I’ve been a longtime fan of rimworld and the new dlc, ideology, came out. I have a major problem with its handling of real world religions, my religion of Islam as well as others like Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism are featured as game mechanics and factions. They all have randomized names like the blue Islam cannibalism cult or the buddhist people’s nudist temple. I find it pretty offensive that I would have to fight other muslim factions in game and these factions often have beliefs (called memes in game) that are just contradictory to what Islam actually practices. When I bought this I was expecting something a little more secular. I wouldn’t have bought this knowing how my religion is treated as a tasteless game mechanic. I’m not gonna play rimworld again unless there’s a patch that removes all references to real world religions. Islam doesn’t need to featured in a game where the primary mechanics are death camps and cannibalism, it’s absolutely not okay.
Lol https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2553766942
I’d be willing to bet it’s 100% because the devs saw CK3’s custom religion system and just ripped it off wholesale “adapted it to fit rimworld.” Like it’s entirely just CK3’s system: you select type, big theme cards, and set up the tenets, and they didn’t even bother to think up new base types for everything they just literally took the religions from CK3 and added a few of their own.
And that’s even before you get into what a brainworm infested trainwreck the “memes” are.
