyyyyy to long for kids to grow up anyone know any mods to speed it up???

Rimworld is a 10/10 colony sim in my oppinion. you can do almost anything with your colonies. SCP, War Hammer 40k, zombie hordes, fantasy RPG, future cyberpunk soldiers vs medieval era factions, and soooooo much more (with mods of course). The base game is solid if you wanna just take care of basic colonies but buying the DLC adds A LOT, even without mods. i spend a lot of time on this game.... probably too much these days.

This is the sort of timeless masterpieces that set the standards of an entire game genre. Think the Diablo 2 of colony sims.
If you are put off by the graphics initially, like I was, try to ignore that, and give the game a try, you will not be disappointed.
Simply put, there is no other colony sim out there that does what Rimworld does in the way that it does it.
And if you don't believe me just scroll down a bit and take a look at how many reviews with people who spent 500h + have to say about it.

TL;DR
Just buy the game. With or without the DLC. You will almost certainly NOT regret it.

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Overwhelmingly positive... this game really doesn't need another positive review but I feel obligated to do so after 888 hours played. This is for sure, my most played game. I have more hours in CIV6 but that's from leaving it open and then going to work and avoiding load times. Not the case with this game as it loads relatively fast compared to other games I have.

If you like colony sims, or if you are a control freak and need an outlet THIS IS YOUR GAME. Multiple stories unfold every time you play this game. High drama between people in your own tribe, battles against other tribes, form your own religion to guide your people, run a democracy or dictatorship, grow crops, deal drugs, invade neighbours, ally with everyone, be a slave trader, or run a naked cult who only eats veggies THE CHOICE IS YOURS!

After about 800 hours I decided to install a mod that would allow me to configure my starting party exactly as I wished. Members named after my family with traits my family members have. Exiled my sister for starting too many fights.

I'm SURE there are numerous people out there with more hours played. I'd like to point out though that I'm a father, with too many hobbies and chores to do. Yet somehow... over the last several years, EVEN WITH A GAMING RIG that can play pretty much anything including the hundreds of other games I own, THIS is the game I come back to. It works great locally installed on MAC or PC and it works great via steamlink on Linux(installed on PC)

I would only recommend TWO things for this game. The ability to customise your starting party in detail AND the ability to start multiple colonies on one planet. That said the mod community is huge on this game even though I've only dipped a toe.

... this game is EXCELLENT.

There... i've done my duty...

Rimworld is a masterclass in the colony sim genre and has stood atop its competitors since release. Endlessly replayable, it never loses his charm or lustre. Few games have managed to strike such a perfect difficulty balance as Rimworld. The different storytellers and settings within make it easy to find the right balance without having to methodically edit it yourself. You may gravitate towards one particular playstyle you find works best but I encourage you to try different things and different biomes, some are definitely easier than others but each presents its challenges.

This is a game you always come back to. You might not play it for 6 months but suddenly the urge hits and you play it for 40 hours straight. Every DLC is significant in what it adds without being gimmicky as can often be the case. I haven't bought anomaly since horror doesn't interest me but every other DLC is highly recommended and this is coming from someone who is very cheap and selective in what I buy. This game was released into early access and should serve as the most notable triumph of the model. Countless early access games have come and been abandoned and many other games have tried to copy or put a twist on the Rimworld formula. None have come close to capturing its essence and perfection.

This game is a masterpiece.

watched a child get struck by lightning explode causing a fire that detonated my nuclear program. admittedly i did genetically engineer the child to be full of highly volatile chemicals.

Fun game to chill out and play. Endless replay ability.

It is the ultimate video game. You command a community of complicated little people with many needs each with different traits and abilities as you slowly progress in technology up to making a giant spaceship. You build a base to suit their needs; it can be a town or a mansion or a cave or anything as long as it can withstand the raids and deadly wildlife. Your base evolves as your technology does and as you gain and require more and more resources. You even farm to keep people alive. It's masterfully designed and the stories you'll experience, some of triumph and some of tragedy, stick with you forever. Fantastic game.

At first, I didn't take the game so seriously, what could be so exciting about a game where you control some pawns right?

I found myself 30 hours later growing weed in a farm and trade it for weapons, I have become the new Pablo Escobar of Rimworld.

5/5

tries to do a morally good run.
needs some silver
gets raided
imprisons survivors
remove all limbs
remove 1 kidney and lung
sells to empire
profit

I started RimWorld thinking it was just another colony sim. Hundreds of hours later, I’m still completely hooked. No two playthroughs are ever the same—one moment, my colony is thriving, the next, a manhunting squirrel wipes out half my people. The AI storyteller keeps things unpredictable, and that’s what makes it so addictive.

The DLCs make it even better:

Royalty made my colonist feel like a space queen/king, complete with psionic powers and royal drama.

Ideology let me build a colony of tree-worshipping cannibals (best run ever).

Biotech? Now I’m gene-modding super soldiers and raising an army of mechanoids.

The depth of micromanagement is another highlight. You can control everything—assigning colonist priorities, customizing their schedules, managing food production, designing defenses and even deciding how they dress. If you love fine-tuning every detail, this game is a dream.

And then there are mods—an endless source of new content. Whether it’s adding more weapons, overhauling mechanics, or turning the game into a full sci-fi RPG, the modding community keeps RimWorld fresh forever.

RimWorld isn’t just a game—it’s an endless sandbox of chaos, strategy, and storytelling. If you love emergent gameplay, deep micromanagement, and infinite replayability, get ready to lose track of time.

⏳ Playtime: 1000+ hours (and I regret nothing)
👍 Recommended? 1000 times yes!

this is one of the most blessed and cursed games i have played. well worth the price to create a cult of cannibal, bunny worshiping nudist stoners that like trees. mods are your friend here after you've done everything. i recommend playing vanilla for a while first

Rimworld is one of those games that is whatever you make of it. If you love the idea of sandbox story telling with an rpg/rts sprinkling then this game will give you hours of fun. There are end game style objectives but the real fun of this game is from the stories you create from your own challenges or community based challenges. The mod scene is amazing as well.

I have had this game for a total of 72 hours.
One of my mods convinced me to buy this since it was on sale as I am currently so bored with any games I already have, and wanted a single player game to absorb my entire well being and purpose of existence.

In the first 20 minutes of gameplay I witnessed cannibalism, nudists, a divorce, two break ups, and a whole lot of unfortunate illnesses.

This is better than this Sims, and I have over 1000 hours of gameplay in that atrocity. Rimworld is the greatest game I have ever played. Mod it, AND IT IS EVEN MORE INSANE. I can't stop playing.

10/10

I have been playing this game on and off for awhile. Its a great game and is made even better by mods.

my first session with this game lasted 16.4 hours. 16 HOURS. I didn't even have the time, ignored all real world needs for the story and glory of my digital companions.

they died. a lot.

the gameplay loop is so addictive and once you lose it all, you just want to get it back. my girlfriend compared it in that right to DayZ.