5 best games for a rainy day

1. Heavy Rain (PlayStation 3, 4)

Heavy Rain is one of the best games for the PlayStation 3. It is a long (several nights) an interactive detective story in which will have to play for several characters, one way or another involved in the history of the mysterious serial killer nicknamed Killer origami.

The characters in Heavy Rain is one brighter than the other. The inconsolable father, whose child is missing. Private detective who hides a terrible secret in the past. FBI agent who uses augmented reality glasses to investigate the terrible crime. Journalist that nightmares and insomnia. You have to play for everyone. And each has its own fears and phobias, their strengths and weaknesses. For example, an FBI agent easily wins the fight, and the journalist in her scenes often have to either run away from danger, or to lie convincingly.

Each scene in Heavy Rain, depending on what makes a player changes the plot of the game. Some characters can even die in the middle of the script, cutting off its storyline and influence the ending.

In this case, during the events of the game are constantly pouring rain. He does not stop for a minute until the very end, when it turns out that he was talking not just like that. But we will not spoil the surprise by such an unexpected outcome.

Heavy Rain for PlayStation 3 to PlayStation Store →

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2. "Order 1886» (PlayStation 4)

"Order 1886" - a mystical thriller about a special detachment of the noble knights, who at the end of the XIX century hunt across London for werewolves and terrorists. Armed knights not swords and machine guns and steam - towards the end of the game - a weapon that shoots tearing everything in its path by lightning.

Each scene here looks like a stuffed with special effects blockbuster. This is one of the most beautiful games on the PlayStation 4, where even the buttons and rivets on the armor can be seen for hours. And as soon as bored, start looking at the reflection in puddles and details of London's architecture.

The game is set in London, where, as we know, there are exactly three types of weather, "soon going to rain," "rain falls" and "rain has just ended." Therefore, in some scenes Knights realistically get wet to the skin: their clothing droops, and the hair is wet and gradually dry indoors.

Passed the "Order" in just seven hours, so one rainy output it is enough.

"Order 1886" for the PlayStation 4 PlayStation Store →

3. Rain World (PlayStation 4, Windows)

According to the press opinion, Rain World - one of the most ruthless user games. called Slug-cat creature moves bloklomu two-dimensional world, trying to get from one room to the safe other, collect bonuses and trying to cope with the enemy, which puts the game every time the levels in random order. All this with little or no tips, advice and training levels. Every feature and detail of the game, the authors argue, the player has to find himself.

In practice, this translates into a hundred or so deaths and failed experiments. As soon as it begins to seem that you are more or less figured out at least some of the hard laws of the world games, it turns out that after a while comes a tropical monsoon and kills hero. We have to start all over again. And this time quickly.

In an interview with the creators recognized that they play only a "manifest indifference of nature." Yes, it is tricky, but after one or two nights in the company of Slug-Cat players already share with each Another story of survival in this is not hospitable, very sad, but interesting to distraction game.

Rain World in Steam →

Rain World for the PlayStation 4 PlayStation Store →

4. Rain (PlayStation 3)

One of the few Japanese games that have done without vulgarity and stylistic excesses like robots the size of a skyscraper. Rain - a touching story of a orphan boy who lives in the city, similar to the rainy and overcast Paris XIX century.

In the story of a boy and his girlfriend there as the invisible. They can only be seen as a silhouette of the drops in the rain. Together they have to save your city from the dark creature named misunderstood. To do this, they will have to solve a lot of logic puzzles. Each of them is based on the fact that, while not a magic rain drops accentuate the contours of certain items, they will not begin to exist and operate.

The best thing in the Rain, - it is not a puzzle, and a unique visual style, the classical music of Debussy on the soundtrack, and now the St. Petersburg mood, anxiety and calm at the same time. As Japanese developers have managed so gracefully notice that line and do without anime motifs - that's the real mystery.

Rain for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Store →

5. The Swapper (PlayStation, Windows, macOS)

In modern culture has established expression rainy day movie ( «film for rainy weather"). This slow, prudent and, as a rule, a sad movie. Rain in the tape itself when it is not required.

If you choose the best game for a rainy day where rain can be, and are not talking, but the mood is just dreary, but cozy, is The Swapper - perfect candidate.

This is the story of the astronaut stranded on an abandoned research station, and who had found a strange device that creates copies of people and allows you to manage them. It is on the cloning and built a game. Where the hero can not cope alone, it creates a special beam of my copy, which goes to him and repeats his every action.

The game is played at a rainy night, but the poignant ending and the brilliant music is stored for many months.

The Swapper in Steam →

The Swapper in PlayStation Store →