Rain World (2017)

Videocult

Nintendo Switch · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 4 · PlayStation 5 · Xbox One · Xbox Series X|S

3.69 from 159 ratings

1817 members have it in their collection · 54 playing now · 1133 backlogged · 231 wish listed

How long? Main story 23h (from 3 logged playthroughs)

Rain World is a survival platformer set in an abandoned industrial environment ravaged by a shattered ecosystem. Bone-crushingly intense rains pound the surface, making life as we know it almost impossible. The creatures in this world hibernate most of the time, but in the few brief dry periods they go out in search of food.
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Release dates

  • Mar 28, 2017 (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4
  • Dec 13, 2018 (Worldwide) Nintendo Switch
  • Dec 27, 2018 (Europe) Nintendo Switch
  • Jul 11, 2023 (Full Release) (Worldwide) PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S
  • Jul 11, 2023 (North_America) Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S

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GOTY 2017 by LarsFrukt · 46 games · 0

Rating distribution

5 stars
54
4 stars
43
3 stars
28
2 stars
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1 star
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Torgo

Status Torgo May 13, 2017

I finally did it! I made it through HELL aka Underhang. I think it took me about 3 weeks to get through this one little section, a lot of trial and error and frustration, I gave up at certain points. Maybe 100 attempts.

For anyone not 100% sold on Rain World, this video might do it for you. You …

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I finally did it! I made it through HELL aka Underhang. I think it took me about 3 weeks to get through this one little section, a lot of trial and error and frustration, I gave up at certain points. Maybe 100 attempts.

For anyone not 100% sold on Rain World, this video might do it for you. You get to see some of the more technical aspects of the game, plus the jaw-dropping beauty, detail and desolation of the environments.

On this run I was very lucky with enemy spawn locations, enemy AI and for once my grapple hook cooperated. Note: this video doesn't spoil any story content, however it does reveal one of the mid-game items and an advanced area, and some enemies. Depends on what you classify as a spoiler.

This may not look particularly hard, but that's probably because I've done it so many times, I can assure you it's very challenging. Note that I have an extremely limited time window to do this section, otherwise I'm dead (hence why I was rushing as fast as possible). Also words cannot describe how strange the grapple worm and overall controls/movement of this game is; I'm still getting used to it tbh. During this video there are many close shaves with death; one wrong button press and I would have fallen to my death or into the jaws of an enemy.

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Torgo

Status Torgo May 7, 2017

I HATE this game so much.

This is the WORST game I've EVER played. AARRRRRRGGGJHHCKKK!!

Torgo

Status Torgo Apr 20, 2017

What the hell? This game just keeps getting more and more peculiar. I assumed it was set on earth, a post-apocalyptic post-human distant future earth where cats have evolved into weird aquatic slug salamander things. But I'm not sure any more, or perhaps this is really long after the apocalypse, and long after multiple advanced civilisations have risen and fallen. …

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What the hell? This game just keeps getting more and more peculiar. I assumed it was set on earth, a post-apocalyptic post-human distant future earth where cats have evolved into weird aquatic slug salamander things. But I'm not sure any more, or perhaps this is really long after the apocalypse, and long after multiple advanced civilisations have risen and fallen.

I've stumbled across a couple strange things, but now I've discovered a new area and we're suddenly drifting into H.R.Giger territory, with creatures that don't even remotely resemble anything I've ever seen before. Rain World is becoming more and more impressive each time I play it, it may even bump Hollow Knight from the top slot for 2017.

I won't post spoilers, but I took this screenshot just as things were starting to get spooky.

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Torgo

Status Torgo Apr 19, 2017

Just a few screenshots showing off how gorgeous this game is. Very strange and unique experience. Quite difficult!

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