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RimWorld’s Ideology expansion and 1.3 update are out nowYou won’t believe it
You won’t believe it
RimWorld’s latest expansion is out now, after having been announcedjust two weeks ago. Called Ideology, it adds customisable belief systems to the scifi colony sim, so your space colonists can become, for example, nudist cannibals who feel it’s important to proselytize their nudism and cannibalism to others.
This trailer introduces some more of what’s possible:
RimWorld - Ideology trailerWatch on YouTube
RimWorld - Ideology trailer
The belief systems work around a core of “memes” - in the traditional sense, not the keyboard cat sense. A meme is something like, “Tree connection: Trees are the essence of life, and we must be near them.” This leads to precepts which shape behaviour. Colonists can also convert their beliefs or attempt to convert others, and you can assign them specific social roles such as “leader” and “moral guide” depending upon their beliefs.
The full list of additions listed on the expansion’sSteam pageis mighty. I haven’t mentioned the Dryads, small creatures that colonists can gain the ability to command if they first build a relationship with a special Gauranlen tree.
RimWorld is a fantastic management game for the way its peeps interact with one another, helping you to build stories out of fights and fallings out. The Ideology expansion seems like a big new toybox of ways for your colonists to fight and fall out.
Ideology costs £15.49/€16.79, but the free 1.3 update has been released at the same time. Thechangelogis understandably less exciting than the expansion, but it does include animal pens, breaching raids, and a lot of tweaks.
