5 tube of games that will warm the winter evenings

1. Unravel

platforms: Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One.

This game is about how important it is to appreciate the moments and cherish loved ones. You're playing for Jarni - a small creature from a yarn that is sent on a journey to bring back memories of a forgotten family.

Unravel - puzzle-platformer in which you have to solve puzzles using your own yarn and interactive environment. It is necessary to monitor the expenditure of the thread, if it runs out, the level will have to start all over again.

The developers of the Swedish studio Coldwood Interactive tried to create a warm atmosphere as much as possible. Using as scenery scenery of northern Sweden, the creators wanted to share a piece of my love for the country and its nature, arouse in the player the feelings they are experiencing themselves.

The game turned cozy, with its own atmosphere and philosophical overtones. It wants to pass slowly, sitting comfortably on the couch and wrapped a blanket.

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2. Firewatch

platforms: Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One.

After his wife was diagnosed with Henry Alzheimer's disease, Took home her parents. Henry goes to work supervisor on the fire tower in the forest. He is cut off from civilization and communicates only with your boss DeLisle. The protagonist finds peace, however briefly.

Firewatch - a summer adventure, which you will remember for years to come. Throughout the game, not feeling childhood, when leaving for the city and searched every corner of the old grandmother's house. From the first Firewatch minutes envelops warm and unique atmosphere. In many ways, this contributes to the enchanting forest - a silent observer who has seen a lot in his life.

Developers of the Campo Santo managed to create a game that I want to run away, leaving everything behind, just like Henry.

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3. Life Is Strange

platforms: Windows, Linux, OS X, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, iOS.

Life Max Caulfield, shy and insecure girl changes dramatically when she displayed the ability to manage time. At the same time it begin to attend the vision of a coming storm, looming over the city.

Life Is Strange places the player in a situation familiar to many: the problems with peers, some awkward moments when you want to rewind time back and fix it. The game allows you to do this, but it reminds us of the consequences of the choice.

I especially want to note the visual style of the Life Is Strange. Artists are able to smooth out the corners, lovingly rendered every location in the game, and to convey the atmosphere of a small town with the help of small parts, the right light and the stunning scenery. I get cozy and a little philosophical story about a girl and time.

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4. Journey

platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4.

Game designer Jenova Chen, together with Thatgamecompany development team has created a phenomenon in the gaming industry. Journey is difficult to describe in one word - there are so many contrasts, nuances and paradoxes. It is warm and cozy, but at the same time a large-scale game, which exists outside of time.

Protagonist of the game - the mysterious man in the mantle, who embarks on a journey to a distant mountain across a vast desert, instead of which was once an advanced civilization. But once she was gone, leaving only ruins.

The Journey is not dialogue. Narrated through music, sounds, environment. Developers deliberately create a contrast between the character and the world that surrounds him, the player to feel small and insignificant.

This is an ideal meditative game. Balance all the mechanic is to the player relaxedBut I do not fall asleep, and fell into a sort of trance, forget about the problems and spent several wonderful hours Journey arms.

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5. Child of Light

platforms: Windows, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U.

Home Game heroine - a girl Aurora, which have a long and difficult path and return the stolen moon, sun and stars, to restore peace and order in the kingdom of Lemuria.

Child of Light will please fans jRPG. Of course, the combat system is not as deep, but enough Variation and plastic, and the ability to change the skill set while in combat gives space for tactical maneuvers.

From the first minutes of falling in love with a fairy-tale atmosphere of Child of Light, its visual style, dialogues, music and colorful characters, as if descended from the pages of fairy tales. A low bow to Ubisoft for the fact that they put effort and money into such projects.

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