Rain World

Nintendo Life

Nathanial Eker·Aug 22, 2024

Critic70/100

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Overall, Rain World is highly recommended as a piece of art, even just to check out its gorgeous visuals. Its gameplay is unforgiving, but not to the extent where it becomes unplayable. It certainly will take some devotion and time to get good at it, but with a world this beautiful, is that such a bad thing?

GameSpot

Miguel Concepcion·Mar 31, 2017

Critic50/100

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An endearingly designed creature and a captivating world in ruins cannot save this 2D platformer from its punishing gameplay.

Eurogamer

Simon Parkin·Mar 29, 2017

Critic75/100

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Pity the slugcat, a creature that has never before managed to step from the shadow of the grander, more celebrated myth…

Push Square

Graham Banas·Mar 27, 2017

Critic60/100

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The end result is complicated: it's a game we bounced off quite a lot but one we still greatly appreciate. The game does something new with the genre and it does it well for the most part, making the game worth at the very least giving a look.

IGN

Joe Skrebels·Mar 27, 2017

Critic63/100

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Beautiful but absurdly cruel, this platformer gives and takes away in not-quite-equal measures.

Rock Paper Shotgun

Brendan Caldwell·Mar 27, 2017

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There was a big part of me that didn't want to stop playing and maybe I'll pick it up again some day, because there is so much to love about discovering the laws of nature behind this huge, ruined ecosystem. But with each random death, each accidental roll off a cliffside, each checkpoint drought, that love turned to ash. There is so much beauty and intrigue and diversity of life in Rain World. It's a pity the game doesn't want you to see any of it.

Polygon

Janine Hawkins·Mar 27, 2017

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With core systems opaque and unnecessarily limited, all I ever felt equipped to do in Rain World was fail.

PC Gamer

Shaun Prescott·Mar 27, 2017

Critic80/100

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You'd be forgiven for giving up after an hour, but for those who persist, Rain World is a singular experience.