Objectively, there is no reason to bury your colonist in a sarcophagus. It has no mechanical advantage over a grave for the rest of your colonists, and it's a precious waste of time and marble at a time when you are desperate to rebuild. But to you, he is more than just a scrap of code in a video game. He is the researcher who cracked the secret of the battery just in time to save your stale meat from rotting before the long winter. He's the medic who stayed up all night without food without so much as a complaint, saving half the hamlet from bleeding out. He's the miner who recovered precious components from the ancient rock when the old generator broke down. And he died a hero, protecting his fiance and his friends, holding the line against pirate scum storming the barricades. And you will honour him. Because that's what this amazing game does to you.

So there's a reason to build the starship after all. Huh.

I once had a colony where everyone died except for one pacifist who only lived by desperately repairing the walls. He lived alone for years before we built the colony got built back up, and eventually he was a member of a thriving colony. 12 years later, after four years in darkness and hundreds of raids, he was shot and killed by a drop pod centipede. We built a sarcophagus into the walls he built when he was alone, and started building the ship. Just as we were going to build the last few cryptosleep caskets, every single member of my colony died to a swarm of lancers from a psychic ship, except for one doctor. He went back home, turned on the reactor, and waited in a cryptosleep casket for it to warm up. Since the ship was built behind my base, most of the raiders were content just to steal my art, furniture made of precious materials, and electronics. With the massive dip in wealth from having everyone die and losing almost the whole base, only one mechanoid raid happened, which he had to stop with just his assault rifle. He shot the scyther a single tile before it caught him and took a shot to the arm from the lancer, but killed it and put a bandage on it, not using medicine because of the pirates stealing it all already. On the last day before the reactor would be ready, there was a siege. There was only eight hours left on the reactor as they started destroying the remains of my base with two mortars. Tony left that planet as bombs fell around him, and this song played. That was the most amazing playthrough I ever had, of any game I have ever played.

Alistair Lindsay has created song. (legendary) News of this valuable song will spread across the world

My best builder "gramps" was kidnapped and my plans were set back. Genuinely sad after losing him as he was my highest skilled builder and the last of my original 3 colonists. An In game year passes, ships built, I wait a few months more, just to see if I can get the mission to save him. Nothing. I presume he's dead and launch, I sit through the credits, hear this beautiful piece, and hit return to colony just to get one last look at it. Not even a second after loading in, get a Mission to rescue gramps. This game is something else.

I wish I could unhear this so I could experience it again after beating the game.

Maybe the real colony was the friends we made along the way

The feels you get when you look back at your base after the credits, its like a picture book, you see the very first storage room, the first freezer, the first bedrooms, and everything expanding outwards. One thing id think would be way more conclusive is that, after the ship launches, the game simulates in hyper speed, showing the death of the animals and the eventual degradation of the base by erosion and scavengers, like, seeing your hard work standing the test of time, withering away along with your memories of it as this song plays, i would cry

If this song has never made you cry, you either haven't lived long enough, or you never turned the difficulty up high enough.

Imagine unironically staying on some shitty planet and not jamming out to some sick beats in space

First ship launch at 1200 hours. I cried.

So after restarting my colony every few years getting bored. I decided to finally complete the story and get to the credits. And after the gruesome 15 days of raids, just before I was going to let every colonist enter their caskets, they started partying. Oh boy was I not read to cry some manly tears

I was pretty emotional leaving my first colony behind. I may've cried if I didn't make some cryptosleep caskets for all my pets.

Goodbye Powo, Vargas, Tracambe, Blitz, Yolanda, Moreno, Elred, Mich, Semi, Aaron, Jackal, Kennard, Marshall, Lion, Smelly... Godspeed. You deserve to be happy and survive out there. Jenni would be proud of how far you guys came. May she rest in peace, forever.

4,000 hours in Rimworld, NEVER HEARD THIS SONG. Alistair you have created a masterpiece.

The first time I heard this song it gave me goosebumps, this is an awesome song.

Gotta leave it all behind Engines burn and blow ya mind Waiting waiting for the sun How many seasons pass you by Are you glad just to be alive Waiting waiting for the sun Waiting waiting for the sun Through ice and fire wind and rain Remember left and forget the pain Waiting waiting for the sun To hold the line and hear the call Make friends come and enemies fall Waiting waiting for the sun Waiting waiting for the sun Waiting waiting for the sun Waiting waiting for the sun Waiting waiting for the sun Waiting waiting for the sun

you usually don't see this level of beauty in video game OSTs

Been playing since 2018. 1700+ hours in game. Never finished one until last night. Had to come find the song to listen again. What a phenomenal piece of music at the perfect time in the game.

Doc and Casdin stared up as the ship sailed into low orbit. There wasn't enough uranium to build enough caskets for everyone in the colony: and besides, someone had to stay behind to make sure that the Riptide Gang didn't salvage their base and leave nothing but a husk behind. Casdin looked over to Doc: old beyond his 46 years and stymied by the prosthetic reminder of a vicious warg two quadrums ago. "So Doc," the young spacer asked, "You think it was worth it?" Doc was already lighting up a roll of smokeleaf, his eyes glazing over briefly as he slowly turned and looked to Casdin. "Me and the Captain ran out into the swamps and saved you from a cannibal tribe three years ago, Cas. If not for that, you'd still be with the Riptide; you could very well have died trying to take that that spaceship from us. Do YOU think it was worth it?" "Well, when you put it like that.." Doc chuckled drily, slapping a weathered hand across the back of his young ward. "Come on: the Captain left us in charge, we don't wanna let him down.."

What an amazing song to accompany the credits after finishing the game. "How many seasons passed you by" this line gave me some tingles reminiscing how many quadrums my colonists went through. Such a rollercoaster of emotions all embodied perfectly with this song. Thankyou Alistair

Today i finish my first story in rimworld. This song is great present. It sounds like memories after long story. Its amazing... (Sory, bad english, im from Ukraine)

My first ship launch was 830 hours in with a cannibal colony on sea ice. I had like 7 colonists.... this song suprised me

one of my best friends left me this as his last song before he left for basic training for the navy, it’s beautiful

No game makes you prouder or mourn loss harder. The song is perfect for watching those credits roll by after everything that transpired. Wish you coulda made it out, Rissa.

I listen to the Rimworld soundtrack a lot while working. I've never even played the game, but I dig these songs very much.

Rimworld just got fully released today!!!

I think the 3 story tellers are actually the true crashlanders

this music make me cry i love rimworld

I absolutely love this song, mainly because after the credits there's no one else in the base, it gives me a mix of emptiness and pride

after 7 years on this godforsaken rock, we finally had enough materials and the ship reactor was ready he arrived just as we were about to launch zeon the leader of the mechanoids was upon us we closed the main gate, and hoped that it would give us enough time to finish loading everyone into the pods; lightning striking all around the ship as we started the launch, the mechanoids almost through the gate as soon as everyone was in a cryosleep casket and only the androids and bots remained to cover us as they busted down the front gate we launched from orbit we watched multiple ICBM's launch from the base in a final volley against our biggest enemies: we watched as the androids laid waste to them.... before a final explosion.... this explosion being the colony it self they blew up one of the nukes they didnt launch right on top of the silo doors to kill zeon; freeing everyone on that rock from zeons wrath but sacrificing themselves and the base to do so but just before, they blew up the base, a group of cargo pods went to another colony; an allied colony our colony was renown for their ability to tame and breed thumbros they sent all the breeding stock and babies to a allied colony with a note:" we wont been needing these anytime soon, keep them fed and theyll be great pets" - Sasha and so came the end of a great play through

That's not a song about rimworld. It fits pretty good to life in general

Ту жизнь оставив позади, Ревущий двигатель запустив, Мы ждём новую зарю. Десятки лет, сотни баррикад И просто жить ты уже был рад Лишь ждал новую зарю. Всё ждал новую зарю. Сквозь дождь и ветер, снова в путь Запомни радость, а боль забудь И жди новую зарю. Не убегай, услышав зов, Пусть будет дружба сильней врагов. Чтоб ждать новую зарю. Вместе - новую зарю. Мы ждём, новую зарю.

Gotta leave it all behind Engines burn and blow ya mind Waiting waiting for the sun How many seasons pass you by Are you glad just to be alive Waiting waiting for the sun Waiting waiting for the sun Through ice and fire wind and rain Remember left and forget the pain Waiting waiting for the sun To hold the line and hear the call Make friends come and enemies fall Waiting waiting for the sun Waiting waiting for the sun Waiting waiting for the sun Waiting waiting for the sun Waiting waiting for the sun (remember left and forget the pain) Waiting waiting for the sun

Just finished the game today, what a masterpiece. I kept most people alive, the real losers were in the mass grave of raiders outside the colony. The last thing my researcher did before getting in the casket was to call her father, the leader of a faction, and call in the reinforcements. He'll be dead before she wakes again, and he helped her, and all of her friends. Hour: 179. Mods: EdB Prepare Carefully, Misc. Training, ResearchPal, Interaction Bubbles. The only other cheaty thing I did was edit a relationship in post, making that faction leader her father. I thought it fit, myself.

This game was truly a masterpiece. the $29.99 price tag on this game was definitely WORTH IT. and considering the beauty and simplicity of this game.. that price was cheap. Ngl

and, 50 hours later, here i am. The original three were lost, but still... i could save another three.

Gotta leave it all behind Engines burnin' blow your mind Waiting, waiting for the sun How many seasons passed you by? Were you glad just to be alive? Waiting, waiting for the sun Waiting, waiting for the sun ____________________________ *Instrumental* ____________________________ Through ice or fire, wind or rain Remember laughter, forget the pain Waiting, waiting for the sun So hold the line and hear the call Make your friends come and enemies fall Waiting, waiting for the sun Waiting, waiting for the sun (gotta leave it all behind) Waiting, waiting for the sun (engines burnin' blow your mind) Waiting, waiting for the sun (through ice or fire, wind or rain) Waiting, waiting for the sun (remember laughter, forget the pain) Waiting, waiting for the sun

I bought this game in 2019, and have 600 hours since then. Before that, i had a pirated copy that i had been playing since before i can remember. This game truly is something that i grew up with, and i'm almost ashamed that it's taken me this long to hear the end credits. I've been playing before release, yet my first winning colony featured a church, sanguophages, friendly mechs, and won via the empire ending. My journey with this game is not yet complete. I've been playing since i was little, and i'm sure that i will be playing it long into retirement. 10/10.

First ship launch and this song gave me chills, damn rimworld really knows how to pull you in.

Goodbye Mt. Serenity, you band of vegan pacifists had a hell of a time in your 12 years of hardship on that rimworld, but all 43 of you banded together and made it off-world without a single causality. Lulu was the last one in the ship, looking fondly on the community she founded and led for all that time. This song was a perfect encapsulation of how it felt to leave it all behind for a better world for all of these people I had come to know and love.

Out of the first 3 colonists my favourite one was known as Bryan, during the last 3 days left for the ship reactor to recharge I had a tribal raid and it was not even a challenge... To my surprise, Bryan got shot in the brain by an arrow and instantly died... I had the game in commitment mode and I couldn't do anything...I was very devastated and I couldn't do anything about it... So I had too much gold and I built a sarcophagus for him and buried him...I really loved my base design as well and when the ship was ready, I turned off everything every machine and lights and took off...then the end credits rolled with this beautiful song and in the loving memory Bryan, Manager popped up ...Man I haven't cried in a long time....

The story this run started with Luxenburg landing with Irma and Engie. Luxenburg was pregnant and later gave birth to Mark, who grew to the age of 9 and had to fight off raids that dropped into throu his roof with a shotgun. Both Luxenburh and Engie died that raid. Fast forward 8 years, Mark is the leader of the colony, fully bionic with maxed techology. They set to build a ship. A lot of raids, lots of bullets, Mark nearly lost his nose. 2 days before the ship could launch a group of mechanoids attacked. Heavy mechs, was a close fight. However Joli and Mooneye took a drop pod and flanked the mechanoid while Irma and Drake fired mortars and Mark covered with sniper fire.

After you take the time to listen to the entire OST, and you finally hear vocals... it gives you a feeling of excitement, followed by a feeling of contentment, that the journey is finally over. The story has come to an end. On a separate note - this sounds like Steve Miller went to space, tamed an alpaca, and travelled across the planet to find a ship... no raiders. No mechs. No diseases. Just Steve... finding his way home.

Just finished my first vanilla colony, Beach IronHead and Serenity, I'm glad I chose you three to be my crashlanders, after 15 years and many sunsets, you made it off the planet. With your new friends, leaving it all behind. Thank you for your amazing story

I've never build the ship and I'm 3600 hours in the game. I didn't want it to end. First time I heard the song was when my wife played it to the end. That was around 3000 hours in game.. I cried so hard. Like a baby.

For the longest time I actually sit through the entire game credit and be calm yet satisfied for the hardship of the rimworld is finally over. Thank you Tynan for this unforgetable experience.

I did it. I feel at peace. I'm gonna let Rimworld go for a while. My permadeath colony deserves it's peace. Francis, Eamon, Zackary, and the rest. They deserve their time.

I still think what happened to my first colonists Maybe an asteroid hit them and they died... or.. They crashed again .. no one knows

i sat listening to this song in disbelief, i play this game in silence and not expecting voices. then alas..... i hear a legendary piece of art. im at 1,195 hours as of right now and this is my first time listening to this.

After restless 12 days of raids, in the very last raid of their lives. An unfortunate event struck. My count has been accidentaly shot to death by his friend. After the wave was over he carried his friend's body to his throneroom and built him a golden coffin. He spent half of the day entombing his resting place in sheets of plasteel walls to discourage thieves. After it was done, they held a funeral. Even his royal highness was there to give last words to his underling. After it was done, they left. Letting their friend sleep in peace, the art of the coffin portraying his friends fatal mistake, as the last remnant of their friendship, which ended in tragedy.

The only game that can make me care so much about one little person on screen

this makes it all worth all those hours waiting for that one dude to make the advanced components

This song is as much about the trials, tribulations and hardships faced in the rim then it is about taking off in your spaceship and leaving hours of your blood, sweat and tears behind. Very emotional song.

I wish this was on Spotify

After owning and enjoying the game since before Royalty, I've finally gotten the ending. Wouldn't let myself get any DLCs before I had finished a save properly. This save wasn't supposed to see the ending. I was just messing around... Lost tribe scenario, nothing special. Living in a boreal forest, the Winterwood Alliance grew into a cozy village. Painted wooden buildings and stone paths, decorative trees, one of the prettiest bases I've built in this game. Decided to ban electricity and guns since I wanted to stick to the traditional style of the scenario, and I was enjoying the challenge of hunting for meat and leather and preserving food for the long winter. After four years and many deaths, I decided I wanted to bring the story to an end. No chance of making the ship without horribly breaking the aesthetic, so I decided to pursue the landed ship quest instead. Ran the numbers on how much pemmican we'd need to make the journey, and how many muffalo we'd need to carry it, and got to work. To make it happen, I made one exception to the no-electricity rule, hollowing out a mountain into a giant pemmican freezer. By the following spring, we had everything we needed. By this point, the only member of the initial five was Tiger, an elderly cook and builder. A lot of his friends had died along the way, but we had a party of ten as we loaded the muffalos with everything of value and left for the ship. I didn't use the "abandon" mechanic; I wanted to see how the old village weathered our time away. I had no plans to get the ending for real. The plan was to get to the ship, activate the reactor, and see how close we could get before everyone died. Arriving at the ship, we set to work reinforcing it. I'd overestimated our pemmican needs, so we had lots of food while we got set up with new crops and workshops. With no idea how difficult the takeoff gauntlet would be, I wanted to be prepared to give it my best shot. Reluctantly I abandoned everything I'd stood for. Ditching the natural village style for uncompromising rectangles, we built a strong (but flammable) wooden compound around the ship. We began using electricity, and eventually researched firearms. I find killboxes ugly, so we surrounded the compound in a perimeter fence and deforested everything within to give raiders nowhere to take cover. hundreds of spike traps lined the perimeter as the compound grew in size. Days turned into years as the compound grew, the wooden walls were replaced with stone, and I accidentally invented a class divide. The original ten (well, nine, rest in peace Raisa) people from the first village became the Founders, decked out in devilstrand and destined to leave the planet. Everyone who joined us at the landed ship was a Recruit, with the job of fighting to protect the Founders. Eventually we grew rich, our Recruits equipped with power armour and charge rifles. I stocked up on single-use superweapons, prepared mortars with hundreds of shells and dozens of replacement barrels, and upgraded the defensive line. Eventually, the rising cost of advanced components created a third class, the Fools, who had to go without power armour as our population hit 40. Nervously dragging out the inevitable, twelve years passed. With some final touches, including some beautiful rainbow-painted tiles in the inner courtyard surrounding the ship, I activated the reactor. It was SO easy. Barely got to use any of my superweapons! Well, Tiger and his friends (Green, Abeneiro, Mitsuya, Bailey, Purple, Rrogo, Trecrou, and Irgo) are in space now. Good for them. Yes, there were 18 cryptosleep caskets on the ship, and I could've built more, but I only launched the nine surviving Founders. As for the 19 surviving Recruits and the 14 surviving Fools... They're stocking up on packaged survival meals, preparing to prove their worth by making the same journey as the Founders- they'll make a pilgrimage to the ruins of the village (nothing is left, raiders and flashstorms have reduced the area to ash and rubble), and then build a new ship themselves. Maybe they'll get to join the Founders in the stars yet.

I really hope Vinny gets to hear this. Edit: He did it!

I had a lot of rescue missions and crash survivors come up in my playthrough. My colony was already big, and besides, this was about my tribe, their escape, so I turned a blind eye all those missions, for years. Occasionally I'd rescue some of the survivors, but wouldn't let them stay, I was determined to get my original five on the ship, no extra help needed. I sent off a caravan to trade for what should have been the last of the materials needed for it, when a rescue mission pops up. A child. Abandoned. And... I couldn't do it. Everything Rimworld had thrown at me until now, and that was my limit. I risked sending another caravan to rescue that kid, who was barely even injured, just left behind in the jungle to die like that. I sell off as much as I can from the trade caravan to get more resources. He turns out to be good at crafting, he helps build the extra components we now need for his pod. I save Beau, and I take him off that forsaken rock. And then I hear this. Rimworld, man. It does things to you.

Just finished the game for the first time....this game is unlike anything I’ve ever played. I know all of my colonists names and stories by heart. They’re like my kids. I was so proud to launch the ship and end the game with most alive. Amazing job by the creators.

Rest in peace 드류버트, you were good son real good, maybe even the best.

I've played this game for over 1500+ hours and only today did I decide to send my colonists to the universe, the moment this song is played, the memories of over a 1500+ hours flooded in instantly.. I never thought this game would bring such a moving moment... Farewell , my friends, May you have a better life back in the universe. 🥲🥲🥲

This hit Different if all your Original Colonists Survive the Story

Everyone here is sharing their colony stories and their nostalgic endings while here I am regretting listening to this music before I even finished the game.

I just finished rimworld for the first time and…. Wow. I know lots of people are telling the stories of their colonies, so here is mine, not that anyone asked. It started off with three colonists: Jude, Endorf, and Tanner. They lived in a simple base, and after a few quadrums, they rescued Komodo and took her in. Everything went well until they were attacked by a raid, one of which they were extremely unprepared for - they were forced to make an emergency caravan and flee. So there started their second base. They started with nothing, but after a long time they managed to build a secure, organised base, where Endorf and Komodo married - it was perfect. The base expanded with the growing colony, until one day in the middle of a solar flare and a psychic drone, Komodo had an extreme mental break and hurt many colonists, with Jude being close to death. Komodo was banished, but Jude died of her injuries. The colony slowly recovered though and faced many events like relocating for a third time, but the number of colonists grew and grew until the ship was built. They had managed to endure all of the raids except the last; everyone was loaded into the ship as quickly as possible, but Tanner, the only colonist incapable of violence, was the last to be loaded into his cryptosleep casket. He had just began to make his way towards the ship when he was shot by the only remaining raider and ended up dead too - and then his husky dog, who we forgot to down before trying to put in his cryptosleep casket, ran up to the raider and killed him, even if it meant losing an eye. Tanner was buried and Zeus the husky dog was loaded into his cryptosleep casket, and the ship took off into the stars. So it ended with 6 colonists and 4 animals: Endorf, Takamu, Aiko, Cronin, Bishop, Saylin, Zeus, Coco, Apollo, and Vanilla- Endorf was the only original colonist who had managed to escape. They finally left after 17 years, and I’ll never forget them.

I like the style of Rimworld soundtrack pretty much at all. Kinda futuristic country (I'm absolute noob in music) This song is just amazing. It creates some kind of love to all of that people, who are just randomly generated by computer. They didn't exist in real life and they weren't created by writer. It touches my soul...

Just heard this for the very first time after launching my first ship. Blown away by how good it is! Has kind of a David Gilmour era Pink Floyd sound that I’m really diggin.

Made me sad to hear this for this time... Redhead, Mikie, Knuckles, Scratch, Doc, Dave, Nyx, Rissa, Huntsman, and... that one guy with a really hard to pronounce german name.... I'll never forget you guys, hope the ship we built took you to a better world!!

Rimworldは人のプレイ動画しか見た事ないけど、この曲聴くだけでなぜか泣きそうになる

I waste too much time experimenting with game mechanics, 5.7k hours in and still have only heard this song twice

Теж щойно закінчив перше проходження. Всі перші колоністи вижили, але ціною багатьох інших, подекуди кращих особистостей. Навіть захищаючи базу від останньої навали вони продовжували сваритися, але врешті-решт вони всі були надійними напарниками, які не раз прикривали один одному спину. Але тепер я знаю, що вони змогли дістатися додому. Чи принаймні мене гріє надія на це. Гра топ. Чудова пісня, атмосферна

Here after finishing a colony for the 2nd time (and this time, legitimately obtained via the trip to the star quest), genuinely waved goodbye at my colonists, Turtle, Zack and Forbes, hope you three made it to a peaceful world, as for Turtle's wife, Layla, hope she and her husband make a stable family, and Phocas, thank you for being the tough one, deserted the imperial army and probably for the better, and let's not forget the rest of my colonists on that game, Carl, Dwayne, Harding, Cuevas, Snyder, Jonathan, C.M., Madam and Mitch

This is such an unironically beautiful song. Such a great game too.

Just exactly what I need right now

Here to pay my respects to the game and the amazing adventure it took me through for the last 10 months or so. I just launched the ship on my first game (not counting a few disastrous beginnings on the early days). The 3 base characters were in the ship when it took off, having traveled from the south hemisphere to the north pole and built 4 bases along the way... 27 years had passed since the crash. Deep thanks to the team and the community for this virtual yet unforgettable journey!

Lucky, Olivia, Deadlight, Perez, more that I can't list, even failsafe... good work guys

I just finished my first game today by launching 22 colonist. Released all my prisoners with bionic legs and full marine armor as compensation for being my blood farm. I had so much fun beating Randy with Losing is fun (500%) after so many retries. I hope my colonist Ryan and his family is safe now

This song is a masterpiece, didn't expect to cry today!

Imagine they go on the ship for 100s of years and wake up on another war-torn planet that at the time of departure was a glitterworld

I feel the reason this song has such an emotional feel to it compared to the other tracks is because it is the only one with words.

I just won my first game of Rimworld today. A megascarab infestation got too big to be able to manage so I decided that we had to built that ship and escape before they reached us. When it was done, I released the livestock, released the army of wargs, and released Sid the megasloth. And on the morning of departure day, someone threw a party. Thank you Monmendos, for a wonderful first Rimworld run

The solo in this is incredible

900 hours in and i am still learning new things

you start the engines after a grueling 15 days, and many lost, you hear this you cry you see your colony one last time, and close rimworld fourteen years later, you replay rimworld you start anew a few hundred hours later, you research starflight basics a few more hours later, you build the ship you ready the engines tribals, mechanoids, and outlanders alike raid you mercilessly day 4: allies drop pod in and help you with 2 waves day 11: more allies for 3 waves day 15: the ship is ready all your surviving colonists enter you start the engines

Just heard this for the first time in my probably 100 hour save that was my first go at the game. The colony started small, right beside the road of an ancient highway snaking around Mount Fishohandunt. Three brave souls emerged from the escape pods to construct a wooden base right at the side of the beaten asphalt: Grey Streaks, Cindy, and Red Dart. Grey Streaks while a pretty good shot could just as well get people on his side of the view. Terrible cook though, but that was something everyone had to put up with for a good while. Cindy was very reclusive, though she had a major talent with construction and cleaned up the place, much to her relief she didn't have to talk to people very much. That's what Grey Streaks was for. Red Dart was a gentle giant. Despite his hulking stature he seemed to quite enjoy socializing and researching. The three of them were there for a while by themselves. A good 2 weeks after the first building was up, a wild woman came in. She was Grey Streaks' nephew named Mari. She caused quite a bit of trouble for the crops, and eventually Red Dart was fed up with the girl eating the rice he spent so long planting and took her in to the prison cells. Grey Streaks was a bit discomforted by this, but it gave him a better opportunity try and reconnect with his family. She was in that cell for a while, maybe a good 5 seasons. In the meantime a few other prisoners were recruited from raids, most notably Freckles, a butcher of animals back when she was a part of her tribe. Red Dart managed to get her favor to join the colony with some food that Clause made. It was so disgusting that she simply felt bad for the state of things and decided to join the group on the condition that none of them get anywhere near a stove. Grey Streaks was a bit put off by this, and sparked a rivalry between the two (also some note taking from Grey Streaks.) By the time Grey Streaks finally got the right idea of how to communicate with his nephew Mari, a man fell out of the sky. Bear, a man who's combat prowess lives up to his name. He was horribly injured, but it seems as though the newly re-educated Mari took quite well to performing medicine and tending to Bear. It didn't take too long for Bear and Mari to fall in love with each other. Then came along the man hunting pack of timber wolves, Bear and Mari were both pretty capable melee fighters, but Mari got her left leg ripped off by one of the wolves, causing her to fall to the ground. Bear killed the rest of the wolves, but by the time anyone could bring her over to the medical bay, she passed. Enraged by the sudden loss of his fiancé, Bear took it out on Grey Streaks. He almost won too, if not for both Cindy and Freckles holding off the bleeding enraged man. Though Freckles was a bit too forceful with her club, cracked his skull right open. Needless to say, nobody was happy about this. The grief sent everyone into breaks, one after the other. Grey Streaks built a tomb for both Mari and Bear next to each other, right across the road. He had to take a few breaks to drown his sorrow in beer in the process. The only one who seemed to keep their head on right was Red Dart, continuing his research into ways on how to get off the planet. Another new comer appeared during all of this, a man named Paul. Paul was astoundingly gifted in the way of craftsmanship, so he got the newly built workshop all to himself. He was a pretty solitary dude, but he didn't seem to mind. Simply making some pretty fantastic quality marine armor to help us against the raids. He did have his eyes on Freckles, constantly flirting with her and being rebuffed almost every single time. Key word almost, I suppose that persistence is a good way to land a relationship out in the Rim. Once the research was done for the starship, construction started immediately. Cindy was the lead of the project with her knowledge and skill of how all of these raw materials fit together. All that was left was the persona core, which was obtained from a quest to keep a prisoner from some of our allies that Grey Streaks managed to win over with drop pods full of cloth that was just gathering dust in the store room. And then, the ship was built. But everyone knew what would happen if you tried to start that thing up. Waves of pirates and mechanoids to no end. So it just sat there. Sat there for days, weeks, seasons, years... In truth, they've gotten accustomed to their life out on the Rim. That is until a mechanoid raid almost razed the whole settlement. Everyone in the med bay knew that reactor had to come online NOW. So it was set into motion, 15 days of raids. And they seemed to all be mechanoids too, by the first week the wooden structure was replaced by plaststeel walls from how often the scythers would chop their way inside. By the second week, Paul and Freckles got killed by a thumper that got a stray shot around a corner that was meant for Cindy. Red Dart and Grey Streaks fought their hardest, but a lancer got both of them right between the eyes, Cindy was barely able to finish it off in melee. But, that was it. The final day was quiet. Much more quiet than Cindy would've ever liked. So with a heavy heart, knowing she'll never see her friends graves and settlement she built from the ground up, she entered the cryosleep casket. The thrusters began their launch sequence, and Cindy waits for another Sun to see.

I finally finished this game... I'm so happy. it took 23 hours.

My first endgame was in Rim of Madness mod, when King in Yellow took all settlers to his kingdom. I don't know why, but empty village with this music and that kind of ending is working for me more, than spaceship ending

Finally after 1,500 hours and 2 years I have heard the song. FINALLY

The song is so good you've got to beat the whole game to hear it.

Thanks for all the memories

Maybe it was not about the ship after all...maybe it was all aboaut the friends we made along the way

Waiting for the sun Lyrics: Gotta leave it all behind Engines burnin' blow your mind Waiting, waiting for the sun How many seasons passed you by? Were you glad just to be alive? Waiting, waiting for the sun Waiting, waiting for the sun *Instrumental* Through ice or fire, wind or rain Remember laughter, forget the pain Waiting, waiting for the sun So hold the line and hear the call Make your friends come and enemies fall Waiting, waiting for the sun Waiting, waiting for the sun (gotta leave it all behind) Waiting, waiting for the sun (engines burnin' blow your mind) Waiting, waiting for the sun (through ice or fire, wind or rain) Waiting, waiting for the sun (remember laughter, forget the pain) Waiting, waiting for the sun

My best run so far, was the story of Haruka , naked brutality back then in 1.2 . But the main Character I believe was not her. After struggling till winter, she finally managed to build a tiny wooden shack, siting there alone next to the camp fire that kept her warm. Suddenly one night, a spaceship crashed around the camp. Containing few people, only one survived, his name is Pan Sunbin. He had some skills in shooting and medics so I decided to rescue him. After regaining consciousness, he decided to stay with Haruka. Together they literally went "through ice, fire, wind and rain", gathering more and more people in the colony, including one of the best Melee fighter I've ever seen , Kai , Haruka's younger brother. Haruka and Pan eventually got married few seasons later. Honestly wasn't expecting this one run to last long, was getting bored nothing happened. Until one day a giant swarm of Insectoids raided. That was a bloody battle, everybody got downed, I was already thinking "welp that's the end I guess" and on my way to leave ... That's when I heard someone was still shooting, quickly searched who it was, and it was him, the Main Character Pan Sunbin, who hasn't had a single injury still fighting some of the remaining insects. At this point I didn't know how he was untouched despite being this close to the insects, but I quickly carried him to safer place and made him kill the last insect by using Run and Gun tactics. He eventually killed all of them, now we had to save everyone. He carried one by one all of my colonists and luckily he had some good medical skills. We juggled between each person, tending the most bleeding ones first. The night was really long, but we managed to save everyone. Pan Sunbin was the only one standing for about 4-5 days, doing everything from cooking to farming to cleaning the hospital just so nobody gets an infection. That one raid hit really bad but we recovered and got stronger. From that moment, I always kept an eye on Pan Sunbin even tho the others were all incredible in their own field. 10 years after landing on the Rim, We had 2 great craftsmen who made multiple Masterworks power armors and few Legendary Melee weapons. During that run was the first time I had a colonist reach Level 20 in shooting, that one young girl I was not expecting at who just just joined barely 1 year ago and and with only one shooting passion surpassed my long time Hunters and Soldiers, I couldn't believe it. Haruka was the first Noble I've had to reach Baron, and that's when I discovered for the first time "String Theory", an OST that only play when you reach that rank. During one raid, Kai got brain damage (despite wearing a legendary Siège Breaker helmet) and was downed for around 1-2 before I found a healer item (i forgot the name). 13 years in, I decided to launch the Royalty ending quest which was difficult but managed to complete it. Now it was time for them to leave, I was really sad knowing that I'll never see them again ... But at least they have better lives up there ... Maybe ... Now 2 years later irl, we are in 2023 and Biotech 1.4 dropped. No other colony yet gave me the same feeling as that one ... Was playing a random run and one day a very old man crashed from the sky. I was just randomly checking his "social" and there I saw something absolutely chilling... That old man was the father of Pan Sunbin, who is now a faction leader of the Cannibal Pirates. So I decided to rescue the old man and send him back to his Son ... Idk what happened in the Glitterworld that would make Pan Sunbin, the Husband of a high rank Noble, come back to Rimworld and become the leader of Cannibal Pirates... But one thing is sure, I was happy seeing him again after those years. This game truly is a masterpiece.

In the end, there were eight. Squint, Silver, Bonnie, Sonia, Pidoux, Clyde, Caxi, and Ruskii. Oh, and a giant spider they'd outfitted with as many bionics as they could fit on him. Bonnie had successfully reached the rank of Countess in the imperium. They'd protected the Stellarch for 12 days, at the cost of a few fingers. They all got to leave, finally.

I've never played Rimworld but it has an amazing soundtrack

i wish i hadnt used cheats and mods when i got to the end ;(

I listen to this every time I lose a colony. Something just feels right about it, like I can give them an ending they never had. In case you can't tell I just lost a colony that I'd had for about a month, just long enough to grow attached. We faced hardship, yes~ we embraced it. But seeing it all crumble before you, watching all the raiders fall, succumb to your traps and wounds inflicted in some last desperate moment but still having no way out- that's why I love this game. Stories that tell themselves, men and women that only exist in your thin screen but feel like a friend. Goodbye, Citadel. You fell before the heavens themselves.

I don't know what it is about this song, but it it has a unique sound and feel to it. Whenever it comes on, I just feel like kicking back in a chair, watch the sunset and drink a cold beer thinking to myself... life is good. Many songs that makes me feel good, but this one is probably at the absolute top.

Just beat it on coldest temp available while starting with only 1 character. } Ali waited for the sun... and she was rewarded.

Just escaped with some colonists in my first successful colony. I only had 1 of my original colonists escape, but this song made me feel really happy for her.

First time beating this game, and hearing this song at the end... F@#$ing emotional!!!! EPIC!