Witness the Fate of a Family of Slugcats in Rain World

Posted on 27 Mar 2017 by
Kyle Johnson

If you had to ask most people, a combination of a slug and a cat would not make for a very adorable animal. The team over at Videocult, disagree, and their partnership with Adult Swim Games is bringing Rain World, a saga of slugcat survival to Steam on March 28th, as we reported earlier.

Leading up to its release, Videocult has released the opening cinematic to Rain World, which sees one slugcat torn from its family during a rainstorm, thus begins the struggle for survival with platforming that takes you across 1600 rooms, and a constant threat of rain and a need for resources.

Rain World is hoping to bridge a gap on both PlayStation 4 and Steam tomorrow, March 28th.


Official Press Release

March 23, 2017 – Slugcats are small nomadic creatures, frequently considered a tasty meal for hungry carnivorous beasts. As a group, slugcats make for more difficult prey; they are known to be especially cunning and protective of their kin, even going as far as to use weapons to fight back against larger foes when necessary. So while slugcats are very low on the food chain, they are often able to work together to stay out of harm’s way.

This was true for our slugcat hero―until the rains came.

Carried into a strange land of industrial ruins, you must journey ever farther for sustenance and shelter. Use stealth, wit, and well-timed pounces to capture and feed on prey while constantly keeping an eye out for larger creatures who are doing the same. In Rain World’s living ecosystem, creatures act according to their own survival instincts and learn from each encounter.
Climb through the ruins of an ancient civilization, evade the jaws of vicious predators, and discover new lands teeming with strange creatures and buried mysteries when Rain World releases on March 28.

Key Features

  • Sneak, climb, and pounce your way through a dynamic, ever-changing ecosystem of predators and prey
  • Explore a vast world of over 1600 rooms, spanning 12 diverse regions filled with ancient secrets and undiscovered dangers
  • Nimble movements and procedurally generated animation gives slugcat a natural fluidity of movement and unique sense of weight
  • Intense, primal predator encounters will challenge your reflexes
  • Limited resources and the constant, impending threat of rain will test your nerve


Comments (6)


Posts: 349
L Coulsen
Posted 29 Mar 2017, 06:53
Locked at a ridiculous max resolution of 1386x780 for bullshit reasons

Posts: 166
David Pink
Posted 29 Mar 2017, 12:32
Ouch, that's incredibly lame, why on earth is that the locked resolution... is it really that difficult to have options :(

Posts: 349
L Coulsen
Posted 29 Mar 2017, 14:45
It's not the only resolution, that's the largest. Their reason is something about pixel art grid...something or other, not working at 1920x1080

Posts: 166
David Pink
Posted 29 Mar 2017, 21:49
Bullshit excuses are bullshit...

Posts: 11
Kyle Johnson
Posted 29 Mar 2017, 22:45
I would guess they didn't use vector graphics, if that's the case. An odd choice, to be sure.

Posts: 349
L Coulsen
Posted 30 Mar 2017, 00:29
NormalPrimate [developer] 28 Mar @ 1:24pm
The game is pixel art / grid logic! 1366x786 is the resolution you want if you are using a 16:9 screen. Basically, you should only need to mess with the settings if you encounter letterboxing!

In this http://steamcommunity.com/app/312520/discussions/0/135512625255393021/ Steam thread