My favorite games are Omori, Disco Elysium and Outer Wilds. I cried for hours at the end of those games, and I think the common point in them is high-quality emotional writing and stellar OST (music really affect me) and my attachment to the characters.
I also found that my taste in movies was similar (Hana-bi by Takeshi Kitano is my favorite movie)
I’ve been trying to find something similar, so has anybody any recommendation?
I’d like to add that I basically hated Nier Automata (way too pretentious imo) and Before your Eyes (I wasn’t a fan of the game concept, and found the story pretty weak), and really loved the horror aspects of Omori.
I also heard about To the moon, but games talking about disease are hard for me to enjoy
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The first walking dead game from telltale was good, but if you’ve played anything they’ve done its largely the same.
Papers please can get emotional, but it’s mostly intense pressure.
I was so scared for and protective of Clementine.
So good.
But not even a mention of everyone’s favorite character, Kenny?
Kenny will remember that.
Haven’t seen Spiritfarer mentioned, worth checking out.
To the Moon was great. It’s made with RPG Maker and it shows, but it hits hard.
I started playing this game about a month after my dad died of cancer, I had to just nope out entirely. I could dig my teeth into Stellaris or build a flying guitar in Kerbal space program, but I couldn’t handle To the Moon or Firewatch.
Oh hey, there’s a recommendation, play Firewatch, it’s got some big feelings too.
Already talked about it in my post
I’m not super familiar with the examples you gave but I’m gonna say anything from Supergiant Games: Bastion, Transistor, Pyre, Hades. Fantastic music always, I would say the storytelling is done best in Transistor and Hades.
Gotta check Transistor it looks cool af
Bastion has a good story and great OST. There’s a pretty heavy moment toward the end of the game.
🎵I’m coming home, sweet home🎵
Transistor too, from the same studio.
I’d recommend “in stars and time”. It is a turn-based RPG with loveable characters. I think it is best played blind so I’m hesitant to tell you more, but if you like games like undertale then I think you would like it.
THAT WAS IT!!! it was WONDERFUL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH! if anyone reads this and recognizes themselves in the games i enjoyed, I would tell them to play this first if they haven’t!
Haha. Glad you enjoyed it. Really great game that I think deserves more attention.
Life is Strange made me cry. It has a good soundtrack too.
I played through the original and True colors, it was great!
Play Before The Storm if you haven’t, it’s a prequel to the first game.
I too love emotional games. Here are my personal favourites. Some of these have been recommended by others but idc:
What Remains of Edith Finch - as Edith Finch, you go back to the house you grew up in and explore your family’s history. The Finch family have had much misfortune, and many did not grow old. As you explore the house room by room, you see that person’s last moments. I cannot recommend this game enough. It’s only 2 hours long and best enjoyed in a single sitting.
Life is Strange - you (Max) have recently returned to the town you grew up in for a prestigious art programme at the Blackwell Academy. One day, you discover you have suddenly gained the ability to rewind time. In this game, you explore your powers and reunite with your old childhood friend, Chloe. Don’t worry too much about the superpower thing, it’s without any Marvel BS.
Detroit: Become Human - in this game, you explore a world where robots are servants to humans from the POV of three robots. There are three stories that you follow that do meet each-other at some points. Not all stories are equally exciting, but two of the three are pretty great imo. It really makes you think about what it means to be human.
Kentucky Route Zero - this is an odd duck that you may enjoy as well. You start as Conway, an old man driving for an antiques shop doing his last delivery, as the shop will close down soon. As you try to find your way, a gas station attendant gives you cryptic directions to Highway Zero. As Conway and several other characters, you explore the surrealist world beneath Kentucky. It’s a game filled with mystery, grief, loss, and being lost. This game is more like a strange dream rather than a videogame, and is therefore best played in the later hours of the day.
I hope there are some interesting picks here for you. Enjoy!
+1 for Life is Strange and Detroit Become Human. Both are on my favoeutie games list.
Also check out The Beginners Guide.
Kentucky route zero seems very nice!
Mass effect and dragon age series from bioware are excellent, they’re a little involved but the story telling is incredible in both. While it has aged and may be depending on a love for star wars, their knights of the old republic series was also excellent.
They’re really damn good at making a story that’s worth being part of, often one of my first recommendations aside from the last of us, outer wilds, and a couple of others I’ve seen here already.
Took me over a year to recover from Outer Wilds. Can’t explain it…
Maybe What Remains of Edith Finch? Also, maybe it was just a weird time in my life, but I think I bawled hardest at the end of FFVII: Crisis Core back in the PSP days. Braid is an emotionally weird one as well.
Edith Finch is pretty squarely a “walking simulator,” but by far the best one I’ve played (Firewatch is up there, but didn’t stick with me the same way). It makes the most of its relatively simple gameplay by adding in a bunch of unique gimmicks and visuals for each section.
I loved Crisis Core. But Final Fantasy X got me a lot more emotional.
Funnily enough, I own FFX on like three different platforms but still haven’t played it through to the end.
Gris
Ooh, yes! A game without words, but incredibly beautiful.
Several games I’d have recommended have already been said, so I’ll chuck in a nod for Thomas Was Alone, incredibly moving despite the only ‘characters’ being a range of shapes.
Absolutely! You are going to feel some very big feelings about these little squares and rectangles.
Telltale’s The Walking Dead games. Made me cry more than when my dog died.
A thousand times, this!
Playing the walking dead games made me finally realize what the zombie genre is really all about. Zombie apocalypses are really a metaphor for the experience of life, In the end death takes everyone, in a zombie apocalypse it’s just accelerated. But death is a reality we all face, there’s no escaping it, there’s no running from it, there’s no outsmarting it; eventually you slip up or maybe you’re careful and responsible the whole way through, it actually doesn’t matter, you’ll still die in the end. What does matter are the choices you make along the way, the people’s lives that you touch, the world you can either leave better than you found it, or worse.
Death Stranding had me all over the place. Also the first season of Telltales The Walking Dead.
Basically anything with kids can set me off and I find somewhat difficult nowadays as I have children of my own.
As an MGS fan I’m trying to get into death stranding but struggle to do so…
It’s worth it. Mads Mikkelsen and Léa Seydoux should have won awards for best supporting actor(s). Emily O’Brien had some tearjerker parts too. It’s far more than the sum of its parts.
It took me a couple tries with DS too. The first few chapters don’t do it justice but once you get past that it’s just amazing.
Brothers a tale of two sons.
It is very emotional
Came in here to mention this.
Easy and fun to play. Totally full of feels
