Posted on: January 6, 2025

Cast Iron Nest

Spiele: 108 Rezensionen: 1

One of those "Forever Games"

I started using GOG because they were re-releasing games I grew up with, that I already went back to every now and then in order to revisit those memories and stay familiar with a little virtual place I loved, doing little virtual things I enjoyed. I was hoping to discover more games that gave me that feeling, and Rain World is maybe one of the best of what I've come across. There's a ton of information from other reviews and the larger community on getting new players through the early adjustment period or guiding people to just explore and try things out as part of the experience. So from me I'll say something a little simpler. If you have old games that you are nostalgic for, and you know how it feels to go back and enjoy them no matter how the conventions and expectations of video games have moved on from them, Rain World is a modern game that satisfies that feeling. Rather than being dated, it's unconcerned with doing anything but what it set out to do. This game is a vibe, and everything it does is for the sake of getting you into that same vibe.

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Posted on: August 16, 2025

Ike.Wassom

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Spiele: 128 Rezensionen: 8

It's fun to be Batman.

Well, you're not really Batman, but it is fun.

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Posted on: November 27, 2023

hg53

Spiele: 62 Rezensionen: 11

Pure magic

As beautiful as brutal, but the world's ambience keeps you coming back for more. AND THERE'S now an add-on DLC for multiplayer!!

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Posted on: August 6, 2025

Sumyjkl

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Spiele: 59 Rezensionen: 2

I wish it let me enjoy it

Development for Rain World started with a prototype. In the prototype, you had to survive for 120 seconds while other wildlife hunted you. The difficulty was set so that surviving those two minutes was difficult but plausible, and easy for someone who played a lot of it. They then took this prototype, and without changing any of the balancing or controls made a ~2000h narrative masterpiece, and punished the player for dying. The phrase"git gud" doesn't quite do it justice, since the whole idea of the game is to be an uncompromising ecology simulator on top of all this, which means some times you are just plain unlucky and cannot do anything to save yourself, and then you get punished for it. It is my belief that if a game takes something from you because of failure, forcing you to play longer in order to recoup losses, it is automatically garbage. Rain World does this, and so the gameplay, to me, is garbage. (I realise even people who have never played it already hate me already because that's how that works but wait) And yet, it is an absolute cinematic masterpiece. If it didn't punish you for trying to experience it, it could very well have achieved widespread recognition as the greatest piece of video game art in history. This is what makes it so difficult. The story is far and away the greatest out of any game I have ever seen, yet I will never experience it myself, and even if I did, I would not appreciate it due to that experience being mixed with "decision optimisation", exploits and exasperation. Even with mods to disable the punishments (karma), it is still far too difficult and disjointed to fully appreciate the art of its story and atmosphere. If you played it or not, either way, look for a video recounting the story. It will make you cry among other things, but it will put you in awe most of all; that someone somewhere had the creative genius to bring forth something like this. Rating: story +100/5, movement tech +3/5, gameplay design -101/5

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Posted on: August 1, 2019

Teskron

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Spiele: Rezensionen: 54

Unique survival platformer

The game feels more like survival sim than a gamey platformer. The animations of the animals and the ambient sound are great, makeing the game feel real. The backgrounds well designed, giving the game an uneasy atmosphere. The sparse hint system and unexplained mechanics (like karma system) make the game feel more realistic, but are also frustrating for new players. A look at a wiki for some objects and mechanics seems inevitable. The controls with mouse and keyboard also need some time to get used to.

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