Rain World

I would recommend Rain World and especially its expansion to anyone that likes platformers and post-apocalyptic vibes. However, the base game with the default settings has some major issues, resulting in the time you spend being angry & frustrated, questioning why you haven't un-installed the game already, being longer than the time you are excited & impressed, which is never good. To avoid these issues, do the following:
Install the “SBCameraScroll” mod from the Steam workshop. By default, the camera is not centred on your character, and instead jumps abruptly when you reach the current edge of the screen. If there is an enemy right past said edge, you won't be able to see them in time to react to their attack (and your character always dies in one hit). I can not emphasise enough how annoying it is to die this way, and this mods fixes the problem by adding a smoothly scrolling camera. As a bonus, it also creates a parallax effect in some areas, making them look even more impressive.
Also install the “No Expedition Permadeath” mod, if you wish the play the expeditions game-mode (which is lots of fun). There is a lot of RNG in the game, which often leads to your death, especially for new players. If you can immediately continue playing from the last checkpoint, such RNG is a source of laughs, but if you instead lose 30 minutes / an hour / three hours of progress this way, you might never play the game again. Do yourself a favour and get rid of permadeath with this mod. For the same reason, if you wish to play the Hunter’s campaign (boring – play the DLC campaigns, expeditions, or challenges instead), you should set “Hunter Cycles” in the Remix tab to some high value, like 999.
Many improvements can be unlocked through the in-game Remix tab, which allows players a lot of customisation. Feel free to experiment with it, but the two settings I always enable are “Visual breath meter” (so you actually understand when you are drowning) and “Pull spears from walls” (aiming is challenging – this way you will get another chance to throw your spear by being able to recover it).
Lastly, read an online movement guide (all should be spoiler-free), as the game is awful at explaining even the basic movement controls. For example, when your character somehow enters a tunnel ass-first (which slows you down by a lot), you can press the jump key plus an arrow key to reorient yourself in the right direction.
I hope this review hasn’t put you off from the game, as Rain World really is quite special once you get the hang of it - it keeps on drawing me back even after hundreds of hours of gameplay.

One of the most unique games I've ever played. There really isn't anything out there that comes close to what this game does.
It's far from a perfect game. I'm not gonna say things like "Oh? You dislike it? Skill issue!" or "People who don't like this game just never gave it a chance!", because to be honest, this game doesn't give the player much of a chance itself. You have to be patient. You have to deal with incredibly BS scenarios. It's not just a difficult game. It's an unfair game. Because that's just nature. You will get better at dealing with that unfair aspect, but it never goes away. You will die to things completely out of your control.
Once you do get to the top of that hill of frustration though, and finally begin to manage to make serious progress - that is when it starts to click. That's when you can finally begin to appreciate what this game is. When you finally have a chance to not focus on dying every few seconds.
I love this game not for any one significant reason (though there are many) but because it simply is what it is. It isn't made for you. You are the one choosing to interact with it. It's one of those games where you play it for a bit, give up due to its insane learning curve, and then pick up again a few months later and fall in love with it. Is that a flaw? Maybe. I don't care. I love it. And nobody is forcing you to love it either. It's all a matter of what you are looking for in a game.
Oh and, yeah... The art and music? No amount of unfairness changes that. It's all gorgeous.
10/10 for me, ?/10 for you.

The gameplay is frustrating, the lore is depressing, and the soundtrack and artwork bring a tear to the eye.
This game was designed to sap all positive emotions from you while you play it and you can pry it from my cold dead hands.

Great game.
There's not really any other game that is anything like this.
Try to not look up anything that might spoil anything. The best play-through is the first. Even if you die a lot. Especially because of this.
A fair warning, this game is hard. Very hard. Emphasis on this: The difficulty is part of what makes this game great.
Despite this, do not play the Monk's campaign first. The Survivor is the way to go.
Also, do note that it is not uncommon for most players to drop the game after a few hours. The first few hours can be harsh. But after this initial hurdle to overcome, the best part comes.
This game is hard. This game is unique. This game is one the best games I have played.

Rain World is not a metroidvania, it's not an action platformer; it's always been an *ecosystem simulator*. I'd recommend it to every biologist or naturalist or ecology enthusiast out there. If you mistake this game for what it's not, you'll be very frustrated - all your intentions will be dashed and you'll give it up quickly, but if you're willing to accept and learn from failure, you'll find a beautiful intricate experience like no other. You're a little lost animal in an unforgiving world. Endeavor as such.
Take your time. Test out your environment. The gameplay loop is relatively simple - fill up on food, evade predators, find a safe place to sleep before bone-crushing rain pounds you to dust. When resources run out or you feel ready, trek to find the next gate and move on.
ALWAYS CARRY A SPEAR. Eventually the wacky movement will become second nature, you'll move with confidence, death becomes but a mild inconvenience, because like sleep like death, you wake up again. Whether you want to or not.
Good luck!

---{ Graphics }---
☑ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☑ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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A game where you are not the center of attention , but just a cog of a gigantic but slowly rusting machine...
A game where you are not treated as a god , but treated as equal as the lizards or the bats that scurry throughout the world...
A game where you are you...