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Rimworld. Perfect, infinite generator of little stories.
What is the trick for these “story generator” games? I keep hearing how great Rimworld is, I bought it and it’s OK, but I can’t turn off my game brain from trying to min max it all, most of the time just restarting when something goes wrong. I know I’d like these games (trying CK3 at the moment) but like I said, I keep spoiling it for myself because I can’t relax and go with the flow.
Sounds a stupid question I know, but If you have any tips I’d really appreciate it!
CK3 and RimWorld are my two all time favorite games, well really CK2 but it’s hard to go backwards. I was like you, enjoying them to a point but always feeling like I was missing something in my pursuit of perfection. Now they’re atop a 700+ game library/disgusting backlog and I always come back.
The trick is accepting incomplete playthroughs are the goal, and that playing perfectly for so long that you lose interest is actually not optimal. Treat each playthrough like a reckless random event generator and don’t get too attached that your interest in a single colony or dynasty grows stale.
It’s sort of like a single player battle royale rogue-lite mindset, let’s see how far I can get with the tools given to me and wiping when it’s run it’s course. There are natural conclusions if you look for them and are keen to see what’s around the next corner enough to try again.
I get it though, architecture/base layouts in RimWorld are a super nagging temptation, and sometimes you have to min/max a little to know what works for future runs. But once you’ve got it, reset and play the cards you’re dealt.