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5.2 patch was good and is a much needed blueprint for the future this review is to signal to CA that this update style works and is good for the game and long term health.

Edit: The fine developers of Rim World have listened to feedback from the community and are throwing in a patch and have made vocal their intent to better integrate DLC in the future. Praise be to Randy. I am keeping my word and changing this review to positive as my only serious gripes will be addressed in a patch coming within the next week as of writing. I will leave the original text from the review below for the sake of posterity.

This is the hardest negative review I ever had to write as Rim World is one of my favorite games and this DLC on its own is hands down the best bit of content that has released for Rim World to date. I really love all the new content I'm obsessed with creating funky meta humans and having robot armies to make life on the rim all that more enjoyable. My main issue is that all this DLC doesn't really sync with the DLC that came before it.

The Ideology DLC was a huge boon to the game and made every colony feel special so naturally when a new DLC came out dealing with obvious themes of speciasim, children, and technology I was expecting to be able to tweak how my colonies ideology felt regarding those things. I had a simple goal of making a faction of human baseline supremacists who believed in purging mutants (a Rim World player does a war crime shocker). I scrolled through the Ideology tab only to find their was no options regarding opinions of meta humans or any of the new content. Trans humanist pawns currently receive no buffs for being gene modded, sangunophages don't have any intresting mechanics, A colony of Luddites has no opinions of the super advanced mechs roaming the colony, the act of raising a child and a child's place in society has ZERO options.

The content in this DLC is hands down some of the best Ludeon have ever done but until they patch the DLC to include references to the new content this DLC will remain flawed and this review negative

EDIT: Some recent updates have tweaked how some things interact like Mechinator armor gives a royal bonus, but ultimately the core issues still remain. I'm certain their are moders out there who are rushing to pick up the slack but I believe the core benefit of using DLC over mods is synchronicity and using mods to achieve that is not something that should be considered fine for a 25$ DLC

From what I've played the game has promise, if your a fan of Escape From Tarkov, or DayZ this game is certainly good fun even in its current state. Even in my short playtime I encountered a few big bugs and a bit of jank but otherwise I enjoyed myself. I can see this game developing into a very competent game but as of right now I would urge you to avoid if early development sounds too frustrating for you, or if The lovechild between DayZ and Tarkov sounds too good to not have in your library.

Short,sweet, and full of terror. multiple endings. five bucks. Highly recommend.

I really liked it, I've only done one play through as of writing but I'm certain ill be doing another. All choices felt meaning full and the game was rife with dillema. Easily one of the better COG games that I have played. Ironically it was a game about plague which gave me comfort during this lockdown.

If your a fan of tactical turn base games and always felt the flesh was weak this game is for you!

this game has quite a lot of depth to it

I kinda like the mad max look of the guys in this, always kinda thought it was odd how XCOM looked profesional even in the desperate circumstances of the Alien world, so its nice to have guys who reflect that

Rain world is one of those game that is certain to gain a cult following but will stay realtively obscure, rain world on the surface seems like a straight forward game about being a adorable little creature trying to survive in a world filled with threats and terrible monsters. standard indy game affair so far but rain world adds so many uniqe touches to the formula that to call rain world formulaic is incredibly short sighted.

Rain world is complex,mysterious, and incredbily difficult; imagine if dark souls had the same enviromental design as the dark crystal and you played as a Monkey. I cant recomend playing rain world in a straight foward manner infact I recomend playing as a nomadic animal just grabbing the lay of the land. if you play this game straight foward and rush to the points of intrest you will loose and get frustrated and get caught in a bad scenario. rather just stay in one area and learn to make that your home, in time youll learn where all the good food spots are, where enimies typicallly hang out, and good places to go if your getting chased or outnumbered.

i love games that let you play as animals and strange creatures but this is the first one where i felt what it means to be hunted, and be a creature, i would honestly say the story in this game is optional and the true fun of this game is being a creature in a strange world

An actually decent battle royale game brimming with ceativity