What is RimWorld and who developed it?

RimWorld is an indie space colony management game developed by Ludeon Studios, a Canadian game studio founded by Tynan Sylvester. The official RimWorld Wiki (rimworldwiki.com) is the community-maintained reference site for the game, and its main page states the current stable versions as 1.6.4850 and 1.23, with a full version history documented on a dedicated page.

What kind of game is it?

RimWorld is a colony management game with a sci-fi setting. The wiki organizes its content around several core areas that hint at the scope of the simulation:

• Colony building — quickstart guides, controls, user interface, and the learning helper
• Gameplay systems — caravans, environment, events, research, quests, time, trade, and orders
• Combat — cover, drafting, offense, structures, and tactics
• World — scenario system, AI storytellers, world generation, biomes, and factions
• Characters — backstories, health, body parts, mood, needs, skills, social, thoughts, and traits

The presence of systems like AI storytellers, scenarios, and a world generation layer reflects the game's focus on emergent, procedurally driven colony stories rather than a fixed campaign.

Who developed it?

The wiki points readers to an "About RimWorld" page for more background on the game itself.

What is the RimWorld Wiki?

The RimWorld Wiki is the official community wiki for the game. According to its main page, it currently maintains 2,825 articles and is open to community editing — signing up is optional, and contributors are encouraged to read the Wiki basics and Style guide first.

How the wiki is organized

• Concepts — basics, controls, user interface, lore, and guides
• Items — gear, resources, technology, and building
• Life — characters, flora, and fauna
• DLC — Royalty, Ideology, Biotech, Anomaly, and Odyssey

Official and community links listed

The wiki's navigation links out to the Steam page, the Console Edition page, Tynan Sylvester on Twitter, the Ludeon Forums, the RimWorld subreddit, the RimWorld Discord, an IRC channel, and a Bay 12 forum thread.

Getting involved

• Current wiki projects are listed in the Community Portal, the #wiki-suggestions channel on Discord, and the To do list.
• Issues needing administrator attention go to the Admin Noticeboard.
• Release information is available via the Ludeon development blog and the Double Eleven Patch Feed.

DLC coverage

The wiki documents five expansions, each with its own set of systems:

• Royalty — titles, quests, psycasts, techprints, persona weapons
• Ideology — ideoligions, roles, rituals, styles, slavery
• Biotech — pregnancy and babies, children, genes and xenotypes, mechanitors and mech gestation, pollution
• Anomaly — void study, monolith, entities, containment, psychic rituals
• Odyssey — gravships, biomes and landmarks, orbit, unique weapons, animals and fishing

If you are trying to understand the base game before buying expansions, the Concepts and Life sections cover the core systems; the DLC section is where expansion-specific mechanics live.