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Don’t get me wrong, rimworld is great. But the mechanics of the game are just a repackaging of Dwarf Fortress which was a labor of love by two people over many many years.
Friend, I don't normally come out swinging, but you're dead wrong. I've played both and there is a reason one is wildly popular and the other, cult status. It's the same reason x-com endures. You get attached to your pawns, because of the little touches, little individual aspects, that make them unique and endearing. Oh Mila started another social fight with Engie, well, she did insult her sandstone art as creepy. It is creepy, but her lovers funeral from the failed raid to get the relic of our religion was not the place to bring that up. Furthermore, all of this is accessible, on the surface, and a component of the game. However incredible Dwarf Fortress is, and it is, it never landed the, "why I give a shit about this character or that character." Just my take.
Oh my I disagree so much. I've not launched DF for a year and I can still rent about the stories of characters that I only know from their descendants and the legends.
Both awesome games no doubt