The Best Emotional Games for Mac OS

Update : The Office Type added at rank #43.
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Leila (2025)

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PC Windows Mac OS Xbox One Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch Playstation 4

Enter the world of an everyday woman as you explore her past in this point & click narrative game. Hand-drawn animations bring her memories to life, and thought-provoking puzzles lay bare the reasons behind her choices. Immerse yourself in a story unfolds as you decipher its intricate pieces.


  • point-and-click
  • puzzle
  • hand-drawn
  • emotional
  • story
  • narrative
  • narration
  • psychological
  • thought-provoking
  • stylized
  • atmospheric
  • 2d
  • hidden-object
  • adventure
  • soundtrack

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Deltarune (2025)

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Playstation 4 Android Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS

Dive into the parallel story to UNDERTALE! Fight or spare your way through action-packed battles as you explore a mysterious world alongside an endearing cast of new and familiar characters. Chapters 1-4 will be available on launch, with more planned as free updates!

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  • rpg
  • bullet-hell
  • japanese
  • emotional
  • pixel
  • soundtrack
  • comedy
  • music
  • story
  • funny
  • episodic
  • jrpg
  • dark
  • 2d
  • fantasy

3

Farewell North (2024)

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Playstation 5 j Xbox One IOS iPhone Xbox Series X PC Windows Nintendo Switch Mac OS

Restore color to the desolate islands of Farewell North, an atmospheric journey where you play as a border collie on an adventure with your human. Explore land and sea, uncover hidden paths and free wildlife to bring color back to her world, while revealing an emotional story about saying farewell.


  • dog
  • emotional
  • atmospheric
  • nature
  • stylized
  • story
  • relaxing
  • exploration
  • family-friendly
  • third-person
  • colourful
  • dark
  • puzzle
  • open-world
  • cinematic

4

Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo (2025)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows Nintendo Switch Mac OS Linux

Use your wits, kindness, and maybe a good whack to gather clues, items, and evidence that will help the residents of Limbo move on. Untangling an afterlife is no easy feat, especially when you don’t have feet!


  • manipulation
  • emotional
  • time
  • stealth
  • detective
  • 2.5d
  • mystery
  • philosophical
  • exploration
  • scroller
  • heart-warming
  • stylized
  • colourful
  • linear
  • puzzle

5

Riven (2024)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Android Mac OS osvr

Uncover a story of intrigue, betrayal, and a civilization teetering on the brink of collapse as you solve intricate puzzles to unlock the secrets of Riven. Built from the ground-up and expanded from the award-winning original game released in 1997.


  • 3d
  • emotional
  • exploration
  • walking-simulator
  • surreal
  • story
  • philosophical
  • investigation
  • logic
  • mystery
  • atmospheric
  • puzzle
  • grade-school
  • first-person
  • adventure

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Opus: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition (2022)

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Mac OS Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Echo of Starsong is a visual novel style adventure game. Eda, a girl who can hear mysterious sound waves known as starsong, crosses paths with a young man in search of their source. Together, they venture out to the heart of space to unravel an ancient myth.


  • visual-novel
  • emotional
  • soundtrack
  • japanese
  • fiction
  • 2.5d
  • anime
  • space
  • walking-simulator
  • interactive
  • story
  • jrpg
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • atmospheric

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Castle on the Coast (2021)

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Mac OS Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox One

A hand-drawn, retro 3D collectathon. Parkour through a magic castle as George the Giraffe! String together sweet moves to explore crystal caverns, stone laden halls, and trippy alternate dimensions.


  • cozy
  • platform
  • 3d
  • collectathon
  • nonlinear
  • hand-drawn
  • emotional
  • parkour
  • cute
  • cartoony
  • retro
  • family-friendly
  • comedy
  • stylized
  • action-adventure

8

Gibbon: Beyond the Trees (2022)

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IOS iPhone Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS

Gibbon: Beyond the Trees is a hand-drawn adventure following a lost gibbon as they embark on a dangerous journey into unknown lands. Master the gibbon’s art of brachiation (swinging from branch to branch) at high speed, building momentum, pulling off spectacular somersaults. Race to freedom in liberation mode, or play through an hour-long narrative that captures the real struggle of living creatures.

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  • nature
  • emotional
  • hand-drawn
  • platform
  • 2d
  • family-friendly
  • story
  • narration
  • colourful
  • atmospheric
  • action-adventure
  • relaxing
  • exploration
  • cute
  • procedural

9

Just A To the Moon Series Beach Episode (2024)

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The Beach Episode™ of To the Moon, Finding Paradise, and Impostor Factory. But something's off.

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  • rpg
  • japanese
  • emotional
  • story
  • rpgmaker
  • pixel
  • narrative
  • jrpg
  • adventure
  • cinematic
  • top-down
  • narration
  • funny
  • linear
  • atmospheric

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Impostor Factory (2021)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

A bonkers time-loop tragicomedy murder mystery thriller featuring multiple casualties and a suspicious cat, from the creator of To the Moon & Finding Paradise.


  • emotional
  • story
  • rpgmaker
  • pixel
  • visual-novel
  • psychological
  • mystery
  • horror
  • comedy
  • adventure
  • atmospheric
  • roleplaying
  • must-play
  • dark
  • rpg

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