Rain World

Own a joke rifle for home defence, since that’s what the void worm intended. Four lizards try to break into my shelter. “Wawa” as I grab my slugpup and joke rifle expedition perk. Blow a pebble sized hole through the first lizard, it’s dead on the spot. Draw my rock on the second lizard, miss it entirely because I can’t aim upward for shit and nail the neighbour’s squidcada. I have to resort to the explosive spear mounted at the top of the pole stolen from scavs, “Wawa” the spear shreds two lizards in the blast, the sound and shrapnel set off moon’s rain alarms. Fix spear and charge the last terrified lizard. It bleeds out waiting on the rain to arrive since spear wounds are impossible to stich up. Just as the void worm intended.

Absolute 10/10 Game. Perhaps the best thing in my steam library. The story is a beautiful thing to behold, the gameplay is addictive and not nearly as hard as it is made out to be, and the visual and level design is some of the best I have ever seen in a game. That being said, the game really really needs Downpour to be as good as it is, as it almost tripled my playtime just by completing all the story campaigns.

This is really a one in a million game. Its beautiful, atmospheric, and immersive. You truely feel like you are part of the ecosystem. The creatures arnt out to get you, they just want to eat and stay alive. The enemy AI is complex, and many creantures even have distinct personalities. The backgrounds are stunning. The game is quite difficult however, but honestly I think it adds to the game. It pulls no punches. The real ecosystem isnt fair, and this game isnt either. 10/10.

this game is the most wonderful and beautiful thing ever. frustrates the fuck out of me, but i wouldn't have it any other way. i love the lore, i love my funny scugs, and i love modding the hell out of it to make it literally unplayable <3

Perfect game. Cute cat creature. Watch out for the birds (and the lizards..).

Very challenging for first time playing so does require some patients but once you get the hang of movement and learn to survive it becomes a very fun interesting exploring game! And that just the start of it :D after the base game there is the DLC that can play with more friends and then for even more silly fun is all kinds of mods (there are a lot of created mods) so there can be almost endless content or at least over 100 hours of game-play to get through just the campaigns!

Absolutely awesome game! Worth every penny. It is a hard game, but it is incredibly fun, the environment is so amazingly detailed you dont know where to look, the AI in this game is incredibly complex and complicated, I would recommend this game to anyone, I love it a lot! Buy it now :D

the game is so easy it has great movement and cool animals but its sooooo easy

Good game, don't let the 'hard game' tag discourage you from playing this game, you're so invested that in no time (or what feels like no time for you), you'll had mastered the game mechanics. Now prepare to repeat that feeling 8 different times while playing through each slugcat's campaign.

Great game 10/10 made my ponder if I should've done more with my life

This game is just amazing. If it's a style that fits you, go for it. But I've got to say, it's not a kind game. You don't play as the main character, you play as a slugcat, a small feline thingy trying to survive in an ecosystem where it's DEFINITELY NOT at the top of the food chain. Everything can and will kill you at some point, even things you thought were harmless. The parkour is unforgiving, and you WILL wonder how many bottomless pits this game has seemingly conjured out of thin air. You'll have to manage food, shelter, rainfalls that could carve tungsten, and a labyrinthic world with a rather cryptic map that you'll also have to learn how to use. You'll probably spend your first few hours in the game roaming around trying to find your footing, and I can assure you we all had to. And once you've cleared all of the gameplay challenges, you'll be faced with Rainworld's Lore. And I can tell you, this game is the first to make me cry, that's all I'll say...

Oh and you can mod the heck out of the game with an integrated modloader, as if it wasn't enough.

11/10, broke me in ways I didn't know were possible, will keep playing forever

one of the best indie games out there. A masterpiece. Its difficult and unforgiving with cute little slug-cats. Looks to the Moon best girl.

yes this game is fist-through-monitor brutal and hard to get a hang of. yes its also the most fun you'll ever have. listen to me. what you need to do is find a pack of people that have 3000 hours in this game split between them and let them literally carry you through all the areas and cheer you on when you manage to not fall off a simple parkour jump and die. 10/10 most fun ive ever had in a game and im not kidding

Such a unique game with super challenging gameplay, interesting world-building/story, and beautiful visuals! It's so fun exploring in this game and overcoming obstacles for the first time, and I love how none of the creatures or obtainable items feel like they're there for no reason, which helps with how the game is imitating an ecosystem. With how gameplay-based it is and how much you can leave unexplored in the first playthrough, it definitely has some replayability. Best recommended to those who love challenges and exploration!

This game will make you want to scream and cry. I almost punched my monitor multiple times. No other game has done this to me. I love it 100/10

Rain World is pure, unfiltered sigma survival grindset. You’re just a shitty lil’ ratty slugcat thrown into a shit hole, (brain numbingly infuriating at times) nightmare where everything wants you gone to become beta. And the skibidi toilets? (lizards) These fuckers pop out just to ruin your day. Smack one just right, and it goes "OWie :("—flopping around like a cursed worm. It’s the kind of satisfaction you don’t know you need until you get it.

Then there’s the cyan lil bro, he's like my arch nemesis in rain world because we're both sigmas matching in strength :sunglasses:. It’s like fighting the rocket powered skibidi toilet from like episode 67. And at the top of the opp list? Five Pebbles. This guy’s got that god-complex energy. Every time i see him is like he’s asking for my slugcat ass to bomb him with a makeshift pipe bomb. Frick you, Pebbles!. he totally isnt sigma.

But Moon? Moon is the real one, the OG sigma. She’s holding it down while the world crumbles, and i fight the whole shite ecosystem just to eagerly hear what sigma words she has to say. And speaking of cursed—this world isnt for the small sigmas only big ones, a world of unsigma danger where even the sky hates you (grun birb). Rains in rain world is pretty rainy icl.

In short, Rain World is a full-throttle, beautiful, sigma survival game, where you’re the sigma slugcat just trying to make it. It’s, it’s perfect.

It's about time i wrote a review about this game. This is probably my favorite game ever. But it's hard. REALLY HARD. Only piece of advice i can give you for a first playthrough is be ready to suffer and to die a lot. After you get the hang of the controls and mechanics it's a really fun game to be honest. And the workshop is very big and is always expanding with a bunch of new mods.

Note that I have NOT beaten the game yet.

I got into this expecting the funny scug antics from all the vids and friend's streams I watched. I was not expecting the story and some of the actually engaging gameplay. It's not meant to be easy, It isn't meant to be a game that holds your hand, you'll probably be saying "WHAT THE FU#K" or "WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?!" more often than not. It's an experience. As someone who's beaten the original Dark Souls on Xbox 360, this game is easy, but to everyone else considering getting this game, I strongly recommend getting this. Soak up the details, soak up the content. Have fun :3

Very cool game, especially the world and how the AI interacts is nothing short of amazing. Gameplay is mostly platforming and very demanding on precision on that, so it's kinda kill my interest in it. Still if you can handle the platforming then it's a no-brainer.

very unique and brilliant game, I initially bought this game because the main character was soooo cute! (which it is) but it is also kinda difficult, it's one of those games where the direction isn't made starkly clear, this leads to frequent and semi-punishing mistakes, however these mistakes are really the only way that you can grow as a player.

All I'd like to say is that this game is INCREDIBLY difficult, so if you have problems controlling your anger, or aren't able to attempt things hundreds of times with little to no progress being made, this isn't a game for you. this game requires INCREDIBLE feats of dedication, and there's proof of that EVEN in the REDDIT community. the entire rainworld community, yes even on reddit, is incredibly kind to newcomers, and is made up of an absurd 90-95% of people who you would find as incredibly dedicated friends, and overall kind people... not to mention, even the hollowknight fanbase is fairly larger than this game's exclusively because of the difficulty. not to say the community is exclusively kind people- we're getting away from the point of this review.

If you like the concept of exploring unknown worlds, such as subnautica, or no man's sky, then this game could be a good choice for you. If you'd like a truly life changing story, told in the form of an environment that thrived after mankind died off I'd recommend this game, just because of the lore building alone which was something that had an incredible impact on me. I'm not going to give any spoilers here, because I do not support spoilers, but what I will say is that if you want a genuine experience that you can truly be proud of, DO NOT ASK FOR HELP WITH THE GAME. the game is designed to be mysterious, as it's supposed to illustrate the life of a wild creature that simply wants to find it's family again. Thus if you can't find a way to progress, that likely means you're going the wrong way, or you're about to learn something that will give you an incredible sense of accomplishment.

Don't ruin that by looking for a guide online, it's designed to make you think creatively and outside the box... and if you don't figure it out on your own, you spoil the ecstasy of discovering new ways to think.

If you scrolled down to this part of the description, hoping for a quick answer, I'll just say this:
GOOD GAME! BUY NOW! BIG FUN!

(p.s. DLC is incredible, I'd wait to buy both the game and the DLC together if you're curious.)

The thing that really strikes me about this game is how it treats death. Deaths don't feel like trivial annoyances like most platformers, but they aren't events that hijack your gameplay like Hollow Knight. The Karma system is a great way of balancing death so that it doesn't feel too bad when you lose, while still making you want to avoid it instead of being reckless.

Something that should be noted is that this game contains intense flashing lights and jumpscares, so this game may not be suitable for epileptics.

I find this game very fun and unique with challenges that make you think differently than other games

I really wanted to love this game. The art style is fantastic, the sense of hopelessness is so unique to this game, the creatures constantly make me feel awe and wonder, the music and sound effects all add to the feelings this game is trying to evoke. That feeling of when you are getting hunted down or when the timer for your current day is running out is incredibly dreadful and exactly what its supposed to feel like. But bellow its artistic sense the game was never enjoyable to me. People kept saying it would get better, but I beat the game and I still wonder when it got ''better''.

Rain world is a survival game where you play as the slugcat, a creature so incredibly pathetic that sits at the bottom half of the food chain. He has no special powers, all he can do is pick stuff up, throw that stuff and do short jumps. Playing as this character will suck all the life out of you, enemies are stronger, faster, and practically just not worth killing at all. You will scramble and do anything in your power to survive, but make 1 mistake and its back to your last save. Once again, from an artistic standpoint this is fantastic. You REALLY feel like you are a creature with 0 worth and you are constantly cursing your existence. On the other hand nothing about that is truly fun, your best option against most enemy encounters is to hide or distract the enemy to avoid confrontation.

But if it was just that I wouldn't dislike the game and not recommend it. There were a couple of moments in this game that really made me realize this game just wasn't for me. Throughout the first half of this game I was constantly exploring and testing my limits, but this game heavily discourages that. Every death means you can't access certain areas until you spend time collecting food, which isn't hard, but extremely tedious. But lets say you like me decided to save up a bunch and get access to a bunch of areas, thats where you as a new player start to make the biggest mistake you possibly can do.

The mistake is that the game is balanced around that mechanic, clearly you showed off how good you are by surviving and grinding up food. So entering an area with a high requirement leads you to getting stuck in extremely hard areas. And if you make the mistake of saving in the middle of that area you are practically going to be stuck there until you push ahead. This to me was the thing that infuriates me, you never get any real reward in this game. Your reward for playing conservatively/good is punishment. None of the systems I just explained are properly explained to you, in fact nothing is really explained to you, the direction you have to go, what your objective is, what you are capable of doing. Practically all of it is hidden behind experimentation that quickly gets punished or behind reading guides and wiki pages. Even if you learn a specific path you still have to deal with the fact that this is trying to emulate nature, and in nature nothing is guaranteed, one screen might have 0 enemies on your first run through, but on the second run through there are suddenly 5 enemies and they are all blocking the path you have to go through.

Difficulty is always subjective. But I think fairness plays into all of what makes difficulty enjoyable. I played through all the dark souls games, I played mobas for thousands of hours, finished some of the hardest challenges in games like hollow knight, I went through the insane learning curve of modern yugioh and went through many other such examples. But in all of these experiences I never felt the insane hopelessness I felt in this game, because there are just not many options. When you mess up or when you face a challenge in this game, you are left with only slugcat. And slugcat just isn't fun or fair. Slugcat isnt some kind of super hero, he feels horrible to control. In the end, rain world will never reward you for dealing with slugcat.

I think the majority of people playing this game will experience what I just explained, they will get hit with the extreme learning curve. They will quit, maybe they like me will think of new possibilities and push ahead just to get stuck at another area and feel frustrated again. And in the end they just stop trying. Looking at steam achievements, the first main objective was only finished by around 10 to 20 % of players, only around 11 % of people actually beat this game on steam. To me this is more of an indication of what I already felt, from a gameplay standpoint this game just isn't fun and I can't recommend it when most people will just bounce off it like I did. I finished the game 1 time, there are a lot of other things in this game I really wanted to explore or do, but all of that just kind of pales when I have to deal with the brutal world and the pathetic slugcat any longer.

it'd do this game an injustice to try and put down all my thoughts in this review, so heres the most important thing to know before buying this game:

it's hard. like, very VERY frustratingly hard.

many times over have i just closed the game out of anger due to me missing a jump, or getting caught by a predator that was off screen, or not making it to a shelter in time, et cetera.

but it's not unfair. everything in the game has it's place and happens no matter if you see it or not. that predator that was off screen? they've been moving around since the start of the cycle. the odds of you encountering it, and subsequently dying from it, impossibly low!! but because of the games literal jaw-dropping AI systems, everything is orchestrated like a genuine ecosystem.

to put it bluntly - everything is stacked against you. hell, the game itself says you're near the bottom of the food chain. but that makes getting through these impossible challenges all the more satisfying!! the visuals are downright beautiful, the story is one to make you question if you're even doing the right thing, and best of all?

funny slugcat

buy rain world.

I enjoyed base rain world quite a lot plus the downpour Slugcats as well, the graphics look awesome and the gameplay is very fun!
the game is extremely difficult but that does not bother me personally though it is still worth mentioning!
with downpour there are quite a lot of QOL and accessibility options that come with it and i would suggest looking there if some extra is helped is needed in clearing the stories, which i appreciate, the more accessible a game is, the better!
highly recommended! Looking forward to the upcoming Watcher DLC! (i will still call them Nightcat though!)

To be quite honest, I haven't even beaten the monk campaign, I was right at the end of the game, but there was some problems with my computer, and I lost my data. (no steam cloud 4 me)
Despite this, I'm sure I know about.. 95% of the story. My sensitive-story mind reaches far beyond the bounds of my computer-controlling fingers. (Basically, I read a bunch of stuff about the game instead of actually playing the game. I don't think I'd understand the lore at all in the latter way anyways.)
I might edit this review if I ever finish all the campaigns and stuff, just to tack on an actual honest review.
Game is really good though, yeah.

even with the most absurd phisics it's still fun to play, even if this game makes you to want to k*** yourself

Very fun, if you like advanced 2D platforming and dying a lot its great. love the scug. will consume multiple hours/days of your time, i still haven't beaten all the campaigns and haven't done any more than once yet.

Awesome game. It can run on a low power laptop with integrated graphics at 1366x720 and still be amazing.

Great game! It can be annoying at times, but exploring this world is very fun! :)

you play as a little guy exploring an unforgiving world. its so much fun to see new places. the world is so big. make new friends :3

This is possibly the most frustrating game I have ever played despite this, I absolutely love it.
The world and creatures both fell so alive, because of this I have never felt more immersed in any other game.
The game also has an incredible sense of atmosphere and an awesome soundtrack.
Overall I cant recommend this enough if you can tolerate a lot of frustration in your games.

Got RNG'd to hell for 8 cycles near the very start when trying to go the recommended path, ended up going through the most painful possible path because my inner-senses told me that a consistent high danger meant "I shouldn't go there".

You either get good rng, play for far too long, or cry and die like me.

This is hell.

this game made me want to rip my hair off my head several times and i dropped it for like a year before playing it again. I have 27 hours in this game and i still haven't finished it. And im not even on hunter's campaing yet. 10/10 love the slugcats and the scavs and the iterators, will play again

Great game, beautiful artwork, cool ai, great story, but the parkour in the exterior seriously made me want to quit.

Rain World is an unforgiving and brutal ecosystem simulation that I don't think I can truly compare to any other game I've played. It is one of the greatest games I've ever played yet genuinely cannot recommend it to most people due to the learning curve.
Everyone seems to have a shared experience with rain world: play it for a little bit, get frustrated and stop playing for a while. This is where most people stop playing for good, frustrated and unable to get into the game from the confusing and unforgiving environment. Meanwhile, others return and try again, slowly learning the systems of the world and behaviors of each creature. This usually repeats a few times, but at a certain point it becomes an unparalleled exploration of a mastercraft in environmental design.

It is a great game, deserves to be recognize by everyone, you should try it if you like roguelite-like type games, such a relaxing experience

After trying to get back into this game a few times, I’ve finally decided to give up. There’s definitely a lot to appreciate here, but in the end, the frustration outweighed the fun for me.

First off, Rain World is weirdly fascinating and, at times, even relaxing. There are moments when the difficulty feels just right, and you get to explore this beautiful, ominous world. It’s oddly calming to be this small creature in a hostile environment, figuring things out on your own in this game without words. And once you finally master the controls, getting your slugcat to move fluidly feels amazing.

But the biggest problem is, the game doesn’t feel fair, and that one issue ruins the experience. What could have been a tough-but-rewarding platformer instead turns into something that’s just frustrating to play. There are two major problems that really drag it down:

1. Random deaths: I'd walk out of pipe, just to be eaten by a lizard. I'd be caught by the enemy sitting just behind the edge of the screen. Falling down would sometimes result in death, sometimes it'd be safe, with no consistency. On multiple occasions I walked of the edge of the screen, thinking that there is more map to explore there, only to fall down, out of the camera's sight. The game is brutally hard—you die in one hit, and almost every predator is faster than you. It feels like you’re constantly being punished for things beyond your control.

2. Lack of explanation: This feels like the kind of game where you need a wiki open the whole time. There’s no real guidance on where to go or what you’re supposed to do. If you head through the wrong gate, you can get trapped in an impossibly hard map and die repeatedly. The game doesn’t teach you any advanced movement like sliding or backflips, so you’re stuck fumbling around until you figure it out yourself. It's near impossible to figure out how to deal with some kinds of enemies on your own.

I really wanted to love this game. The world is so unique, and when everything clicks, it’s fantastic. But the constant unfairness and lack of guidance just turned it into a frustrating experience for me.

funny slugcat goes backflip cant deny me on that.
either way the game is fine except i had to somehow figure out how to fight back which i ultimately failed to do so cuz i looked up on a guide on how to kill the "lizards" (i called them crocodiles cuz they look like one). i didnt rage on it that much but the ending is what i rlly liked, it literally made me feel peaceful inside and made me wonder if this is how it goes in life.
(which got debunked in my head cuz the lore is different from what ive seen).
either way, it might aswell be my favourite, but if you dont want hard challanges on this, then i dont rlly recommend it to you,
either intermediate or hardcode players can do so if they even consider themselves one (me for example, i have done some crazy hard stuff and i did beat it but im not sure about myself anyway).
i love this game anyway cuz of its funny ragdoll physics and the lore

10/10.

The story will make you bawl your eyes at first, then become full of an existential dread, then realize that everything is okay.

The gameplay will frustrate you as you survive in an unfair world against even more unfair enemies who you have to outsmart every step of the way, after all, you have no legs and your scrawny arms are incapable of hurting a baby.

This game will infest your day-to-day thoughts of how to survive better. This game is a journey that sticks with you. Your first playthrough will be a permanent memory, burned into your brain that you'll never forget.

i love rainworld, it is a beautiful game and the mods make it more fun too. the aesthetic is wonderful and i'm glad i have this game.

very nice game well made but very hard if you think you're good at video games this game will put that to the test. If you liked the main game then you will most likely like Downpour.

P.S don't go into this game thinking you're going to be good at it

If you like struggling, play this game, if you don't, still play the game. I'd suggest not modding the game unless you've already beaten every campaign, but do what you will, add the most busted scug (short for slugcat, the playable characters)
Id recommend getting the dlc, adds some more cool content.
Survival of the fittest.
[spoiler]there is a dating sim, but its not worth the pain[spoiler]

Once you get to know the game it becomes the best game you have ever played. This game has also convinced me to try art and I am starting to really improve. I would seriously recommend. This game is extremely difficult but when you get skilled enough the experience that comes out of this game is worth every penny. Also this game has a lot of cool mods to try out and I am really excited for that online multiplayer one that will be releasing sometime soon.

This game is not for everyone. It is a brutally callous dance of survival, of which you are dropped in and treated like one of the lowest links in the food chain—which you are. There are ways of movement and mechanics within the game that you may not pickup until your first run is over (assuming you get no external help), and situations which are flat-out unfair and inescapable regardless of how much preparation and ability one has. This game does not—and will not—hold your hand, as there is no longer anyone willing or capable of doing so in the naturally reclaimed world you traverse. This game is brutal and tries to be as reminiscent to how our own nature is as possible without being a rage game, and yet I must recommend it to everyone regardless.

I recommend it even if you already have your doubts. Even of you have to get it on a sale externally, or instantly refund it. I recommend this game because the experience it provides is a reminder of what it means to live. To live is to struggle in one's own way, and while this game indeed reminds you of such, it also reminds you of the beauty involved in—and even not involved in—that struggle. It reminds you that there is happiness, solace, and worth to behold in the world, with and without you.

Eventually; when attunement to this world reaches a high point, just being in harmony with nature and a part of the cycle will be enough to fulfill one's existence. I took it as a way of life we may choose to follow in our own lives, but there really is no right or wrong answer, similarly to how one may go about in playing this game. You may search up all the movement tech beforehand, or have your first experience with friends. You may choose to play with an entirely different character than what was intended, or go in fully blind and unaware like the Slugcat themselves. Regardless of what one does, simply playing through the world provides a feeling like no other, and deepens your understanding on what It really means to live.

Rainworld is in its own genre of game, as no one can seem to properly categorize the experience it holds without making an amalgamation of other genres or getting stumped. There's obviously not an inherently wrong way to play. All the knowledge in the world cant fully prepare you for the challenges ahead in the game without doing it yourself first, but I'd recommend playing it mostly blind for the most immersive and impactful experience. Searching up movement tech as you progress here and there or when you accidentally do some does no harm, but I'd particularly ask to pay attention to the little eyeball guys and where they point to when it's not time to go to a shelter if you're frustrated with your progress. Speaking of frustration; many have taken month-long breaks before coming back to the game and it finally clicking, so absolutely do not be afraid of doing so yourself if the frustration is building up. The Downpour DLC is a must-have if you wish to flesh out the lore and certain parts of the world, as well as add so much more content and replayability (and I hope I can say the same about Watcher when it comes out!).

Play this game if you want to experience every possible emotion within 20 hours. Then do it again with the downpour DLC! (I have more playtime, but I played it on switch.)

there is some sense of childlike wonder loading up my artificer play through just to absolutely detonate a loving family of scavengers, woe be upon them

I guess this game just doesn't click for me.
I typically like unique experience and mystery. But this game... I just don't understand it.

Kinda wonky controls, climbing pipes is a nightmare. The slugcat sometimes grabs onto them by itself, sometimes it doesn't. Also there are some moves that you can do like a backflip, but they work half of the time.

Overall, I just felt like I was going around in circles. I got to an area where I just got stuck because I kept dying to some spearmen and I couldn't get out because I needed to be on a higher cycle(or whatever it's called).

Just tried it again and after an hour I said "F### this game" and Alt+F4'ed.
Skill issue? Most definitely. I want to like this game, but man...

a game where you are NOT the main character. Just part of the foodchain... on the bottom of it. (The ecosystem doesn't give a flying f*** about your "noble goals")

I typically love difficult games, but i think what turned me away from Rain World in particular is that the experience feels so extremely unrewarding that the difficulty is simply not worth getting through.

Out of the 30 hours I've played nearly all of them were spent running in circles around the map, to the point i'd somehow manage to stumble my way through almost the entirety of said map without making an iota of progress on the main objective - and that's a skill issue on my part, absolutely! this is not the thing i necessarily have an issue with at all, i understand that the "trial and error" nature of difficult games means more chances to get to explore, understand and work around it on its own terms, something i absolutely love about them. The thing is, the world feels so deeply bland and uninteresting that the incentive to explore it is completely lost. Every single time i spent hours working hard to get through a section would be rewarded with spending even more hours exploring a new area that, while cool at a first glance, plays the exact same way and has you meet more or less the exact same challenges, none of them meaningfully changing the gameplay loop or challenging the player by having your work around a new set of obstacles; just more or less the same gameplay cycle of running around a bit, getting lost, waiting inside some tunnel for the enemies to go away, eat, sleep, repeat.
I understand what "the point" of the game is which fans like to talk to much about - and i get it, the helplessness is the point, you're not meant to be able to do much or fight back against this world. And i think that's a solid premise and the game does exceed in making you feel that way! but there's only so far that i feel like it's willing to fully explore that concept, just throwing the same few gimmicks at you. And by the time you even have a chance to grow invested in your objective, the story or generally the world itself, trying to navigate any of it on the game's own terms starts to feel like a chore. Whatever was awaiting for me at the end, the game had dozens of hours to convince me that it'd be worth it, but the more time i spent on it, the more disillusioned i got with the idea.

If the fan community, art and lore of the game is something that you already have some kind of emotional attachment to (or feel like you potentially could), this could definitely be just a one inch barrier for you, and i really do hope you can get something out of it that i didn't! I wanted to love Rain World more than anything, but after spending so long waiting for the moment that the game would finally hook me in - making the 30 hours of complete indifference to mild inconvenience to full ripping-my-hair-out annoyance be worth it - i think i'm finally ready to say it just wasn't meant to be ¯\_(ツ)_/¯