Here is the video that talked about Rain World and got me interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ji2q3WQE78

Here is where you can buy it on gog for sale at the moment https://www.gog.com/en/game/rain_world

Some negative feedback included.

-Very difficult, requiring precision jumps etc to manage certain things.
-character moves slow
-hard to find objective to keep you playing.


Crystal said on Steam

"Absolutely phenomenal. I started the game, died a lot, got frustrated and wasn't sure when I'd enjoy it. I wanted the full experience but I was also struggling. I beat the first 'chapter' of the game but wanted to restart after having an awful time and resorted to cheating with the dev console to skip some levels.

Forum users helped me with encouragement, and also admitted that they themselves used mods and some of the accessibility settings in the remix option to ease into it.

I also learned more about the movement of the game; it's all a learning experience and while I won't spoil anything here I will say that you can outmaneuver a lot of predators with speed, agility or both.

Finally, I beat the game without strictly cheating (maybe some would account accessibility options as cheating, but I still beat the game using regular tools at my disposal)

Here's some settings / mods I'd suggest:

- Play as survivor instead of monk (Food might seem tough at first but don't worry, the experience IS better as survivor)
- Monk style gates (Once you enter an area, its unlocked permanently)
- DO NOT USE 'Disable karma requirements' (High karma gates are used to say 'this is a hard area'. I turned this off in my initial playthrough and it meant I went into a really hard area by accident and gave me a horrible experience).
- Loading screen tips (There's some VITAL information I never figured out, wish I turned this on sooner)
- Maximum rain timer (Normally its RNG how much time you get, but I just used this so that I always have forever before the rain. Turn off as you get better)
- Slug senses (ability to see a visual 'threat' meter so you know enemies are nearby)
- Breath time leniency (Makes it so that you don't die as quickly when out of oxygen under water)
- Sharpener mod (allows you to resize window)
- SBCameraScroll (Combines appropriate rooms into long rooms where the camera follows you, great to avoid BS deaths where something is pixels away from you but offscreen so you had no idea. Also helps you know which ways you can go)
- Infinite Spears (This is kind of cheating, but spears are very important. I turned this on at first so that I could get used to using spears in and out of combat as I was very bad with my throws and end up losing them. You can then turn down the number of spears so instead of having infinite spears on your back you just have more than one. Eventually turn this mod off when comfortable with using the spears around you)
- Some people like the health bar mod but I never used it

Good luck and let me tell you, it's worth it."

A question mark on its own is not a question

Might want to post this in the RW forum. https://www.gog.com/forum/rain_world#1677193388

I don't see the point of this post. You haven't discussed anything yourself, you've just posted other people's opinions, including a link to the GOG page found easily by searching for Rain World in the store.

May I ask your opinion?
I'd like to know about the randomness/difficulty so questioned on the reviews here

I started watching the video you shared, but the guy talks fast enough
to ruin my tricky duty of watching videos at 1.5+ speed...
which means to me, he is giving a 1hr talk at normal pace...
and didnt surprise me because the 08min I watched,
were fully spent on development history...

Instead, I watched 30min (3x speed) of this other one
youtube.com/watch?v=r-XUBIUn_zM
The curious thing: I never noticed lack of food,
nor impossible paths, nor a great diversity of species
The music was almost absent...
To me, it looked like paper labyrinths with a twist
to hide the fact that are labyrinths...

What you say then, Is it the "Most Complex Ecosystem"
as the video title you shared says?

And because I am totally ignorant on Ecosystem-Survival vgames, I dont know.
But if some connoisseurs read this, could you please share your top 5?
Where the food chains are long enough to impress. I got curious :)

Guess the dude wanted to post this in 'recently completed games thread' or other review/recommendation threads and lost his way... Rain world is a good game :)

This game looked interesting. I've never played it before.

There would be no point in posting it in the games specialized forum, not that many people ever use most of those specialized forums anyway

Gog staff make threads talking about games they added etc. So why may I not make a thread highlighting a probably somewhat obscure game? I''m not sure "ecosystem" is the most accurate choice of words. It's a system of relationships between NPC.

Scavangers interact with each other and gain various relationships with each other. Interestingly enough they do so off-screen while you play. They also interact with you and gain relationships with you. Seems like it's a bad idea to attack them because then they will attack you. Even lizards can be befriended if you give them food.

And sure things multiply eat each other and evolve (especially by being killed,, the replacement). But by the sounds of it from the YT video it has a fair amount in common with the nemesis system of Shadows of Mordor. regarding the NPC and player interaction and evolving relationships. If you don't know what I mean by SoM nemesis system, sorry don't feel like spending a bunch of time and energy trying to explain that right now.

Suffice to say "ecosystem" might not be quite the best word for it, though not entirely inaccurate either.

Regarding games that more accurately fit the term "ecosystem", not sure. But recently I learned of a game that allows you to edit the genes of plants and simple animals in a aquarium. I think it was one of the giveaways. Never played it though.

Other games too but I can't recall the names.