Hi! First Playthrough of Rainworld and looking for help! (50 hours spent so far) | Rain World | Page 1

vestal oliveBOT Dec 14, 2025, 6:48 AM

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To be honest, I'm considering quitting altogether as I don't particularly find the endless cycle of death and slow progress fun, however I also want to give this game a fair chance and I'm not sure what to do next. In my last post, which is prob gone by now (I have taken a break from playing the game many times for a few months) people kept telling me to go right all the way, and so I did. I went to the ocean and went into the cube room with the lady. Nothing happened. So I just ate all the little bugs flying around, which seemed to give me perma-light around my character (really helpful for that one dark area). I kind of got frustrated and even ended up killing the lady, or maybe she died on her own.. I don't know and don't really care, so I just left. I ended up goofing off, trying to find new areas, sort of trying to follow the gold creatures that were going downwards(?) and came to an area at the bottom of the red scary area with all the pipes. There were these giant guys who kept pushing me away when I tried to go near them (they also have these cryptic summoning circles around their heads?). Regardless, I couldn't go past them so I left, and now I don't know what to do..... Er also at some point I found a secret(?) area on sort of the left side where it gave me two sprouts twelve brackets achievement, I think this raised the karma level I could go to?? Anyways, no idea what to do now haha... PLSS HELP

worthy current Dec 14, 2025, 6:52 AM

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Welcome back to rain world! monksilly

There's always the tried and true of "go where you haven't been", especially if you feel lost or stuck hunterglee

halcyon nimbus Dec 14, 2025, 7:00 AM

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I feel like Ive been everywhere tho hmmm

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is there any major place that I should try and go to next? I've been to the giant tower, the sewers, the ocean, the red place, and the farm arrays

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oh and the shaded citadel(?) the rlly dark place with the little mice

noble needle Dec 14, 2025, 7:03 AM

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There are copious places of importance to still explore

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hunterglee

halcyon nimbus Dec 14, 2025, 7:03 AM

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oh no 💀

noble needle Dec 14, 2025, 7:03 AM

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The environment will try to lead you wherever it can

worthy current Dec 14, 2025, 7:04 AM

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But if you like a place or feel like there's something more too it, there's no harm in returning there to check if you missed any connections to new places monksilly

noble needle Dec 14, 2025, 7:04 AM

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But otherwise it is openworld and up to you to happen upon encounters and learn new things by moving forward where your guts says

halcyon nimbus Dec 14, 2025, 7:05 AM

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true..

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is there a free roam mode or something? I really love to see the world but most of the time my brain is so focused on next objective

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or basically not dying

worthy current Dec 14, 2025, 7:05 AM

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I mean... you don't have to focus on an objective if you'd rather roam around

noble needle Dec 14, 2025, 7:06 AM

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The meat of the game is in the experience, the story and progress-goals take a rear seat

worthy current Dec 14, 2025, 7:06 AM

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There is one (kinda) roam-mode as part of the Downpour DLC

noble needle Dec 14, 2025, 7:06 AM

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You're just a squishy animal and the game welcomes you to play it pretending to be one

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If you're having a terrible time another option is trying out Monk

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In practice it is survivor Easy Mode

halcyon nimbus Dec 14, 2025, 7:08 AM

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really? hm I feel like ive been playing this whole time trying to rush to the ending sort of, or just like im definitely a perfectionist or very very task oriented so if I start something its very hard to stop and put down. So exploration is kind of tricky in that I want to explore alot but the game limits me constantly and forces me to learn about an area, also i feel like im very bad at 2d platformers haha

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would i have to start over if I did monk?

worthy current Dec 14, 2025, 7:09 AM

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Your survivor save would remain if that's what you're asking monksilly

noble needle Dec 14, 2025, 7:09 AM

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It's a different campaign with its own story

halcyon nimbus Dec 14, 2025, 7:09 AM

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worthy current Your survivor save would remain if that's what you're asking<:monksilly:11320543...

ah ok

noble needle Dec 14, 2025, 7:09 AM

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It'd be on the side

halcyon nimbus Dec 14, 2025, 7:09 AM

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wait so

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yes starting over? like new save file, but I can go back to survivor?

noble needle Dec 14, 2025, 7:10 AM

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Yeah

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Your long survivor playthrough can be returned to whenever

halcyon nimbus Dec 14, 2025, 7:10 AM

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well exploring all the map all over again with the monk doesnt sound particularly appealing i admit

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especially considering the hours put in to getting past some areas

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💀

noble needle Dec 14, 2025, 7:12 AM

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It's just an option if you get like, particularly lost in surv and want a more peaceful campaign to re-chart the world quickly and efficiently and refresh your memory

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Or learn mechanics and stuff with less lizards out for your tail

halcyon nimbus Dec 14, 2025, 7:12 AM

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if I may ask, how long did it take you to finish the game like first full playthrough?

halcyon nimbus Dec 14, 2025, 7:12 AM

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noble needle It's just an option if you get like, particularly lost in surv and want a more p...

ah ok

noble needle Dec 14, 2025, 7:13 AM

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My surv playthrough took l think 9 hours but l did have spoilers

halcyon nimbus Dec 14, 2025, 7:13 AM

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dude

noble needle Dec 14, 2025, 7:13 AM

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Taking dozens of hours is entirely expected as far as blind players go hunterglee

worthy current Dec 14, 2025, 7:14 AM

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I had few spoilers (still some) and it took me 25

noble needle Dec 14, 2025, 7:14 AM

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So don't worry about fumbling anything

worthy current Dec 14, 2025, 7:14 AM

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I would not worry about comparing times though as it varies from person to person

halcyon nimbus Dec 14, 2025, 7:14 AM

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yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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but still

noble needle Dec 14, 2025, 7:15 AM

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Many players will draw it out for hundreds to do things like dig for lore

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And just generally mess around monksilly

halcyon nimbus Dec 14, 2025, 7:15 AM

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omg

noble needle Dec 14, 2025, 7:15 AM

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The other end of the spectrum?

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Speedrunners

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The world record for survivor, a whopping 12 minutes

halcyon nimbus Dec 14, 2025, 7:15 AM

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HOW

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lol

worthy current Dec 14, 2025, 7:16 AM

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Glitches monksilly and other silly things

noble needle Dec 14, 2025, 7:16 AM

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Some bug exploits and some real good routing

worthy current Dec 14, 2025, 7:16 AM

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I think the takeaway though is that you do what you wanna do, and the progression/story will come monksilly

halcyon nimbus Dec 14, 2025, 7:18 AM

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i feel bad though bc part of me is like I dont wanna sink in a crazy amount of hours to a game that I dont exactly enjoy, but another part of me wants to be a part of the group that got the true, hardest blind experience, and ive already spent 50 hrs into this ahh

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ie whether or not i should look at spoilers

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in your guys' opinion, is the story per se, worth it?

noble needle Dec 14, 2025, 7:19 AM

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The story is absolutely worthwhile seeing blind for the first time

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Particularly after the game's bullied you for ages monksilly

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These threads exist to give curated help to firstplayers so use us as a substitute whenever you need help

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Our default is giving vague answers to nudge, but we prioritize game enjoyment and will give exact answers if you directly ask for them

halcyon nimbus Dec 14, 2025, 7:23 AM

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hmm

worthy current Dec 14, 2025, 7:23 AM

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halcyon nimbus in your guys' opinion, is the story per se, worth it?

I experienced it mostly blind spearpensivetothat having been given information how to find the story in the first place but not too much about the story itself. Looking back, I would've preferred it all the way blind monksilly

halcyon nimbus Dec 14, 2025, 7:24 AM

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wow ok

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good to know

noble needle Dec 14, 2025, 7:24 AM

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If you're familiar with the game Outer Wilds and its community

halcyon nimbus Dec 14, 2025, 7:24 AM

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OM I LOOOOVE OUTER WILDS

noble needle Dec 14, 2025, 7:24 AM

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You can get a feel of what type of game this is and how attached its fans are

halcyon nimbus Dec 14, 2025, 7:25 AM

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ahhhh i see

noble needle Dec 14, 2025, 7:25 AM

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halcyon nimbus OM I LOOOOVE OUTER WILDS

Aw that's awesome that's even more proof you'll appreciate this game

halcyon nimbus Dec 14, 2025, 7:26 AM

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that really good to hear

noble needle Dec 14, 2025, 7:26 AM

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Its themes and payoffs hold quite similar dna to those of OW

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And the dlcs build upon it

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Comparing to OW you can also see where those wack speedruns come in huntersip

halcyon nimbus Dec 14, 2025, 7:28 AM

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alright, hey thanks both of yall for the sort of help, its nice to know that blind is definitely preferred; ill give it another honest shot (I havent played in a few months lol)

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oh yes OW speedruns haha

noble needle Dec 14, 2025, 7:28 AM

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Game will take hours of adventuring but if you know exactly what you do the beelining to the end is super fast

halcyon nimbus Dec 14, 2025, 7:28 AM

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truue

noble needle Dec 14, 2025, 7:30 AM

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Well goodluck trying to get back into it, feel open to ask questions at your leisure whenever you run into a wall slugnom

#Hi! First Playthrough of Rainworld and looking for help! (50 hours spent so far)

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