I love nothing more than hazardous weather in video games, the long dark is pretty good with its intense blizzards that you can get lost and die in minutes, I also love no man’s sky. The whole building a base in an extremely hostile environment that if you step outside for too long you’re a goner.
I’m a sucker for these games, I need more. You guys got anything for my itch? Bonus points if it’s super intense and dangerous
Timberborn.
Stalker 2 has very violent thunder storms. The lightning strikes are especially intense.
Especially with Dynamic Weather Overhaul
Modded STALKER Anomaly is worth a shout too. Some of the weather mods and sound mods make blowouts extremely intense and impressive.
“There’s an Emission incoming. Find cover, Stalker!”
Pacific drive?
Just reminded me I gotta finish that one
May not be exactly what you’re looking for, but subnautica and subnautica below zero are two of my favorite games.
Subnautica starts with you Crashing in a life pod onto an undiscovered water planet and trying to rescue other survivors, gathering resources, building bases submarines etc. Weather is not really a consideration since you’re underwater, but there are lots of other pitfalls.
Subnautica below zero is a sequel but set on the Arctic pole of the planet and requires you to go above surface a lot where the freezing temperatures start killing you once you’re up there for very long.
I recently got Against the Storm. It’s a gameplay loop about building a fantasy villiage in a hostile forest, so it sounds like what you’re looking for. The faster you expand into the woods, the faster the hazards and challenges appear. The storms aren’t visually spectacular, but they provide negative status effects.
I like games that let me adjust the complexity and difficulty by adjusting the rate of my expansion. The first time I really felt that was with Creeper World. It’s an RTS where you build turrets to claim territory against an ever-encroaching rising tide. You might enjoy that. Creeper World III is probably my favorite from the series.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
I was about to suggest Breath of the Wild. The stormy rain is amazing, happens more often and harder than in Tears I think. The constant change of equipment can be a little bit annoying, that’s probably why they dialed it a bit back.
The rain with the dramatic music at the beginning of Link to the Past is pretty awesome too.
Still Wakes the Deep puts you on an oil rig amid the ocean in a storm. You spend most of your time indoors though, but there are sections where you get to see the roaring ocean
Well with the playthrough. It’s a narrative game, which isn’t for everyone.
I loved it.
Heavy Rain is worth playing… For the rain…
Edit: just remembered, there is also that Blizzard-Survival mode in the first Tom Clancy’s Division game.
Flight simulators put a lot of effort into the weather. So flightgear for a free one. Microsoft Flight Simulator if you wanna pirate or pay
@ me if you get anything good. My recommendation is rain world which is great if you like platformers. The game makes you feel like a small animal in very hazardous conditions that you must often run and hide to escape from.
Ooh I forgot about rain world, that is a very good one, nearly shit myself when one of those chameleons caught me
Stormworks. Obviously. The entire game is about engineering and designing vehicles to go on various rescue missions, or to go to space, or sometimes to mine oil… okay the devs have gone a bit off track from the original vision but the storms are still good for a voxel physics sandbox game.
Looks good, I’m usually not a fan of voxel games but I do see the aesthetic hitting hard in some screenshots
No Man’s Sky on extreme hazard planets.
Edit: ah fuck, you already said that in your OP, should’ve read it before 😄
Project Zomboid. Despite the top down camera and simpler graphics, storms and blizzards have great atmosphere. They make you wanna shut yourself indoors even more than the apocalypse itself.
The Last Caretaker is an early access game where you pilot a boat that is often caught is rough storms. Worth checking out.
Mad Max has some intense and deadly but also rewarding sandstorms
