RimWorld Console Edition

Rimworld is not one of the best games I have ever played. It is THE best game I have ever played. It is absurdly fun to get good at. It is absurdly fun to play once you've gotten good at it. It is absurdly fun to cheat your butt off with the built-in dev console that can be activated in the options menu. It's just absurdly fun no matter who you are or what you're doing. ` Let's talk about the game itself. You begin by picking a scenario, which determines things like how many colonists and research you start with, what faction you're considered to be in, and what research you start with. In addition to the game's starter scenarios, you can make your own with the scenario editor, download them off the Steam Workshop, and receive them as part of other mods. After that, you pick your storyteller, an AI which decides when you get raided, when you get raided, and whether you get raided by pirates or manhunting squirrels with space rabies. Then, you generate your world with a seed and some easy-to-understand settings. Then you pick the tile of the world where you start. ` After that, you're off to the races, and you get an immense amount of freedom as to what that means. Want to make a group of pig people who breed turtles and sell them for profit? You can do that. Want to make a coalition of women with fox ears and tails who sacrifice people to their blood god in order to gain more tails and become stronger? You can do that. Want to make a simplistic farm with just a man and a dog growing corn to sell and eat that eventually grows into a village of 30 vampires with laser miniguns? You can do that. ` Now, I need to add a pretty big asterisk to that statement. See, in regular Rimworld, the thing you'll get if you just buy the base game, none of those are possible. If you want to do those things, you'll need mods and DLC. I know I'm just supposed to be reviewing the base game that's on consoles, but I have been referring to the modded game on PC because it is so much better. If you want to get Rimworld, make sure you buy it on a computer using the software known as Steam or get it on a Steam Deck. This will allow you access to the Steam Workshop, where you can obtain mods and scenarios with just one click of the green Subscribe button. Not to mention the game's DLCs that add massive amounts of content. I would recommend having your child check with you before installing mods so you can view the mod's page and confirm it will be okay. ` I also need to add an asterisk to that statement, because installing 200-ish mods before getting even 1 hour of playtime is a massive mistake. Learn the game with no mods and DLC first, then start installing small mods, then work up to big things like Save Our Ship 2. ` I've tried to focus this review on the features and smaller details which don't appear in other reviews that I feel are important to mention. I have run out of small details to talk about. See ya!