This or Hollow knight?

[Heahmund Bishop]

TItle, just want to know ur opinions.
Thanks!!

[Airem]

Why not both, it's summer sale

[dripkidd]

Do you want action-heavy gameplay with challanging boss fights? Hollow Knight. Do you want patient stealth-like survivor gameplay? Than Rain World. Both will give you dozens of hours of playtime. Both are difficult games. Finding your way for the storyline is harder in RW. HK has lots of backtracking but it's less obscure about what to do, has fast travel, more traditional metroidvania. Buy one now, the other at the winter sales.

[Bagel]

Look, slugcat will be sad if you don't buy Rain World

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=898618803

I'm kidding, it's totally up to you. But I can give you a recommendation as soon as I have played Hollow Kinight. Just got it a few mins ago.

Ok, guess you've already made your decission.

To put it into a nutshell: You might feel lost at the start in both games. Hollow Knight is more a mainstream 2D platformer. Fighting is on a much higher priority than Rain World. Game mechanics remind me of Dark Souls, where you have to learn fighting pattererns to defeat your enemies while Rain World is more random. You never know what happens next. The difficulty seems to be much higher than in Hollow Knight.

[mmoommee666]

PFF! This game it's more than a "game" it's art man! do you like art? play this game...

[Przybylski]

Personally, if find Rain World to be the better game. But they're both entirely different experiences, meant to be played two different ways.
Would you prefer a classic metroidvania with uprgrades and fast paced combat?
Or would you prefer a more slow paced and thought out game, where you need to take your time and plan ahead?

[Retro]

Can I throw in Dead Cell? that game has blown me away, reaaaaaally addicting. Rain world is awesome but maaaaaaaaaaaaaan it's REALLY REALLY hard to get into you have to really force yourself to stick with it for you to get that itch to play again, I'll say this RAIN WORLD has some of the most innovative enemy AI that destroyies all the other games - it makes things challenging and you'll never have the same experience twice.

[Bagel]

Dead Cells has a very steep difficulty curve. Even much more steeper than in Rain World imho.
And yeah, Rain World's AI alltogether with the physics engine makes this game experience so unique and fluent.

[Przybylski]

Originally posted by x:

Can I throw in Dead Cell? that game has blown me away, reaaaaaally addicting. Rain world is awesome but maaaaaaaaaaaaaan it's REALLY REALLY hard to get into you have to really force yourself to stick with it for you to get that itch to play again, I'll say this RAIN WORLD has some of the most innovative enemy AI that destroyies all the other games - it makes things challenging and you'll never have the same experience twice.

It's meant to be played in relatively long sittings, and you need to power through the frustration.
I got genuinely angry multiple times, but it was worth it in the end.

[Human]

Hollow knight is more about fighting and killing things. Rain World is more about running away as fast as possible and crying out of frustration when you inevitably get eaten :)

[zero hope >:(]

Get both. If you cant - pick any.

[solamon77]

Wow, what a hard choice. I actually played both of them back to back and I can safely say they are both two of the best games to come out this year.

[Arsene The Lupin]

Hollow knight has adventure feel
Rain world has experience feel
THAT'S what is important

[Kaeporo]

If you can only buy one, Hollow Knight. Rain World is really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ good but some people will be turned off by its difficulty and pacing. I recommend both. Know that both games are (A) fairly cheap and (B) will receive a series of free updates. Hollow Knight's will add new bosses, areas, etc. Rain World's will add new playable characters, creatures, multiplayer, a level editor, etc.

[Franky M.]

I haven't read any confirmation that RW's upcoming content update will be free. What's your source?

[Zeridias]

Just take hollow knight. This Rain world is beautiful but the game design is not user friendly. I can understand that like dark soul or ether holloknight the world can be tough but if you loose is that you have done wrong ( and you understand instantly what you done wrong). In rain world you follow the indication the rain arrive and you die. You have avoid the color lizard but the rain is coming and you die. Some like that...