RimWorld‘s newest growth, Odyssey, guarantees so as to add a fairly wonderful quantity of stuff to the sport’s already deeply layered area colony simulation. Between the customisable spaceship, orbital exploration, new biomes, quest system, and an entire machine hive thoughts menace to take care of, on paper it looks as if the most important growth but.
What’s piqued my curiosity, although, is the brand new animals. As detailed in a brand new publish on Steam, Odyssey will add 40 beasts, together with:
- Porcupines
- Numerous birds, equivalent to man-eating crows, pink flamingos, and quails
- “Lavatory hounds”
- Aquatic animals, together with otters, walruses, and sea turtles
- Prehistoric animals, together with mastodons, scimitar cats, and greatwolves
- Lava snails
- “Colossus toads”
- Crabs
- Hippos
- Large alien insect queens

Odyssey may even introduce new methods to coach animals too, which delightfully consists of with the ability to train pandas to consolation your colonists with pleasant nuzzles. It’s also possible to prepare raccoons and pigs to forage for meals, wolves and bears to struggle for you, megasloths to dig in your mines, and mastodons to “warfare trumpet” to disorientate your enemies. You’ll be able to even tame that insect queen and get her to spew eggs at individuals.
Some animals are too primitive or wild to coach… that’s, till you inject their brains with “ultratech mechanites” to enhance their intelligence, permitting a creature as simple-minded as an alligator to turn out to be “a distinguished, loyal bodyguard”.

On prime of all that may be a model new fishing system with a number of freshwater and saltwater fish you may catch to feed your colony—plus the lovable element that colonists will now go swimming for enjoyable, too. Frankly, given the sort of stuff they need to take care of, they might do with the relief.
I’ve to confess, it has been an extended whereas since I final performed Rimworld, but when something was going to deliver me again, remedy pandas was most likely it. It isn’t an extended wait now, both—Odyssey launches later this week on July 11.
