RimWorld
BANGER · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $34.99. Typically $27.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.55/hr
- ReviewsS
- 98% of 249,183
- Critics
- 87 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 63.6h
- To 100%
- 300.6h 4.7x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 49 on record
- Typical cut
- 20% off
- Steam low
- $27.99 December 2022
- Sale every
- 44d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 23,178 now
- Recent reviews
- 97% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 49 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and the best reviewed. The nearest things to it, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation ($19.99, scores 59) and Sapiens ($24.99, scores 33), are both worse buys on this math.
More about RimWorld
The press gave it 87; the people who bought it give it 98 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 17 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,224 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 1,987 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 1 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 63.6 hours; clearing it takes 301, which is 4.7 times the campaign.
249,183 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 10 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I came for The Sims. I stayed for the chaos. 1,295 hours played (with Biotech, Anomaly, and Odyssey). I've never really considered myself a "gamer." I grew up playing The Sims, Nintendo DS games, Bratz, interior design games, and whatever else my 90s childhood threw at me. What I loved most was creating something, watching it grow, and escaping into a world I could shape. Then I found RimWorld. At first, I almost...
2 more reviews
bought this game 19days ago, i already have 200+ hours on it. Yes, buy it. I've forsaken my remote job for this. Nothing else except the colony matters.
As of writing this review I have just beaten this game for the first time. After 200 hours of failed attempts and various flawed colonies that have failed, I have finally built a successful colony built upon probably 10 hours worth of guides and all of my previous experience. RimWorld is a game built upon failure and what you can learn from it, the one successful colony I have created is built on the dozen that have...
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About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4000 or other shader model 4.0, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
RimWorld scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/294100/rimworldReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.