The Best Emotional Games for Mac OS - Page 4

Update : FREERIDE added at rank #40.
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Perfect Tides (2022)

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Mac OS PC Windows

Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen. Set in the year 2000, you follow Mara, an internet-obsessed young writer who lives on a so-called island paradise.

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  • point-and-click
  • philosophical
  • emotional
  • text
  • cartoony
  • 2d
  • drama
  • exploration
  • linear
  • pixel
  • romance
  • narration
  • cute
  • funny
  • retro

32

Hollywood Animal (2025)

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early access Mac OS PC Windows

Make movies, even if someone has to die. Take the helm of a major Hollywood studio at the dawn of sound cinema, and guide it through decades of creative achievements and glamor, debauchery and dark deeds, tough choices and unpleasant compromises.


  • choices
  • city-building
  • resource-management
  • emotional
  • strategy
  • building
  • real-time
  • historical
  • economy
  • management
  • multiple-endings
  • simulation
  • replay-value
  • pause
  • atmospheric

33

Bonfire Peaks (2020)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

A difficult open world puzzle game about climbing mysterious ruins and setting fire to your belongings.


  • sokoban
  • voxel
  • puzzle
  • nonlinear
  • movement
  • grid
  • cinematic
  • emotional
  • 3d
  • stylized
  • atmospheric
  • relaxing
  • third-person
  • pixel
  • difficult

34

Kindred (2024)

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Mac OS PC Windows

A physics-based 2D puzzle-platformer.


  • platform
  • emotional
  • 2d
  • hand-drawn
  • scroller
  • cinematic
  • mystery
  • action-adventure
  • relaxing
  • cartoony
  • cute
  • dark
  • drama
  • family-friendly
  • casual

35

SpiritfarerA (2020)

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Xbox One PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Spiritfarer® is a cozy management game about dying. As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and guide them across mystical seas to finally release them into the afterlife. What will you leave behind?

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  • emotional
  • building
  • cooperative
  • hand-drawn
  • fishing
  • management
  • relaxing
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • crafting
  • simulation
  • exploration
  • local
  • cartoony

36

The Master's Pupil (2023)

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PC Windows Mac OS Nintendo Switch Xbox One

Explore the eye of master artist Claude Monet and experience a unique biographical adventure! Test your skills and perseverance as you overcome the progressive disease that threatened Monet’s eyesight and solve puzzles to help the painter complete some of his greatest masterpieces!Throughout the game, you will encounter and overcome increasing challenges as Monet experiences loss, like the passing of his wife Camille, and struggles with the cataracts that threatened his artistic skill. Consider color, space, and timing as you traverse the world of his eye - as one wrong color combination or move can end your journey.

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  • puzzle
  • hand-drawn
  • platform
  • philosophical
  • emotional
  • stylized
  • 2d
  • linear
  • scroller
  • abstract
  • atmospheric
  • colourful
  • physics
  • adventure
  • surreal

37

The Haunting of Joni Evers (2025)

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PC Windows Mac OS

The Haunting of Joni Evers is an emotional tale of a broken family from small-town Oklahoma, driven apart by a malevolent haunting. Uncover the mysteries of Joni’s family and the Cunningham House, digging through memories, facing the family’s past to break the curse.

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  • walking-simulator
  • supernatural
  • short
  • emotional
  • narration
  • fiction
  • visual-novel
  • horror
  • psychological
  • mystery
  • drama
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • interactive
  • exploration

38

The Signifier (2020)

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PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Mac OS

This story-driven adventure follows a mystery of death and despair from reality into the surreal realms of objective memories and subjective experiences. Search the mind, solve puzzles, and unravel the dark truth in this psychological thriller.


  • surreal
  • psychological
  • investigation
  • emotional
  • multiple-endings
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • tech-noir
  • horror
  • dark
  • first-person
  • walking-simulator
  • choices
  • psychology
  • exploration

39

Rooster (2025)

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Android PC Windows Mac OS Linux

A heartfelt, story-rich casual puzzle adventure celebrating the best of ancient Chinese culture. Explore an exquisitely hand-drawn world with delightful surprises, from cooking, finding hidden objects, paper crafting, and more. Guide Rooster in an emotionally rewarding tale about family and love.

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  • wholesome
  • cozy
  • cooking
  • emotional
  • hidden-object
  • point-and-click
  • hand-drawn
  • family-friendly
  • comedy
  • relaxing
  • funny
  • cartoony
  • colourful
  • story
  • cute

40

FREERIDE (2025)

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(Nintendo Switch) Mac OS Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Hop on board the ride of your life. FREERIDE is a narrative RPG that’s (not-so) secretly a PERSONALITY TEST. Help others solve their Unfinished Business, navigate a looping, branching story, and use telekinesis to change Fate itself. Your subconscious playstyle will reveal who you really are.

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  • nonlinear
  • emotional
  • choices
  • multiple-endings
  • psychological
  • replay-value
  • story
  • comedy
  • colourful
  • funny
  • horror
  • rpg
  • cute
  • supernatural
  • atmospheric

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