While Hollow Knight hopefuls wait for Silksong, another modern Metroidvania classic gears up for its second massive expansion
Mar. 29, 2024Rain World announces a second moody DLC
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Metroidvania hit Rain World is getting a second major expansion with brand-new areas and another playable slugcat.
Developer Videocult announced the Rain World: The Watcher DLC with a short and mysterious teaser trailer that shows the titular slugcat emerging from the shadows. The announcementblog postmentions that the “fourth slugcat of Rain World has not been forgotten, their time is coming” - fueling fan theories that the elusive Nightcat is front and center here.
“Journey beyond to something, somewhere only ever glimpsed,” the announcement continues. “When the world beneath your feet cracks and crumbles, will you hold on to all you once knew? Or dive into the unknown? Unknown creatures stalk and climb and dive and hunt. New breeds rip and pluck and burrow and hide. Predator and prey redefined. And through the middle of it all, a lonely lost slugcat trying their best to outlast the ravages of a warped world.”
Rain World: The Watcher has no official release date thus far, but comments from the trailer onYouTubepoint out that we might be enjoying a second expansion beforeHollow Knight: Silksongsees the light of day. (That being said, Hollow Knight got some massive, free, and excellent post-launch content packs of its own, most notably The Grimm Troupe and Godmaster.) And the long-awaited sequel is"still in development,“and should it actually come out this year, it would only bolster analready incredible time for Metroidvanias.
You can wishlist Rain World: The Watcher onSteam. The same studio is also working on an awesome-looking, vehicular mayhem game calledAirframe Ultra.
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