Thunder Only Happens When It's Raining is a journey through the personal histories and relationships of a Fleetwood Mac-like rock band from the 70s, as represented by their ghosts, who are dressed in paisley-patterned bedsheets. The game is a nostalgic look back at their complicated lives, and a dramatic reckoning with and addressing of the conflicts that they lived through together along with the secrets they’ve kept from one another. The setting moves from the tour bus, to flashbacks of their past concerts, to a mysterious black void in which the bus makes pitstops.

Play is centered around a core play loop:

Flashbacks: Ghosts relive a conflict from when they were alive.

Purgatory Tour: As they continue trapped on the purgatory tour bus to nowhere, the ghosts reflect on the flashback that they just participated in/witnessed and play out what "could have been"

Pitstops: A time spent in a mysterious black void when the bus needs to stop for gas. Ghosts are given the chance to “cross over” if they feel like they have resolved their unfinished business.

TOHWIR was selected as a premier scenario for Make a Scene 2025.