# Rimworld: old west meets sci-fi **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** video-games-e-games\ **Created:** [September 7, 2015, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimworld-old-west-meets-sci-fi/730244 "2015-09-07T16:17:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimworld-old-west-meets-sci-fi/730244/142 "2022-08-25T19:26:24Z")
There is also [Going Medieval.](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1029780/Going_Medieval/) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimworld-old-west-meets-sci-fi/730244/143 "2022-08-25T19:34:36Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > [Going Medieval](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1029780/Going_Medieval/) That sounds more like a castle simulator and doesn’t say anything about raids being optional. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimworld-old-west-meets-sci-fi/730244/144 "2022-08-29T00:24:47Z")
Just picked Going Medieval up for $20, it’s very much like Rimworld, has a lot of the same game mechanics and commands. For example, items decay when left on the ground, you draw a Stockpile Zone on the ground, and it even has the same sort of UI to designate what jobs each person should be doing. It also has a peaceful mode when starting a game that has no raids. The cool thing about this so far is you can build 3D and freely rotate the camera. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimworld-old-west-meets-sci-fi/730244/145 "2022-09-07T17:26:42Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I’m currently on a similar [urban ruins](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1253750874) map in the middle of a jungle canyon. Enclosed mountain caves to the north and south with narrow openings on the west and east; it’s like a river dried up and left ponds of swamp water. Anyone entering from the east will likely get chomped by crocodiles. Alas, one of the mods I recently added broke the map. About half of the canyon walls got removed, rendering my defenses virtually useless. So I created a Companions colony for my own use, can’t properly do such a colony without someone adding Firefly factions. Even with all the mods I use, I don’t really have backstories befitting Companions so I used Prepare Carefully to specify seven Royal Masseuses and one Madam as their leader. They also have a pair of male androids helping out the place and took in a casualty of a nearby shuttle crash. Here’s a headless firefly in the pasture: [![](https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1788514093416310125/D5A5B2DFDA771DF8CF8937E4EC5ADB1865A7DB3A/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false) ](https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1788514093416310125/D5A5B2DFDA771DF8CF8937E4EC5ADB1865A7DB3A/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false) ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2022, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimworld-old-west-meets-sci-fi/730244/146 "2022-10-21T17:13:19Z")
[Biotech expansion](https://rimworldgame.com/biotech/) released today. Adds pregnancy/children, genetic engineering, new alien species, and a new colonist role in the “Mechanitor”, which allows them to command mechanoids (the old ones, and a set of new ones introduced in this expansion). Overall, it appears to be quite a meaty addition. I’m testing it out today! A welcome distraction from waiting for the release of Darktide at the end of November. ---
**Author:** ![omenran](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omenran/32/3318_2.png) [@omenran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omenran)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2022, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimworld-old-west-meets-sci-fi/730244/147 "2022-10-22T07:24:06Z")
For me, the biggest deal has been the update to 1.4 changing the shelves. Now each side of a shelf can store 3 items/stacks of most objects. (No chunks or large corpses) and this has really blown up storage and my settlement’s layout. I had already been considering doing a whole teardown as the arrangement and layout was piecemeal and needed changing pretty badly. And now you need a whole lot less space for storing the same amount of items. I also noticed painting floors/buildings but that may be from an earlier expansion added to core. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2022, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimworld-old-west-meets-sci-fi/730244/148 "2022-10-22T15:32:36Z")
> [@omenran](#): > > For me, the biggest deal has been the update to 1.4 changing the shelves. Now each side of a shelf can store 3 items/stacks of most objects. Steam has a mod for that. > **[Steam Workshop::LWM's Deep Storage](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1617282896)** ---
**Author:** ![omenran](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omenran/32/3318_2.png) [@omenran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omenran)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2022, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimworld-old-west-meets-sci-fi/730244/149 "2022-10-22T17:11:52Z")
I’m still doing my first settlement, so I only have the base game, and I wanted to see how it played before tinkering with any mods. And I was saying the **core** game is doing it, without mods. Hard to find notes about the update but not the expansion, but [this reddit post appears to have them.](https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/xx4ace/rimworld_update_14_showcase/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) > Shelves - Shelves hold up to 3 stacks of most items. Exceptions include large corpses, chunks, and minified things. - Added a single-tile small shelf. - Shelves can be linked into groups for easier management. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimworld-old-west-meets-sci-fi/730244/150 "2022-10-22T17:48:22Z")
Somehow I got the impression that the vanilla game _shrank_ shelf storage space so I linked a mod that greatly expands storage space. My bad. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimworld-old-west-meets-sci-fi/730244/151 "2022-11-24T20:20:19Z")
The people behind the _Combat Extended_ mod are working on their own alien world settlement builder. > **[RimWorld modders are making their own colony sim with real-time tactics combat](https://www.pcgamer.com/rimworld-modders-are-making-their-own-colony-sim-with-real-time-tactics-combat/)** > > Ascent of Ashes is coming in 2023 from the makers of the popular RimWorld Combat Extended mod. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimworld-old-west-meets-sci-fi/730244/152 "2023-04-24T13:23:17Z")
Looks like the Ideology DLC is being released for the Console Edition, at 12am on 25th April. Along with some Custom Scenarios, which are presumably to try and compensate for the lack of mods. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimworld-old-west-meets-sci-fi/730244/153 "2024-02-26T15:15:30Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Ha! I was just looking at Clanfolk yesterday & downloaded the demo. It looks super like Rimworld, but I haven’t gotten around to trying it yet. Almost two years later, and I finally tried the demo. Half an hour in, I checked the main page for Clanfolk, saw it’s on sale for $20, and downloaded it. It’s really lovely so far, and the developer’s blog talks about some updates that sound like a lot of fun (some story elements, a conflict system that relies on social status and context instead of weaponry, etc.). A few hours in and I’m really digging it. ---
**Author:** ![Adeptus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@Adeptus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adeptus)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimworld-old-west-meets-sci-fi/730244/154 "2024-04-19T09:18:48Z")
One of my favourite games, great replayability! Anyone played latest DLC, Anomaly, yet? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimworld-old-west-meets-sci-fi/730244/155 "2024-07-16T18:51:03Z")
I just noticed a new game in early access. _[Norland](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1857090/Norland/)_ from Hooded Horse appears to be _RimWorld_ meets _Mount & Blade_. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimworld-old-west-meets-sci-fi/730244/156 "2024-07-16T18:56:07Z")
Thanks, wishlisted it. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimworld-old-west-meets-sci-fi/730244/157 "2024-07-16T18:58:25Z")
That game looks intriguing. [![](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1857090/extras/image_01_loop.gif?t=1721124402) ](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1857090/extras/image_01_loop.gif?t=1721124402) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimworld-old-west-meets-sci-fi/730244/158 "2024-07-16T19:34:14Z")
I picked up RW again over the weekend, although a version behind, having found a combination of my large amount of preferred mods – or acceptable substitutes – which play nice with each other through a whole bunch of trial and error. Ended up weeding out a few mods so as not to overwhelm the Furniture menu. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimworld-old-west-meets-sci-fi/730244/159 "2024-07-16T19:40:27Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > Thanks, wishlisted it. 👍   ---
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimworld-old-west-meets-sci-fi/730244/160 "2024-07-17T23:10:38Z")
It looks like it might have something that Rimworld could really benefit from, which is a kind of overworld gameplay. I also like the idea that you’re only in control of royalty but with a ton of NPCs around. Gonna be a long early access period to wait out. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimworld-old-west-meets-sci-fi/730244/161 "2024-07-18T13:47:00Z")
Played through the tutorial, there’s some promise there; hopefully I’ll get a chance to explore further this evening. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimworld-old-west-meets-sci-fi/730244.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rimworld-old-west-meets-sci-fi/730244.md?page=9)