ADHJKCHKCAC ITS GOOD?!
On Steam, I have about 1700 hours completed of Rimworld. It has easily become one of my all-time favorite games. If it had come out on GOG earlier, I definitely would have gotten it here. Here's my review from steam: Rimworld is a really great game. Sure, you build a colony, like other games would have you do, but that's not where the gem of the game is. What makes Rimworld so great is the people. If you're honest with yourself, you'll admit that if you or most of the people you knew were crashlanded on an alien planet, well, it wouldn't go as smoothly as it does in movies. In Rimworld, it's more like a bunch of college-aged people crashlanded and proceed to have all hell break loose. Susan is whining and refusing to pick up anything because it might break her nails. Billy is in withdrawl and is ready to rip his own face off. Marco is tired of Susan and Billy's sh*t and starts shooting at everyone. Meanwhile, Shorty and Nancy are having a wedding and Lillith is setting your food on fire. Those are made-up examples, but here's a real gameplay example for you: Two colonists are married with kids. The husband is a psychopath, and divorces the wife, who is co-dependent. She goes berzerk, and shoots his dogs. The husband and the kids shoot the crazed mom. The mom has enough of this cruel world, rips off all her clothes, and "leaves the colony", becoming like a wild animal. The husband eventually tames the wife again, they remarry, and die in a glorious blaze during a raid. Don't believe me? I have screenshots! This game is wild.
I do a lot of VNs. There have been a few that I didn't really like, but this one was one of my favorites. The art is beautiful. The music is great for setting the atmosphere. I like how the characters move, it makes the game more immersive. I love how the same characters get 4 completely different stories, and each story has multiple branches. Some of the endings are really bad. That's part of why I love VNs, however. With a book, you can generally guess where the story is going, and 99.99% of them have perfectly happy and predictable endings. Some VNs follow that same idea, where your choices don't effect the story that much. This is not one of those. Your first decision makes for a 100% different storyline. From there, your decisions create -drastically- different possibilities. From having a pool party to being murdered by a psychopath. And, on that note, this is not a kid's game. There is a possibility of violence, psychologically horrifying situations, a mild romance (not x-rated, tho, unless I missed something, which is possible with how many branches this one has). It's a VN that stuck in my mind for a long time. I originally bought it elsewhere, and saw it on sale here, so I decided to write a review to help people decide if they should buy it or not. Honestly, it's well worth the full price, in my opinion, and any sale is basically a steal.
