Rainworld
Released 03-29-2017 • Reviewed 03-21-2026

Rainworld has some of the best environmental storytelling I've seen. There is almost no dialogue, no instructions, a sub-par map, and somehow you still sort of know what you're doing. The game is brutal, you're not the hero in this story, you're not even the deuteragonist. You're just prey near the bottom of the foodchain.
Rainworld has two things that I find particularly interesting: the setting and the ecosystem.
The setting of this game is absolutely beautiful. Through the game you'll navigate through drainage systems filled with eels and fish, deep catacombs with clusters of spiders, the inside of sprawling zero-gravity computers, sky islands with hostile birds, and the underside of a massive wall, crawling with lizards. Each room feels delicately designed but terribly hostile.
It's hard to explain how awesome this game looks, so I'll just throw some photos in.

