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Rainswept

PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2019

Should you play it?

Rainswept takes you on an emotional adventure in a small town shaken by a double shooting. Join Detective Stone and unravel a tangled web of love, relationships, and unresolved trauma in this character-driven murder mystery game.

What works

  • Compelling emotional story
  • Atmospheric visuals and music
  • Well-written characters
  • Immersive small town setting
  • Multiple endings and achievements

Things to keep in mind

  • Minimal and simple gameplay
  • Clunky controls and animations
  • Some bugs and technical issues
  • Linear narrative with limited player agency
  • Slow pacing and occasional confusing plot points

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth

  • Finding Paradise

  • Perfect Tides

  • Welcome to Elk

  • Journal

  • Summerland

  • Richard & Alice

  • Silence

  • Long Dream

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Monsters of Little Haven

  • Half Past Fate

  • Blackwell Convergence

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the game’s motivation profile. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Rainswept: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Experimenting, Competence, Survival. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Idle.

Last update: 26/07/2026