Why Bother Playing Rain World? 

I'm still not sure as to why critics really didn't like this game while normal players absolutely loved it. I'm guessing the reason is that regular players took the time to enjoy it

The Karma Gates only stay open if youre playing Monk. Every other character has to pass the check each time. Artificer has to drag a corpse into the gate to open them

This is a certified "youtuber makes a Rain World video and summons the entire fandom" moment

Missing out on those experiences isn't necessarily a death sentence to them, since you can always look for them if you do another run. Finding everything in one go was definitely not something the developers expected of anyone. Don't be hard on yourself.

The rain world lore is very in depth but they very much hide it away from you. I'm pretty sure most people familiar with the lore have just looked up all the pearl dialogue, either that or they've actually played hundreds of hours to legitimately collect a good number of pearls

I'd recommend trying survivor for a bit before jumping into hunter! Monk actually has a bit of a stealth bonus compared to other slugcats and as mentioned by others removes karma gate requirements after passing through once. Learning how to survive without those can make quite a difference

What I love about this game is that it fucks with you in a way no other game does, but if you master it then you can get out of any situation. Also all the different scugs have just so much difference between eachother, both in gameplay and story that it rarely gets boring

I had a panic attack after eating one of LTTM's neurons, reverted my save. Didn't even get to see the overseer nope out on me

cool video but holy shit 3:43 has the biggest and most spines ive ever seen on a pink

"what the fuck" is a pretty good way to summarize rain world not gonna lie

You ate a moon neuron, that is not a sin, its a crime god cant forgive. God vid btw

One thing I love is how you as a player adapt the more you play. Every session you play makes you a better player for the next session, weather you realize or not. Over time you learn the creatures, the maps, the routes, the items, the mechanics, and movement, adding to your skill and making you feel like you're really surviving and learning in this environment in an immersive way. And the new DLC just takes it ten steps further, with new mechanics and features that test even the most knowledgeable and skilled players. Even as an avid Rain World player, I still feel like my skill at the game is constantly increasing.

This video is literally just me minus the cardinal sin on my first run through.

Amazing vid love that rain world is getting some traction it deserves it.

Thank you for making this video! Always cool to see more people getting into Rain World. A few things you said that I wanted to elaborate on: 1. About the karma gates and the intention of their existence despite it seeming to contrast with the idea of exploration, it’s my belief that the game really wants you to be in a low risk and fearful mindset at first. Practically every single thing is new and unknown, so exploration is not necessarily at the center for a first playthrough. The fun of the game comes from replaying it and feeling the stakes get lower the more you acquaint yourself with the world. Soon enough, you’ll be able to breeze through the world like it’s nothing, which is a super rewarding feeling. 2. Feeling underwhelmed because exploration is more open-ended and more things may be missed is totally fair, but I think it’d be worth trying to change your mindset. Every thing you miss is just a new goal you can set out to do for a fresh playthrough. Didn’t explore one region? Go through there the next time, and try to build your pathways more in between places. Didn’t get to see what that item did last time? Well, see what you can do with it in the future. Because of the grab Rain World has on you, both with its ambiguous lore and world, it’s so much more engaging of a game. Truly, if you continue investing your time into this, you will find something special.

When I first beat this game I didn’t nearly enjoy as much as I did following playthroughs, I had no idea all the cool stuff I was missing, and it became my favorite indie game I’ve ever played.

I had the cleanest experience possible, went in after seeing it on steam after scrolling for hours then learnt EVERYTHING through trial and error and experimenting and it was a such a great experience and also i spend almost 30 hours in the outskirts untill i figured out how to escape.....

truly encaptivates the rainworld beginner experience (edit) also when you commit a sin unforgivable by all religions and losing the guidance of ytellow hologram, these little egs are revealed, that you must follow to progress

Can't even put into words how much I love and appreciate this damn beautiful game

It probably wasn't clear as it can be a little obtuse to figure out ironically if Monk is your first playthrough, but Monk is actually related to the white slugcat, Survivor! The yellow glowing slugcat you see in the dens is an impression of where Survivor had been in the past that it's spiritually tuning into, and the dreams are dreams that the Survivor had (which is why in the cutscenes the slutcat is white, and not yellow) as it went through the world. The survivor experienced a deep lonliness, missing its family deeply after being separated (as shown in the intro cutscene of both campaigns), but eventually learned to survive on its own, especially realizing that its family had mostly moved on without it (specifically, passed from this world via ascension, which is what jumping in that big glowy pit was about). So basically, Monk is trying to find Survivor, and follows its journey to become reunited with it. It's a bit of a strange progression since, emotionally, it hits a lot harder if you start as Survivor rather than Monk, but that's basically what's going on for the emotional plot beats of Monk specifically

Actual fire video man, great job!

talented bean

:o Good video! Very happy new people are coming to the game, and I can't wait to look forward to whatever you do next!

My philosophy with rain world is. Your first run through the game should be at least 80hrs or 120 cycles. That sheer amount of time equalling experience makes the game a whole lot more bearable.

This is a good video, earned a sub, excited to see more like this in the future

I like your videos, true gamer. Hope to see more of them!

The first moments of Pain world

Great vid man :)

Can't believe you have so few subscribers with such a high production quality

Really good video! Hope you enjoy your next playthrough as hunter, though for a second playthrough that is surely going to be a rough one. This game is definitely a slow burner that slowly becomes better the more you play of it and the more you understand of it. It's slowly becoming one of my favorite games, and oh boy the dlc characters are fantastic and add so much more depth to the game. Can't wait to see more content like this :)

You really summed it up in the first 30 seconds

Really good first video!

Now this is really good! I'll be honest, I don't know how anyone is supposed to figure out the lore without looking it up online. Kind of a shame, because it is pretty interesting.

Holy shit this is quality. I figured I had just somehow not found you before, but you were making stuff for a long time.

i saw a slug cat video on my homepage and was entranced by it's design and it led me down a rabbit hole and i came across an animators wawawawawa video so hearing the song in the background i just think of that lul guy screaming his heart out, which is apparently cannon

My friend kept telling me to play this game but he explained it poorly and I thought it was some world box knockoff. When I finally played it, I was immediately addicted. I played over steam remote play with my 8 mbps download speed but the game was so good I didn’t care about the lag. Once we got to five pebbles I decided to buy the game for myself and I went crazy. I explored every alternate path we missed and beat the game on accident. I tried my best to go completely spoiler free. This video popped up in my recommendations and was my main motivator to beat the game and I finally got to watch it. I can’t recommend rain world enough. Before rain world my favorite games were trailmakers and StarCraft II. And just slugcat. It’s a slugcat. What is there not to like about a cat slug hybrid. 10/10 and I am not exaggerating, I can’t think of a single thing that I don’t like about this game.

This game actually looks super cool! and this is a well explained video, thanks Lunan :)

I recommend searching up rain world soundtrack, then find the playlist, if you find something that say “grumblebum” “kayava” or “threat-shoreline” then you’re in the right place. After that just look for the most strangely named one and vibe

I highly recommend the new DLC Downpour. It adds a lot more unique slugcats and uncovers more lore.

My first experience with the game was so incredibly frustrating, I had absolutely no idea what was going on, I was dying to stupidest things ever all the time. I really love lore and storytelling in games so I was really pissed to miss all of it. I was just trying to get from one shelter to another, exploring wasnt even an option. So I really got sick of not knowing what was going on and just googled all the lore and what to do and where to go and kinda spoiled the whole game... all I wanted was to just go back to my scugs family, and I found out I won't even get that! And yet, I absolutely loved it, through pain and frustration and, I must admit, a lot of rage, I really really loved it, and now with the googled lore, I gained a new appreciation for this games' world. Now Im playing through all of the downpour's campaigns and its honestly, the most fun I've really had in a while

Keep making these at least once a month and i'll definitely be subbing This video feels like quality, pleasing to hear too, is interesting and the objectively neutral point of view makes this one of those videos you can show a friend that shares interest for similar games or the same game even i felt as if you could have shown less important content and more gameplay with muted text while we hear your take on certain aspects of the game but thats just me Very good video over all and the outro sounds cool, you should definitely make it fade for a little bit longer, maybe 2 or 5 seconds with a less sudden cut and a more distiguishable fade to silence (just my personal preference but its fine as it is) its like one of those pensive themes you know? Like you can digest the content in the outro I always try to help creators improve with the things they nail and this one kept me interested the whole video, anyways have you tried Carrion? similar art style and definitely inspired by "The thing" I've seen channels rise and fall and i would love to see you rise so my advice would be to stay away from controversy, politics and keep charities neutral but hey its your channel and personally as long as the content is enterteining and you show transparency and honesty (like in this video telling us you have almost no idea of what you are talking about for example) then i'll watch and i will separate the art frome the artist

Don't worry I also committed the cardinal sin AND wall skip in my first playthrough (Survivor). Then I jumped straight to Artificer and went through the whole exterior and Pebbles properly

Oh no, hunter next? I'd heavily suggest investing in Downpour and doing Gourmand or Artificer next. They're both a lot less stressful than Hunter and give a lot more context to story and setting. Their gimmicks are also more fun in my opinion

Great video keep it up

One of my favorite death simulators

Good luck creating a great channel.

good video, and I think that I mostly agree just very recently gotten into rain world w/ downpour, loving it! and yeah, I chose monk not knowing that it was the games version of easy lol, and currently on farm arrays coming back from 5 pebbsi's place.. I regret eating all of moon's neurons though ,_, the thing down below is based on a true story I fear no man... but that thing... ***shows monster kelp*** it scares me

Rain world is a lot like the first Zelda game with how you have no direction. Really its got the feel of a lot of old NES era games with how little you know what to do. You just to try things out and work at it until you get it.

my first playthrough i also did wall skip, had no idea there was another path into pebbles. i kinda wish i'd gone the other way first, but climbing the wall and watching the background detail was really satisfying

I honestly think Monk shouldn't be an option for beginners, as I played survivor first and had a great time, then moved onto Hunter (also had a great time), I then decided to play Monk and I ended up having the most miserable experience lmao (User experience may vary). Then I moved onto the dlc (had a great time, but challenge 70 hurts), I have to say Monk is my least favourite Slugcat, both story wise and gameplay wise. This is merely the way I see it, feel free to disagree, after all I am a person which likes Shaded Citadel & thrives in Shaded Citadel.

That was really nice!

Kappa Kaiju really tried to have us fooled

Hey man ive been dying to know which aong is in the intro, love yhe video best one on rainworld for me so far

5:50 I also thought up the wall was the intended way to get to the thing and the guy so I also did this on my first playthrough, it's very beneficial

i believe we’ve committed *cardinal sin* at least once (if you’ve played rain world)

Tip: First time playing, I completely changed around my controls to make them fit most games better.

ngl when I played for the first time I got kinda stuck and dropped the game for a while, then I watched some lore videos, gameplay and more or less knew where to go, so I started the game again and had much more fun doing so. I did kind of spoil major points from the game, but I think having someone to guide you in the right direction, which I didn't have can make the experience much more fun imo the downpour slugcats are also a lot fun and very unique, I haven't finished all of them yet, because some are more difficult than others

I committed the exact same cardinal sin (im also going though my first playthrough) I knew that it would be bad but I had no choice, it started raining when I met her so I had to eat two neurons to hibernate. PS: I don't recommend going straight to Hunter from Monk, Monk is the easy mode and Hunter is the HARD mode.

I always go trough the wall lmao.

From my understanding, when you play as Monk(the yellow slugcat) you lose access to some if not all lore pearls.

you deserve more subs this is sick

even know ur a small youtube ur content is awesome

the downpour DLC adds more fun stuff and characters to unlock as well as the lore and the changes to the enviroment that comes with playing those characters

omg thanks for using my remix!!! good video ^^

you are criminally underrated ngl

The biggest frustration with rain world that a lot of people experience when playing through the game their first time is that they don't understand what their goal is... The rules of the world and the mechanics of the game aren't apparent when the player first begins their journey, but it's a deliberate design choice. You are, for all extensive purposes, an animal that was thrust into an unknown world and forced to survive. In Rain world, the more you learn about your world through observation and trial and error and the more adept you become at circumnavigating threats, the more you prove your mastery and the better off you are at surviving. Exploration of uncharted territories is a challenge in itself, because it forces you into a setting or a part of the world for which you have no knowledge. Even the location of platforms is critical information in a situation where every jump can be the difference between life and death. Once you surmount the wall that this game presents (pun intended), only then do your aspirations manifest. Only then does it become apparent what your higher goal is. This process of learning ties in with the concept of ascending or transcendence really well... but beginning players hardly care about that just yet. My best advice to newer players is to recognize that your slugcat is an animal who's in danger, if you haven't already, and that your goal is to help him survive, and to increase his karma level. Not explore. Not unlock power ups or attacks like its some kind of metroid-vania. But to simply survive until you feel comfortable exploring just a bit more and taking a few more risks than you're used to. Knowledge is important in this game, and you know only what your slugcat can see on screen. Because of this: the game is extraordinarily wonderful at visual and environmental storytelling, and is one of the reasons it is as popular as it is in recent months. Furthermore: Passage can only be used once. If you know you know. If you don't, you will. (This is probably the only thing I wish I knew before using it) And whatever you do. DON'T look up spoilers if unless you're TRULY stuck and unless you TRULY need navigation advice. I restarted the game 2 separate times before I felt adept enough with the movement controls to actually make moderate strides in exploration, and even still that run was about 10+ hours and 120+ cycles in length because I chose not to look up a map for my first play through. I did look up *some things when achievement hunting however, and even still I wouldn't advise it, because those too can be achieved via trial and error and exploration and experimentation. This is the kind of game that deserves a blind play through at least once. ~Good luck fellow slugcats.

i will have to say that the lore is really obscure and hard to find in the non dounpour campaign's but especially in ones like spearmaster a lot of info is given along the path you will take

I always start games on normal mode, rather than easy, so my first play through was with Survivor. I regretted it immediately.

Man's came here and dropped 3 good quality vids and dipped

Karma gates don't need karma (for most) as monk. Yes, it is ez-baybee mode

Some quick notes about some of the details, such as the difficulty, controls and everything else. None of this is meant to show the errors Lunan made during this, but just slight things I noticed during the video that felt like it didn’t do the game justice. Includes similar spoilers found in the video For the karma gates, Monk is the ONLY Slugcat to have karma gates permanently open once used, but this may be able to be changed with the DLC (yes, there’s a dlc, it adds tons of more content, almost bigger than the game itself in terms of map areas and changes). Food is required to get through a cycle, with extras being carried over to the next cycle. I won’t state what happens when you hibernate with less than required food. Each cycle is different, even the same cycle, so don’t expect everything to be exactly the same as when you last visited that area. There will still be semblance of what was once there, however their positions, places and maybe even a creature or 2, may be completely different. The (Rain) world is procedurally animated in every way, and many rooms are still loaded in while you’re in a completely different room, meaning you are never truly safe. The reason the controls are so vaguely mentioned is because it’s attempting to only give you what’s needed, and letting you understand the rest, as you’re in an unfamiliar place, with even the backstory as to how you got here even directly showing you that. Also, the movement guide is smth like 99 pages long, with more being developed. YOU CAN L CANCEL. You are not the main character, there are no defined ‘main characters’ in the game, and you are effectively just another animal to the ecosystem, with you also being prey to most animals. Don’t expect to have health, this isn’t a souls-like, it’s just hard because it’s an ecosystem, so don’t expect evolution of any kind. The story is vague because it’s not the main focus, surviving is, so it’s for players to interpret how they think the story is and then base conclusions off of that. The music is brilliant, you should listen to it, even the threat music is extremely well made. Survivor, the alternate starter campaign to Monk, is stronger than Monk, but also deals with threats more commonly than Monk. My first playthrough was Survivor, and probably showed me how nothing in Rain world really cares for you, more than my partial delve into Monk’s campaign. I know this video may have already been updated, as Lunan has done a Hunter playthrough, as well as them being a first-time player as of this video, but it’s small details I just wanted to add (because I’ve played through 6 unique campaigns to completion, with Monk and Hunter (funnily enough) being the only incomplete ones as of writing this). Great video Lunan!

I first discovered Rainworld when a friend was streaming they're Hunter run in a discord server i was in. I decided to take a look and I got interested. A few days later i Bought the base game and after a few days I loved it. I ended up Buying downpour after i beat hunter and I wishlisted the Upcoming Watcher DLC. And To this day Im still having fun and I doubt I'll run out of content with the Steam workshop having community made Regions, Slugcats and other Somewhat silly and Goofy shenanigans. I do not regret my purchases.

My own personal experience with Rain World when I first picked it up was.. Pure confusion and honestly kinda aimlessness. The game is very, very, very difficult and hard to navigate starting off, especially pre-Downpour and pre-Hunter/Monk update, when we had JUST Survivor to play. It took me _AGES_ to figure out that the Overseers were trying to guide me somewhere, and even then I had no idea what to do with that information. Unfortunately I only realized there was an actual ending to the campaign when I learned about it online by accident. And that is one big flaw starting off as a new player. You're thrown headfirst into a world where it is _not_ going to sugarcoat anything or hold your hand for very long. You're taught the basics, and then dumped on your butt to figure out the rest. But... why do I love it so much then, if my first few hours/days/sessions playing it were so weird and kinda negative? Why did I keep playing the game I debated refunding right from the start? Because it.. has a way of just reeling you in. Something about being a (mostly) helpless but agile little critter who is at the bottom of the food chain kinda appeals to that feral instinct in me that longs so hopelessly for more games like Rain World where we play as an animal, just trying to survive and make it through its day to day life. The lore and the exploration is kind of a bonus on top of that for me, but the main draw is just.. living in this Rain World, watching the ecosystem roll in all its gruesome and vicious glory, and being a small part of that as I go.

3:26 flying pink lizard

Rain World: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA The Player: *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*

i was so happy that moon got me these shiny snacks when i arived at looks to the moon :D

3:43 Sorry, is that a TRAIN LIZARD on MONK'S CAMPEIGN?

Been watching rw content for like 2 months, and got to play very recently. I turn into a combat god when I'm panicking apparently 😅 killed two greens and a purple when i got stuck in a hole eith em, and then almost immediately got 1 shot by a dropwig. WHOOPS

Be prepared to be the bottom of the food chain!!

god, when I first bumped into a poleplant-

You have our attention

I got stuck in the very beginning of the game back in 2019. Dropped it for like three years and now ive picked it back up again and have over 150 hours. Play rainworld.

cool vid

I always go through the wall because i DESPISE 0 gravity rooms

The toll you pay for easy mode is that Monk experiences even less of the story then there already is. Pebbles pretty much just kicks you out, where as normally he goes quite in depth about what it all means. Monk also doesn't get any colored pearls, which you can bring to Looks tot he Moon to read them as Survivor. They contain additional story.

scug

Straight to hunter from monk. Good luck

If you enjoyed monk, then you'l definitely have fun with the other slugcats! This game is, in my opinion, amazing. It's simply unbelievably beautiful, harsh and horrifying at once. Piecing together the story, figuring out the movement, fighting for your life... And as someone who's finished rivulet just yesterday, I'd reccomend you to get the DLC if you have money and patience for it.

Scug

i got spoiled some stuff progressively before and while playing rain world (and downpour!) But the game was mostly really addicting

As someone who loves fighting, I would say there is no "easy mode" in this game, if Monk really was "easy" the game would make your spear damage 2x instead of .5x so really it equates to the higher your spear damage the higher your hunger bar. Monk does have better predator spawns though. I'd say interpretation can vary from player to player

i mean i kinda cheated to unlock all the campains and didnt complete any of these jet but i love this game coz i can goof around and have fun potentialy with friends so yea 10/10 would recomend

Will you make a vid on hunter?

This game gave me PTSD but in the silly goofy way

This guy is so handsome wft

Monk not only has easier difficulty due to spawns, but he has a higher reputation modifier, meaning that you can befriend lizard population and scavs twice as fast as any survivor. Yes, there is global reputation to lizards, where if you feed and save lizors enough in a region, they will not hunt you. Doing it in multiple regions will spread effect to all the other regions, potentially turning game into pacifist run. Besides vultures. And spiders. And leeches. And deers. Screw deers. I declare war against deers.

I let my intrusive thoughts win and ate Moon's neuron flies the first time we met

You ate Moon's neuron. You got what you deserved, honestly.

resuming: handsome person talking shit about rain world

Just a lil fun fact for you: it is generallt aggreed that the weird noise in the music you put at the beggining is a slug cat :)