Hello, you're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, back with you after a long, long hiatus.

I've been gone for most of the summer doing busy, busy work, but I am back now to host a show on what is kind of the latest hotness.

It's a game that's been around, actually, for a couple of years, but has just hit steam, so I thought it would bring together a crack panel to talk about Colonial Management Sim Rimworld.

With me is semi-regular panelist, freelance writer Rowan Kaiser.

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Freelance writer John Bolding.

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And freelance writer Geeta Jackson. Hello. And freelance writer Gita Jackson.

That's me.

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So Rowan, I'm going to start with you, and I'm going to ask you to explain the Rimworld to our audience,

people who don't know what it is or who only have a vague idea of what it is.

What separates it, what distinguishes it from other

colonial colony builder type games like banished or a dwarf fortress?

So, yeah, it's a game along those lines. I like to call them survival strategy games,

which sounds like colonies are how they're getting going and that's perfectly perfectly good genre name.

You take a few people and have them build a new base and survive raids and dig for silver and

stuff like that. The eventual goal is sort of to build a spaceship to get off the planet that

you crash landed on, but it's

fairly open in whether you're actually even trying to do that or just trying to build and

survive. The thing that separates Rimworld from most of the others for me is that it seems to have,

it seems to be very comfortable in its scope.

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