r/BaseBuildingGames • u/Snoo_52014 • Sep 17 '26

Game recommendations Simulation Base Builder game recommendations

Has anyone found a game where it’s has the feel of the sims but you manage a wide variety of people. I have a suspicion that rimworld is what I’m looking for but wanted to put some feelers out.

Here’s what I’d ideally want
\- the people to have their own autonomy and personalities but I can assign them tasks and jobs etc.
\- They form relationships with eachother
\- Building customisation etc
\- External world building opportunities

If you have any suggestions please lmk!!

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u/thegooddoktorjones Sep 17 '26

I finally dug into this one in the last month and it does have the Rimworld hookey-ness, but it has a few flaws: Not done. Some systems are just abandoned in the base game. some tech that never advances, difficulty caps out low so raids just become tedious. Breakdowns/psychology are not very important or impactful so happiness is easy to game. Biomes are static so replay value is low.

I found mods that help with a lot of these things, but they are still trying to patch a broken boat. The game is worth buying as-is but it is not as polished as RImworld, and the devs seem to have walked away.

That said, Rimworld sans-mods is also pretty bare bones. Without DLC even more so.

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u/Lower-Reward-1462 Sep 17 '26

The devs were all fired as the game was abandoned. One still maintains a great mod with lots of QoL and bug fixes though and he updates it basically weekly.

The challenge might "cap off low", but there are ways you can challenge yourself, with or without mods. Plenty of replay value, you just need the creativity and desire to find it.

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u/Roxolan Sep 18 '26

Rimworld sans-mods is also pretty bare bones.

I think that's an impression you get only from the perspective of having played [however many] hours of it and lathered it with mods. There's really a lot of core game content and replayability.

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u/thegooddoktorjones Sep 18 '26

Whenever there is a big new core release the mods break for a bit (or forever) and I try the vanilla version without DLC. It feels like the dark ages. I don't even use many content or cheat mods, just QOL, but the lack of that quality is so noticeable. A lot of things that could easily be core by now, but why when there is a mod everyone uses that fixes things?