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Rain World
Developer Videocult
Rain World is a 2017 survival-platform video game developed by independent studio Videocult and published by Adult Swim Games and Akupara Games. It was released for PlayStation 4 and Windows in March 2017 and Nintendo Switch in December 2018. The player guides a "slugcat", an agile animal resembling a cat-slug hybrid, as it fights for survival in a derelict and hostile environment. The slugcat traverses the remnants… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
577 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
93
LovedLoved
444 positive · 36 negative
95% range 90–95%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 444 | 36 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 32 | 4 | 51 |
| Mastodon * | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
35,650 of 37,746 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
91% recommend · 255 yes, 25 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 280 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (54,284 of 57,937 positive).
Players describe Rain World as a brutally difficult survival platformer where you are prey. [1][2][3] Many praise its deep ecosystem, complex AI, and beautiful world-building. [2][4][5] Some find the lack of guidance and high frustration not for everyone. [6][7][8]
Liked
Representative posts
- [6]
You might have read that Rain World is not for everyone, and they are right! Rain World was not for me. I tried a few times to enjoy the game, but unfortunately, it didn't click with me. I admit, the concept is original, but the gameplay felt too clunky. Add to that the high difficulty and lack of guidance, and the experience ended up being a little too frustrating for my taste. I'd say that if you're curious, give …
- [1]
Looking back, marketing for this game is abysmal. I get that you want to get in touch with your community, but as far as I am concerned, this game deserved far better marketing than what we got so it could have touched people outside of its demographic circle and I'm gonna try to do that for my friends that still have not played it. Rain World is a 2D survival platformer where you're playing as the lowest of the …
- [2]
I bought this game expecting to be the main character. Turns out I'm a protein bar. Rain World is what happens when a nature documentary gains sentience and decides you personally deserve to lose. Every creature has hopes, dreams, ambitions, and an overwhelming desire to make sure you never reach the next shelter. The game doesn't hold your hand. It doesn't even acknowledge you have hands. Every time I thought I …
- [4]
This game is a damn masterpiece. Don't you think that usually in video games, when an enemy is chasing you, the dev decides to make it so that the enemy is constantly stopping/slowing down mid chase to avoid frustrating the player? Well, Rain world says "♥♥♥♥ that, and ♥♥♥♥ you" to the players. Every enemy has its own extremely complex AI. They all have their unique behavior and personalities. All of them have the …
- [3]
This game is a virtual experiment to see how much the human mind will endure before peeling itself. This game is how it FEELS to be prey. You arent the strong one here. you are but another part of the cycle of life and death. When other reviews say its hard please believe them. Ok jokes aside honest thoughts: this game is very infuriating and I looked up a lot of stuff. after looking stuff up and better …
Summarised from 34 of the 355 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 10, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked Rain World talk about beautiful art and environmental storytelling; those who didn't talk about extremely difficult and frustrating. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The game received mixed reviews upon release, according to review aggregator website Metacritic, with 43% of critics recommending it according to OpenCritic. Video game journalists praised the game's art design, but characterized its gameplay as harsh, calling its deaths unavoidable, controls sloppy, and hibernation requirements time-consuming. However, Rain World's active fanbase earned the game cult status and a large modding community. Downpour was received positively by critics, and—as a DLC made of community-created content—significantly contributed to Rain World's status as a cult hit according to journalist Simon Carless; Downpour sold 182,000 units on the video game distribution…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 577 · most liked firstRain World is funny cause furries go nuts for the little critter you play as but then you look at the actual game and its about the critter getting mauled and impaled and hunted and chewed on and eaten and actually now that I process that thought that's not unusual actually nevermind
neutral · AI labelView post →Rain World: Complete Edition: The story of the slugcats, packaged together in this Deluxe bundle of the base game of Rain World and its two expansions, Rain World: Downpour and Rain World: The Watcher! akuparagames.itch.io/rain-world by @akuparagames
neutral · AI labelView post →Looking back, marketing for this game is abysmal. I get that you want to get in touch with your community, but as far as I am concerned, this game deserved far better marketing than what we got so it could have touched people outside of its demographic circle and I'm gonna try to do that for my friends that still have not played it. Rain World is a 2D survival platformer where you're playing as the lowest of the food chain trying to survive a wildlife that has outlasted its cycle of life while…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Where the hell am I? Where the hell should I go? Oooh, a new place! I am so lost. I died to the SAME LIZARD AGAIN? Buddhism. Purchase the game if these are the thoughts that you want to have while playing a video game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You might have read that Rain World is not for everyone, and they are right! Rain World was not for me. I tried a few times to enjoy the game, but unfortunately, it didn't click with me. I admit, the concept is original, but the gameplay felt too clunky. Add to that the high difficulty and lack of guidance, and the experience ended up being a little too frustrating for my taste. I'd say that if you're curious, give it a shot, cause it has great reviews and it's a unique game. I hope you'll like…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its time for a new game 2 play!! I know nothing!! starting in 2 hours... RAIN WORLD!!! www.twitch.tv/ceroro
neutral · AI labelView post →Rain World is like a physically abusive goth girlfriend. Let me explain. At first, it appears hauntingly beautiful, an irresistible yet dangerous thing, and you can't help but wonder why so many avoid it. However, as soon as you're in far enough that you think everyone else was overexaggerating, it beats you down over and over and over again, ruthlessly, as if it's enjoying watching you pathetically try and keep loving it. It does not care if you feel betrayed, it does not care if you feel…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Man, how prescient was Rain World? An entire game based around the concept of 'The entire planetary ecology is fucked because giant AI data centers are constantly boiling the oceans for cooling while stuck in an eternal loop of trying to calculate transcendence'. It's original release was in 2017.
positive · AI labelView post →Airframe Ultra beta test incoming! - katana-wielding racers speed through a megacity in this brutal Sci-Fi racing game from the creators of Rain World! www.alphabetagamer.com/airframe-ult... by #gamedev @videocultmedia.bsky.social & @akuparagames.bsky.social #indiedev #indiegame #gaming
neutral · AI labelView post →The ending of rainworld is the most beautiful game ending ever, the only game ever to compel me to leave a review
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →you will buy this game and then give up because its too hard. you will eventually come back and then see what the game truly is
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love you Rainworld. You are such a beautiful, artistic, piece. The surprise, wonder, nights I stayed under the covers lost in your wikis, reading about yet another creature page while being wildly depressed in first year of college-- life had gotten in the way but I keep coming back, again, and again. With watcher I have only felt the similar AWE, if not MORE, at the environments, the arts, the maze like layouts. WOW. I am so in love, and right now I am creating an animatic for this…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this game expecting to be the main character. Turns out I'm a protein bar. Rain World is what happens when a nature documentary gains sentience and decides you personally deserve to lose. Every creature has hopes, dreams, ambitions, and an overwhelming desire to make sure you never reach the next shelter. The game doesn't hold your hand. It doesn't even acknowledge you have hands. Every time I thought I understood the ecosystem, the ecosystem laughed, spawned three new lizards, and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is amazing. But it's not for everyone. This is not a review, this is a warning. If you are looking for a fun game that is easy to pick up, don't play this game. This game is meant for people who have patience and are willing to put up with esoteric controls and vague goals. But if you put up with it and wade through all the obtuse controls and vagueness, you will find that this game is a gem not usually talked about. The story is incredible and the environments look amazing.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I drew the slug cat from rain world! I've never actually played the game #art #rainworld #fanart
neutral · AI labelView post →you'll start out interested. then, you'll hate it. then, if you stick with it, you'll love it more than is probably healthy play rain worl
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rain world is a game that is for about 1% of gamers up until the halfway point of the first campaign. The journey is difficult, gruelling, and demoralising. You WILL quit the game at some point during your playthrough. This game has the tendency to do that to even the most tolerant of players. Many will shrug this game off and say "What's the point? Everything is so hard, and it's all for nothing." This all changes the moment you get to the halfway point of the first campaign. You suddenly…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have fulfilled my masochistic needs in this game. Fully recommend it for those with low self esteem and crippling depression. This game gave me pure agony I truly deserve.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →(repost) rain world fanart from back when i first beat the game #rainworld
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is a damn masterpiece. Don't you think that usually in video games, when an enemy is chasing you, the dev decides to make it so that the enemy is constantly stopping/slowing down mid chase to avoid frustrating the player? Well, Rain world says "♥♥♥♥ that, and ♥♥♥♥ you" to the players. Every enemy has its own extremely complex AI. They all have their unique behavior and personalities. All of them have the exact same goal as you: find food and survive. While your food is mostly bats…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →rain world is a surreal experience that has changed my life; the beautiful and lonley atmosphere is undescribable. the ai is the best in any game ever made, and i know it would be funny for me to write a joke review, but this game means too much to me to do that. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this game if you haven't played it already
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has changed me. Ruined might be a better descriptor. I see it everywhere. It rains, all can think of is Rain World. An assortment of rocks? A purposeful inconvenience? Any mentions of the moon?? Rain World. I know every bit of lore. I write my own, too. "Damn, that would be a great itty name." "Oh, I guess you could call it a cycle." I think scug thoughts. I see the profound beauty of a mortal existence, what can be found in all it's mundanities and struggles of every new day. It's…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →scug go wawa. lizard kill scug. game punch me emotionally. game good.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →#RWArtMonth 2025 Day 24: Slugpups - One of the most adorable things in Rain World, and I have yet to play the game with them because I'm not sure I could handle the tragedy of losing them to the harsh eco-system.
neutral · AI labelView post →Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Rain World, and more are coming to Xbox Game Pass news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0...
neutral · AI labelView post →hello people from Rain World community!!1 old art of mine, still proud of it i really wanted to get 100% achievements in the game but expedition leader is so painful to get lfdgjhhfgjdk #rainworld
neutral · AI labelView post →I really want to like this game. The world, art, sound design, music, and entire concept are all very well executed and engaging. The movement tech is also interesting, albeit something you have to investigate for yourself with zero suggestion that it might be there. However, in a game primarily about getting from point A to B without dying, there are some real problems with the execution. More often than not, I find that I'm fighting against the world seed more than the actual enemies.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As it stands currently, the only game I have on steam I have actively made time to 100% I think this game is pretty cool
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you thought Silksong and Hollow Knight didn't have enough difficult enemies and RNG, this game is for you.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rain World is a game you play zero, one, or nine times
neutral · AI labelView post →Rain World Review The Non-Spoiler Version This game is a great platformer adventure game with an open world with great story telling through backgrounds about the world itself and through dreams for your own journey through it, strong religious themes of self and cycle with loneliness in the mix (But It may be too subtle to many people, It's well made and meaningful but It is hard to piece on your first run through the game and it took me longer than I would like to admit for the first…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →rain world art from 2020. when i say this game changed my life , #rainworld #art
positive · AI labelView post →For those who may be wondering about the rain world art in my bio, I don’t draw it super often but I love the game nonetheless I’m also trying out hashtag #rainworld
positive · AI labelView post →I really wish more video games would release art books 😭 Especially when the game is very artistically driven. (I’m looking at you, Rain World)
positive · AI labelView post →This game is a virtual experiment to see how much the human mind will endure before peeling itself. This game is how it FEELS to be prey. You arent the strong one here. you are but another part of the cycle of life and death. When other reviews say its hard please believe them. Ok jokes aside honest thoughts: this game is very infuriating and I looked up a lot of stuff. after looking stuff up and better understanding how to play im actually quite having fun. So this game is NOT. I REPEAT.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Imagine playing chess with current chess grandmaster, having no idea how the chess work. Rainworld is a game for patient people. And it's so good for that- it forces you to learn. It doesn't serve the solution on the plate, doesn't babysit you, here you're on your own. And you're going to die, a lot, before figuring out basic mechanics. It's a good puzzle game without defined puzzle inside. No power-ups, upgrading tools, power-scaling, because *you* are the one that's becoming better and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A little something I'm making for a drawing class, Rain World related cuz I love the game #wip #art #digitalart #rainworld
positive · AI labelView post →An absolutely gorgeous game with fantastic enviormental storytelling, Great enemy designs, and a perfect world to get lost in, however the gameplay is far to frusterating for my liking and tests the patience of even the most patient of players. I'm someone who has pretty good patience for games and love hard games (Super Meat Boy, Nuclear Throne, The End Is Nigh, ETC.) However none of these games made me walk away frusterated or annoyed like this game has. Alot of the areas are purposefully…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL;DR The game is extremely vague and does not explain much of anything, has frustrating controls and mechanics, punishes you for doing normal video game actions and often doesn't even tell you that it has done so, has obnoxious level design for no reason, has several RNG variables that can result in deaths that are completely out of your control, and has a mediocre reward at best for managing to struggle through it all. It's really not worth most peoples' time and I think the abnormally low…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →⛈️Rain World is now available on Xbox Game Pass. www.xbox.com/en-us/games/...
neutral · AI labelView post →>be me >buy some random game w/ a silly cat-like protagonist >mfw rain world reveals itself to be one of the most beautiful games ive ever played if youre struggling w/ its difficulty trust me youll get better eventually & receive one of the most unique & unforgettable playthroughs. have fun
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rain World is the best and worst game ever made.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rain World, if you ask me one of the best pieces of media ever conceived. I remember the day I saw that silly looking game on a random video, and decided, screw it, and headed in as blind as possible. I quickly discovered that Rain World was unlike any game I had played before, it didn't show me the way, it didn't tell me what to do, it just... gave me a shove and said 'Go'. It's brutally difficult at points, it doesn't pull any punches, and has got some of the best world building and story…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Omg this game is so good because *Scavenger spears me through the head from 3 screen transitions away* Oops anyway what I was trying to say was *rain pours down and crushes my body* oh my god.... anyway according to my experience *vulture swoops down and spears me through the head* and due to that reason I think *cyan lizard blasts through me and grabs me* and the environment is just so *drop wig falls onto me* and it really creates a feeling of *I fall into the rot and it insta kills me* ow,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some older Rain World illustrations. Amazing game indeed (I never completed third location) #hollowknight #rainworld #art #digitalart
positive · AI labelView post →this game is very, very difficult. That is because you are not important. There is barely anything special about you, in a world of giant winged beasts, armored reptiles, biomechanical freaks of nature, insects that give you the creeps, and more.. you will be hunted down by almost everything. You will be frustrated, a lot. This game is, a lot of the time, unfair. You may be put in a corner with no safe escape route. Then you will die and wake up in your shelter like nothing had happened. Dying…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game unlike any other. Get eaten. Get rained on. Panic. Amazing experience start to finish.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Look, I’ve seen this game, Rain World. Many people are talking about it. Tremendous game, really. Strong, tough people come up to me, big tears in their eyes, and they say, "Sir, the rain is terrible." And it’s true! It’s the worst rain in the history of our country. Maybe ever. Very unfair rain. A total disaster. And let me tell you about this ecosystem. They’re letting anybody in! Lizards of all colors. Green, pink, the nasty red ones... bad hombres. And you know what they’re doing? They’re…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm so damn f-ing clueless about what I'm doing, what I am, where I am, and why I am. What is Rain World? Rain World is even harsher than Dark Souls was back when it was still cool. But I often felt like I was playing a weird version of Ape’s Oddysee. In the sense that it’s a precise platformer-esque game with some metroidvania feeling, walking from screen to screen, having enemies that one-shot kill you, adventuring into a big, harsh world and into its secrets. Everything reminds me a tiny…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly I haven't been as obsessed with a fantasy world since Bionicle which was my childhood.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's very much its own simulated world, with intricately designed mechanics that don't inherently relate to the player nor the gameplay. All the other animals act much like you, hunting, scavenging, and exploring. It's an extremely immersive game with a lot of moving pieces, even when you're not looking. It took me several hours playing this game to finally not suck at the controls (and I still don't like them) and MANY more hours to get combat down (and after that, I downloaded several mods…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →probably the most in-touch with the human experience game i have ever played. the kinds of experiences you will have playing rain world, conjure up some primal feelings of how humans were meant to be living. great work. cute slugcat.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Stages of playing rainworld: 1. What a cute goofy guy 2. Okay I need to lock in a bit 3. I think i'm gambling, but cannot prove it yet 4. I'd rather beat pantheon of pharloom than play Rainworld 5. This game teaches you one invaluable lesson: Life isn't fair
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You aren't a conquerer here, just another part of the ecosystem. To progress, you have to learn to live in each region, until you're comfortable enough to explore and understand how to move forward with the story. Makes it a unique experience in gaming, more of a thesis than a mission, and well worth it to follow through until its end. Recommend in full. Don't be dissuaded by the early difficulty.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Words can't describe the impact this game had on me. It's a beautiful experience, really, and one I'm very glad to have had. Rain World means a lot to me.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You’d be hard pressed to find a more imaginative world in any game, beautiful and unique art. It’s also a tad unforgiving and even unfair but it does lend to the themes of the game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's a pretty common story among Rain World players: you buy the game, try it out for a bit, get confused/frustrated and put it down. But then some time later something compels you back and you can't put the game down and the world sucks you in. Outrunning, outwitting, or killing predators, finding shelter just in time before the rain, and the climaxes of your journey (which I won't spoil for those reading to decide whether to buy the game or not) are some of the most memorable moments in…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →IRON SOL comes out November 2nd on Steam!! I have been working on this game for the past few months. Inspired by the greats like Rain World and Celeste, I hope you like my little passion project. #gamedev #indiedev #gamemaker
neutral · AI labelView post →Hihi! I'm Polybius (or Poly) I draw, I animate, I create! Sometimes I post game clips as well You'll see a lot of Rain World stuff here! but I do draw my OCs and fanart of other media too [this is a temporary pin and will be replaced] ⚠︎ ART MAY CONTAIN VIOLENCE/SENSITIVE TOPICS ⚠︎ ⓘ Safe For Work
neutral · AI labelView post →rain world is the most miserable i've ever felt playing a game in my entire life this game will test your mettle way more than other games who claim to be hard and difficult theres sections of rain world that i felt like sisyphus, pushing the boulder up just for it to fall again, and the cycle repeats while its a being miserable simulator its also hella fun and absolutely mesmerizing with the artwork they managed to pull off!! also, the game is EXTREMELY optimized. they went insane with the…
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