More like you’re the mind worms from Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri. Not like you’re the Reapers from Mass Effect. Touch down, wake up, build a campfire, and pray the flint needed to start the fire isn’t randomly sitting in the middle of a den of bears.įrom your digitally noisy-looking appearance through the gas cloud, Ragnorium makes you feel like the inevitable return of the misunderstood bad guys.

Whether your pods land in easy, normal, or hard conditions-you select the landing zone from the modular spaceship you built, flying in low orbit-the first steps to surviving Ragnorium are often identical. But other times, you might highlight some scrap metal for them to place in storage, and it’ll seem like your suggestion is falling on deaf ears. Sometimes you’ll highlight a tree for your colonists to chop down and, as if one of them was just itching to become a lumberjack, they’ll get right on it. Just banging rocks together and sewing leaves into a skirt.Īs the game gives you suggestions of objectives to accomplish, you likewise suggest to the colonists on how to go about beating those objectives. You need to get your colonists to a self-sustained state, but those first days are like a glitched-out episode of Naked and Afraid. At its most basic, Ragnorium has you plunk down two or three colonists on a scorched planet. Ragnorium is invisibly subtitled “Planet Recolonization Odyssey,” which is largely appropriate, though I think Kirpu mostly wanted to make an acronym out of PRO. Those comparisons may be lofty, but one-man developer, Vitali Kirpu, is already doing enough good things to have caught the eye of publisher Devolver Digital. A gritty strategy survival sim in the vein of Banished or Rimworld. The game looks like you’re playing it on a screen burnt CRT monitor, and sounds like a synthwave strung up at an A.I.

Ragnorium had me at hello, I’m not gonna lie.

Rimworld colonist on fire