RiME

 PC
Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. PC PowerPlay
    Jun 30, 2017
    90
    Rime is gorgeous, gentle and sad journey through a strange land. Let it wash over you. [Issue#263, p.51]
  2. Games Master UK
    Jun 22, 2017
    90
    When we finished it we immediately started our second playthrough, desperate to find all the collectibles we missed. The fact that the developer has been able to create such an emotional story with such subtlety and restraint is nothing short of genius. You need to play this. [July 2017, p.68]
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  3. Ragequit.gr
    Jun 12, 2017
    90
    RiME is the essence of the Mediterranean soul, with its joys and its toils. Tequila Works is making a name for high quality art direction and aesthetic value, delivering a short but deeply emotional experience with its latest release.
  5. App Trigger
    May 30, 2017
    90
    Frustrations from PC struggles and awkward movement controls were quickly swallowed up in the glorious, but brief adventure that is Rime. Through beautiful environments, clever puzzling, and a soundtrack contending for game music of the year, Rime draws its audience into a truly moving tale that will keep them absorbed in its splendid island world from start to finish.
  6. Wccftech
    May 25, 2017
    90
    After such a long and troubled development, many feared that RiME would be a failure, but Tequila Works proved that there can be light at the end of the tunnel. With peculiar storytelling, varied puzzles, well-crafted platforming elements and gorgeous presentation, RiME can rival with the unique beauty of Team ICO's games.
  7. Eurogamer Italy
    May 25, 2017
    90
    An excellent point of convergence between an adventure, a puzzle game and a platformer, Rime is a visually stunning and memorable experience through a young boys's eyes. A story with some great twists which go beyond the appearances.
  8. Meristation
    May 25, 2017
    88
    The process of getting Rime hasn't been easy, but Tequila Works made, it the end, a special and touching adventure. Balanced between puzzles and exploration, RiME has come to stay in a very unique place.
  9. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Jul 5, 2017
    82
    Beneath simplistic puzzles there is a story so heart-touching it’s hard not to get misty-eyed. [Issue#221, p.77]
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  10. Games.cz
    Jun 27, 2017
    80
    In the Rime adventure there is no talking. For this silent game speaks a wonderfully crafted environment, refined puzzles, a holiday mood and a fresh pace for 3D platformers.
  11. The Overpowered Noobs
    May 30, 2017
    80
    RiME is a wonderful experience filled with both light-hearted excitement and touching emotional moments. It invokes the old cliché, “I laughed, I cried,” but, of course, that doesn’t do justice to the amount of effort it took to coordinate the vivid yet dreamlike artwork, the fun and easygoing gameplay, and the dramatic musical score. It’s unfortunate that the graphics can be choppy and the movement can be finicky. Otherwise — especially if you value aesthetics over fun — this is an incredibly satisfying title.
  12. PC Games
    May 25, 2017
    80
    Would play it again anytime. There’s so much to discover.
  13. Game Informer
    May 25, 2017
    80
    Rime never strays too far from the “indie” trappings of ambiguous narrative, mysterious puzzles in a mysterious land, and a young protagonist incapable of fighting, but it delivers a meaningful and satisfying finale that shook me in a way I was not expecting.
  14. Riot Pixels
    Aug 25, 2017
    70
    Rime is charming enough to warm your heart with its cuteness for a couple of evenings.
  15. Adventure Gamers
    Aug 14, 2017
    70
    A little more story and gameplay variety would have filled out its generous play time better, but there is plenty of reason for both puzzle and platforming fans to enjoy RiME.
  16. Gamer.nl
    Jun 5, 2017
    70
    Artistically and visually Rime is very impressive. It is too bad the content and gameplay have gone astray.
  17. Polygon
    May 25, 2017
    65
    This is perhaps the most damning and instructive thing I can say about Rime. Save for its manipulative final moments, I spent the of the entirety of the game completely stone-faced. I felt only a detached appreciation for visuals and music that, because of the monotonous game they envelop, never congeal into something really moving. No giggles of delight, no gasps of wonder, just ... nothing. I didn’t hate Rime. I didn’t love Rime. I played Rime for a while, then later, it ended.
  18. New Game Network
    Jun 2, 2017
    62
    If visual quality is what Tequila Works had in mind, three years have been well spent on fabricating a stylish, truly wondrous environment, despite drawing obviously from previous adventure accolades. It’ll likely underwhelm if approached explicitly as a puzzler, but Rime’s brief tale manages moments of genuine poignancy. The PC port is in dire need of patching, however, if such charm is to survive.
  19. PC Gamer
    May 25, 2017
    62
    Rime is a middling puzzle platformer with some genuine narrative depth, but the latter doesn't quite justify the former.
  20. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jul 24, 2017
    60
    Magic, wonderfully sounding and looking, yet just a decent and plain puzzle platformer. Unlike the genre icons, it will entertain you, but you will not remember it for a long time. [Issue#274]
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  1. Ars Technica
    May 29, 2017
    A high-water mark in the "interactive narrative" genre. If that sounds good to you, buy it.
  2. Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Jun 1, 2017
    I feel like Rime will be a game celebrated by those who already love the third-person genre, those au fait with Tomb Raider-style climbing and jumping, and environmental puzzles. It’s certainly celebrated by me. But I wonder if it might have a harder time winning the affections of those who aren’t already sold on the concept, simply because of the swathes of assumptions it makes about a player’s fluency. Or maybe I’m being patronising? I’m not entirely sure. What I do know is I’ve had such a splendid time with Rime, so deeply enjoyed its expansive and sumptuous world, and found myself not missing the attack button at all. Not when there’s a sing/shout button that does so many more interesting things. [RPS Recommended]
  3. The A.V. Club
    May 25, 2017
    It is an instillation, an interactive sculpture that gives you the tools and just enough of a mystery to fully see what surrounds you. We must understand exactly where we are before we can move forward. Rime may be the most recent in the now well-established genre of “kind of pretty, conflict-light adventures,” but such a beautiful, intimate experience remains something to be excited about.

Awards & Rankings

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#65 Most Discussed PC Game of 2017

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User Score
7.3

Mixed or average reviews- based on 218 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 135 out of 218
  2. Mixed: 52 out of 218
  3. Negative: 31 out of 218
  1. Neper
    May 26, 2017
    10
    Absolutely enjoying its overall vibe. The sounds, the gorgeous music, the outstanding art and the puzzle pacing. This game sets you in a moodAbsolutely enjoying its overall vibe. The sounds, the gorgeous music, the outstanding art and the puzzle pacing. This game sets you in a mood that only few other games can, and that's a very rare thing these days.… Full Review »
  2. thaesino
    Jun 2, 2017
    7
    I won't bring up the senseless FPS issues. I have a powerful gaming PC and am having the same problems as everyone else on here. This is not aI won't bring up the senseless FPS issues. I have a powerful gaming PC and am having the same problems as everyone else on here. This is not a good port, it seems.

    RIME is the kind of game that plays on your nostalgia; it includes elements from most of the following (there's a reason I'm taking the time to list these):

    - first and foremost, TeamIco's first game, "ICO," from the PlayStation age
    - then, in no particular order, games like The Legend of Zelda, Oceanhorn, Submerged, Journey, Never Alone, Lost in Shadow, The Unfinished Swan, and Papo & Yo
    - finally, if you are a fan of the soundtracks of both Journey and Princess Mononoke, you will recognize a few homages to the respective composers of the two; however, I do not believe this was purposeful

    On to the actual game and why I gave it a 7.

    Without spoilers, I'll lay it out. Remember those games I just mentioned? RIME does them all... just okay. It wishes to be so much of all those things, that it does not know what it wants to be.

    There are beautiful moments in which the music matches an opening in a wall, a bright light, much like "Journey;" then there are moments where the music doesn't do much or becomes repetitive, despite your just having achieved something in-game.

    There are moments where the game makes a puzzle unnecessarily difficult, and just when you think, "Oh! Awesome puzzle, like the ones in Zelda," it totally lets you down when you realize all you have to do is press a button (I played with gamepad).

    There are moments when you think, "Wow! This game moves like ICO, but upgraded to the 21st century!" And then the damn kid gets stuck on a piece of wood that has supposedly been destroyed, at a crucial moment (if you played, you know what I mean), and the ICO frustrations resurface.

    Finally, because I don't want to keep going, the music is pretty; very, very pretty. But that's about it. It doesn't grab you the way Journey's music does; it also doesn't do Joe Hisaishi's (Ghibli) simplicity well - the composer simply does not know how to use certain chords (I'm a musician, that's why I notice).

    Should everyone with an itch for good indie games play this? Yes. Should you wait for the price to drop? Yes, because the FPS sure are having no trouble dropping. If you have a PS4, should you buy PC version? Only if PC version drops to $9.99, otherwise, play it on PS4; I hear it does better there.

    All in all, a decent game, though just as disappointing - in the end - as last year's The Last Guardian and Bound, which fall under the same genre and have similar issues. The formula is starting to stink, and is being weighed down by porting issues, development process (they all take too long), and mechanics issues... not to mention, low sales. Maybe it's time to give these games a rest and wait for another Shadow of the Colossus, whose issue's could be easily overlooked because everything else was great?    … Full Review »
  3. RainXH11
    Jun 3, 2017
    10
    I loved this game, it is awesome the sense of immersion and the beautiful scenes mysterious atmosphere and the gorgeous water and sky at theI loved this game, it is awesome the sense of immersion and the beautiful scenes mysterious atmosphere and the gorgeous water and sky at the night
    the mood this game put you in is what i want from a game, the music is amazing
    the discovery that i was playing with a kid that already died at the end almost made me cry
    this game was worth the time i spent it onto it    … Full Review »
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