Hello everyone! We have great news for our Australian players - RimWorld is once again available for purchase on Steam in Australia. This means Australians have access to the RimWorld Steam store page and can gift and receive Steam keys for the game. (It also means you can read this news update. 😉) Everything should be back to normal!

For context: Back in February, the Australian Classification Board classified RimWorld as “Refused Classification (RC)” which banned the game from sale in Australia. This news was sudden and a surprise to everyone.

We appealed to the Classification Review Board and they agreed to review the game’s rating on April 20. We assembled a lot of useful evidence and had a great legal team to help us. Our community was also amazing and helped us by providing examples of games on Steam that had similar cases to us, like Disco Elysium and Fallout. The review concluded with a happy ending - RimWorld’s classification changed from “Refused Classification (RC)” to “R 18+ ... Read more

Hello everyone!

It’s Tia - I’m back with update 1.3.3326 which brings full support for RimWorld on Steam Deck!

Before I get into the update, I wanted to share that our developer who was living in Ukraine is now safe in Germany. He’s staying with one of our former team members and we're doing what we can to help him get set up there. Thank you for all the kind comments and for thinking of our team. 💛

Today’s update makes the Deck controls more intuitive, refines the touchscreen interface, improves the UI and keyboard, and adds an easy way to access the Deck's controller config options.

The Steam Deck requires that we use a new version of the Steamworks API which breaks compatibility with a few mods. To prevent breakages, three weeks ago, we released a public beta to give modders time to update, and we personally reached out to dozens of modders to help prevent mods from breaking. The known incompatibilities should be solved now - thanks to all modders who responded!

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Hi everyone, it’s Tia. We’ve released our Steam Deck update 1.3.3300 as a beta branch on Steam.
This update has full support for Steam Deck!

However, for that to work it has to use a new version of the Steamworks API, which will break mods that access Steamworks.

If you’re working on a mod that accesses Steamworks, please prepare to update to its new version to prevent breaking the game.

We are planning to release this version to everyone on Wednesday April 6 at around 5pm EST.

Players who want to use Steam Deck should also use this branch for now. Everything except a few mods should work.

To play this beta on Deck or PC: right-click RimWorld in your Steam library list, click Properties, then select the ‘betas’ tab. Select ‘steam_deck - Steam Deck update’ from the drop-down list. Your game should auto-update - if it doesn’t, restart Steam.

To share any feedback or bug reports from the beta, please join the Official RimWorld Development Discord[discord.gg].

- Tia

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Hi everyone, it’s Tia. I’m excited to bring you a big support update for Steam Deck!

In our previous announcement, we said support for the Steam Deck would be delayed until after the console’s release. Since then, our tech lead Piotr Walczak has been working hard to put together this integration update.

The update focuses on Steam Deck changes and improvements. The UI changes make it easier to read on-screen text and type with the Steam Deck keyboard, and menus look a lot better. The controls make more sense now with improved scrolling, zooming, time control, and touch screen navigation. Overall, playing RimWorld on Steam Deck should be a lot smoother with more intuitive controls.

We also fixed some sources of annoyance in the ideoligion configuration screen.

You can read the changelog below. There may be more changes on the way to get R... Read more

EDIT: As of April 20, RimWorld is back on Steam in Australia!

Hello everyone,

Unfortunately, we've just been informed that RimWorld has just been made unavailable for new purchases by Australian customers on Steam.

This does not seem to affect existing owners - it only prevents new purchases. Anyone who already owns the game is still be able to play, receive updates and access community features like the forums and workshop. The Ideology and Royalty expansions are also not affected.

EDIT: Steam keys do not work in Australia. If you buy the game on the RimWorld website, you will not be able to register your game on Steam. Friends cannot gift you RimWorld on Steam either, even if they don't live in Australia.

We don't have a ton of information about this since it just happened within the last few hours, it's Friday evening, and most people we could ask are not at work.

From the info we have, this happened because a few days ago, the Australian Classification Board classified a potential cons... Read more

What do you believe? RimWorld - Ideology is now available. Check out the Ideology Steam store page for the full description and details.


Players can now update to RimWorld version 1.3 for free. This version was previously tested in a beta branch for 2 weeks. Find the full change log here.[docs.google.com]

On savegame compatibility:

• 1.3 will load 1.2 saves no problem.
  
• You can load a non-Ideology game with Ideology loaded.
  
• You can run either expansion, neither, or both - all configurations will work.

On mod updating: There's no need to break compatibility with 1.2 while adding support for 1.3! It's quite easy to make a mod support multiple versions of the game, just by putting the old version's files in one folder and the new version's files in another.

If you want to be more efficient and share identical files between versions, you can do that too. You can even define your own custom folder structure for full control.

This document explains the details on h... Read more

RimWorld - Ideology is available on Steam now!
Hi again! Tia here, your resident bug whisperer and announcement bringer.First, the big announcement. We’ll be releasing RimWorld - Ideology on Tuesday, July 20! At the same time, the free 1.3 update (which is currently in public beta) will become the default version.
You can wishlist Ideology now on its Steam page here! And also look at the original Ideology/1.3 announcement and the social roles update.If you want to continue on 1.2, you can do that using the Steam betas feature. To do it: Right click RimWorld in the Steam library, click Properties, then on the Betas tab select the branch called version-1.2. This will stay on version 1.2 forever.For modders: No need to break 1.2 support while adding support for 1.3! Keeping 1.2 support is as easy as leaving the old files in a folder. This document[docs.google.com] explains how to do it.As for savegames, saves from 1.2 (and before) will load on 1.3 (assuming no mods break anything). In add... Read more

RimWorld - Ideology is available on Steam now!
Welcome back! I’m Tia, and I’m here to bring you more Ideology preview info while we wait for the big release day.Today, I’m talking about Ideology’s new social roles and rituals. I’m also including another UI shot since everyone loved Spacer Manporkism so much in the reveal announcement. You can wish list Ideology on its store page here! Social roles
We’ve all had that one favourite colonist. The soldier who made it through hell and back, the medic capable of defying death, the one guy who refuses to do anything useful and spends most of the day binging on insect meat due to lack of tables…Now you can make use of your colonists’ special strengths by assigning them formal social roles. Each belief system in Ideology defines a roles that believers can take on.There are three categories of roles:The leader role can only be assigned to one colonist. Leaders give inspirational speeches, buff combat allies around them, encourage harder work, a... Read more