I'm honestly not sure how to explain this.

At first, Rimworld doesn't look like much. Graphically, it's not a AAA game. Mechanically, it's complicated to a point that new players can and will be turned off. It's as easy to lose colonists and colonies to mistakes you didn't know you were making as it is to events totally out of your control. The game is wildly unfair much of the time, and you will absolutely feel frustration and anger and sadness and agitation at the experience as you play.

The thing is, you feel those emotions because you quickly become attached to your colonists. Rimworld has an uncanny ability to make you feel for the little jellybeans on-screen, to make you really want them to survive and succeed. I have never once played a game that made me actually feel like I've genuinely lost something when a character dies. It may sound silly, but if you play long enough you will find yourself thinking the same way.

And then there's the mods. I have thousands of hours in this game, and I have managed to never get tired because each and every colony can be as different as I want it to be. Rimworld is less of a vanilla game and more of a mod platform these days, endlessly customizable to suit the tastes of literally any colony sim enjoyer. Want to be the Doom Slayer? Want a colony full of sentient snakes? Do you want to run a dark-ages castle manned by modern military soldiers riding flying horses that fire lasers from their eyes? We've got you, fam!

Look, I've been writing and erasing things from this review for a while, because Rimworld is one of those games that's too expansive and rich to fully explain in something as basic as a Steam review. If you like colony simulators, buy this game. It's the premier example of the genre for a reason, and you won't regret it.

Its alright.

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