Do you ever look at a mouse and wonder if the only thing that makes it's life of constant alert, threatened by hungry jaws and the cruel indifference of our planet's off-kilter axis, even remotely bearable is it's feeble brain's inability to process all the horror around it?

Do you ever last awake at night and ponder what unending torture an eternal cycle of death and rebirth would be, yet still shudder at the thought maybe death is just the ultimate end?

Well this is the indie survival platformer for you!

Rain World takes you on an unforgettable odyssey through a ruined, yet beautiful, post-apocalyptic ecosystem. Not world in the videogame sense with enemies strategically placed to impede your progress, but an ecosystem in which plant and animal life goes about it's business. Said business often includes eating you, but not always. You will struggle to outwit predators, gather food, and find shelter from the regular world ending storms all while trying to reunite with your family of fellow slugcats that you've been separated from. Except...

Except, maybe that's not all there is to this world. Maybe there's more to life than survival in the bowels of these machines that were created to do...what exactly?

And so you'll push on, gleaning what information your little brain can process, you'll pull yourself out of mere survival and begin to master this strange world eventually reaching Transcendence.

TL;DR good game, some performance issues on Switch.

Reviewed on Nov 27, 2020


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