RimWorld

'Building' is a pretty broad theme. There are a lot of games where you build things, after all, and they can be very different. Helpfully, then, I've split this list of the 20 best building games on PC into four sections, each covering a sub-category of this big, messy genre.

Tagged with feature, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, Anno 1800, Banished, Cities: Skylines, Don't Starve, Dwarf Fortress, Emperor: rise of the middle kingdom, Factorio, Frostpunk, Jurassic World Evolution, Megaquarium, NewCity, Offworld Trading Company, Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe, Ostriv, Oxygen Not Included, Planet Coaster, Planet Zoo, Prison Architect, RimWorld, Rise to Ruins, Stronghold HD, Surviving Mars, Surviving Mars: Green Planet, They Are Billions.

Halloo, gentle reader. Since we're half way through the entire year of 2020 (yet somehow it is also still March?), we decided to run down, lasso and tie up some of our favourite games from the last six months, and force them into a nice list for you. 2020 still has plenty of new PC games to come, of course, but these are the ones…

Tagged with Bestest Bests, feature, Desperados III, Destiny 2, Gears Tactics, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, In Other Waters, Megaquarium, Monster Train, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Ostriv, RimWorld, Signs Of The Sojourner, Streets Of Rage 4, Tales From Off-Peak City, Valorant, Yes, Your Grace.

Colony simulators can be overwhelming. Games like Dwarf Fortress and RimWorld use migration as both a fuel and a pressure valve, delivering caravan after caravan of fresh colonists at regular intervals to ensure the centre of balance of your community is always tipping forwards. Space Haven, which is set not on the filthy ground but in that big empty boob we call space, flip-turns the…

Tagged with Bugbyte, feature, Premature Evaluation, review, space, Steam Early Access, RimWorld, Space Haven.

May day! May day! It’s May Day, get it? I constructed this list of the 7 best distress calls in videogames so I could make this joke, and I refuse to back down now. Even if the 1st of May is associated with pagan spring festivities, and nothing at all to do with things going badly wrong in space or at sea. Even if the…

Tagged with feature, One Off The List, Alien: Isolation, Barotrauma, Hackmud, PULSAR: Lost Colony, RimWorld, Subnautica, Tacoma.

RimWorld is a calamity simulator, where things can go so wrong so quickly that you’re left with everything on fire and Donald Glover looking confused in the middle of it all. You’re in charge of growing a small colony of newly landed pawns on a hostile planet, and everything from the elements to squirrels can take you down. It’s great, but that’s not the only…

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Times are strange and frightening. But one point of great solace for me has been hearing people celebrating things in their lives. It feels especially important right now to hold on to what makes us all proud about what we do and who we are. And what I really love is people showing off things they’re proud of making.So I’ve been asking a bunch of…

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Since there's good odds you're either stuck at home right now or are soon to be, I thought it might do us all good to have a bit of story time. And today, I want to tell you the story of King Beef. It is a tragedy: a tale told by an idiot, full of mace duels and uranium armour, and signifying nothing. Nothing except,…

Tagged with Diary, feature, king beef, Ludeon Studios, RimWorld.

It's been 28 years since 1992's Dune II, and like many people out there, I'd long ago stopped seriously hoping for another videogame to do justice to Frank Herbert's legendary science fiction series. So it's with surprise and delight, then, that I can tell you the best Dune game in three decades is here... and it's a procedurally generated sitcom, played through a colony management…

Tagged with feature, Ludeon Studios, review, wot i think, RimWorld.

It's been over ten years since Minecraft got us hooked on surviving its deadly nights and sinister, snickering foes, and during that time there's been wave upon wave of great new survival games to scratch our deepest masochistic itches. Attempting to tackle them all at once, however, would probably lead to an early grave, so we've put together this list of the very best survival…

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Management games have been making a real comeback in recent years, so we've put together this list of the very best management games you can play on PC in 2020. Whether you want to be an aspiring city planner, a wannabe farm herd or just survive against the elements, there's a management game for you below.

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Here we stand in the dark neo-year of 2020. The spam bots have risen to prominence, the governments of the world are bickering over follower counts, and history class has been renamed "meme studies". Somewhere, in a dusty room in the RPS treehouse, a rogue human is compiling a list article for a crumbling PC games website. It is a warning to all those who…

Tagged with feature, One Off The List, BattleTech, Deus Ex, Mass Effect 3, NieR: Automata, RimWorld, Shadowrun Returns, SOMA, Stellaris, Universe Sandbox.

It's been an eventful decade for PC games, and it would be hard for you to summarise everything that's happened in the medium across the past ten years. Hard for you, but a day's work for us. Below you'll find our picks for the 50 greatest games released on PC across the past decade.

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‘Tis the season / use a brolly / tra la la la / la la la la. Hello, it's me, the list goblin, here in this festive first week of December to deliver a big black bin bag of presents to you. And by presents, I mean a single irrevocable inventory of the most disastrous and terrible winters in the videogames of recent history. Yes,…

Tagged with feature, One Off The List, Frostpunk, Life Is Strange 2, Metro 2033, Northgard, Papers Please, Red Dead Redemption 2, RimWorld, The Long Dark, Tom Clancy's The Division.

Since colony sim RimWorld left early access at the start of the year, it hasn’t changed. And that’s fine. It can be hard to remember, when so many sandbox-type games are constantly having new content shovelled into them like coal into a furnace, that games sometimes just… get finished. Still, when you’re used to coming back to a game and falling in love with it…

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To this day, the jaunty static of the opening jingle to Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town brings me back to a simpler time. Summer evenings spent hunched over my Game Boy SP, a pane of glass between me and nature’s suburban bounty as I tilled my little squares of land, pet my happy little chickens, and bribed a town’s worth of reticent heartthrobs…

Tagged with feature, Harvest Moon, Fallout 4, Project Zomboid, RimWorld, Sid Meier's Civilization V, Starbound, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, The Long Dark.