True to its title, your goal in Raindropis a fluid one. It’s a (seemingly) simple arcade-style game in which you play as a cat, avoiding falling rain. On a basic level, you have to run across the corridor of an elementary school, making repeated trips in your daring quest for delicious points. It has a very leaky roof, however, and a single drop is all it takes to wet the cat and end the game, so you alsohave to dodge an increasing number of plinking raindrops. Where Raindropdiffers from most arcade games is in its free-form scoring system – you can rack up points in a variety of ways, or mix and match methods as you climb the (offline) leaderboard.
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PC Gamer United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2021