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Life & fun · October 28, 2015

RimWorld

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller.

RimWorld launched on October 28, 2015 with 72 votes, #948 of 4,175 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

What it does

RimWorld - A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller.

Build your own ship and travel across the planet! Explore exotic biomes, expand your mobile colony, and launch into space. Scavenge ancient tech on asteroids, abandoned space stations, and satellites. Find and defeat the mechanoid lair. Control mechanoids, raise a family with children, and play with genetic modifications. Fight or ally with xenohuman factions and explore the dark secrets of the blood-drinkers. Darkness stirs on the rim. Survive flesh infestations, cultist attacks, shambling undead, and other sanity-shredding perils. Capture and study entities and awaken an evil machine god. The Empire has arrived. Their refugee fleet settles the rimworld, and seeks allies. Royal titles,…from rimworldgame.com

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