Reserving Rain World upon its estimated PC and Mac release this autumn costs a respectable $10, while reserving an early build and soundtrack requires a $25 pledge. In addition to its single-player campaign, Rain World will feature up to four-player multiplayer in both competitive and co-operative game modes consisting of deathmatch, endurance, waves, custom challenges and more. even more open world.' It then added 'The different areas, 'levels' if you will, are more based on the players actual skill than some 'find red key, find blue key' sort of thing.' When I asked about Rain World's structure, the two-person development team e-mailed me to explain that it's 'Metroidvania but.

It all sounds a bit Tokyo Jungle with fewer sweater-sporting corgis. 'The gameplay consists of platforming and fast paced sneaking,' Team Rain World explained on the Kickstarter page. Given the harsh climate, most living creatures tend to take shelter from the nefarious percipitation and gales, but predators and prey alike have got to come out some time. Playing as a too-adorable-for-words 'slugcat,' you explore a derelict industrial world plagued by a near perpetual downpour.

Then you see it in motion and its fluid, frantic action and phenomenal animation recall Nidhogg by way of Sword & Sworcery.

In stills its retro-chic aesthetic looks properly pink and pleasant, but maybe not quite revolutionary. Like Hyper Light Drifter before it, Rain World emerged on Kickstarter out of nowhere and boy does it look good! Its mood may be meloncholy, but Rain World's colour palette is refreshingly robust, making it one of the prettier post apocalypses in recent memory.

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