Rainstorm EP is a pleasingly easy game about digging up cassette tapes which were misplaced round a rundown automotive park, after which listening to them because the nighttime rain pours down.
Playing it has made me fairly sleepy, so right here, have a look (and pay attention) to just a little of it within the launch trailer under.
“The love child of a music box and a snowglobe,” say the builders, which is an efficient description, although I could betray my always-online tendencies by as a substitute evaluating it to a kind of lofi hip hop beats countless YouTube playlists crossed with the compelling interactive plinking of the corners of a Hearthstone board.
Fiddling with all of the bits of this diorama has a function, since it is going to discover you new cassette tapes to take heed to, however it is going to additionally simply make issues wiggle satisfyingly. You can spin the entire thing too, so make sure to peek behind the wall the place you may discover some new tracks hiding out subsequent to the graffiti-decorations and between unspecified bits of garbage.
“Rainstorm EP is designed to live on your desktop and keep you company while you do other things,” say Ice Water Games. “we’ve released it in the middle of a workday for a reason!”
That means yesterday, in fact, Friday being a kind of conventional “workdays” that I can’t relate to, however I can say that it’s nonetheless simply nearly as good firm in case you’re busy with one thing on this right here Saturday like me. If you don’t queue up one other music instantly there’s nonetheless the thrill of the streetlight and the quiet noise of the rain to fill the house, which is reassuring in its personal proper.
You may know Ice Water Games from their earlier works, of which there are a lot of. Somewhat just like that is the potted plant simulator Viridi, which lets you flourish succulents and likewise a snail pal by checking in once in a while. Then there’s survival simulator Eidolon, strolling simulator Pattern, and window watcher Tenderfoot.
Though these had totally different builders and span a number of genres, they do share some underlying environment that I’m fairly enamoured with. Even Yule Log, a crackling Christmassy hearth generator has the identical feeling of quiet, unrushed appreciation of the little issues.
Now Ice Water Games has recreated themselves as a “democratically run games label,” which they clarify on their blog is “a community of artists sharing resources and an audience within an institution controlled collectively by the membership.” They go into extra element there and whereas I can’t faux to know what all of it means, it appears like a fairly good means of manufacturing extra games on this vein whereas making certain that everybody concerned will get a good deal.
You can purchase Rainstorm EP on itch.io for $3.00.
