RimWorld: Console Edition (2022) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

RimWorld: Console Edition

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine…

85 29 July 2022

What RimWorld: Console Edition is

RimWorld: Console Edition is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Ludeon Studios and released in 2022. It was published by Double Eleven. It is available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy, sandbox and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

RimWorld: Console Edition holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 83% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

What it launched against

RimWorld: Console Edition launched on 29 July 2022, within three weeks of Stray, Cult of the Lamb, As Dusk Falls and Xenoblade Chronicles 3. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 9 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Stray, Cult of the Lamb, As Dusk Falls, Xenoblade Chronicles 3.

Cheats and codes

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