I discussed on the finish of the Steam Summer season Sale that RimWorld was arising with a brand new enlargement/DLC known as Odyssey.
RimWorld Odyssey
I put a whole lot of time into RimWorld again in its early days, in 2017 and 2018, and bought to the “win” state the place I beat the sport… and it was a problem. The sport throws quite a bit at you whenever you’re making an attempt to get that spaceship collectively and get off planet.
In doing that it turned fairly clear that the optimum path to “profitable” was to hunker down and never go off exploring or exposing your colonists to any pointless dangers. Higher to simply construct up a layered protection, keep away from the warnings of an historical evil in that one break close by, and deal with ramping up your tech, buying and selling with passers by, and in any other case thoughts your personal enterprise.
As such, I haven’t been tremendous tempted to return and make investments a whole lot of time within the recreation. However I’ve stored my eye on all of it the identical and the devs have targeted quite a bit on the lives of your colonists, with expansions constructing out richer and extra different paths for them… a few of which could appear extra like problems in case your objective is to win. Royalty gave us titles and peerage, Ideology extra difficult perception methods, Biotech introduced households, genetics, and the potential for a mechanoid military, whereas Anomaly launched Lovecraftian horror parts to the sport.
I performed a few of that with the Royalty and Ideology expansions, however it remained type of a ache to go away your base and exit on this planet… which brings us to the Odyssey enlargement, which seems toasks the query, “what if you happen to might take your base with you?” enter the gravship concept. From the replace notes:
Construct your personal gravship and journey throughout the planet! Land anyplace you wish to discover, hunt for treasure, scavenge forgotten gravtech, and convey again souvenirs like a captivating hermit crab or a gold-plated cost rifle.
It begins small: only a grav engine, a number of rooms, some thrusters, and a tank of chemfuel to get you airborne. However over time, it turns into a house – a cell colony of bedrooms, labs, hospitals, workshops, and every little thing else your colonists want.
To broaden your ship and go additional, you’ll want to gather gravcores. You’ll be able to get better these glittertech units from insect-infested caverns, historical reactors rigged with traps, crashlanded area wrecks, and orbital platforms.
Odyssey is about exploration, journey, and new methods to play. Reside as nomads that transfer with the seasons, and kidnap raiders by taking off whereas they’re aboard! Embark on a 100-day journey world wide, and accumulate one in every of each animal to construct your personal zoo. Design the weirdest, ugliest, most gloriously unhinged gravship and see how far it will get you. Or, hunker down inside an asteroid and reside so long as you’ll be able to in area. You’ll be able to play Odyssey any manner you want.
That sounded attention-grabbing sufficient that I made a decision to provide it a strive… and I wasn’t alone I assume. Over at SteamDB they recorded RimWorld and the Odyssey enlargement of their prime ten for gross sales for the week of July 8. Not too unhealthy.
Steam High Sellers – July 8 to fifteen 2025
We’ll see if this sticks for me. RimWorld is in my prime 5 most performed titles on Steam, and it very a lot has that SimCity vibe the place you get sucked in and hold taking part in effectively previous some other plans you may need… like going to mattress at an affordable hour.
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