A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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Happy birthday, RimWorld! 🎂 Can you believe it? November 4, 2026 marks RimWorld's 13th birthday. That's 13 years of colonies, raids, mods, updates, fanart, videos, stories, and more. (It's also our final growth moment, let's hope we get a good trait.) To celebrate, we’re running another community event. Send us all…
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Happy birthday, RimWorld! 🎂 Can you believe it? November 4, 2026 marks RimWorld's 13th birthday. That's 13 years of colonies, raids, mods, updates, fanart, videos, stories, and more. (It's also our final growth moment, let's hope we get a good trait.) To celebrate, we’re running another community event. Send us all your RimWorld creations to participate: fanart, stories of your favorite colonists and colonies, videos of edits and gameplay, screenshots of the bases you’re most proud of (and the ones that didn’t quite make it), and whatever else you can come up with. Thank you for another year of RimWorld. Here's to many more! RimWorld Birthday Community Event 🎂 Participate in this year's event to be entered into a random giveaway to get a set of Fangamer's storyteller pins. Please read all of the rules and giveaway details below before participating. Event Rules 1 entry per person. To participate, share your RimWorld creations with us! It can be RimWorld fanart, in-game screenshots, gameplay videos (vanilla/non-modded content only), writing, and other creative media. Share it with us by replying to the X @LudeonStudios birthday post or share a link on the Reddit birthday megathread. All submissions must be human-made works, no AI-generated content permitted. Participation closes on Nov 6, 11:59PM Pacific. Giveaway recipients will be announced the following week on the X birthday post and Reddit thread by @LudeonStudios. Those selected for the giveaway will be contacted on X/Reddit by the LudeonStudios account (and no one else, be careful if someone other than the official…
Hey all, there's a new merch drop from the folks at Fangamer. The three storytellers are now available as glittery hard-enamel pins as part of Fangamer's permanent RimWorld collection. Grab your favorite, or get all three for a discount on Fangamer's worldwide store and EU store. The Storyteller Pins Cassandra Classic…
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Hey all, there's a new merch drop from the folks at Fangamer. The three storytellers are now available as glittery hard-enamel pins as part of Fangamer's permanent RimWorld collection. Grab your favorite, or get all three for a discount on Fangamer's worldwide store and EU store. The Storyteller Pins Cassandra Classic Pin: Two raids, a cold snap, and gut worms? That's our Cassandra! 1.8" tall. Randy Random Pin: Randy giveth. And Randy taketh. 1.9" tall. Phoebe Chillax Pin: Let's take it easy! But things are quiet. Too quiet... 1.8" tall. It was a hard choice, but I've got Randy on my bag, Cassandra on my hat, and Phoebe on my jacket. - Tia Website | X | BlueSky | Reddit | Facebook
Hey everyone, big news today! We’re announcing update 1.7, which moves RimWorld from Unity to the Waylith Engine, our own in-house engine built by Ludeon Studios. The game looks and plays exactly the same, but in our tests performance is improved by 2-4x. You can try 1.7 right now on the unstable beta branch - see…
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Hey everyone, big news today! We’re announcing update 1.7, which moves RimWorld from Unity to the Waylith Engine, our own in-house engine built by Ludeon Studios. The game looks and plays exactly the same, but in our tests performance is improved by 2-4x. You can try 1.7 right now on the unstable beta branch - see “Testing update 1.7” at the bottom of this page for details. Performance improvements Compared to 1.6, 1.7 on the Waylith engine has faster startup time, game load time with big mod lists, map generation, world generation, general ticks-per-second, and just about everything else. Your colony of 40 colonists, 200 ducks, and 100+ mods will run much smoother. We stress-tested a late game colony and saw 2.2x better performance on 1.7 compared to 1.6. A modpack with 1500 mods (!) went from 14 minutes to 6 minutes to load. (These are just our results; individual performance improvements may vary due to your specific PC or mods.) Savegames, mods, and compatibility You don’t need to do anything when switching to 1.7. Savegames: Your 1.6 savegames will load on 1.7, and 1.7 saves also work if you go back to 1.6. Mods: The vast majority of mods work on 1.7 without any changes from the authors. Some may show up in yellow as “potentially unsupported” - this is only because the version number changed. Older PCs: If your PC is more than 10 years old, 1.7 may not run on it. If this happens, please let us know on the official RimWorld development Discord - we may be able to make some changes to help. For modders Your mods shouldn’t need any changes to work on 1.7. However, once…
97.9% of 248,536 Steam reviews are positive, which after adjusting for sample size gives a reception score of 97.8. The developers have shipped 2 substantial updates in the past six months, adding 1.2.
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Development
Actively supported
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10 days ago
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every ~18.5 days
Substantial updates (6 mo)
2
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The developers post roughly every 18.5 days and were last heard 10 days ago — within their normal range. 2 substantial updates recorded in the past six months, 1 classified as major.
Last successful news check: Nov 3, 2026, 2:02 PM UTC. This is when we checked Steam, separate from when the developer last posted.
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patchAug 8, 2026
RimWorld Summer Merch Collection Runs Through August 24
A temporary merchandise collection for RimWorld opened on July 31 and will remain available through August 24, according to a community announcement authored by Mal.
What's in the collection
The summer lineup is available at the official RimWorld merch store and includes five items:
Warg plush — a soft version of the game's predatory canine
Man in black t-shirt — a graphic tee referencing an in-game character
Gunslinger tote bag — a carry bag styled around colonist equipment
Colony-issued research notebook — a physical notebook with a RimWorld theme
Golden cube keychain — a solid metal keychain referencing the game's cube item
No pricing information was included in the announcement.
For players who want physical objects from the RimWorld universe, the collection offers a narrow buying window — it closes in late August, leaving roughly three and a half weeks from the announcement date.
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Hey all, there's a new merch drop from the folks at Fangamer. The three storytellers are now available as glittery hard-enamel pins as part of Fangamer's permanent RimWorld collection. Grab your favorite, or get all three for a discount on …
Ludeon Studios, developers of sci-fi colony construction sim RimWorld, have announced in a Steam update that the game will be moving over from Unity to the studio's own in-house Waylith Engine in its upcoming update 1.7. Ludeon states that …
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Hey everyone, big news today! We’re announcing update 1.7, which moves RimWorld from Unity to the Waylith Engine, our own in-house engine built by Ludeon Studios. The game looks and plays exactly the same, but in our tests performance is im…
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