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RimWorld’s Biotech expansion introduces families and genetic engineeringCan’t imagine this’ll make it any less controversial
Can’t imagine this’ll make it any less controversial
Sci-fi colony simulatorRimWorldis capable of generatingsome scenariosthat could makeThe Sims 4blush, and the newly announced Biotech expansion isn’t likely to change that. Y’see, Biotech introduces pregnancy, child-rearing, and families. It isn’t stopping there, because there’s also genetic engineering now. Your character will be able to psychically command semi-living machines too thanks to a special implant, making them your thralls. That’s one word for it, anyway.Top 12 Best Survival Games to Play on PCRimWorld is one of the best survival games on PC, we reckon.Watch on YouTubeRimWorld’s new families system sounds much like real life. You can choose to look after kids well, educate them, then send them off to be happy and productive members of society. Or you can treat them like a resource, setting up growth vats to churn out cheap and disposable labourers. Gene modifying means you can take those little scamps, or adults, and do everything from changing eye colour to making them immortal fire-breathing yeti people. If you don’t fancy any of that then you can become a mechanitor, commanding legions of emotionless robo-slugs to do your every bidding.Biotech will be RimWorld’s largest expansion so far, and was nearly split into two parts. Along with the new expansion, the devs are also releasing a free 1.4 update that brings a load of changes, from the new lung rot disease to “actually useful shelves”. The update’s just on the game’s unstable branch for now, so modders have time to adjust their wares. You can read the full details of the Biotech expansion and 1.4 updatehere.We rate RimWorld among thebest survival gamesandtop management gamesyou can play on PC. Biotech is the game’s third expansion, following on from 2020’s Royalty, which added empires and psychic powers, and last year’s Ideology, focused on belief systems. That one also added slavery. Australia’s Classification Board effectivelybanned RimWorldon PC in March this year for offending “against the standards of morality, decency and propriety”. Can I say strewth?RimWorld is onSteam,GOGand theEpic Games Storefor £28/$35/€30. TheBiotech expansionreleases this month.
Sci-fi colony simulatorRimWorldis capable of generatingsome scenariosthat could makeThe Sims 4blush, and the newly announced Biotech expansion isn’t likely to change that. Y’see, Biotech introduces pregnancy, child-rearing, and families. It isn’t stopping there, because there’s also genetic engineering now. Your character will be able to psychically command semi-living machines too thanks to a special implant, making them your thralls. That’s one word for it, anyway.Top 12 Best Survival Games to Play on PCRimWorld is one of the best survival games on PC, we reckon.Watch on YouTubeRimWorld’s new families system sounds much like real life. You can choose to look after kids well, educate them, then send them off to be happy and productive members of society. Or you can treat them like a resource, setting up growth vats to churn out cheap and disposable labourers. Gene modifying means you can take those little scamps, or adults, and do everything from changing eye colour to making them immortal fire-breathing yeti people. If you don’t fancy any of that then you can become a mechanitor, commanding legions of emotionless robo-slugs to do your every bidding.Biotech will be RimWorld’s largest expansion so far, and was nearly split into two parts. Along with the new expansion, the devs are also releasing a free 1.4 update that brings a load of changes, from the new lung rot disease to “actually useful shelves”. The update’s just on the game’s unstable branch for now, so modders have time to adjust their wares. You can read the full details of the Biotech expansion and 1.4 updatehere.We rate RimWorld among thebest survival gamesandtop management gamesyou can play on PC. Biotech is the game’s third expansion, following on from 2020’s Royalty, which added empires and psychic powers, and last year’s Ideology, focused on belief systems. That one also added slavery. Australia’s Classification Board effectivelybanned RimWorldon PC in March this year for offending “against the standards of morality, decency and propriety”. Can I say strewth?RimWorld is onSteam,GOGand theEpic Games Storefor £28/$35/€30. TheBiotech expansionreleases this month.
Sci-fi colony simulatorRimWorldis capable of generatingsome scenariosthat could makeThe Sims 4blush, and the newly announced Biotech expansion isn’t likely to change that. Y’see, Biotech introduces pregnancy, child-rearing, and families. It isn’t stopping there, because there’s also genetic engineering now. Your character will be able to psychically command semi-living machines too thanks to a special implant, making them your thralls. That’s one word for it, anyway.
Top 12 Best Survival Games to Play on PCRimWorld is one of the best survival games on PC, we reckon.Watch on YouTube
Top 12 Best Survival Games to Play on PC
RimWorld’s new families system sounds much like real life. You can choose to look after kids well, educate them, then send them off to be happy and productive members of society. Or you can treat them like a resource, setting up growth vats to churn out cheap and disposable labourers. Gene modifying means you can take those little scamps, or adults, and do everything from changing eye colour to making them immortal fire-breathing yeti people. If you don’t fancy any of that then you can become a mechanitor, commanding legions of emotionless robo-slugs to do your every bidding.
Biotech will be RimWorld’s largest expansion so far, and was nearly split into two parts. Along with the new expansion, the devs are also releasing a free 1.4 update that brings a load of changes, from the new lung rot disease to “actually useful shelves”. The update’s just on the game’s unstable branch for now, so modders have time to adjust their wares. You can read the full details of the Biotech expansion and 1.4 updatehere.
We rate RimWorld among thebest survival gamesandtop management gamesyou can play on PC. Biotech is the game’s third expansion, following on from 2020’s Royalty, which added empires and psychic powers, and last year’s Ideology, focused on belief systems. That one also added slavery. Australia’s Classification Board effectivelybanned RimWorldon PC in March this year for offending “against the standards of morality, decency and propriety”. Can I say strewth?
RimWorld is onSteam,GOGand theEpic Games Storefor £28/$35/€30. TheBiotech expansionreleases this month.
