The Best Emotional Games for Mac OS - Page 4

Update : Old Skies added at rank #40.
31

Perfect Tides (2022)

View Similar Games
98
Review score
Logo of Perfect Tides Screenshot of Perfect Tides Screenshot of Perfect Tides Screenshot of Perfect Tides

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.

Buy

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

32

Hollywood Animal (2025)

View Similar Games
74
Review score
Logo of Hollywood Animal Screenshot of Hollywood Animal Screenshot of Hollywood Animal Screenshot of Hollywood Animal

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)

View Similar Games
92
Review score
Logo of Bonfire Peaks Screenshot of Bonfire Peaks Screenshot of Bonfire Peaks Screenshot of Bonfire Peaks

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)

View Similar Games
ND
Review score
Logo of Kindred Screenshot of Kindred Screenshot of Kindred Screenshot of Kindred

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

The Master's Pupil (2023)

View Similar Games
ND
Review score
Logo of The Master's Pupil Screenshot of The Master's Pupil Screenshot of The Master's Pupil Screenshot of The Master's Pupil

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.

Buy

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

36

SpiritfarerA (2020)

View Similar Games
96
Review score
Logo of SpiritfarerA Screenshot of SpiritfarerA Screenshot of SpiritfarerA Screenshot of SpiritfarerA

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?

Buy

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

37

The Signifier (2020)

View Similar Games
78
Review score
Logo of The Signifier Screenshot of The Signifier Screenshot of The Signifier Screenshot of The Signifier

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

38

The Haunting of Joni Evers (2025)

View Similar Games
ND
Review score
Logo of The Haunting of Joni Evers Screenshot of The Haunting of Joni Evers Screenshot of The Haunting of Joni Evers Screenshot of The Haunting of Joni Evers

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.

Buy

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

39

Rooster (2025)

View Similar Games
ND
Review score
Logo of Rooster Screenshot of Rooster Screenshot of Rooster Screenshot of Rooster

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.

Buy

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

40

Old Skies (2025)

View Similar Games
ND
Review score
Logo of Old Skies Screenshot of Old Skies Screenshot of Old Skies Screenshot of Old Skies

Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows

A time travel adventure spanning two hundred years! Dive into the past with time agent Fia Quinn as she embarks on seven trips through time. History is up for grabs, from the speakeasies of Prohibition to the vicious gangs of the Gilded Age to the World Trade Center on September 10, 2001.


  • point-and-click
  • cinematic
  • emotional
  • fiction
  • investigation
  • travel
  • interactive
  • futuristic
  • time
  • conversation
  • pixel
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • mystery
  • fantasy

Not seeing your game?