RimWorld

Changed my life forever, good or bad. Who cares, I'm playing Rimworld. The base game is solid, the dlcs are solid but what really makes this game so golden is the modding support, if you have an ideal way to play colony sims or you want a certain theme, you want mechs, you want furries, etc, the modding community has your back. Recent updates have made it so much more viable to load this game up to the brink. Aside from mods though, it really is just the perfect amount of simple and complex that helps your brain fill in the gaps without being a literal text dump. Your colonists will fight, fall in love, commit atrocities and you can keep track of as much as you want or just focus on your drug empire without playing into the silly antics of your colonists. The mood management can be a pain in the ass but the pettyness of the pawns is hilarious, if you want to avoid the eating without a table mood penalty you really should be putting tables in every unused corner of the base otherwise they'll just plop that ♥♥♥♥ on the ground and kill the colony's pet over it. Biotech has been a great boon for the game and everytime one of my friends gets into it I always buy them biotech to go along with it. There's something special about your favourite pawns starting a family and seeing those kids grow up over the course of the game and eventually fall in love themselves. Or seeing them run out into the wilderness and get eaten by bears, the game doesn't pull punches for anyone. Truly this is one of the games of all time, and you can tell I believe that by looking at my playtime. Nothing has ever hit as hard as Rimworld for me and I look forward to how this game can only be improved from here.