The Best Emotional Games for Playstation 5

Update 20 August 2025: HERDLING added at rank #2.

Here are our 10 Best Emotional Games for Playstation 5, position 31 to 40:

Graveyard Girls
Back Then
JETT: The Far Shore + Given Time
Venice 2089

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Graveyard Girls (2022)

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Graveyard Girls is a halloween-themed yuri visual novel about complicated grief and overcoming hardships. Collect Elle’s “scribbles” to learn about her struggles, befriend a mysterious girl, and have a conversation about death.

visual-novel
dating-sim
emotional
lgbtq
fiction
halloween
psychological
dark
text
interactive
multiple-endings
anime
romance
choices
story

Back Then (2023)

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Back Then is a first-person narrative game taking place in the mind of Thomas Eilian, an elderly writer diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.

soundtrack
emotional
philosophical
story
short
walking-simulator
narration
first-person
cinematic
dark
abstract
psychological
exploration
drama
perspective

JETT: The Far Shore + Given Time (2023)

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Embark on an interstellar trip and deploy to a mythic ocean planet in a low-flying jett in this cinematic science fiction action adventure with immersive sim elements from Superbrothers, known for Sword & Sworcery EP.

science
cinematic
soundtrack
space
action-adventure
lore
emotional
immersive
sci-fi
exploration
story
atmospheric
sandbox
mystery
open-world

Venice 2089 (2022)

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Explore a future Venice struggling with the effects of rising water slowly destroying the city as a bored teenager, with your hoverboard and your trusty drone.