Rain on Your Parade is a comedy game starring a cloud out to ruin everybody's day. First developed by Unbound Creations and released on
Steam on June 10, 2020 and
Nintendo Switch and
Xbox One on April 16. 2021 the player takes the role of a rain cloud named Cloudy that floats around and can unleash a downpour of rain to hit people or objects. The game has a similar format to other short-form comedy games where every level is an individual experience with a different story.
Tropes:
- 100% Completion: Every stage has between three to six objectives to complete with at least one being required. In addition, there are "fanboys" scattered around the game, found in levels and on the world map, and Cloudy must drench them all for full completion.
- And Your Reward Is Clothes: Different hats can be unlocked by completing in-game achievements.
- An Ice Person: Actually, an ice cloud after Cloudy earns to icy ability, which allows him to turn objects into snowballs.
- Animate Inanimate Object: Cloudy has a face that changes expression as he reacts to what is happening below.
- Big Bad: Captain Dryspell who came to hate clouds and water after being caught in a downpour as a child.
- Birthday Episode: The Birthday level tasks Cloudy with trying to burn every one of the celebrating child's presents, because the narrator's grandson wasn't invited to the party.
- Beach Episode: The Beach level early in the game tasks Cloudy with drenching everyone on the beach all while avoiding an angry sun.
- Blow You Away: Subverted by Cloudy when he gets the tornado ability, which actually summons cyclones that suck things up, but in the end he's still playing with air.
- Boss-Arena Idiocy: The turret in the Dryspell Gates stage is surrounded by the four reactors that power it, and defeating it consists of having it destroy its own reactors.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: At the end of the game, Grandpa says he has a message from the game's developers.
- Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Humans in this game are referred to as "hoomans".
- Camping Episode: The Campground Stage has Cloudy antagonizing a group of campers.
- Character Customization: The player can draw a new face on Cloudy at any time and he can also wear different hats.
- Creator Cameo: The game's creators appear in Level 50, the game's Playable Epilogue level.
- Crosshair Aware: Laser Turrets will shine a crosshair on Cloudy right before the fire at him.
- Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Buggy the Bug who was just put there on the map to introduce himself and tell the player to contact the game's dev team if they encounter a bug. He then lampshades this by saying that he only exists on that part of the map just to tell the player that and nothing else, along with not having a chance to cameo anywhere else in the game. He also admits that it's all his life was meant for and hopes the player encounters a bug so they can come back and talk with him.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Froggie wants Cloudy to soak everyone in a restaurant and ruin their day in the Restaurant stage because they are topping their pizza with ketchup. In the Birthday stage, Cloudy is instructed to destroy the celebrating boy's presents because the narrator's grandson was not invited to the party.
- Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud: Items are only sucked up by Cloudy's tornado if they should touch it.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The Do Not Move Level ends if you should move. In addition, the Cloud Paint Stage couldn't have a clearer objective: just paint a picture.
- Framing Device: Cloudy's adventures are presented as a bedtime story a grandfather is telling his (initially unamused) grandchild.
- Heist Episode: The Museum stage tasks Cloudy with stealing a painting from a museum.
- Hold the Line: In the Seattle Defense stage, the player must help protect the city from hoard of enemies in a Tower Defense game. The player fails if the city should be destroyed. In the Dust Stage, the player must protect a bomb from an onslaught of mooks until it can explode.
- Human Snowball: Cloudy turns Hoomans into snowballs with his use of the icy ability.
- Idle Game: The Do Not Move level is an idle level. The more you wait without moving, the higher you score. Moving immediately ends the level.
- Laser Hallway: The Bowels of Mr. Dryspell features laser turrets that seek Cloudy and will fire balls of energy at him if they detect him. In addition, the Museum level has a Laser Hallway going through the back exit.
- Leave the Camera Running: Some weird things happen in the Do Not Move Level the longer you keep the level on and watch.
- Making a Splash: Obviously, with Cloudy being a rain cloud, the first power he has is the ability to rain on objects.
- Mana Meter: Cloudy has a water gauge in many stages and he must have water inside it to be able to produce rain or ice. In addition, levels that use tar also use the meter. If it runs dry, Cloudy must find a source of water, or tar to refill it.
- Marathon Level: "It Came From the Sky" takes about fifteen minutes to play through. In addition, Seattle Defense takes about ten minutes to finish.
- Multi-Mook Melee: Seattle Defense involves defeating multiple waves of enemies in a Tower Defense stage.
- New Game Plus: Beating the game unlocks "You Beat the Game!" Edition which mixes up the existing levels with new objectives and allows Cloudy to use all of his powers from the beginning.
- New Powers as the Plot Demands: Cloudy can rain down meteors in the Late Cretaceous Stage, and it's the only stage in which he is able to do so.
- No OSHA Compliance: The Warehouse has a layout that allows fire to spread easily, and the stage's objective is to set everything in the stage on fire.
- Pivotal Boss: The turret in the Dryspell Gates Stage is stationary and it can rotate to target Cloudy.
- Playable Epilogue: After saving the city from Dr. Dryspell and his army, the city holds a parade for Cloudy, and the parade is a playable stage. Afterwards, the game's creators appear in Level 50, simply called "The End".
- Playing with Fire: Inhaling smoke allows Cloudy to start raining tar which can be used to spread fire.
- Prehistoria: The Late Cretaceous stage tasks Cloudy with raining down meteors to eliminate 15 dinosaurs.
- Protection Mission: Seattle Defense tasks the player with defending a city from an array of oncoming enemies.
- Sequel Hook: At the end of the game, the grandfather ends his story. When his grandson mentions that Cloudy didn't finish some things, Grandpa says it's a story for another night.
- Shock and Awe: Cloudy's Thunder ability allows him to strike items and hoomans with lightning.
- Shout-Out:
- One of the goals in the Beach level is to avoid an angry sun.
- The Dust stage has the same gameplay as Counter-Strike where you need to protect a bomb until it can explode.
- In the Garden stage, Froggie tells the player that he is from a famous game in the 90's
- In the Campground Stage, Froggie tells the player that he had to "Hide my kids and hide my wife!"
- The Cardboard Gear Cloud stage is a reference to Metal Gear Solid.
- "The Office" stage is a reference to the TV series of the same name.
- The level "It Came From the Sky" references the title and plot of It Came from Outer Space.
- If you enter Cloudy Hill equipped with the chainsaw, it unlocks the Texan Achievement.
- The Cloudout level is a direct reference to Breakout. In this level, getting the ball to go over 250 miles per hour unlocks the Gotta Go Fast! Achievement.
- Space Zone: The Moon level, which tasks Cloudy with creating a hot spring and involves the usual "reduced gravity".
- Stealth-Based Mission: The Cardboard Gear Cloud stage is a stealth mission in a Shout-Out to the game it is a parody of. In addition, Cloudy Hill is a Stealth Mission within an insane asylum.
- Rewarding Inactivity: You earn the "Time to Spare" Achievement for remaining idle in the Do Not Move stage for one hour.
- Take That!: When Cloudy is about to earn the Lightning Ability Papa Cloud tells him that he needs to cash in enough Cloud Bucks to unlock its use but then tells him that he has earned enough to do so by that point since all he needs to do to earn the currency is to play the game, which he calls a "novel concept".
- This Just In!: The Cloud News Network Stage involves Cloudy interrupting a newscast by causing chaos in the studio. Background screens in the level show news reporters reacting to the chaos.
- Tornado Move: Cloudy's tornado ability allows him to create funnel clouds.
- Tower Defense: Seattle Defense turns the game into a Tower Defense Game. In addition, the Dust Stage is a tower defense in a reference to Counter-Strike.
- Unexpected Gameplay Change: The last regular level of the game, Seattle Defense, changes the game into a Tower Defense game.
- Wedding Episode: The tutorial level takes place at an outdoor wedding and the game begins with Cloudy drenching the bride and groom and the entire wedding party.
- Weird Sun: The sun in the Beach level chases Cloudy in a throwback to Super Mario Bros. 3.
- "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: After Cloudy saves the city, an epilogue shows what happened to Cloudy and his friends as well as the city. Clouds were given the right to rain on humans for five days a week and the city gained high-speed internet.
- Wide-Open Sandbox: The Cloud Paint Stage is nothing but an artist's canvas. Literally the only objective is to just paint a picture.
- Wild West: The Dust Devil Crossroads stage takes place in a Wild West Town which includes a farm and a train, and one of the tasks is trying to end a duel of two cowboys.
- Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: You don't need to actually play the High Score levels to win them. You can quit immediately after the stage starts and it counts as clear. The Do Not Move level takes it up to eleven by awarding you with an achievement if you leave the game running for an hour and don't move.
