City RAIN is a cross between a city simulator and a puzzle game in which the player is recruited to be an officer of RAIN (Rescue And Intervention Non-profit), an organization committed to raising environmental awareness, and fighting the corruption of politicians and big business. Small towns all over the world are being taken advantage of by a large corporation that bribes the local politicians to let them do their harmful business in town. RAIN travels from town to town and, with your help, strives to get the city off of the WEPA blacklist.
The indie puzzler/city-sim City RAIN is fun, quirky, and worth the low cost if you can just get past some minor annoyances and preachy environmental message.
For most people, Sim City is considered to be a pretty good game. Same goes for Tetris. So, if one was to put them together one would get one heck of a game, right? Well, somewhat. Ovolo Corporation's CityRain is billed as a combination of the two aforementioned games and truly does play as both at once (with a Greenpeace feel).
Out of Eight writes: "With the high level of success shown by the SimCity series of games, I'm frankly surprised there isn't a proliferation of city builders on the market. Sure, there's the City Life/Cities XL games and Haemimont's series of historical titles, but other than those examples, the genre has largely been played out: how many different ways can you zone roads and residential sectors? Using the city builder game as a base is City Rain, which infuses the extreme excitement of placing houses with puzzle games like Tetris. That's the kind of out-of-the-box thinking we appreciate here at Out of Eight, and it deserves some reviewingness! Take that, spell checker!"
DIYgamer.com writes: "Chances are that you, reading this site right now, have more than a few friends who'd also be considered gamers. Chances are also considerably high that at least a few of these friends are not avid indie gamers. Let's face it, most Call of Duty-ing, Halo-ers just aren't that into indie games. Not because they vehemently hate them or anything, but, more realistically, because nobody has bothered to show them the world of gaming that exists underneath all the mainstream marketing glitz that simply over-powers everything else. But that's where you come in...
With Christmas just about on top of us, there's probably still a lot of shopping to do in between now and then and, while you may be struggling with some of your game-loving friends, we've got your back as we introduce you to our favorite picks for this year's Christmas. Plus, you can take solace in knowing that your friend/family member probably won't already have this game or buy it as an impulse purchase while they're out doing their own holiday shopping."
Great list - Just started playing Osmos this past weekend and it's a really fantastic game.
Yeah, Osmos is rad. I find it to be one of the most relaxing games... almost too relaxing...
