Rain World
Worth it · Action · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99, a BANGER if it drops to $20.76.
- Length
- 20h
- Value
- $1.25/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD (Integrated), GeForce 6 Series / Radeon R7 Series, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. Its cuts run 55 percent off as a rule. There have been 73 in the 10 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $20.76. The record reaches that level 37 times.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hollow Knight ($14.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Celeste ($19.99, scores 76).
Critics scored it 66. Players sit 28 points higher at 94 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 18 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 2,468 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 20 hours; clearing it takes 70, which is 3.5 times the campaign.
Still 836 concurrent players, 9 years in.
The drop-off
23% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
836 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
This is probably the most difficult game I've ever played, and I say that as someone who plays and enjoys a lot of difficult games. This one takes the biscuit. I have to admin, it's too difficult for me. Usually I'd say: "I'll play this until I get good'. But this is such a diabolically difficult and frustrating game that I'm just noping out after an hour. I only paid £2 otherwise I would get a refund. Having said...
this game is very, very difficult. That is because you are not important. There is barely anything special about you, in a world of giant winged beasts, armored reptiles, biomechanical freaks of nature, insects that give you the creeps, and more.. you will be hunted down by almost everything. You will be frustrated, a lot. This game is, a lot of the time, unfair. You may be put in a corner with no safe escape route...
i remember spending about 30 minutes trying to learn how to leap when i first started. Other than that it arguably has the best storyline of any game ive played, the visuals are so eye pleasing and i cant imagine how long it took them to make each room. Dont get me started on the watcher dlc though.. Its all so pretty and this game will forever have a special place in my heart.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Rain World scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/312520/rain-worldThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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