Rain World Watcher - Blog Posts
I have finished the Watcher campaign and I now yearn to play with some of the new creatures in my silly little arena.
...What do you mean you can't play safari mode with the new regions?
What do you MEAN you can't unlock creature spawns at the end of the campaign?!?
WHAT DO MEAN BEAST MASTER DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE?!?? (currently, no rush tho)
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE DEV CONSOLE MOD- oh wait ppl are saying that works. Huh.
Test arena too? Maybe this'll work out after all!
It's definitely gonna take time for mod makers to adjust to all the extra code that was added and I'm completely fine with that!
Will update you guys on my progress tho...
So I'm stuck in Outer Rim purgatory right now and I know there's somewhere I'm supposed to go but I have no idea where TF it is
I've already done the flower room in The Throne and I'm pretty sure I'm at "Karma" 6, I kinda just need to know where to teleport.
Here's my current location:
I've been through the majority of Outer Rim, including the hellish journey through the path of floating platforms. I've actually somehow managed to do a full circle.
Please help me get out of here... All the food here tastes terrible and I just wanna continue my journey with as little spoilers as possible.
Why TF did they think their "find out on your own" style of gameplay would work in a teleportation maze 😭
I need help: does anyone know what to do to move the coral bugs out of the way? Ik they do that shit on purpose bro I just don't know what to do about it 😭
I'm only up to the beginning of the coral area so blease keep spoilers to a minimum 🙏
was it just me or did the big centipedes also feel much more aggressive to yall? like i could normally get past them without much issue in base game but as watcher, it felt like i didn't have to be near them that long for them to go after my ass. they also felt much faster than usual and could see and attack me while i was invisible
MAJOR SPOILERS FOR ONE OF THE WATCHER ENDINGS!! PROCEED WITH CAUTION!
weeping so hard over this ending rn
i already miss the echo :[ but at least i have some touys
also hot damn
MAJOR WATCHER SPOILERS BELOW!! PROCEED WITH CAUTION
at first, i felt really bad for using the wormholes to spread the rot out from the throne. i still feel really bad for doing that, but the prince is really cutes
if evil, why niceys to me
i also like, took a bunch of screenshots of him too
The beef started here
Day 29: The Watcher
LETSHAVEAWATCH...
March 28th, 2025
Watcher spoilers!!
Because I need to post something
Watcher doodles (add Pebbles because I needed my daily dose of him)
WATCHER SPOILERS!!
Prince my beloved,, my freak of nature,,, my eldritch horrors beyond comprehension,,,, im so normal about him i promise guys (lying so much)
WATCHER SPOILERS BELOW THE CUT!!! WATCH OUT!!!!!
so
this moment huh
im so normal about Unfortunate Evolution you dont even know. what even fucking is it. how in the balls did a void worm get rotted. absolutely insane region /pos
after doing nothing but play rain world: the watcher for 4 days (bar monday i had to go to college sadge) and i have now completed the whole dlc as it currently stands. i have many thoughts
EVERYTHING BELOW HERE WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS!!! FOR EVERYTHING!!!!! THIS IS YOUR ONLY WARNING
alright. starting with the generic spoilers
first up, the beginning. HOLY FUCK I ADORED THE BEGINNING OF THE CAMPAIGN. i wish my clipping software wasnt broken so that i couldve clipped my reaction to That One Chimney Canopy Room. literally as i was climbing i was speculating on when in the timeline Watcher was (my thought was around hunter/gourm) and then Boom. rot jumpscare. i am The Rot Enjoyer so i was genuinely ecstatic. also the jumpscare of Hydroponics being in Industrial was rather funny
(also idk where else to mention it but all the drawn art for watcher is so gorgeous. the colour theory used is geneuinely breathtaking. the last frame of the intro cutscene is beautiful)
secondly, the world (or, what of one there is). being able to get lost in the world is something i havent been able to truly experience up until now (i didnt play any of base game or downpour blind) so it was delightful getting lost in these gorgeous and unique regions.
and aether ridge i suppose
i really dont think aether ridge was a good choice for a modded inclusion. i mean just off the top of my head i can think of several Better regions with better maps that they couldve used. but like. thats also a handful of regions amongst TWENTY THREE. THAT IS MORE THAN THE REST OF THE FUCKING GAME. INSANE. so many regions that i straight up didnt see two of them in my first playthrough
i do wish the world has at least some interconnectivity like in base and downpour. i miss the cohesive and grounded world but also that is just Not what watcher is about so its alright. its still cool regardless. also the implications of some regions being timeline variants of others??? hell yeah
thirdly, the new creatures. fuck barnacles all my homies hate barnacles
in all seriousness though, most of the creatures are cool additions (sea slugs my beloveds <3) i just wish there was some more interspecies interactions besides the moths throwing lizards around. itd make the world feel more alive. the barnacles also need a massive tweak they are just actually bullshit sometimes.
i ADORE the rotzards though. ough the pained noises they make,,,, i love them sm theyre so cool. i wish more creatures got rotted. i wouldve KILLED to see a rotted whale or loach. that one rotted void worm took me OUT
fourthly, the gameplay loop. the weakest part of the game. the total lack of any direction or assistance is upsetting. in base rain world you have the overseers to guide you, and in downpour you have your anchor points in FP and LttM. but here?? nothing. i didnt even know i needed to be finding the echoes until 8ish hours into my first run. i needed my friend to read me a guide for my second. the game needs to at least give the player hints or clues. i found a workshop mod that implements saint's echo ping and both me and my friend had such a better time playing after that. that should be a default setting
its even worse for the second ending. as i mentioned, my friend had a guide pulled up and walked me through it as spoiler-free as she could. and i would have NEVER gotten it blind. this combined with the sheer number of regions (as mentioned previously, twenty three!!!) honestly ruins the game. my friend almost gave up on the whole DLC because of it. i know they plan to start patching things in, and their first action should be implementing better guidance
also i didnt even know you could go through ripples at top karma?? or that you could warp without a karma flower (with consequences)??? the game just. didnt tell me. which i feel like it should because those are both Pretty Big Things
i do think that the gameplay loop could be genuinely fun with actual assistance. because i actually had fun finding the echoes after i got that mod.
and now, onto the ending specific spoilers, starting with the echo ending
WE GET TO ACTUALLY FUCKING SEE ANCIENTS????? LIKE WALKNG AROUND AND SHIT????? IM SO INSANE ABOUT THAT
the storyline of helping an echo detach themself from their wordly desires and move on is so sweet. but i did NOT know that was the story until the last region. it almost made the ending feel unearned. it felt a little shoehorned in tbh. but also like. i dont care WE SAW ANCIENTS WAHHHHH
also hey we watch an echo ascend. neat. i do have a theory that an echo can ascend (or at least move on) if their attachment to whatever desire binds them is destroyed (Four Needles disappearing after their body no longer exists at all) and can move around space and time in accordance to their desires (Rhinestones choosing to come to Undergrowth to appreciate the life thriving there) so. hell yeah more echo lore i LOVE echo lore
but you know what i love more than echoes. the rot
the second ending. is peak i fear. not only is the campaign progression significantly better and more impactful than the echo story, but the ENDING. OH LORD THE ENDING. again, i am The Rot Enjoyer so i was going INSANE at the whole world getting fucky. and dont even get me STARTED on the rotted base game regions. i could go on for hours about how genuinely fucking cool the rotted regions are.
and everything surrounding The Throne and the roterator (The Prince??) (me and my friends nicknamed them "Yapper") is insane. the rot gaining sentience???? and having a pure and genuine trust in their beliefs???????? holy moly. fun fact if you hit them with a spear they get happy that youre playing with them <3
i cant even put my thoughts of this ending into words because its just So Insane (also i experienced it like. an hour before writing this so my brain is still reeling) but my theory currently is that every single strand of the cycle will eventually fall to rot (as the echo says that "it all ends up like this" if you wrongwarp to a rotted region) and that we simply witnessed and assisted in the end of one of these strands. theres. more to that theory but i just Cannot words it yet. ill probably make a seperate post about it soon
overall, The Watcher is an inherintly flawed product that i hope gets fixed up and improved soon, because i did genuinely enjoy it and want more people to. outside of the region bloat and lack of any direction, the game is genuinely peak, but those two things really do just kill it unfortunately. it is deserving of its mixed reviews on steam, but i do hope to see that shift more positively as the rest of the planned content is added and QOL changes are made.
also fix those damn barnacles PLEASE
can you believe it guys :> watcher :) just a week away :] watcher in a week :Dwahoo :3
MARCH 28TH MARK YOUR FUCKING CALENDARS ‼️‼️‼️
New Watcher teaser!
It was found on Akupara's monthly devlog. This is what surrounded it.
BUT, there is something huge here. A few seconds into the video, text appears on the upper lefthand side. It says September 19. It's a little hard to see but if you bump of contrast it's clearer.
Maybe the date of the next teaser? We'll see!
little guy is lost
rainy day
RW art month day 29: the watcher
F2U RW Resources || Downpour Spoilers
You can request stamps & blinkies in askbox!! :] (i would love to turn more gameplay clips into stamps...)
I'm totally new to this, but it was fun to make I'll do more...maybe tomorrow...maybe in a week...or a month
You can find and use them from here (watch out, watcher spoilers aren't spoilered!) (don't look at the rest of my profile..... it's a mess)
SMALL WATCHER SPOILERS UNDER CUT
(if anyone gets the that's a dead kid reference, i would be very, very happy....)
about watcher spoilers
guys it's barely been a week TAG YOUR FUCKIN' SPOILEERRRRSSSS!!!
LET THE POPULATION CATCH UP!!! LET OUR SLOWER PLAYERS AND THE CONSOLE FOLKS CATCH UP!!! EVEN IF THAT MEANS YOU HAVE TO COVER YOUR GORGEOUS ART WITH A "Read More" OR ANYTHING ELSE!!!
AAARGH I FORGOT I DREW THIS AND I WAS PUPPOSED TO POST IT BUT MY PHONE BROKE AND THE WATCHER RELEASED SO I FORGOT
Feat @hongrutet 's Ardat and @okavara 's Cryptid Kel =3="
watcher tomorrow
Watcher spoiler!!
I drew these two regions, only one for the Survivor, the other for the Watcher. I really liked the atmosphere!
2,3,4 - Gifts
Watcher design (maybe)
