Rimworld

Have you ever thought to yourself ‘Is it possible to import my friends into this game and harvest their skin for the leather of my chairs?’ Then you’ve tuned to the right episode! In an accidentally relevant-to-spooky-season selection, we turn to Rimworld! But wait, that’s not a roguelike, you’ll inevitably shout at your podcast feed. We decided to pull some editorial leeway this time with the defense of ‘well if Dwarf Fortress did it…’ Join our starving colonists as they try to figure out how to grow potatoes and fight off insectoid invasions and mind pulse machines as they dig too deep and unleash the terrors of internet connectivity issues. Thanks again for the gracious hosts of this year’s Roguelike Celebration, in which Scott was able to present his talk ‘The Data Science of Roguelikes’. You can find it on youtube here! Custom RSS Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Music Transcript 1:47 - Welcome new listeners from the 2023 Roguelike Celebration! 3:20 - Game stats 5:09 - One sentence description 7:19 - Comparison with other colony sims and Dwarf Fortress 13:39 - Tutorial quality discussion and new player experience 18:34 - AI storytellers and difficulty selection advice 21:40 - Randy Random vs Cassandra Classic storyteller comparison 27:12 - Victory conditions and different player goal approaches 32:25 - Optimal drug production strategy and economic gameplay 36:17 - Cannibalism and organ harvesting meme discussion 41:03 - Food production confusion and learning curve challenges 54:00 - World map exploration and caravan system 56:48 - DLC content overview (Royalty, Ideology, Biotech) 1:05:30 - Rankings and final thoughts 1:18:27 - Similar games Next episode: AK-xolotl Contact us at [email protected]! https://grogpod.zone Intro music: Kenny Burrell - Out of This World Outro music: Alistair Lindsay - Alpaca