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About the Game
RimWorld is a sci-fi colony simulation where an AI storyteller turns your crash-landed survivors' struggles into emergent stories.
RimWorld is an independent colony simulation and strategy game set on a distant planet. You begin with three survivors of a starship that crash-landed there, and you have to keep them alive while building a settlement from scratch. The planet is generated in full, from the poles to the equator, so you can land your escape pod in frozen tundra, a dry desert plain, a temperate forest, or a steamy tropical jungle. Each biome brings its own animals, plants, diseases, temperatures, rainfall, minerals and terrain, so the challenges shift dramatically depending on where you settle.
The core loop is managing people. Colonists react to hunger, fatigue, unburied corpses, injuries, darkness and crowding, and too much stress can lead to outbursts or mental breaks. Every wound, infection, chronic illness and prosthetic is tracked on individual body parts, so a damaged eye makes shooting and surgery harder and a wounded leg slows someone down. Characters also carry backgrounds that shape what they are good at: a noble is strong socially but avoids manual labor, a farmer knows crops but cannot research, and a genetically engineered assassin is deadly and little else. Relationships develop as well, and a pair of close friends can marry only to see one fall for the surgeon who treated them.
Things go wrong on purpose. The AI storyteller decides when thunderstorms, pirate raids and traveling trader caravans arrive, and you can choose between several storytellers with different pacing. Fights with pirates, tribes, berserk animals, giant insects and ancient killing machines fill much of the play. You can also tame and train animals, craft weapons and clothing from metal, wood, stone, cloth and future materials, send caravans on missions, and even move your whole colony to a new location. The game has an active Steam Workshop with hundreds of mods, and an AI tutor helps new players learn the systems.
Feature Highlights
- Runs as a single-player game with support for Steam Workshop mods.
- Custom text size, comfort camera settings, and separate volume controls help you tune how the game looks and sounds.
- Adjustable difficulty and a mouse-only control option let you set the challenge and choose how you play.
- Saving at any time and no need for quick reactions give you a relaxed pace for planning your colony.
- Steam Cloud, remote play on tablets, and Family Sharing are supported, along with partial controller support.
Who It Is (and Is Not) For
Recommended For
RimWorld suits players who enjoy planning, managing people and watching emergent stories unfold. If you like colony builders where a bad day can turn into a tragedy, or you want each character's background to matter, the game rewards that attention. Modders and fans of community content will also appreciate the active Workshop.
Not Recommended For
Players who want a fixed, hand-written story should know that RimWorld generates its stories, so each run plays out differently. If you prefer fast, reflex-driven action, the game is built around planning and thinking rather than quick reactions.
What the Steam Reviews Say
RimWorld carries an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam, which is 壓倒性好評 on the Taiwan store, with 97% of reviews positive. That is a very strong signal, and it comes from hundreds of thousands of reviews rather than a handful of early opinions.
On Steam, the label is based on the share of positive reviews and the total number of reviews, so a high percentage backed by a large volume is generally more trustworthy than the same percentage on a few dozen reviews. With this many reviews, the rating reflects a broad player base, though it cannot tell you whether the game's deep systems will click with your personal taste. Reading recent reviews on the store page is a good way to see how current players feel.
Price History & Historical Low
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| Date | Price | Discount |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-05 | NT$529 | — |
| 2026-10-29 | NT$529 | — |
| 2026-06-26 | NT$423 | -20% |
All prices here are Taiwan Steam store prices in NT$. RimWorld is currently listed at NT$ 529, which is also its regular price, so there is no discount at the moment. The highest price we have recorded is NT$ 529 as well.
The lowest price we recorded was NT$ 423 on June 26, 2026, a 20% discount from the regular price and the deepest cut in our record. The game has been discounted often in our records, so a sale is a realistic possibility. We have never recorded a free-to-keep period for it, so do not expect a free claim based on past behavior.
Our price record for RimWorld is still short, so this verdict is tentative. If you want to play now, NT$ 529 is the full price with no discount applied. If you can wait, a wishlist with sale notifications is the smarter route, since the price has previously dropped to NT$ 423.
Analysis written 10/29/2026 from our recorded prices; the chart above is live. Taiwan-region Steam prices.
How to Buy
- RimWorld is not free right now, so you will need to purchase it or add it to your wishlist on Steam.
- Sign in to your Steam account on the website or desktop client and search for RimWorld.
- Open the store page and check the current price of NT$ 529 before you decide.
- Click Add to Cart to buy it, or click Add to Wishlist if you would rather wait for a sale.
- Turn on wishlist sale notifications in your Steam notification settings so you hear about discounts as they happen.
- Check back here for the latest price trend before you buy.
Things to Know
RimWorld supports Traditional Chinese, along with English and many other languages, according to its listed language support. The game is not flagged as adult content on Steam. The prices in this guide are Taiwan-region Steam store prices in NT$ and may differ in other regions or on other storefronts. Free and discount promotions can end or change at any time, so check the official Steam store page before you buy.
