#First playthrough , February 2026
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I thought I could have one of these babies , but apparently they're not slugcats
Managed to find a way in the dark , got a big door with safe places on both sides
dear friend worry not! If you believe you indeed have missed something you always have the option to go backwards 
Yup!
I got to a room called moon observer or something (might be off because of translation
By the way , what are the green things the scavengers carry sometimes? Are those eggs or Mt'Dews?
The correct translation is "Looks to the Moon"
Unfortunately can't help with this because I can't tell what you're referring to 
Reposted starting message
(Oh I didn't even register that that starting message had spoilers, yeah that's a lotta spoilers)
Okie
But on a first playthrough, yeah, it's hard to tell what's a spoiler if you don't even know its significance yourself 
Is my existence a spoil by itself?
My god , the rain started in this area , the water physics almost made my console crash
I was already at 10fps since I got in
Switch?
My switch oled , bought it late 2023
I'm not 
Part of the lag too is also just the sheer amount of rain in general
Picture of console , game unrelated
But at least you can probably avoid this by not staying out long enough for it to rain 
Huh, a game called rain world that lags because of rain
Yup
To be fair, the objective is to avoid being caught in the rain 
But yeah Switch does not have good performance. Switch 2 is better in general, though I can't attest to how good Rain World is on there because I have it on Steam, not Switch 2
My bf has the switch 2 but he uses it too much for me to play on it , I did buy my own switch so I left his alone
I have a Switch 2; my opinion is that the only reasons to get it are if you don't already have a Switch, or if you want to play any of the exclusive games (that's why I got it)
I got mine to play Warframe when I wasn't home
(They released it on phone shortly after)
Anyway, get back to Rain Worlding 
Nice!
Trying to make my slugcat run faster than the fps
Going into sleep mode with the game open often causes issues upon taking the console back out of sleep mode, so some fixes might include just reloading the game 
Like turn it off off? Like shut down and such?
Yes
Ah okie
I should recolor my slugcat with my custom switch colors
The power of friendship was too strong
If you think you've discovered everything there, then there's nothing wrong with moving on
I think I must learn to listen to it's voice or something
It's bad at communicating
My notes : it guided me to itself
It said something I did not understand
Wait is that a switch
👀
it’s not exactly an easy task communicating with creatures in the real world
maybe you are the one needing of the button
they appear to be the only one making noise at an attempt
from what I remember the only noise you make is “wawa” or something
(You never actually make that noise in game)

But yeah "wa" isn't canon, it's entirely from the fandom
I played around with fish (or frogs) and found a place where doors shine in yellow instead of white
Not entireeeeeely
It comes from the Outskirts threat theme, I think? And a dev comment about it sounding like some creature making noises
But nowhere is it directly linked to slugcats
perhaps we are straying too far from the threads topic.
But it's silly so it gets a pass 
this is evaleth’s playthrough after all
True
let’s all monksilly and watch 
I just got the pearl giving tutorial
Was I supposed to go there at the beginning of my playthrough or did I take a long route for nothing?
No more battery , I'm going to plug it in pretty soon
Rain World is an open world game - there's no "correct" or "intended" path*
*Technically there's a slightly intended path, but by no means do you need to follow it
Just like Stanley parable
well from the path you took you gained knowledge of more areas did you not?
My arachnophobia was no secret
you ever wonder why the bright/light emitting creatures seem to survive in the spider infested area?
Bright can mean both smart or very light
if you do have fear exploring that area again
perhaps they can aid you in your journey

but then again every path you take is of your own choosing
I'm planning on making rain world stickers
I could stick one on the back of my switch
That yellow guide is very bad at indicating the direction in the garbage area
they tend to be a bit confusing
I found a way out of that area but it looks like the yellow thing wants me inside
could you perhaps show a image of what you are referring to? 
I am curious by what you mean
The yellow guide
The area was the garbage thing , like a trash depot all rusty
I'm not sure what that means when the yellow guide looks at me with arrows , it doesn't give any direction
It could just be looking at you 
i imagine what they mean is when they look at you then at a pipe but don’t actually signal anything
No
oh?
They just look at me constantly with a sun on the eye
Didn't check the wiki by the way , just googled for a gif
ah
they tend to do silly things that usually don’t mean anything
usually when actually guiding they’ll make it very noticeable
Politicians
Now it won't show up anymore
the arrow thing or the creature itself?
The creature
guess they lost interest in you 
Welp, I'll go on a walk and wait for it to come back and guide me
they cannot guide you forever dear friend
at most they can put you in the “right” direction
If you aren't being given guidance, then explore! Go where you haven't been yet 
And, again, no such thing as a "right" direction in an open world game
that’s why I quoted it 
Just reaffirming it 
The guide put me back in the starting zone , it's a giant crossroads
It did want me to see something
exploration 
Map knowledge is very valuable in this game
it’s good to know that no matter where you go you’ll always have multiple paths to take
It's back!
perhaps this time you’ll find a new way with the help of the critter 
or it’ll leave you again for you to go on your own 
I made friend with a blue lizard :3
It died :c
And I did too because I couldnt jump across a big gap to a safe zone
what did you feed it? 
A blue bug corpse , I ate the blue pellets
It was light enough to not slow me down so I carried it a bit
very nice
i’d suggest sheltering after making a friend so incase you die you don’t lose them
I tried.. there was a huge gap and it was to the other side
And it was instantly followed by another blue lizard and got killed
I hope there's a way for me in the near future to summon allies or something ^^
huge gap?
perhaps even I haven’t explored enough of everywhere
How can I show to you?
oh no it’s fine I don’t need to
I was just curious I don’t remember any particularly “huge” gaps leading to a safe zone in the starting area
I tend to easily do screenshots on computer , I wish I could too on switch
ah yeah I forgot you are on switch
Which region are you in right now, remind me?
North part of France
I meant Rain World region XD
The starter region
a common misunderstanding
Are you sure?
it should say the name at the bottom left every time you go out of the shelter after hibernating
It looks pretty much like it
whenever you do, do tell us which it is named
I'll check once I have finished eating dinner
mhm 
if you’re struggling to go to certain areas it’s always good to take a look at the map if you haven’t!
I just don’t know what the button is on switch for it
The bottom left icon on death screen
ah
I had two
neat
So what's the name of the region you're in?
I tamed a pink lizard and got to a safe place!
Happii
Did you know the binds menu changes depending on the controllers on switch? There must be many layouts
This is great for coop
are you still in the starting area?
Name says industrial complex
Is that the starting area?
nop
starting area is called “outskirts”
so congrats :D
Okay then I got in that complex at the very beginning then
Spider area is before I got back to complex
Ok that's what I thought
You mentioned a blue lizard, which is what got me to question it
I went :
Starter area > sky area > don't remember , many places > spider > sea > trash place > complex
There's probably one in between I forgot
either way you are indeed making good progress
I think I might know what it is, and I would be shocked if that's the route you took
exploring is the best thing you can do
Why that?
It's just a really uncommon route
Oh?
wait is this your first time in IC?
I went far up and left from the first zone , used flying bugs to jump across gaps
What is IC?
industrial complex
Then no, second time but now I'm good at exploring
usually region names are abbreviated by their first letters to let you know 
i am very confused on the route you took
My game is in french btw
but very glad you are making progress
ah that makes sense
it’s fine
just keep on exploring dear friend
I have always played differently and I'm not even trying
Here
Did my best not looking at the things I haven't seen in game yet, don't worry ^^
But this is the route I took
I didn't see anything "new" to be honest , don't worry I played noita too and I know how to purposely miss stuff in front of my eyes
Impressive that you've been so many places, though
That's also why I pixelated stuff
Is it really?
The thing that gave me two cycle "levels" were a the top of the train area
The train area has the best looking safe zone in my opinion
Cool
If you were on a different platform, it would've given you an achievement for that, but I don't think there's an equivalent on Switch
I don't see the point of achievements, I play to enjoy
Fair
Although the enjoyment of collecting achievements and 100%ing is not why I brought it up
More for the name of the achievement
Nope
I left outskirts two days ago
Wow, you've been playing a lot, then
Anyway, my reason for asking this was that there are lore implications to the acheivement name and description; would you like to know them?
(The name/description, not the lore implications, I should clarify)
Sure , lore seems to be necessary to progress in this game
You know.. the symbols and all
The achievement you would've gotten:
Two Sprouts, Twelve Brackets
You encountered the echo of Two Sprouts, Twelve Brackets
With this as the achievement image
Huh
I don't really know how to translate this for myself but I might understand later
Thanks
Oh wait, two rails , twelve wagons?
I didn't count them
I'll let you figure out the implications of this yourself
(But if someone knows the french translation maybe they can help you with that)
that’s the scary spider place 💔
Is it?
also if it’s telling you to go that way
then oh my god
it wants you to take THAT route
I remember the spider place to be completely dark , industrial and red
(Yes)
Don't try to get the player to go a different direction than they would like
Say whatever you want , I don't know the map well enough to know if there's another way do I'm going in after all
indeed true
i give you my regards
goodluck dear friend

I tamed a lizard in that place
I killed a glowing animal thing and fed it
Funny 🙂
It died instantly again
Oh no , I'm playing in the dark now , it's 11pm and already in bed, bad timing for this area?
I like to think that it’s so dark you can’t even see what kills you half the time
if you can’t see the danger is there really any there?

I always see myself though
Oh I'm back at the three lotus flowers room
I already went here before
There's a big centipede down the pit that does not want to let me see the path
Are there passage ways that don't have a light in the dark area? The guide is telling me to go even lower
I finally went through
I feel like I'm getting close
I reached a place called "crypt of souvenirs" (translation might be incorrect)
Memory Crypts 
Mammary crypts
WHAT ARE THOSE
Litterally what I saw when entering the place
I don't like big fast things
Reminds me of my childhood nightmare of being pursued by big eyes/headlights for minutes straight
Lol the guide pointing towards them giants metal things and saying "eat them lol you're hungy"
Oooh I can blind them
Those are robot eyes or sensors , they do rainbow fuzz when not working properly , like the invisilizard
Is the lizard a robot too?
I think not , robots follow programs , lizards fight each other and eat meat and can get tamed
Those robots don't seem to eat but capture?
And who made those robots
Just as watch the moon , someone made all this
There is a train and plane propellers/engines so it's our world post-apocalyptic
It's so far later that they made their own language and symbols , totally new species , no sign of humans other than the wall graffitis eventually , but those don't look human made
the theorist 
First , there are communication towers , there must be a lot over this world if they had to communicate this much with these big towers
Bats , they look like regular bats , might be the bats we already know , they could have survived because of their preference for dark areas , something light/exterior related caused the apocalypse
Easy theory but without proofs , nuclear war , that's probably not the case because no weapons shown or military related damage to areas , but the lizards might be glowing because of radioactivity?
But a lot of stuff glows in the game so it's probably not that
you’re thoughts are indeed very interesting
although have you taken in the thought not everything needs and explanation?
maybe they do have one or don’t but it’s always a possibility it’s just game fiction at it’s finest
I haven't linked anything yet
i’ll gladly tell you
lots of your questions will most likely be answered throughout just playing the game
yeah I get what you mean
it’s best to keep your questions for when you do officially complete everything
since you most likely will get spoiled by being given the right answer
Not looking for answers here
There's a thing called "rhetorical questions" 
My questions might be best unanswered
ah yes
I have a hard time telling them apart
my apologies
No worries , I'm having a great time
Honestly, in FP threads, it's best to assume questions are rhetorical and ask before giving an answer
fair enough thanks for that info
New theory
Robots took control over the world , no more humans , they were easy to get rid of. Now that animals were the main living thing , the robots made animal robots
Robots don't keep a sense of where they're from, they just are
It's a way to leave the past (the makers) behind and not even looking to the future
I'll get back to testing tactics on those new robots I found in game
The crypt background ressembles an old city , the sky seems to flicker like there was a storm , but there's no rain at all , my guess is that it's underground with a fake glitching sky
Just like in the game "Inside"
Another theory would be that it's purely for scientific reasons that these places exist , just as in the deep aperture laboratory
Or even in armored core 7 when an old city has been moved to an underground to hide it entirely
New theory , the doors that we can open to travel between areas were meant to be lockdown doorways to confine specific places or regulate entry . Compared to the train's size , multiple humans would fit in those
I made it through the crypts
I had to blind another creature to go through
No safe places there
Theory of underground city false , the storm is a real one
Those things run around the surface , but it is a no cat's land
Deep: dark & big insects
Surface : unlivable highway
@dapper vector Another theorist
Squid??
Grats tho!
I have never heard of them being described as Squids before tho xD
Interesting..
the theorizers strike again
INSIDE
I might have played too many games
Oui je suis française
Oui spotted
btw i saw Markiplier play inside, didn't play it, but misteriously didn't watch the last episode
You saw him play inside? I never saw him outside , this checks out
Both of you speak French, and then here I am with the only french word I really know being oui LMFAO
Ah wells
I want a mod that replaces spears with baguettes , add a little french hat and moustache on my slugcat and say oui on a keybind
LMAO
That’d be awesome
Last one could be done pretty easily with a soundclip for the Push to Meow mod I think
I found a safe area icon scribbled on a wall , other living things use those then
I'm progressing
Niceeeee
Frrrr you are so right here
Spinach
Ah yes
I'm in a big lizard tummy
I noticed the door symbol has the icon level of the achievement I was supposed to get
Or not , I'm not sure
Anyway I went through!
noiceeee
New area

Also didn't see the guide once since the climbing area with the big squid
I'm at cinq cailloux
Five Pebbles
Weird diet
I mean.. crocodiles do eat stones
Wouldn't be surprised if lizards too
Game is on pause for some time , real life things to do
byeeeee
Omg I went back on my switch just now and my slugcat started floating , I thought it was a bug but I then noticed it was a no gravity zone

I love how
squids can mean 3 things in this game
2 being completely harmless
then the last one you are currently encountering 
technically 4
Squid
now that i think about it there are a lot of squid things in this game
The grabby tentacle thing reaching for my cat
That's probably not the best way to describe it
slurp
Lmaooooo
Uh what is that
It won't let me
Forcefield
Am stuck
I can't go back or forward
Stuck in the forcefield spinning
Should I leave to main menu and respawn?
I found bug zappers and a long three headed glowing squid thingy
Nooo I spent so much time in this area , found multiple of those things but no safe zone :c
I died because I got stuck on a sticky blue surface in a room where gravity turned off and on , first time seeing that but I was so far
I found another gravity room but bigger , I made my way around it safely and it seems more stable
Then I died because of a big blue squid because I happened to have made a big circle from where I was first
ooooooooo
I don't know what I'm doing though
Do we all?
There were cubes that rebuild themselves
The glowing blue three headed squid doesn't kill me
fr
Food is hard to find , I had to eat little flying cells
Yummy
I threw a grenade at the cubes , I had it since the very beginning of my playthrough apparently
It was funny
So then it's not hard to find

Not really in this place
The blue bug zappers get rid of those things
Computer does not like the little things but the little robot watch the moon doesn't want me to touch them , robots have different beliefs?
Frfr
holy theories, heck yeah
I don't really know what to do in that five pebbles area, thinking of teleporting back to watch the moon
Ya sure?
I kinda went all around the place twice
Found multiple cube things rooms , went through two gravity rooms and lots of bug zappers
If you feel like you're just going in circles you can use your map in the "Regions" tab in the main menu!
See where you haven't explored yet
sorry for late reply btw
This only makes me see what I've already seen or am I wrong?
Yeah only what you have seen and the rooms you were in
May I get a vague indication of what room to look around of? The place is pretty big and it's hard to travel without gravity
I sometimes get stuck in the middle with no way to float in any direction
Also shows pipes, which will deadend into a black void if you haven't gone through them before
I'm aware , the map does that in game
Yea
I went through all I found
So you can use that to look for pipes you haven't visited to progress
You came from the Leg, right?
Then there's more, look a bit harder ^^;
Then I must go back to the leg
Nope
In the area you're in
Sorry, didn't specify
I mean, you can though, if you want
There's a bazillion paths in Rain World, you'll find something wherever you go, but I moreso meant there's stuff you haven't found where you are
I'm going in circles :c I might try and get someone to play in coop and help me
Is it easier to travel in coop in the no gravity zone?
?
Why would it be?
We could throw each other?
Throw yourself frfr
Would you like a hint on the direction you haven't explored btw?
Yes
Which subregion are you in rn?
Uhm
My actual safe zone is next to an upwards corridor that has bug zappers for walls
I have found the big 3x3 room with computer in the middle if I haven't mentioned
And the rooms where the back walls are cleaner and much more futuristic
Oh
Send it?
A screenshot of it
I can't right now but it has zappers on each corner , and a big screen at the center like pixels
Only two or three passages in that room , left right and down
Not... quite sure what you refer to, but... The shelter you're at is very close to what you seek tbh
Biggest room I found in the game yet
Try exploring around this area?
I did , I found a way down and found rooms with blue squids stuck to the walls and gravity going on/off on a cycle
That's one path, but there's more unexplored paths in that area
The other unexplored paths are the ones you need yeah
The one going down is an interesting path if you want to explore it further tho
Looks dangerous but I'll try again
o7
Plant
Plant
Is good nomnom?
Plant
Plant
But yeah you are on the right track, just like we said the best route is anywhere where your map says you haven't been 
Dead again
I have seen all those small rooms I believe , it's 3 rooms tall and 4 rooms wide , but all the bottom ones have that blue squid goo and I can't go past it
I think I found my way
To the left of those rooms there was a big computer room but with cubes around it , and to the left of it a corridor that gave me the safari unlock and a travel to a new room with electronic music
Okay I found a talking robot
Told me to go south from farms place
Grats!
YOOOOOO ggs Evaleth!
I stopped playing at the wall , going to do theories soon
Sure! There’s a lot more for you to learn theory-wise tho
So I found an inhabited city , which was over the clouds , there are multiple of them
There were lots of stars over the clouds , I saw either a moon or another planet
What do you think is happening here?
Dey try make citi fly but it no fly so they gone
I se
They maybe tried to escape from danger that was on the surface of earth or under the ground , so they went upwards (hence the memories crypt that looks like an even older city)
It's either something biological or mechanical , I don't know
It reminds me of the labyrinth (movie and books) with biomechanical creatures and end of the world
Only the labyrinth monsters appeared in the movie but there were more in the books
That looks nasty
They do , there's multiple
If you never watched the maze runner movie , it's a bunch of young kids stuck in the middle of a labyrinth with doors opening during the day , and those things run only at night
Yeah sorry , translation issues
Yeah it makes sense
I speak spanish as first language and this stuff happens a bunch 
Anyways , are my comparisons good?
I'm not sure if they're interesting , I just put them here
I can see the similarities 
Oh, that, I read the books
I kinda forget why the maze existed, some kind of experiment for the people immune to the disease that spread outside?
You read all 5 too?
... there's 5? I don't recall there being that many
Yes it was
kk
The 5th book is events before the other 4
Ah
Never read that one
I always found the thing at the last chronological book where that one girl gets crushed by falling debris to be pretty stupid
Yeah..
Like, cmon, there was no reason to do that, other than maybe to remove the fan favourite girl so the new girl could get with the guy
That's so stupid tho
Why not keep both
According to wiki it's 3 books and 2 prequel books
frrrr
Okay this makes a lot more sense, yeah, I vaguely recalled it being three
I could have been wrong on the chronology but I read them all when they just came out
One for in-maze, one for exploring the outside world, one for finding a place safe from the disease and sun
Also the three main books all got movies but ppl mostly watched the first one
Never hear anyone talk abt the next movies
Never watched the movies lol
Always was more of a book reader, only watch movies with family and friends, (almost) never on my own
I'm sad we didn't see the mechs after the sewers part of the movie
... sewers...? Is it when they're trying to escape the maze?
Man, I read the books years ago, I barely recall lmao
No it's before they get to a survivors town , when Thomas is with an infected girl
Where the zombies are stuck to walls and very.. fleshy
... Maybe I should reread the books, I don't really recall
...
...
I don't think that's in the books at all is it
My description was a bit off, not really mechs , but people call them "bulb monsters"
Maze runner : scorch trials
Ah
o7
I do still have the books in my house so maybe I could go read them sometime
Theory
Watch the moon is a robot with cut off cables
It made the decision to not be in control and prefers to observe , while the other , at five pebbles is fully controlling things
And like all robots , that second one must have a reason to exist and continue it's work.. though I have no idea what it is
Maybe~
Forgive me, I'm not quite caught up here, but in control of what, do you think? If you have ideas
Well there's one event I don't know the cause of , and it's the extinction of humanity
would you really risk it though with a game like rain world
It's not like outer wilds or Warframe that are really worth a shot to go blind (at least for now), I didn't get much story from rain world yet
it is tbh, the game was kind of designed around you getting lost and having to look at the ingame map a lot
eh
tbh you can play how you like. just letting you know of the intended way and what is (imo) the most fun
I'll continue that way , don't worry , didn't spoil myself
ogey, have fun, be careful
Actually outer wilds is one of the games most frequently compared to rainworld
Really?
Yeah
similar dna
Treat it like outer wilds as much as you can, and expect to have your mind blown similarly approaching the end of your travels
actually i had my mind blown in a similar way just today while playing outer wilds this morning
no spoil pls
i didnt nkow that tho

i love this monksilly variant its soooo goofy
Apart from thematically there's also the general gameplay with the cyclical mechanic and the sorta openworld full access, that just requires your knowledge to grow to know where to go
ohhh truuueee
I got all 3 on switch btw, and can play the music of multiple instruments from outer wilds on my kalimba
i genuninely did not know
That's cool
Shadow of the colossus too is a game I wouldn't spoil
Titanfall 2 campaign too , this one is a gem
I almost forgot my favorite game ever that I would punch someone if they spoiled anything : death stranding 1&2
And me giving a punch really means something
Am stuck :c
A Slugcat is never stuck or softlocked!
Literally
Yeahh, just keep going
O wow you look so blue here
Congrats 
I guess this marks the end of my first playthrough
The adventure always continues 
How come it says I killed two lizards when I killed like more than ten?
Every slugcat is a new story
Maybe you died afterwards without sleeping
Oh probably
With new goals, environments and sights to see
What should I do now?
Soooo uhhh.. what'dya think of the ending? 
Loved the difference in sizes w ambiance and visual effects
Didn't really understand a lot though
Went in caves , went though a sea of huge creatures , one took me where I needed to be , met copies of my slugcat and guided them all to a glowing pink one?
Le computeur
i love pc rain world mods are awesome
i do prefer controller gameplay tho
I'm coming home tomorrow
Evaleth: Homecoming
Can do the next slugcat, or can continue playing survivor if you wanna explore any loose ends there. The game also has massive lore that you have to dig a little for, and you must have a lot of questions 
This was monk
I'm making stickers with my mom right now
Sadly my friend who started drawing some custom joycons for me couldn't finish in time
Aw those are cute 





