Action · March 28, 2017

Rain World (2017)

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Updates Uncover the most popular mods from the thriving modding community with Steam Workshop Support. Toggle new features and comprehensive customization options in Remix to suit your individual needs. Learn new tips and tricks with updated tutorial messages to help players understand Rain World's intricate ecosystem. Control your unique campaign with accessibility, speedrun, and difficulty options sculpted to your particular taste and style. Features Explore a vast world of over 1600 rooms, spanning 12 diverse regions filled with ancient secrets and undiscovered dangers. Intense, primal predator encounters will challenge your reflexes. Limited resources and the constant, impending threat of rain will test your nerve. Procedural design and individualistic AI— every playthrough is a unique challenge! Play as The Monk and The Hunter! 2 playable characters corresponding to easier and more aggressive playstyles. Multiplayer Arena for up to 4 players, featuring Competitive and Sandbox modes. Bestiary featuring dangerous predators and delicious prey More from Rain World About the Game You are a slugcat. The world around you is full of danger, and you must face it – alone. Separated from your family in a devastating flood, you will need to find food and shelter between terrifying torrential downpours which threaten to drown all life. Climb through the ruins of an ancient civilization, evade the jaws of vicious predators, and discover new lands teeming with strange creatures and buried mysteries. Find your family before something makes a meal of you! Inspired by the simplicity and aesthetics of 16-bit classics, this survival platformer requires clever decision-making, both to catch your own prey and to avoid the jaws of hungry predators. Each ravenous foe in your path will be cunning, vicious and always on the hunt – eager to sink their teeth into you, or even each other. As a small, soft slugcat you must rely on stealth and wit rather than force: learn the ecosystem and turn their strengths to your advantage. Maybe then you can survive… Rain World!

Action releases from 2017

180 Action titles launched in 2017 — top 6 by review volume.

Position in Action

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume42.3k Steam reviewsTop 14% in Action
Positive rating94% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 19%
Metacritic66/100Genre average 77 — top 89% of Action titles
Concurrent peak836 playersTop 11% in Action by live player count
Engagement hours22 h averageTop 22% for session depth among Action

Peer Action titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Difficult · 1.1k
  • Atmospheric · 975
  • Survival · 952
  • Exploration · 835
  • Indie · 822
  • Pixel Graphics · 796
  • Platformer · 781
  • 2D · 719
  • Post-apocalyptic · 622
  • Open World · 619
  • Adventure · 612
  • 2D Platformer · 580
  • Cute · 549
  • Survival Horror · 524
  • Metroidvania · 483

Reception Metrics

Steam community

94%Very Positive · 42.3k reviews

39.7k positive · 2.5k negative

Metacritic

66/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

8.7/10

Curator recommendations

38.6k

Peak concurrent players

836

Features & Capabilities

Multiplayer

  • Multi-player
  • PvP
  • Shared/Split Screen PvP

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Workshop

Accessibility

  • Adjustable Difficulty

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support
  • Custom Volume Controls
  • Stereo Sound

Other

  • Single-player
  • Keyboard Only Option

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (10)

  • English
  • Italian
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • French
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese

Press Quotes

“Beautiful, Unforgiving, Barbed Poetry” Big Boss Battle “Rain World’s beautiful, dilapidated grandeur is enveloping” PC Gamer “A stunning depiction of a harsh new world” Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

22h

moderate (15–40 hours)

Median

2h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

2h

Current engagement

Achievements

47

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateMar 28, 2017
DeveloperVideocult
PublisherAkupara Games
Base price$8.74 -65%
DLC / Add-ons5 released
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · Support · [email protected]

Editions & Packages

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