edgeworld?

Also, Rimworld is an event generator, rather than an organic story teller. It's very obvious in the way it functions to draw things to the player.

My point was that NMS has multiple game elements I like (unlimited exploration, base building, toon optimization) while RW basically only has one (base building). You CAN work on better toons in RW but its an annoying grind and you can lose any toon at any time, too. I mean you can keep a toon completely out of combat, but you wont always have this option.

Surving attacks is pretty essential in RW.

Sure different people enjoy different kinds of games.

My "fun factor" with base building is limited by the game being only 2D.

Deep gameplay mechanics dont necessarily imply complexity at all. The game chess can be defined on two pages, easy. Yet its enormously deep anyway. So much so that with the finest programming tricks known to man computers now completely flatten even the best chessplayers.