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Play Overview
Rain World: Downpour (2017), and Rain World are traversal and survival games where you play a half-cat, half-slug in a living breathing world. You must venture out and brave the other predatory creatures to find food before the rain comes and you have to hide.
Play involves sneaking, climbing and pouncing your way around a world that is itself evolving. You have to work to find enough food to hibernate before the rain comes. If you do this, you gain access to more of the vast number of 1600 rooms and 12 diverse regions. But when you die you lose some of this access and must build up again.
It's a difficult game. There are unexpected ambushes from opportunistic animals. There is the harsh rain from which you must hide. Even the movement is hard to control as you have to work around the physics of your slinky body and the broken world.
As you explore you discover both opportunities for food and plenty of danger. You are small and soft and must rely on stealth and wit rather than force. The ecosystem of predators and prey has goals of its own so that the food chain evolves and you never quite know what or who you'll find in the next room. There are items to help you deal with these creatures, but you still need to work with physics to defeat the other animals and avoid being eaten.
The result is a game that gets you behaving like an animal. You find yourself scurrying out to explore the local habitat and wildlife before retreating back to safety. In doing this, the game shines a light on our own animal-ness, collapsing the usual divide between us and the other creatures we share the world with.
Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked Rain World: Downpour 22 months ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 9 months ago.
Play involves sneaking, climbing and pouncing your way around a world that is itself evolving. You have to work to find enough food to hibernate before the rain comes. If you do this, you gain access to more of the vast number of 1600 rooms and 12 diverse regions. But when you die you lose some of this access and must build up again.
It's a difficult game. There are unexpected ambushes from opportunistic animals. There is the harsh rain from which you must hide. Even the movement is hard to control as you have to work around the physics of your slinky body and the broken world.
As you explore you discover both opportunities for food and plenty of danger. You are small and soft and must rely on stealth and wit rather than force. The ecosystem of predators and prey has goals of its own so that the food chain evolves and you never quite know what or who you'll find in the next room. There are items to help you deal with these creatures, but you still need to work with physics to defeat the other animals and avoid being eaten.
The result is a game that gets you behaving like an animal. You find yourself scurrying out to explore the local habitat and wildlife before retreating back to safety. In doing this, the game shines a light on our own animal-ness, collapsing the usual divide between us and the other creatures we share the world with.
Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked Rain World: Downpour 22 months ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 9 months ago.
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Play Style
Duration
Play Time: This game will take between 25 hours and 45 hours to complete. The game is very open and how you proceed varies greatly, which results in very different play times.
Benefits
This game is good if you want to:
Age Ratings
Content Rating
Users Interact: The game enables players to interact and communicate with each other, so may expose players to language usually associated with older rated games.
Skill Level
13+ year-olds usually have the required skill to enjoy this game.
Account Rating
You don’t need a platform subscription to play this game online.
Costs
Rain World: Downpour usually costs £20.99.
There are the following additional costs associated with this game:
Rain World: Downpour is an expansion that adds five new characters with new abilities. It also expands the game with new harsh lands and predators. The characters are:
It also adds a Challenge and Safari mode. In Safari Mode you can observe the ecosystem unfold and even play as other creatures in the game to influence the world.
It's important to set up your accounts and devices appropriately. More information is on our Financial Resources page.
Rain World
Rain World: Downpour
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- In-Game Purchases: Additional in-game purchases are offered for items that enhance the experience.
Rain World: Downpour is an expansion that adds five new characters with new abilities. It also expands the game with new harsh lands and predators. The characters are:
- The Rivulet: Jumps higher and runs faster but has less time in between the deadly rains.
- The Gourmand: Can craft food and tools (with the right materials) and is large, slower and less maneuverable.
- The Artificer: Can transform rocks into grenades and spears into explosive spears, but doing this costs food.
- The Spearmaster: Grows bony spears from their tail, but without a mouth they can't eat the easily plucked danglefruit and batflies.
- The Saint: Can swing through the air and over hazards using its long, long tongue, but commits to its pacifist ideology by eschewing spears.
It also adds a Challenge and Safari mode. In Safari Mode you can observe the ecosystem unfold and even play as other creatures in the game to influence the world.
It's important to set up your accounts and devices appropriately. More information is on our Financial Resources page.
Game Details
Release Date: 28/03/2017
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Players: 1 (4 online)
Genres: Stealth, Traversal (Action, Platform and Simulation)
Accessibility: 0 features documented (Tweet Developer )
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Developer: Videocult Media (@VideocultMedia)
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