Rain World News

Hey, slugcats!

The base game Rain World is now 60% off!

This is the best opportunity to grab the base game before raising the base game price to $24.99 and updating the regional pricing for the game in February. I want to reiterate the reasons we are raising the price.

1) We're changing the base game with the Remix update and that was a lot of effort and work. Bumping up the price helps reflect that time and effort.

2) It helps keep the DLC price lower for longtime members of the community. If you bought Rain World in 2017, you got it for cheaper than someone coming into the game now and we think you guys deserve that discount.

3) We're changing the development direction of Rain World. The original price reflected a finished game whereas the new price reflects that we want to develop more for Rain World.

4) The process of picking the game up from another publisher was an expensive one and they still get a cut of all of our sales. Bumping the price a little helps to offset that reality.

Anyway, like a lot of decisions in game development, this one was kind of a confluence of a bunch of factors all pointing in the same direction. And I definitely wanted to be fair to you guys by announcing the price change way ahead of time so that nobody is bamboozled by it. This also won't change the discounts we list Rain World at so for anyone looking to pick up the game on sale, they'll have an easy time finding a good price for it.

[h2]Rain World Soundtrack[/h2]
Rain World: Downpour soundtrack will be hitting different platforms tomorrow!

Buddy, the Akupara Marketing Lead, and James from Videocult, will be joining the amazing community soundtrack creators tomorrow at 10am PST! Join us in congratulating the soundtrack team.

https://www.twitch.tv/akuparagames

Hey, slugcats!

Enjoying the new soundtrack in Rain World: Downpour?

On Friday, January 27th the Downpour soundtrack will hit different music platforms covered by Black Screen Records. This includes Spotify, Apple music, and more! If you want to take a listen then check out the soundtrack on Youtube here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6DWnV_CR7I

Also I wanted to take the time to highlight the amazing people that came together to make the soundtrack!

• James Primate
  
• Lydia Esrig
  
• Intikus
  
• Ongomato
  
• Connor "12LBS" Skidmore
  
• Bwarch
  
• Progfox
  

Annoying Flower designed the soundtrack art while Norgad provided the region art for the video, both incredibly talented designers!

[h2]Patch v1.9.02[/h2]
Also over the weekend we have released a patch for Downpour. Here are the full patch notes.

• Fixed crash when hibernating in The Exterior with certain characters.
  
• Allowing all endings, including secondary ones, to count towards campaign completion unlockables now.
  
• Fixed latin characters rendering incorrectly with workshop mods installed when an asian language is selected.
  
• Updates to Chinese localization.
  
• Fixed Play button not being greyed out when no Safari regions are unlocked.
  
• Fixed graphical display of credits list in Remix menu when playing the game with a controller.
  
• Reduced the number of spiders that appear in Gourmand's tutorial room.
  
• Expedition Mission buttons are now greyed out if the associated slugcat has not been unlocked.
  
• Unlocked Expedition slugcats will no longer become locked again after exiting the Jukebox menu.
  
• Fixed issues with the Expedition menu UI when More Slugcats is disabled.
  
• Added tooltips for Jukebox buttons and randomized backgrounds for the Jukebox menu.
  
• Fixed a bug with Expedition score challenges.
  
• Fixed occasional crashes when using shelters or region gates in Jolly Co-op mode.
  
• Fixes a bug with tamed creatures in shelters in Jolly Co-op mode.
  
• Fixed a bug with death display when a co-op player dies in another room not viewed by the camera.
  
• Fixed a bug with the map on the hibernation screen in Co-op mode.
  
• Artificer can no longer maul other players in Co-op while friendly fire is turned off
  
• Reduced slider flicker on Jolly's Color dialog.
  
• Fixed a crash when visiting an Iterator chamber in Safari Mode while Jolly Co-op is enabled.
  
• Player 1 Jolly options (Color, Label) will no longer get reset on restart.
  

We are still hard at work on patching out more bugs. Thank you all for your reports! They seriously help in patching them out.

-Riv Otter

The humble Slugcat—the adorably squishy critter at the heart of Rain World—has long been one of my white whales. I’ve tried (and failed) to master the art of survival in the Slugcat's uncompromising world several times since 2017. With the release of Downpour, it finally clicked. On top of being a titanic extension for the thorny survival-sim platformer, the Downpour expansion, after five years in development, goes a long way to making the original game more accessible and less intimidating—before unleashing a sequel’s worth of fresh horrors upon me and overwhelming me all over again...
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Hey, slugcats!

It is time for me to finally pass Gourmand to you guys. You better take good care of them and keep them well fed. Rain World: Downpour is out now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDDUnWnjdK0

[h3]Rain World: Downpour features[/h3]

• 5 new playable slugcat campaigns
  
• New regions and rooms
  
• Co Op campaign mode
  
• Expedition mode
  
• Challenge mode
  
• Safari mode
  

Even if you don’t get Downpour, Rain World is receiving a free update for the first time in many years that includes new resources for players and modders of Rain World.

[h3]Rain World: Remix features[/h3]

• Steam Workshop
  
• In game mod loader
  
• Russian and Chinese languages
  
• Accessibility options
  
• Bug fixes
  

Note: If you have modded your files, then Rain World: Remix will not launch. You will need to do a complete reinstall of Rain World. Remove the Rain World folder from Steam. The folder will typically be located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Rain World then verify the game files.

Uninstalling the game through Steam does not delete all files and so you must manually delete the Rain World folder and then reinstall through Steam.

One more final note with the launch of Downpour and Remix. We have set up two branches on Steam so if you like to revert back to ver. 1.5 or ver. 1.01 for any reason then you can. Right click Rain World in the library and click properties. Under the “beta” tab, you can select the 1.5 build by selecting “legacy” or select 1.01 build by selecting “legacy” from the drop down menu.

Rain World: Downpour adds so much content to a game beloved by the community. We’ve been very honored to work with such an amazing community to develop Downpour. Again be sure to give thanks to all the amazing community members who worked on developing the DLC. You can view who from the community worked on Downpour here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/312520/view/5507370455348858235?l=english

-Riv Otter

Hey, slugcats!

Nine days until the release of Rain World: Downpour! Soon the Gourmand care will be passed on to you! I hope you have enough food in the fridge for them.

Downpour comes with a load of new features including, Jolly Co-op, expedition mode, new playable slugcat, new rooms, and so much more! I know you guys have been asking for a while, so today I want to announce the price to Downpour will be $14.99.

I also want to take the time to talk with you guys about the base price of Rain World. In early February the base game will increase from $19.99 to $24.99. If you already own the game, don’t worry, this will not affect you.

-Riv Otter