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2018 · Colony Sim · Base Building · Survival

How long isRimWorld?

by Ludeon Studios

140 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 43 hours and 415 hours

RimWorld cover

RimWorld among the 42 colony sims here

The whole tier list
SPlayed tier

#1

of 42

ranked by owners here who played past two hours

86%
got past 2 hours
+35 on the kind's 51%
63%
past 20 hours
+46 on the kind's 17%
96%
launched it
+30 on the kind's 66%
286
libraries own it
1 in 9 of the 2,472 read here
RimWorld ↓
#1 RimWorld#42
4% of its owners here never launched it. More or fewer than the next game?Play higher or lower

Does RimWorld hold up?

Holds steady

Holds up seal

At least 93% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 500+ hours played.

Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.

Do the first two hours of RimWorld tell you?

In the first two hours79%recommend it

After that98%recommend it

2 in 100 said no: 2 after the window had closed.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 140 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 43 hours and 415 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 248,000 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It holds steady: between 94% and 98% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.

1% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 79% of those recommend it. After the window, 98% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 89% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 67 hours in.

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When would you get there?

20weeks

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 140 hours on Friday, April 2, 2027.

Half of its reviewers had played between 43 and 415 hours: Dec 26 to Jan 2, 2028 at this pace.

How this is counted

The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.

Is RimWorld worth it?

Is RimWorld worth it? Yes.

  • A steal

    6.2× the hours of a typical colony sim, for the same money

  • Loved

    98% recommend it after the refund windowmost colony sims: 86%

  • Gets played

    96% of owners here have played itmost colony sims: 75%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $34.99, the typical player's 140 hours come to 25¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 98% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 25¢ an hour, RimWorld is the cheapest hour of all 86 colony sims here: the typical one of 86 colony sims here charges $1.54, so the same $34.99 buys 6.2× the hours.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (colony sims) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Where can I play RimWorld today?

On PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Its own release still plays there: no collection or remaster needed.

  1. todayPC2018
  2. todayPS42022ported
  3. todayXbox One2022ported
How this is counted

From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines RimWorld came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.

Would you like RimWorld?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like RimWorld, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long RimWorld would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

How this is counted

It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.

Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.

@mikewolf holds this page

  1. 1st@mikewolf7,779 h
  2. 2nd@dougtheduck802 h
  3. 3rd@chlo317 h
  4. 4th@horny233 h
  5. 5th@mossyotter123 h
  6. 6th@slowspeaker123 h
  7. 7th@hiroyuki62 h
  8. 8th@megapancake30 h

Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.

What did people here do with RimWorld?

  • 1 in 36

    Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory

    • @slowspeaker

    In @slowspeaker's Top 4

How this is counted

Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.

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  1. 1

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    RimWorld, but a third of the hours

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  2. 2

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    RimWorld, but a tenth of the hours

    Loved · 95%Games like Dwarf Fortress

  3. 3

    Prison Architect

    RimWorld, but a fifth of the hours, and more divisive

    Liked · 85%Games like Prison Architect

  4. 4

    Space Haven

    RimWorld, but in space, and a tenth of the hours

    Liked · 86%Games like Space Haven

  5. 5

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    RimWorld, but post-apocalyptic, and a tenth of the hours

    Mixed · 77%Games like Endzone - A World Apart

  6. 6

    Going Medieval

    RimWorld, but made of voxels, and a fifth of the hours

    Liked · 89%Games like Going Medieval

All 30 games like RimWorld, and which you already own
How this is counted

Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from RimWorld: a kind of game it is that RimWorld is not, a feature its tags carry that RimWorld's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.

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