Rain World Guide

This is a survival platformer where you become a ``slug cat'' and travel through ruins submerged in the rain. The world, which consists of 12 regions and at least 1,600 rooms, has an ecosystem that does not treat the player as the protagonist. The time limit is set by periodic catastrophic heavy rains, and you need to secure food and go to shelter before that time limit. Developed by Videocult, published by Akupara Games, Released on March 28, 2017. Available in Japanese.

Karma increases by 1 when you enter the shelter with the required amount of food, and decreases when you die. To move between regions, you must pass through a karma gate, and you cannot pass through it unless your current karma is greater than or equal to the gate's required value. The required value also serves as a guide to the level of difficulty ahead. Note that once a gate has been passed through, it will not open again during that cycle.

A flower that grows in a specific location. Eating it will strengthen your karma. The next time you die, your reinforcement will be consumed instead of your karma going down, so it's an insurance policy for situations where you want to maintain your karma. This is effective when you want to maintain the state in which the gate's required value has been reached.

Because it barely explains how it works. If you proceed without knowing the relationship between karma and gates, you will suddenly hit an impassable wall and feel unreasonable. In addition, players are not the main players in the food chain, and there is basically no way to win if you fight a predator head-on. If you switch to the policy of Understanding the mechanism and getting through without fighting, the perceived difficulty will be greatly reduced.

Yes you can. This game has a Remix customization setting that allows you to change the accessibility and difficulty level to suit your preferences. There are also tutorial messages added later to help you understand the ecosystem. If you don't care about pure initial experience, there is no problem in using it.

Works with walkthroughs on this site include ANIMAL WELL, which involves exploration and puzzle solving with little explanation, COCOON, which deciphers a quiet world, and Stoneshard, whose main theme is survival itself. If you like the feeling of being left unexplained to the world, Caves of Qud will suit you.