History VideoGame / Rimworld

Your vessel was in orbit around one of these undeveloped planets before crashing in an unspecified accident. As none of you were enterprising colonists, your group is woefully unprepared for this primitive and potentially hostile world. Luckily, your {{Escape Pod}}s are well-stocked with basic tools, weapons, and supplies, giving means to provide for yourselves. Rescue is unlikely, as it'll probably be years before anyone even knows you're gone, but perhaps you can find some way to get yourself back home--provided you survive, of course. There are also options to play as the tribal descendants of a LostColony who had survived from an attack from [[AIIsACrapshoot reactivated but malfunctioning robots]], or a BoldExplorer who is on an adventure on a remote planet in search of fortune and glory. Or, you can make your own backstory.

* NoNameGiven: If the malevolent archotech that serves as the ''Anomaly'' DLC's ArcVillain has a name, it's never mentioned. The entity is only ever talked about in the vaguest of terms, so even its basic nature can be easy to miss unless you pay close attention to the FlavorText.

* DeathWorld: The planet your colonists crash-land on is inevitably chock-full of hostile tribes, aggressive {{Space Pirate}}s, and wildlife that has an occasional tendency to go berserk. In extreme climates, you may also have to contend with a lack of conveniently arable land and the local weather: Extreme Deserts are scorching hot and largely devoid of life, but there are some patches of gravel where you can maybe grow small potato crops; Sea Ice, places where it's so cold that the sea has frozen over, have almost no wildlife and no arable land whatsoever -- all food must come from Muffalo herding, trade or cannibalism until hydroponics and moisture pumps can make greenhouses possible. And if all the above don't get you, there's solar flares randomly shutting down your power network, super-volcano eruptions darkening the sky, toxic fallout poisoning all life on the map, psychic rain letting your colonists age at a massively increased rate, and malevolent AI mind-raping your colonists or simply sending hordes of {{Killer Robot}}s after you just because. All things considered, it's borderline miraculous your rimworld is as densely populated as it is. By rights, everyone should've been long dead by the time you arrive.

** The very rare Psychic Rain event vastly accelerates the aging process of any pawn caught in it. While this won't affect young and middle-aged pawns all that much, older pawns (as in, 40+ years old) gain an increased risk of developing age-related afflictions like a bad back, cataracts, or the dreaded dementia.

* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Downplayed. With enough skill and luck, your colonists can tame and control any animal in the game, no matter how dangerous they are in real life, even the AlwaysChaoticEvil insectoids. However, wild animals have a "wildness" percentage, meaning they need to be continuously retrained to prevent them gradually forgetting they're tame and becoming feral, while domestic animals like dogs and cats have zero wildness, meaning they do not need to be tamed and will never become untamed. Additionally, only dogs and a few other particularly intelligent animals can be trained to do the most complex tasks like rescuing downed pawns.

** Manhunter packs always know where your pawns are, even if there're miles of jungle or mountains between them.

* TheBeastmaster: Any colonist with a high "Animal" skill set can tame and train most animals, and, if you so desire, amass a small army of creatures able to do basic chores and fight for them in battle. A swarm of trained wargs, elephants, or boars can easily and quickly decimate large raider parties just as well as a group of pawns with guns, if you have enough food supplies to keep them all fed, of course.

* EasilyForgiven: Ziggzagged.

* {{Fingore}}: Individual fingers and toes can be damaged or lost by injuries, though it's usually less of an inconvenience than losing a full limb.

* FluffyTamer: Pawns that get an Inspired Taming buff will get a 100% success rate on their next taming attempt. This includes thrumbos and megasloths, which are giant animals that hit like a truck when angered and have an ''extremely'' low chance of being tamed by normal means.

* HungryJungle: Jungle biomes are always hot, and colonists have a much higher risk of infection from various diseases. They're also usually home to dangerous wildlife.

* OrangeAndBlueMorality: The archotechs. Their mentalities are so alien and their goals so incomprehensibly vast that no human can comprehend how they make decisions. Sometimes they'll create infinite-energy batteries and artificial body parts that augment the user to superhuman strength and agility and then scatter these creations across the cosmos for people to use, other times they'll unleash horrifying monsters and emit angry psychic waves to try and drive entire planets insane from star systems away. Why? No one knows.