How do you appropriately describe RimWorld? For the sake of this review, I'll focus on last night's campaign and a few of its highlights that I feel help sell the experience. To start, RimWorld is highly moddable.

I started an ice sheet challenge with a single colonist. Thanks to the abundance of mods, my colonist soon discovered a talking tree in the wastes. His mind was forever altered. It wasn't long before the kindly Lafayette was muttering to himself and chanting in odd tongues. He began to worship Cthulu in the mountains - alone and with supplies dwindling. It mattered none. The old god required sustenance of his own. Raiders came to pillage; none survived. They were placed upon the sacrifice table and offered to the tentacled-one.

Lafayette slowly began his descent into madness. It is stories like this - emergent gameplay - that make RimWorld the beautiful experience that it has truly become through its dedicated development cycle. I may not have the most hours in the game, like many here, but I'm looking forward to the many, many to come.