RimWorld Is The Latest Game To Be Banned From Australia

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Australia makes the news for just two reasons. Either it's announcing a new union of game developers, or it's banned a video game for no particular reason. Today, we will be discussing the latest game to be banned in Australia, and that game is RimWorld.

For those of you who haven’t played, RimWorld is a top-down construction, survival, and management sim where you play as a group of colonists stranded on an alien planet on the edge of known space. You must survive the elements, defend against raiders, relearn technology, and eventually escape on a spaceship. Colonists and the planet are all randomly generated, making each playthrough unique.

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There’s a lot going on in RimWorld, where you have to manage everything from food and water to the colonist’s fickle moods. Some of those colonists can also have psychopathic tendencies, leading to things like an in-game serial killer.

Although the game can get serious very quickly, none of the inhumane acts that your poor stranded colonists might be forced to perform is particularly well animated. Characters are just oblong and limbless blobs and dead bodies are merely a different color. Most of RimWorld’s action is described in text boxes. And yet, despite this, the Australian Classification Board has “refused classification” to a coming RimWorld console port.

As noted by PC Gamer, the reason for the refusal (which basically amounts to a sales ban) was due to the depiction of “sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified.”

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