Rain World News

Hello Slugcats!

We’re still hard at work on Rain World: Downpour and making sure that Gourmand is well fed so they don’t eat any more cables. We’ve upped their meal plan from 10 meals a day to 15 meals.

Rain World: Downpour brings 70 new and unique challenges that will test your skills in Challenge Mode! Master each of the slugcat’s abilities to overcome the difficult scenarios the different slugcat will face! You’ll slay powerful creatures, befriend wary lizards, swing across hazards, dodge deadly attacks, eat delicious food, and more!

Take a peek at some of the new challenges in the new Teaser!

You will start off simple with challenge 1 by playing as the survivor with plenty of spears and rocks to kill a green and pink lizard.


Things get more complicated in challenge 17 where you have to kill a vulture as the hunter with only two spears at your disposal. If you stick them in the wall or throw them off the edge, you will fail the challenge.


In challenge 22, you’ll use Gourmand's weight to your advantage to slay the new lizards in Downpour - the carmel lizards - with no weapons available.


These are just 3 of the 70 new challenges that will be waiting in Challenge Mode!

- [AG] riv otter

Hello, Slugcats!

If you were watching the Guerrilla Collective, you may have caught a glimpse of the new slugcats sliding across your screen! Rain World: Downpour adds five new slugcats each with unique abilities and playstyles to traverse the ecosystems in while avoiding the dangers they hold. The new slugcats are the speedy Rivulet, the mouthless Spearmaster, the acrobatic Saint, the wishlist eating Gourmand, and the explosive Artificer!

Each slugcat has their own sets of advantages and challenges in environments where even a tiny mistake can mean death. Learn the movements of each slugcats and how to use those new found abilities to survive to the next cycle and travel to new regions and rooms.

If you would like to learn more about these new slugcats, then check out the trailer!

- [AG] Riv Otter

Hello, Slugcats!

Due to an error on Steam’s backend, you may no longer have Rain World: Downpour wishlisted.

We are still hard at work on Downpour, however in the last couple of days we had some issues with under-the-hood stuff on Steam. For those curious, it stated that some people had Rain World: Downpour in their library. This didn’t give anyone early access to Downpour, there currently isn't a build up on Steam. We have been working with Valve and have fixed the issue.

Feel free to double check that you are still wishlisting Downpour and that Gourmand didn’t eat them.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1933390/Rain_World_Downpour/

- [AG] riv otter

Hello, Slugcats!

I'm elated to see all the excitement from the community for Rain World: Downpour! The devs are hard at work on Downpour and can't wait to get the DLC in your hands! If you missed the news of Downpour, then be sure to check out the Downpour trailer! In the meantime, I wanted to answer a few common questions that I've seen from the community.

When is Rain World: Downpour releasing?
We’re still deep in development so there’s no release date yet but once we’re solid on when the game’s good to release, we’ll let you know.

How much will Downpour be?
No details on pricing just yet, mostly because we haven’t answered that question internally yet. When we announce the release date, we’ll announce the price.

What platforms will Downpour be on?
Every platform that Rain World is currently on will get the Downpour DLC. This includes consoles!

Is More Slugcats still being made by the original More Slugcats Team?
Yep. In fact, we brought AndrewFM as the lead developer of Downpour!

Is More Slugcats canon?
We like to think of More Slugcats as an expansion of Rain World lore rather than a reboot or a retcon or a sequel. There’s a lot to see in Rain World and this is just adding more Rain World.

Is the original version of Rain World going away?
Nope! Downpour is a separate, standalone experience in DLC requiring the original, while Rain World itself is still going to stand on its own two feet. Even when owning the DLC, if you want to toggle it off and get that classic Rain World experience, that’ll definitely be possible. These are two games meant to be played in parallel, one won’t be replacing the other.

Where is 1.7 for PC?
The latest version of Rain World on Steam is version 1.5 but on consoles it’s 1.7. On one platform specifically, that version is 1.8. We plan to bring all the platforms to the same version of Rain World with the Parity Patch and this will not be tied to Downpour and will instead be released alongside the DLC. Even if you don’t buy the DLC, you’ll still get the Parity Patch.

When is the Parity Patch releasing?
Right alongside the release of Downpour. This is for two reasons: First, it’s going to take a bunch of development work to get it all up and running, so there’s that. Second, we also want to make sure that the Parity Patch plays well with the Downpour DLC release itself, so we’re bundling all of that together into one release. We also want to help modders get early access to the Parity Patch just so that their mods can be adjusted for its launch. The goal is for parity to be really seamless for players.

Let me know if you have any other questions about the upcoming DLC or patch that you'd like me to tackle! I'd be happy to answer anything and everything that I can.

-[AG] Riv Otter

Hello Slugcats!

If you saw the announcement during the Videocult Stream for Rain World’s 5 year anniversary, you would have seen that Rain World is getting a new expansion called Rain World: Downpour.

Downpour adds five new slugcats each with their own story and unique abilities. Use those abilities to traverse through over 1000 new rooms and investigate the mysterious world around you while learning how to survive with the new threatening creatures of the world.

Check out the Downpour trailer!

Wishlist the DLC!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1933390/Rain_World_Downpour/

Akupara Games is now the publisher of Rain World and will be working on Downpour!
We plan on releasing Downpour on Steam later this year!