Composer(s) James Primate Developer Videocult Designer Joar Jakobsson | Initial release date 2017 Publisher Adult Swim Mode Single-player video game | |
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Genre(s) Cinematic platformer/Metroidvania Platforms PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows Similar Indie games, Other games | ||
Exploring rain world is cute but cruel
Rain World is a survival cinematic platformer video game.
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Gameplay
The player's character, part-slug and part-cat, uses spears and rocks to survive amongst larger animals in ruins of technologically advanced civilisation. Game begins with the Slugcat being separated from its family by a thunder strike. In order to find family and discover truth about the game's world Slugcat has to travel through the interconnected world, evade predators, look for food, and shelter from the crushing rain. Slugcat has a limited time to travel through locations before rain starts to fall. During rainfall slugcat has to hibernate in hibernation chambers but in order to survive hibernation it has to eat enough food beforehand. Hibernation chambers serve as the only save points in the game. Game also has "Karma Gate System": Some special gates open only when the player has high enough or low enough "Karma". Karma is accumulated by succesfuly hibernating and lost by dying.
Rain World has 12 regions with over 1600 rooms.
Development
The game was part funded through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign which raised $63,255 towards development in February 2014. At the time of the Kickstarter campaign, the team consisted of two people, Joar Jakobsson and James Primate. Jakobsson is a graphic designer by trade, and responsible for the game's design, programming, and artwork, while Primate focused on composing the soundtrack. The team announced that it was in the last phases of development in early 2016. It is planned for release on March 28, 2017.
Reception
Graham Smith (Rock, Paper, Shotgun) followed the game from its early development and wrote that he appreciated everything about the game, apart from its controls. Kotaku praised the game's animations and compared its combinations of puzzles and platforming to Metroid and Oddworld.
