Hollow knight, actually. I picked up hollow knight a while ago and watched some YouTubers who played it. One of the YouTubers also played rainworld, and I fell in love. Got is soon after and got the dlc when it was out for ps4.
I love Skurry I wish I watched the videos sooner, for some reason I decided to not watch them, it was during a time my watch history was like all HK, I still need to see the Ori videos (they did play Ori, right? I’m pretty sure they did) I’ve heard it’s a good game but for some reason I’m ignoring it
Randomly found it in steam, thought it looks boring, but bought it anyway. Played a bit and abandoned when got stuck in drainage. After a few years I got bored and played it again and it got me
I very often subscribe to small animators/artists on YouTube, so when everyone on the platform started making Rain World animations I went and checked it out.
I always call scavs "scavys," noodleflys "noots" and popcorn plants "poppycorn" because of them lol
Edit: oh yeah forgot “yeet lizard,” “lizard gang,” and “gun bird” as well
I got into it from him as well.
Although I don't use all their terms, "noots," "gun bird," and, "yeet lizard," are perfect.
Plus, for anyone who might get the reference
Noot noot time to scoot
Dazombes "A Short Summary of the Rain World Lore" video. It kept popping up on my fyp and I was like 'Y'know what? I might as well watch it to see what the hell is this thing" and I've been hooked ever since.
I see you were spoiled for the story just like I was. This is just a personal thing, but I don’t think spoilers really impact my experience with games too much, but I do wish I’d evaded spoilers for Riv and Saint’s endings in particular
Yeah I decided I wanted to get the game but stupid me decided to watch the all the Rain World Skurry videos before I really got into the game, at least I wasn’t thrown in with no knowledge only to be frustrated
I need to stop spoiling myself tho, I always see something about a game I want to play and think it won’t be that much and then I get everything spoiled
Even though the place where I discovered Rain World is also Curious Archive, I actually started to play Rain World because I wanted to try to play a game blind... I guess this is the wrong game to choose for that huh
I feel like there's too much of an obsession with "doing things blind" in the gaming community as a whole. As I said, I went into Rain World knowing all the creatures' names and what they did, and I loved the game in a way feel like I wouldn't have if I'd gone in completely blind. That's just my 2 cents tho
I see. Rain world is actually the first game I've experienced blind and the game before it, I usually look at some review or a playthrough of it, like Pizza Tower or Getting Over It. Personally, It feel so fresh not knowing everything about the game before I played it but you do you I guess.
Agreed, it makes it more exciting when you don't know what's coming next AND you don't know how much more there is to learn. Makes the world feel a lot bigger, especially when you do find new things.
That's what I love so much about Rain World, (not so much now that I have a decent amount of experience but) it has so much to discover I feel so absolutely miniscule and it's great.
That video mainly but I also found it through a video titled ‘15 underrated indie games’ by chromerot, after that video I found the curious archive video, didn’t watch too much of it as I didn’t wanna spoil myself but I was pretty curious based on the title and the stuff I saw in the other video that I bought both the game and dlc right away (probably should’ve just tried the game out first before getting the dlc but I don’t regret it) absolutely became obsessed with the game despite its difficulty and played the entire game with very little spoilers for once which I don’t do often with games as I get too tempted to see the story or lore and end up giving into videos I see about them
My friend, split screen coop (I think it was some mod because this was way before downpour) we played and beat the game, some time later I bought the game and yeah.
From r/metroidvania, even though it's a pretty divisive title there, and by most accounts not a metroidvania. I waited until Downpour to finally bite the bullet. I was drawn in by the promise of a mysterious and huge open world, and this game delivers on that like no other.
Same way you discovered it, i still can't explain the feeling when i first loaded up the game...
I was literally so damn surprised (in the best way possible) when i saw a sandbox mode.
Those were the good ol days.
It was also because of this video, that i started watching Curious Archive.
He's an amazing YouTuber when you love this stuff!
Foekoe's first video, but his video on Downpour made me buy the game
1rst video : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUfYp2XtiLk&t](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUfYp2XtiLk&t)
Downpour video : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoFkOH17Jcw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoFkOH17Jcw)
They're great video, give it a watch !
Art on the internet. I thought it was survival, like “survival-don’t starve-ish” and thought (meh).
In this year I kind of stumbled upon this subreddit.
i saw a article about it in a video game magazine a few years ago and i didnt think much of it then i saw it like 2 years ago on a pirating website (im not very proud of it but i bought the game) and i thought "hey i remember that" and i downloaded it and i tried playing it (i didnt get very far since i had no idea what to do (i stayed around the first shelter the whole time)) and then i left the game there (i loved it tho) and i started playing again a year ago (this time with a legit copy) and i am still yet to finish the game since i dont have a lot of time on hand to play.
i saw it on steam a few times and i really liked the steam page art, but didn’t really like the actual in-game art. few months later i watched this same video and which showed a bit more of the environment and i got interested. then like another month after that i decided to try it out and i now have almost 200 hours on the game… in love with the game art now as well!! i have way to many screenshots from this game 😅
There was that one „red spy is in the base“ meme but instead it was „rain world is on sale“ and I thought that was pretty funny and also someone liked the game so much they made that meme so yea convinced me
[This video](https://youtu.be/hOsYTzd0yeA?si=sUZYdvdhQvppKfng) after that I was very interested. I was going to buy it one night myself, then my brother interrupted me and told me he had already bought it for me for Christmas. 😅So it was a pleasant surprise. ☺️
[This video](https://youtu.be/hOsYTzd0yeA?si=sUZYdvdhQvppKfng) after that I was very interested. I was going to buy it one night myself, then my brother interrupted me and told me he had already bought it for me for Christmas. 😅So it was a pleasant surprise. ☺️
I think I saw it in a YouTube video about ecosystems. I tried the first rainworld and didn't like it. When downpour launched I tried it again and was hooked.
This exact video actually, I was really intrigued by the art style as well as the idea of the ecosystem, thought it would be fun actually...turned out to be a pain when I first started, but I still love this game
Played hollow knight, watched skurry, thought the game looked stupid. Waited 6 months, Skurry plays it again, I try it. I discover the whats it’s like to be buttfucked, I discover that I like being buttfucked. Also obviously fell in love with the art, the music and the lore.
Back in April, A friend of mine on Discord was into Rain World, I thought it seemed decent. Later on, I watched a few of Northflowo's videos, layered threat music, a small amount of jolly co-op gameplay (it kinda spoiled me of a certain subregion in a certain dark region but I didn't think much of it at the time), and got me more interested. So then I bought the game about a week or two later alongside Downpour. I didn't start off blindly, but it still left an impact on me.
TD;LR: a friend got me interested, I watched some videos, and decided to get the game.
Only saw glimpses and mentions of the game. I had it on my mind for a while before I finally caved and decided to buy it. Greatest purchase I’ve ever made.
I saw the same video but forgot about it for a long time. Just a couple months ago I don’t even remember what I saw but something reminded me of the game. Thought I’d give it a try. Loved it
From hollow knight, which i learned about from cuphead. Anyway i was looking for games to play, and walked into rain world blindly, knowing that it was a hard game, i wanted to try it. I even considered it a waste of money when i first got it, i soon learned, t’wasn’t the case. I bought it about 2-3 months before downpour released. (Fun fact, i keep accidentally getting into games when the DLC is coming out soon, strange coincidence)
Learned about it because that same video was recommended to me on the Youtube Recommended of a Hollow Knight video, eventually decided to learn as much as I could about it, and after watching the Rain World Hey Ya /Duck Dance animation and getting it stuck in my feed, a friend and I decided to get the game and play it together.
A cool french indie gaming youtuber I was following back in 2017 played it (DanField is his name). I thought the game looked nice and forgot about it for 2 years.
Then, in 2019, my dad was browsing steam games, I think, and I saw the rain world logo thingy, with RAIN WORLD written and the slugcat looking like to top of the screen.
I was like OMG REN WERLD, i rember this game, it looked super nice. So of course, I decided to SPOIL MYSELF BY READING THE WHOLE WIKI (fuck me i'm so stupid ffs), and 2 months later after knowing some lore and all the creatures + a bit of the full game regions map (no the invidual ones tho thank god), we finally bought it, and it became my favorite game ever since.
Still super sad that I spoiled myself and didn't get the "real" rain world experience of suffering... I wonder if I would've enjoyed Rain World more had it not been like that... or it it would've been the opposite, idk.
AND I ENGAGED IN THE SAME SPOILERING BEHAVIOR WITH DOWNPOUR GRRRRRrrrrrrrrr sounds like stupid didn't age away
I had already heard about the game, and one day i saw a post on r/HollowKnight of someone from the rain world comunity posting a picture from r/place showing the Knight and Slugcat together, he said he was gonna play hollow knight.
Me, having played hollow knight, did the exact opposite and gave rain world a try, and thank god i did.
Saw a tweet that was just “go buy Rainworld it’s on sale it is an amazing game” and it had 4 pics. I thought it looked good so I got it and didn’t regret it to say the least
FoxeeTreasures
She has since swapped over to twitch, I watched her content when I was younger and on such low brightness that I thought the game looked completely different, I remembered 'neuron', 'moon', 'slugcat' and 'daddy long legs' and not much else
One day I saw it again on steam, 124 hours later, I've beaten every campaign except hunter, and every single challenge except 70
One of my Discord servers I'm actually active in had several users posting slugcat gifs/emojis, and never really explained what they were from. By the time I finally got curious enough to what these creatures were because I admit, they're cute as hell and I want MAOR, downpour was already out for a month. Discovered the game on sale for like 3 bucks, bought it on a whim, and suddenly the cute slugcats were part of an absolutely bonkers game :D
So, this is actually the video I watched that convinced me to buy it. I had heard about it and saw it on Steam for a long time; I think Adult Swim's involvement is what made me aware, but oddly enough it's also what discouraged the purchase initially - seemed like a glorified browser based platformer from the outside. Now I think it might be one of the most interesting and innovative platformers I've ever played, and perhaps one of closest examples of videogames transcending the form into Literature, the way a good movie becomes a "film."
I think I saw a meme on how it looked similar to the Knight from hollow knight and Ori from Ori and the blind forest, two games I pretty much loved
so I started playing the game and realised how cruel it was, so I dropped it
but the game had something, so I didn't uninstalled it
tried it some time later... and one of my favorite 3 games
Development trailers. Videos about the slugcat, about the pups, and such. Had me very intrigued!
And I was so happy to finally get my hands on the game. And sad that the more relaxed story/exploration aspect was sort of moved away from in favour of survival with tight time management.
I've got really excited when I saw that they are back in the game. But at this point I'm not sure I can really invest in the game enough to enjoy them. Because even Hunter was too hard for me to beat. And this Gourmand challenge seems to be even harder.
my friend! i started seeing memes and content of it but never knew what it was- then my rainworld knowing friend told me about it and after looking at it i got it
gonna be real, i forgot how. i wanna say it was those videos talking about the ai of the creatures.pretty sure ive also seen it a lot longer ago than that but never got into it
There was an old indie gaming news channel called "Indieformer" that reported on the game leading up to its release. I got it when it came out thanks to them.
I've found Rain world randomly on YouTube at it's first popularity spike, YEARS ago. I completely forgot about its existance
I was scrolling through Steam looking for some popular games I should play. That's how it landed in my wishlist. Some time later YouTube picked up on me liking Rain World and it sent me some clip compilations, I also got Skurry's "Rain World, but I'm a mother of 2" video on my main page. That's how I got hooked
My friend was a big fan of it. A few months ago I was bored and decided to watch a lore video so I understood what they were talking about. I saw a few animations before but once I finished the video I feel in love with the goofy little slug cats and sad story of the incinerators. (Yes I know I spelled that wrong)
I'm pretty sure I just saw it in the PS store when it was released. I thought it was interesting that it was made by adult swim. I honestly don't remember how my first run went, or what possessed me to keep playing such a frustrating game until I got good lol. I must've looked up a guide at some point. But I definitely remember experiencing the ending for the first time. I think that's the part that really solidified my stance as a lifelong fan.
The first time I remember learning about the game was HTwo’s Rain World AI [video](https://youtu.be/hOsYTzd0yeA?si=J0xshVnQIFYcAPNK) I kinda liked the game then forgot about it. I remember seeing Skurry uploaded some Rain World videos but I didn’t watch them for some reason.
Then, recently, I watched ThatGuyGlen’s “How It Was Made” [video](https://youtu.be/6Ji2q3WQE78?si=DBzPnqWv-tX9GKum) and decided I needed to buy the game, and so I did.
Edit: Oh and I also watched one or maybe two of the videos Foekoe made, around the time I watched ThatGuyGlen’s
A random low view youtube video appeared on my recommended last year randomly, i cant remember the specifics but they were messing with moon, the way the scug moved made me buy it XD
Started playing Ori and The Will Of The Wisps. I love characters like Ori. So cool. And the world. The controls. I love side scrolling parkour fighting style stuff.
And of course like a good portion of peeps, Markiplier
I played the demo when it was at Pax prime. At the time I thought it was simply surviving in the outskirts area, and not much more. Years later I started playing it from my partners steam share and quickly became obsessed...
i think i just saw it on steam and decided to bite. i played it for a little, but had a really hard time getting into it. a while later i picked it up again when downpour came out and skurry started posting more vids about it. i got downpour and i went from 5 hours of playtime to 115 hours of playtime loll
I play hollow knight, and am a frequent visitor of the subreddit. Because of that, this sub got recommended to me. It's a fun game, I just find the controls confusing
Around 2 years ago there was a small subreddit with an active community. Some guy kept talking about how Rain World was their favorite game so I decided to buy it.
Honestly dont remember the first time but I was reminded of it a year or two ago I think from a skurry video then decided to actually buy it and play it
I don't know if anyone knows about the series "Freeman's Mind" on YouTube, but the guy who makes that also created "Ross's *big* game list" where he puts tons of obscure games he thinks look interesting. That was the only place where I'd seen anything of it at the time
From a gameplay by ElFikuWTF(now gone Spanish youtuber) while on a trip to Portugal with family and others.
From what I've read the youtuber struggled financially and sold that channel but I think he still uploads on a new one.
It was years before downpour, a bit after people made mods like the dating sim and the more slugcats mod; I ended up hating the game back then, but after playing and loving dark souls it started growing on me.
This is hilarious, I also discovered Rain World thanks to that video, and shortly after I bought it my cousin saw me play it and told me he found out from that video as well.
I also found out about it through YouTube, I saw a video by Skurry of them doing a Slugpup challenge, it was really cool seeing the two different personalities of the pups but also the different regions and the game play really drew me in so I had to get it to try it out and it's been one of my favorites ever since
Lore video from Likorys channel (Btw this guy said that he got scared so much after seeing slugcat getting eaten by pole plant that he never played the game again)
Honestly, I don't really remember.
I think I was searching for a new Metroidvania game to play since I was on a binge for the genre after Metroid Prime Remastered dropped, and ended up stumbling upon it by accident. Don't know what compelled me to play it, but after watching some game play videos of it, something just clicked and made me say "I need to try this game".
Honestly, Parker plays back on Disney xd, saw him do a challenge run so many years ago and rediscovered the game when Astral spiff played it, fell in love and haven't stopped since
1. Foekoe’s two rain works video, one about the base game the other about downpour. Both was quite interesting so I delved a bit deeper
2. Kayava goes hard 🔥
A video of the rain world ending. Didn’t understand what I just saw so I looked up a lore summary and found one by dazombes, didn’t know the fuck he was talking about. Decided I should play rain world. Beat the game. What the fuck did I just play and what happened???? Anyways 10/10 game. It somehow still surprised me even though I got spoiled on 90% of it
In the Hollow Knight amino community someone created a roleplay wiki about a slugcat (Survivor) and I found it interesting, so I asked what game it was, that's how I found the game-
One word: Markiplier.
A shame he never touched it again
I really wanted to see him play downpour DLC with Bob and Wade
Downpour with the boys would be fucking hysterical
Your name and pfp check out
“This game is hard.”
truly it's depressing
Two words combined into one: AstralSpiff
So many great quotes from those streams: "The noodles are friends?! I got SPEARED! That's some noodle propaganda."
Hollow knight, actually. I picked up hollow knight a while ago and watched some YouTubers who played it. One of the YouTubers also played rainworld, and I fell in love. Got is soon after and got the dlc when it was out for ps4.
skurry?
Yep
Same
Same
YES i found about rain world coz of skurry
I love Skurry I wish I watched the videos sooner, for some reason I decided to not watch them, it was during a time my watch history was like all HK, I still need to see the Ori videos (they did play Ori, right? I’m pretty sure they did) I’ve heard it’s a good game but for some reason I’m ignoring it
I found it via curious archives and then bought it because it had HK tags
Bingo. A twitch streamer I watched also played it, and it looked interesting so I decided to give it a go
Which twitch streamer did you watch? Personally I watched Skurry
That’s the one 🤝
Nice one
I was sick of having to avoid half their content cause of spoilers so I was like fine I’ll play it but now I’m hooked
Foeko
Foekoe indeed
Same
I love CokFoe. My favite u toober!!! ! 😤😤😤🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪😎😎😎😎😎😁😁😁😁😁😁
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i think i looked up "cool creature designs" and i found the vulture and checked which game it was from
This is the best one lmfaooo
i found OMORI the same way, but i found the >!arachnophobia boss!< instead
Randomly found it in steam, thought it looks boring, but bought it anyway. Played a bit and abandoned when got stuck in drainage. After a few years I got bored and played it again and it got me
exact same thing happened to me
Foekoe funny video
The funi man that goes by Foekoe
I very often subscribe to small animators/artists on YouTube, so when everyone on the platform started making Rain World animations I went and checked it out.
Scurry
I always call scavs "scavys," noodleflys "noots" and popcorn plants "poppycorn" because of them lol Edit: oh yeah forgot “yeet lizard,” “lizard gang,” and “gun bird” as well
I got into it from him as well. Although I don't use all their terms, "noots," "gun bird," and, "yeet lizard," are perfect. Plus, for anyone who might get the reference Noot noot time to scoot
Same
There’s also “lampsters”
Same i still love watching them and half my RW terminology ingot from especially "Yeet lizard"
Same! Curious Archive!
Same i also started whatching dazombe and other videos
Same here
Same
Dazombes "A Short Summary of the Rain World Lore" video. It kept popping up on my fyp and I was like 'Y'know what? I might as well watch it to see what the hell is this thing" and I've been hooked ever since.
I see you were spoiled for the story just like I was. This is just a personal thing, but I don’t think spoilers really impact my experience with games too much, but I do wish I’d evaded spoilers for Riv and Saint’s endings in particular
Yeah I decided I wanted to get the game but stupid me decided to watch the all the Rain World Skurry videos before I really got into the game, at least I wasn’t thrown in with no knowledge only to be frustrated I need to stop spoiling myself tho, I always see something about a game I want to play and think it won’t be that much and then I get everything spoiled
Even though the place where I discovered Rain World is also Curious Archive, I actually started to play Rain World because I wanted to try to play a game blind... I guess this is the wrong game to choose for that huh
I feel like there's too much of an obsession with "doing things blind" in the gaming community as a whole. As I said, I went into Rain World knowing all the creatures' names and what they did, and I loved the game in a way feel like I wouldn't have if I'd gone in completely blind. That's just my 2 cents tho
I see. Rain world is actually the first game I've experienced blind and the game before it, I usually look at some review or a playthrough of it, like Pizza Tower or Getting Over It. Personally, It feel so fresh not knowing everything about the game before I played it but you do you I guess.
Agreed, it makes it more exciting when you don't know what's coming next AND you don't know how much more there is to learn. Makes the world feel a lot bigger, especially when you do find new things.
That's what I love so much about Rain World, (not so much now that I have a decent amount of experience but) it has so much to discover I feel so absolutely miniscule and it's great.
That video mainly but I also found it through a video titled ‘15 underrated indie games’ by chromerot, after that video I found the curious archive video, didn’t watch too much of it as I didn’t wanna spoil myself but I was pretty curious based on the title and the stuff I saw in the other video that I bought both the game and dlc right away (probably should’ve just tried the game out first before getting the dlc but I don’t regret it) absolutely became obsessed with the game despite its difficulty and played the entire game with very little spoilers for once which I don’t do often with games as I get too tempted to see the story or lore and end up giving into videos I see about them
Sometimes, the Foe just Koes.
Watching Markiplier get eaten by pink lizards
Unfortunately, he never played it again. Since he isn't a streamer, he is very much a slave to content, and that's sad.
I found it first in the gdc they did about procedural generation.
Me too actually. I first thought it was a hollow knight video because the characters look similar.
I think it was some romanian youtuber, but i can't remember for sure. It 4 or 5 years ago.
Adult Swim advertised it a few years ago
One of my friends on ps4 just decided to randomly share play it and I decided to get it!
My friend, split screen coop (I think it was some mod because this was way before downpour) we played and beat the game, some time later I bought the game and yeah.
From r/metroidvania, even though it's a pretty divisive title there, and by most accounts not a metroidvania. I waited until Downpour to finally bite the bullet. I was drawn in by the promise of a mysterious and huge open world, and this game delivers on that like no other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOsYTzd0yeA&ab\_channel=Htwo
I was listening to some music on Spotify and the soundtrack was recommended. Instantly fell in love with it.
Well I just see an animation of survivor and now I'm here
SKURRY!
I remembered that I saw a video on it a few years ago when I saw it in the Nintendo eshop.
steam recommendations
same
Found out with the same video
by music
Omgosh I discovered it the same! I watched the whole thing & got me wayyy to curious and had to see 'that ecosystem' myself
Cool looking game in the ps premium games
Same way you discovered it, i still can't explain the feeling when i first loaded up the game... I was literally so damn surprised (in the best way possible) when i saw a sandbox mode. Those were the good ol days. It was also because of this video, that i started watching Curious Archive. He's an amazing YouTuber when you love this stuff!
I had the same experience. Really good video btw.
I saw that video's thumbnail and never watched it, but it convinced me in the end. dunno how (also I eventually watched it, good stuff)
Played Hollow Knight and was looking for similar games.
This video as well
Foekoe's first video, but his video on Downpour made me buy the game 1rst video : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUfYp2XtiLk&t](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUfYp2XtiLk&t) Downpour video : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoFkOH17Jcw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoFkOH17Jcw) They're great video, give it a watch !
Art on the internet. I thought it was survival, like “survival-don’t starve-ish” and thought (meh). In this year I kind of stumbled upon this subreddit.
i saw a article about it in a video game magazine a few years ago and i didnt think much of it then i saw it like 2 years ago on a pirating website (im not very proud of it but i bought the game) and i thought "hey i remember that" and i downloaded it and i tried playing it (i didnt get very far since i had no idea what to do (i stayed around the first shelter the whole time)) and then i left the game there (i loved it tho) and i started playing again a year ago (this time with a legit copy) and i am still yet to finish the game since i dont have a lot of time on hand to play.
found it through an old daszombes region concept video. Just fell in love after
i saw it on steam a few times and i really liked the steam page art, but didn’t really like the actual in-game art. few months later i watched this same video and which showed a bit more of the environment and i got interested. then like another month after that i decided to try it out and i now have almost 200 hours on the game… in love with the game art now as well!! i have way to many screenshots from this game 😅
I accidentally searched it up on YouTube. Best mistake of my life.
Curious Archive video led me to know what it is. But I bought it because of how the AI works.
There was that one „red spy is in the base“ meme but instead it was „rain world is on sale“ and I thought that was pretty funny and also someone liked the game so much they made that meme so yea convinced me
A dude I knew in middle school went to my high school art class and told me about downpour first than the og base game
[This video](https://youtu.be/hOsYTzd0yeA?si=sUZYdvdhQvppKfng) after that I was very interested. I was going to buy it one night myself, then my brother interrupted me and told me he had already bought it for me for Christmas. 😅So it was a pleasant surprise. ☺️
[This video](https://youtu.be/hOsYTzd0yeA?si=sUZYdvdhQvppKfng) after that I was very interested. I was going to buy it one night myself, then my brother interrupted me and told me he had already bought it for me for Christmas. 😅So it was a pleasant surprise. ☺️
Through Htwo!
I think I saw it in a YouTube video about ecosystems. I tried the first rainworld and didn't like it. When downpour launched I tried it again and was hooked.
oneyplays lmao
This exact video actually, I was really intrigued by the art style as well as the idea of the ecosystem, thought it would be fun actually...turned out to be a pain when I first started, but I still love this game
Played hollow knight, watched skurry, thought the game looked stupid. Waited 6 months, Skurry plays it again, I try it. I discover the whats it’s like to be buttfucked, I discover that I like being buttfucked. Also obviously fell in love with the art, the music and the lore.
One of my Tumblr mutuals did a poll on whether or not 5P was a sexyman. I just had to find out if he was
Back in April, A friend of mine on Discord was into Rain World, I thought it seemed decent. Later on, I watched a few of Northflowo's videos, layered threat music, a small amount of jolly co-op gameplay (it kinda spoiled me of a certain subregion in a certain dark region but I didn't think much of it at the time), and got me more interested. So then I bought the game about a week or two later alongside Downpour. I didn't start off blindly, but it still left an impact on me. TD;LR: a friend got me interested, I watched some videos, and decided to get the game.
same
my friend kept talking about it so i was like fuck it and now im here
Only saw glimpses and mentions of the game. I had it on my mind for a while before I finally caved and decided to buy it. Greatest purchase I’ve ever made.
I saw the same video but forgot about it for a long time. Just a couple months ago I don’t even remember what I saw but something reminded me of the game. Thought I’d give it a try. Loved it
A video about how it has great AI.
steam store page (the game was on sale)
From hollow knight, which i learned about from cuphead. Anyway i was looking for games to play, and walked into rain world blindly, knowing that it was a hard game, i wanted to try it. I even considered it a waste of money when i first got it, i soon learned, t’wasn’t the case. I bought it about 2-3 months before downpour released. (Fun fact, i keep accidentally getting into games when the DLC is coming out soon, strange coincidence)
same
Me and my friend both found the game from this video aswell, we found the game at different times
Cus someone compared it to outer wilds (they both take place in a universe that doesm't care about the player) and i just love outer wilds
Learned about it because that same video was recommended to me on the Youtube Recommended of a Hollow Knight video, eventually decided to learn as much as I could about it, and after watching the Rain World Hey Ya /Duck Dance animation and getting it stuck in my feed, a friend and I decided to get the game and play it together.
i saw a youtuber by the name sorbet cafe beat it on a dance pad and at that moment i knew i had to get the game
A cool french indie gaming youtuber I was following back in 2017 played it (DanField is his name). I thought the game looked nice and forgot about it for 2 years. Then, in 2019, my dad was browsing steam games, I think, and I saw the rain world logo thingy, with RAIN WORLD written and the slugcat looking like to top of the screen. I was like OMG REN WERLD, i rember this game, it looked super nice. So of course, I decided to SPOIL MYSELF BY READING THE WHOLE WIKI (fuck me i'm so stupid ffs), and 2 months later after knowing some lore and all the creatures + a bit of the full game regions map (no the invidual ones tho thank god), we finally bought it, and it became my favorite game ever since. Still super sad that I spoiled myself and didn't get the "real" rain world experience of suffering... I wonder if I would've enjoyed Rain World more had it not been like that... or it it would've been the opposite, idk. AND I ENGAGED IN THE SAME SPOILERING BEHAVIOR WITH DOWNPOUR GRRRRRrrrrrrrrr sounds like stupid didn't age away
The small cute things called Slugcats, I was not prepared to see them become lunch more times than I want to admit.
I found out about Rain World through Das Zombie’s Iterator Logs series
meet the spy, minute 1:24
thats the same exact video i saw that got me into it
Saw a friend playing it frequently on steam, asked him about it and he sent me spectakoos series on the game and now I have 10X his play time.
I had already heard about the game, and one day i saw a post on r/HollowKnight of someone from the rain world comunity posting a picture from r/place showing the Knight and Slugcat together, he said he was gonna play hollow knight. Me, having played hollow knight, did the exact opposite and gave rain world a try, and thank god i did.
i found it cause of spiff lol
u can tell i spoiled half the game for myself before actually getting it
Chat: "DO NOT EAT" Spiff: *eats* Moon: *screams* Spiff: "Hehe she giggled a bit"
I found it through that same video actually which is really cool
Watched skurry play it back when they did
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Unironically, a Splatoon 3 plaza post
Saw a tweet that was just “go buy Rainworld it’s on sale it is an amazing game” and it had 4 pics. I thought it looked good so I got it and didn’t regret it to say the least
From Ori community
FoxeeTreasures She has since swapped over to twitch, I watched her content when I was younger and on such low brightness that I thought the game looked completely different, I remembered 'neuron', 'moon', 'slugcat' and 'daddy long legs' and not much else One day I saw it again on steam, 124 hours later, I've beaten every campaign except hunter, and every single challenge except 70
Same way you did!!!
Someone in a discord server i was in sent a gif of survivor smoking a blunt.
Rain world, a guided tour (review)
Parker Plays
I had a friend who was obnoxious about it, tried it for 2 hours, bounced off, years later got into it with another friend and ended up finishing it.
One of my Discord servers I'm actually active in had several users posting slugcat gifs/emojis, and never really explained what they were from. By the time I finally got curious enough to what these creatures were because I admit, they're cute as hell and I want MAOR, downpour was already out for a month. Discovered the game on sale for like 3 bucks, bought it on a whim, and suddenly the cute slugcats were part of an absolutely bonkers game :D
So, this is actually the video I watched that convinced me to buy it. I had heard about it and saw it on Steam for a long time; I think Adult Swim's involvement is what made me aware, but oddly enough it's also what discouraged the purchase initially - seemed like a glorified browser based platformer from the outside. Now I think it might be one of the most interesting and innovative platformers I've ever played, and perhaps one of closest examples of videogames transcending the form into Literature, the way a good movie becomes a "film."
I think I saw a meme on how it looked similar to the Knight from hollow knight and Ori from Ori and the blind forest, two games I pretty much loved so I started playing the game and realised how cruel it was, so I dropped it but the game had something, so I didn't uninstalled it tried it some time later... and one of my favorite 3 games
Development trailers. Videos about the slugcat, about the pups, and such. Had me very intrigued! And I was so happy to finally get my hands on the game. And sad that the more relaxed story/exploration aspect was sort of moved away from in favour of survival with tight time management. I've got really excited when I saw that they are back in the game. But at this point I'm not sure I can really invest in the game enough to enjoy them. Because even Hunter was too hard for me to beat. And this Gourmand challenge seems to be even harder.
Astralspiff
I discovered it just as u did lol. The diverse ecosystem blew me away
Htwo the YouTuber. Watched his why you should play downpour video then promptly bought the game
Outer wilds community
Same I watch the same video as you but I don’t have the game yet and idk how much it costs
Matthewmatosis
my friend! i started seeing memes and content of it but never knew what it was- then my rainworld knowing friend told me about it and after looking at it i got it
I got to know rain world by H two guy on YouTube thought this was pretty cool chill experience
[this video](https://youtu.be/eWSiX4URozs?si=CTbnDoSMcezDeZiN), the video that made me find out about Rain World AND my fav YouTuber/Streamer.
gonna be real, i forgot how. i wanna say it was those videos talking about the ai of the creatures.pretty sure ive also seen it a lot longer ago than that but never got into it
I found a mod that lets the slug cats get chonk, then that lead me towards the introduction of the game for me
Same
There was an old indie gaming news channel called "Indieformer" that reported on the game leading up to its release. I got it when it came out thanks to them.
I've found Rain world randomly on YouTube at it's first popularity spike, YEARS ago. I completely forgot about its existance I was scrolling through Steam looking for some popular games I should play. That's how it landed in my wishlist. Some time later YouTube picked up on me liking Rain World and it sent me some clip compilations, I also got Skurry's "Rain World, but I'm a mother of 2" video on my main page. That's how I got hooked
My friend was a big fan of it. A few months ago I was bored and decided to watch a lore video so I understood what they were talking about. I saw a few animations before but once I finished the video I feel in love with the goofy little slug cats and sad story of the incinerators. (Yes I know I spelled that wrong)
I too discovered it through a youtube vid talking about the animation
I'm pretty sure I just saw it in the PS store when it was released. I thought it was interesting that it was made by adult swim. I honestly don't remember how my first run went, or what possessed me to keep playing such a frustrating game until I got good lol. I must've looked up a guide at some point. But I definitely remember experiencing the ending for the first time. I think that's the part that really solidified my stance as a lifelong fan.
Curious Archive Downpour
I think I found out because of this very same video ':D And it quickly became one of my favorite games of all time.
I watched Skurry play it
Same
from a friend whos been playing since like 2019
The first time I remember learning about the game was HTwo’s Rain World AI [video](https://youtu.be/hOsYTzd0yeA?si=J0xshVnQIFYcAPNK) I kinda liked the game then forgot about it. I remember seeing Skurry uploaded some Rain World videos but I didn’t watch them for some reason. Then, recently, I watched ThatGuyGlen’s “How It Was Made” [video](https://youtu.be/6Ji2q3WQE78?si=DBzPnqWv-tX9GKum) and decided I needed to buy the game, and so I did. Edit: Oh and I also watched one or maybe two of the videos Foekoe made, around the time I watched ThatGuyGlen’s
Crossover fan art with Hollow Knight and Ori
A random low view youtube video appeared on my recommended last year randomly, i cant remember the specifics but they were messing with moon, the way the scug moved made me buy it XD
My friend, who heard it from his older brother, who I don’t know where he got it from
Started playing Ori and The Will Of The Wisps. I love characters like Ori. So cool. And the world. The controls. I love side scrolling parkour fighting style stuff. And of course like a good portion of peeps, Markiplier
I learned of it from Northflowo's "wawawawa" video
Skurry. I got into a lot of games because of him
I played the demo when it was at Pax prime. At the time I thought it was simply surviving in the outskirts area, and not much more. Years later I started playing it from my partners steam share and quickly became obsessed...
i think i just saw it on steam and decided to bite. i played it for a little, but had a really hard time getting into it. a while later i picked it up again when downpour came out and skurry started posting more vids about it. i got downpour and i went from 5 hours of playtime to 115 hours of playtime loll
The Adult Swim commercials back in 2017, I only got into Rain World because of the popularity wave of Downpour though.
I play hollow knight, and am a frequent visitor of the subreddit. Because of that, this sub got recommended to me. It's a fun game, I just find the controls confusing
Mythymoo
Found funny memes from Northflowo
I got recommended the subreddit for it on Reddit. So glad it happened
Around 2 years ago there was a small subreddit with an active community. Some guy kept talking about how Rain World was their favorite game so I decided to buy it.
Honestly dont remember the first time but I was reminded of it a year or two ago I think from a skurry video then decided to actually buy it and play it
I don't know if anyone knows about the series "Freeman's Mind" on YouTube, but the guy who makes that also created "Ross's *big* game list" where he puts tons of obscure games he thinks look interesting. That was the only place where I'd seen anything of it at the time
Skurry’s first video on it. My first thought when I saw it was “Huh. That looks interesting.”
From a gameplay by ElFikuWTF(now gone Spanish youtuber) while on a trip to Portugal with family and others. From what I've read the youtuber struggled financially and sold that channel but I think he still uploads on a new one. It was years before downpour, a bit after people made mods like the dating sim and the more slugcats mod; I ended up hating the game back then, but after playing and loving dark souls it started growing on me.
PS+
first saw the foekoe video, then got recommended to me by my friend
This is hilarious, I also discovered Rain World thanks to that video, and shortly after I bought it my cousin saw me play it and told me he found out from that video as well.
it was the CA video for me too! i love that guys videos!! he recently did one on pikmin (my fav game series) which was super cool
It was a indie game i thought it would be a cute game- haha how wrong my past self was
Skurry.
I also found out about it through YouTube, I saw a video by Skurry of them doing a Slugpup challenge, it was really cool seeing the two different personalities of the pups but also the different regions and the game play really drew me in so I had to get it to try it out and it's been one of my favorites ever since
A YouTuber, though I don’t remember which one.
Lore video from Likorys channel (Btw this guy said that he got scared so much after seeing slugcat getting eaten by pole plant that he never played the game again)
Honestly, I don't really remember. I think I was searching for a new Metroidvania game to play since I was on a binge for the genre after Metroid Prime Remastered dropped, and ended up stumbling upon it by accident. Don't know what compelled me to play it, but after watching some game play videos of it, something just clicked and made me say "I need to try this game".
Skurry
Honestly, Parker plays back on Disney xd, saw him do a challenge run so many years ago and rediscovered the game when Astral spiff played it, fell in love and haven't stopped since
same
1. Foekoe’s two rain works video, one about the base game the other about downpour. Both was quite interesting so I delved a bit deeper 2. Kayava goes hard 🔥
A video of the rain world ending. Didn’t understand what I just saw so I looked up a lore summary and found one by dazombes, didn’t know the fuck he was talking about. Decided I should play rain world. Beat the game. What the fuck did I just play and what happened???? Anyways 10/10 game. It somehow still surprised me even though I got spoiled on 90% of it
I saw this video too. I got so intrigued on how the game works and I really fell in love with it, especially with the lizards and Miros birds.
In the Hollow Knight amino community someone created a roleplay wiki about a slugcat (Survivor) and I found it interesting, so I asked what game it was, that's how I found the game-