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Rain World

Videocult · Akupara Games

Quick read

Rain World is an ecosystem you do not top: hibernate before the rain, or the world eats you. Creatures have errands. You are food that learned to jump.

What kind of game is it?

Survival platformer whose creatures keep their own schedules. You find shelter, store karma, and hope the lizard is busy with something else. The cycle is weather.

Who is it for?

For players who enjoy sheltering before the rain while everything else hunts.

How it plays

Loop: Surviving hordes
Sessions: Medium sessions
Progression: A world that stays
Players: Single-player
Structure: Systemic
Tone: Tense · Brutal

Game DNA

What playing it feels like, out of 100. Our reading, separate from Steam reviews.

Progression80
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Social18
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Key Steam facts

Steam store figures, checked 17 Aug 2026.

Release

released

2017-03-28

Review score

94%

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Steam positive percent.

Review count

56,276

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Store price

€23.79

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Languages

Demo

Early Access

Players

Single-player

How many people play Rain World?

Estimates from public Steam data, not figures from the studio. Ranges, not exact numbers.

Estimated copies

1.4M – 3.1M

Steam reviews × 25 to 55. For a free game: players, not sales.

All-time peak players

10,875

Most people playing at the same moment, per SteamCharts.

Average players, Aug 2026

1,631

Peak that month: 2,851.

Median playtime

26.6 h

Half of 300 recent reviewers played 9.3–67 h. 7% under 2 h.

Players over time

Sept 2023Aug 2026

Where the players are

Languages of the last 300 Steam reviews. A proxy for regions, not a country split.

English48%
Simplified Chinese21%
Russian12%
Spanish (Spain)5%
Portuguese (Brazil)4%
Korean2%

Steam data checked 4 Oct 2026

What makes it different?

Hibernate before the rain, or the world eats you, while the creatures keep errands of their own.

Core mechanics

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Genre / subgenre

Steam genre: Survival.

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Sources

Store price checked 17 Aug 2026.

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