5 best video games to play during a heatwave – Reader’s Feature

metro.co.uk:

A reader dreads the upcoming heatwave and seeks some video games to play while stuck inside, that will remind him of cooler times.

I live in an upstairs flat in London, with no air conditioning and no proper blind in the living room, so I’m looking forward to the upcoming heatwave about as much as I am continued coverage of the Tory party leadership contest (i.e. not very much).

I have no intention of going out the house until the weather turns, so assuming I can get something to cover the windows I’ll be sitting inside twiddling my thumbs, like the lockdown never ended. I imagine a lot of people will be in a similar position and since there’s been nothing much new out for ages that raises the question of what I’m going to play if I’m stuck indoors for all that time.

So I thought it would be fun to come up with a list of appropriately ‘cool’ video games to play while I try to hide from the sun. As you might guess, I own a Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 5, so there may be other cold-themed games I don’t have access to but this should keep me going for now.

The first game that came to mind for all this was SSX Tricky on the good old PlayStation 2. Unfortunately, it’s so old that I haven’t got a working one anymore and there are no SSX games of any kind that are easily playable at the moment – it’s not even on PS Plus Premium. Steep is a lot more serious and realistic than SSX but it’s still a lot of fun and I feel unfairly overlooked, since I’m the only one amongst my friends that ever talks about it. I just checked and it’s super cheap at the moment too, and a massive 60% off on the PlayStation Store.

I was going to suggest Super Mario Sunshine for this but a) it’s just going to make you feel