Rimworld review world generator#

They don’t speak, in text or otherwise, and so the facets of their identity are declared in a character sheet that's fed to you through a drip feed of tiny updates. While the system gives you vivid images of characters like the ruthless bounty hunter who’s lazy and a vegetarian, in the end, they all interact in slight variations of the same way.

Rimworld review world generator#

These things are not alike but are placed in the character generator with equal importance. 'Misogyny' next to 'ugly', 'hard working' next to 'psychopath'. It feels odd to have some traits sat alongside each other. All of which leaves a bit of a bad taste in the mouth. Other aspects of queerness are included but in equally reductive ways, like a character's backstory discussing that they're transgender, proof of which being their “dressing up in their mother's clothes as a child”.

One of the modifiers is 'gay' but 'straight' isn't-that's just the default, which is painfully heteronormative and outdated for a game about the far flung future. Each character gets three traits, things like obsessive, lazy or misogynist. There are some peculiar aspects to this approach to character generation, though. RimWorld pitches itself as a story generator and these weird relationships are exactly the thing that fires up the imagination. His daughter, her granddaughter, was now 31. The son she'd left behind was now approaching his fifties. In my first game, I had a colonist who, chronologically, was 114 years old, but, thanks to the weird complications of space travel, was really only 24. There's a lot of promise in the ideas these characters bring to the table.