Every day can be a challenge with depression. Getting out of bed, getting dressed, and grabbing a shower can be herculean tasks, with every one leading you to the same self-doubt and scathing self-examination, which is what Thais Weiller explores in Rainy Day, a free game about trying to get yourself out of bed and ready on a rainy day.
The interactive fiction game will have you making decisions about what to do and what to wear, but the game fights you at every step. The unnamed character's doubt, mental fatigue, and pain keep tripping up your decisions, forcing you to exhaustingly repeat the same instructions, over and over again, typically to poor, saddening results. It mimics the kind of self-berating feelings of being depressed, and puts you in the same kind of battle a sufferer has to endure to get moving every day.
Accompanied by some lovely, yet downcast, artwork from Amora B, it's a striking look at a too-common day-to-day struggle.

Rainy Day is available to play for free on Itch.io. For more information on the game and developer Thais Weiller, you can head to the developer's site or follow them on Twitter.

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