What's Most Similar Game to Rimworld?

[Huge Beard Guy]

I'm curious to know what is considered the most similar game to Rimworld, what'd you say fits the bill?

[pauloandrade224]

drawf fortress for sure.

[pauloandrade224]

dwarf

[Huge Beard Guy]

Originally posted by pauloandrade224:

drawf fortress for sure.

Yeah, that was my go to answer as well.

[Lord Freedom]

Highly recommend Nobles Fates.

It's basically medieval fantasy Rimworld in 3D with Z levels. More focus on nobility and lineage. But you have a 'colony' and there are 'events' that create a story for the player. They just released a big update that added children and a deeper world map simulation (similar to dwarf fortress). Devs are very active in Steam discussion, highly organized and good at sticking to their roadmap.

Yeah that's my suggestion. Noble Fates.

Don't play Dwarf Fortress.

[Inari]

Clanfolk
Amazing Cultivation Simulator
Space Haven
Noble Fates
Going Medieval

[Mobscene]

Stranded Alien Dawn

[Edetha4]

I second Inari's suggestion of Amazing Cultivation Simulator.
With a few major differences, some could say it is basically Chinese Fantasy Rimworld.

[HMS_Indefatigable]

Hadn't heard of Noble Fates, I'll have to check that one out!

+1 on a recommendation to check out Going Medieval, it's probably my favorite after Rimworld, great devs and the 3-D is really well handled.

Stranded: Alien Dawn is a very literal Rimworld but 3-D, less content but again, being fully 3-D allows for some very different colony builds.

Dwarf Fortress is great if you can stand a god awful UI/UX, though the new Steam version improves this a lot. Still miles behind Rimworld in usability, though.

Oxygen Not Included is another popular option in the genre, though I've never liked Kei's very dense visual style, and so haven't played it much.

Cursed Crew is being made by members of the Vanilla Expanded team, it's said to be a sort of Rimworld meets FTL on a pirate ship. Also haven't tried it personally - that dammed Kei artstyle again.

Prison Architect isn't super close, but there are some similarities. Most notably it inspired RW's artstyle, and building is handled fairly similarly.

Norland isn't out in EA yet, but I tried a Next Fest demo and am watching it - shaping up to be a promising Rimworld meets Crusader Kings take, with a large emphasis on medieval style politics in a low fantasy setting.

Stardeus is another space colony sim with a Rimworld like UI and artstyle, but with quite a few twists to make it feel different - you play as an AI within the setting and are thus a lot more hands off with the colonists, and you start having to patch together a destroyed colony ship.

[Ivarukฅ(^•ᴥ•^)ฅﾉ彡]

putting in my 2 cents for Kenshi, been watching someone play it. the start is like youre playing a pawn, and later on you can setup a base. more sandboxy than RimWorld

[AldouzTek]

Originally posted by HMS_Indefatigable:

Hadn't heard of Noble Fates, I'll have to check that one out!

Oxygen Not Included is another popular option in the genre, though I've never liked Kei's very dense visual style, and so haven't played it much.

If you included this then you should try Ratopia.

[Goweigus]

Its probably not the most... Kenshi

edit: the most important difference is that your Kenshi people dont have mood or bickering issues

[Hamstadini]

I bought Songs of Syx a while back, it goes from Rimworld-like village to a city-state challenging kingdoms. Still in early access, so buyer beware

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1162750/Songs_of_Syx/

[Ender's games]

From the colony management perspective, I'd say Oxygen Not Included.

[Lord Freedom]

+1 also for Songs of Syx

I believe it's the largest scale city builder. After some 100s of hours, I finally had a city with about 12K population. Every citizen named, moods, schedules, jobs, etc. Huge battles. Diplomacy. Trade. Etc. It's a solo dev but he is basically a genius.

[HMS_Indefatigable]

I've checked out Songs of Syx before, but lordy, those screenshots are scary. Graphical style seems so...muddy compared to Rimworld. Seems like it would be hard to interpret how your colony is running. How's the interface, on a scale of Rimworld to Dwarf Fortress?

Also, how EA is it at this point, is it like Rimworld in it's later EA betas (feels pretty complete but more depth could be added), or are there obvious missing pieces still?