RimWorld - Prison Architect in a space theme! (Kickstarter+Steam Greenlight)

Game Type : Sci-Fi, Strategy
Developer/Project By : Tynan Sylvester
Kickstarter Goal : $20,000(Success with over $40,000 so far!)
Developer Game Quote : A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. RimWorld follows three survivors from a crashed space liner as they build a colony on a frontier world at the rim of the galaxy.
Game Info Quote : RimWorld is a story generator. It’s designed to co-author tragic, twisted, and triumphant stories about imprisoned pirates, desperate colonists, starvation and survival. It works by controlling the “random” events that the world throws at you. Every thunderstorm, pirate raid, and traveling salesman is a card dealt into your story by the AI Storyteller.
Release : Public Alpha January 2014
Systems : PC, Mac, Linux

Features :

• Construct buildings to hold living and eating spaces.
• Grow food and mine rooms into the rock.
• Trade with passing ships.
• Decorate your colony to make it into a pleasurable space.
• Defend yourself from pirates and ravenous creatures (especially squirrels).
• Weather storms and fight fires.
• Capture refugees or prisoners and turn them to your side or sell them into slavery.

Websites

• tynansylvester.com
• ludeon.com
• Kickstarter Page  
• Steam Greenlight