The Best Emotional Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 4

Update : Deer & Boy added at rank #48.
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My Child Lebensborn (2018)

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PC Windows Android IOS iPhone Playstation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch

Experience the emotional and challenging journey of raising an adopted child in post-WWII Norway in My Child Lebensborn. Balance your time and resources to provide for your child's needs while navigating a world filled with hate and bullying. This BAFTA-award winning game offers a genuine and immersive nurturing simulation that will tug at your heartstrings.

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What we like:
  • Impactful story
  • Emotional journey
  • Realistic characters
  • Meaningful choices
  • Good replay value
What could be improved:
  • Fairly linear gameplay
  • Some may find it too emotionally taxing

  • simulation
  • war
  • emotional
  • time-management
  • choices
  • life
  • hand-drawn
  • story
  • social
  • historical
  • casual
  • crafting
  • atmospheric
  • management

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League Of Enthusiastic Losers (2021)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Xbox One

League of Enthusiastic Losers is an adventure game about caring for yourself and your friends, and about not having to be unhappy, just because you are a loser in the eyes of others.


  • 2d
  • emotional
  • atmospheric
  • cute
  • adventure
  • walking-simulator
  • point-and-click
  • half-baked
  • story
  • single-player
  • sailing
  • western
  • hand-drawn
  • visual-novel

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BOKURA: planet (2025)

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Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows

"There's something I can't tell you..." Explore new frontiers of co-op gaming in BOKURA: planet, a puzzle adventure game that you can only play with two players. Take on the role of a spaceship's exploration crew and try to escape from the red planet you crash-landed on.


  • cooperative
  • emotional
  • action-adventure
  • pixel
  • puzzle
  • psychological
  • casual
  • cute
  • adventure
  • 2d
  • story
  • horror
  • platform
  • action
  • atmospheric

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FREERIDE (2025)

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PC Windows Mac OS Nintendo Switch

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.


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

35

Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery! (2025)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

A Werewolf game-style social deduction adventure where you play as the landlord of an apartment and try to uncover the Yokai hiding among your residents. Not just a mystery adventure, this is a heart-warming tale of character growth.


  • emotional
  • visual-novel
  • deduction
  • social
  • choices
  • mystery
  • modern
  • 2d
  • psychological
  • detective
  • hand-drawn
  • adventure
  • cartoony
  • story
  • controller-support

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Traveler's Refrain (2025)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Wield your magical instrument and defy the mecha-goddesses of fate in this Song-Casting Story Driven Action-RPG. Explore a forbidden forest as Traveler. Help him reunite with his long lost love as you fight through abominations and solve mysterious puzzles, all while an ancient conflict unfolds.


  • rpg
  • metroidvania
  • emotional
  • story
  • action-adventure
  • hack-and-slash
  • music-combat
  • action
  • atmospheric
  • puzzle
  • exploration
  • colourful
  • adventure
  • combat
  • stylized

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Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake (2025)

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Android Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X/s Nintendo Switch 2

DRAGON QUEST I & II HD-2D Remake is a stunning reimagination of the first two legendary adventures in The Erdrick Trilogy, brought together in one package.


  • rpg
  • 2.5d
  • turn-based
  • 1980s
  • emotional
  • lore
  • pixel
  • magic
  • nostalgia
  • japanese
  • fantasy
  • atmospheric
  • combat
  • all-time
  • jrpg

38

Next of Kin (2024)

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Xbox One Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox Series X

Next of Kin is an emotional story about Thomas's endeavors to find his lost wife, Martha. Solve puzzles, find clues, and uncover the truth of Martha's disappearance.


  • emotional
  • immersive
  • point-and-click
  • visual-novel
  • pixel
  • drama
  • 1990s
  • retro
  • 2d
  • story
  • top-down
  • colourful
  • exploration
  • simulation
  • cute

39

Tell Me Your Story (2024)

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Xbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Uncover Grandma Rose’s extraordinary stories along with Amelia, all hidden in multiple cozy puzzles spread around the world. Dive into globetrotter adventures, discover granny’s treasures, and relax along the way.


  • wholesome
  • dog
  • cozy
  • emotional
  • hand-drawn
  • minimalist
  • logic
  • hidden-object
  • relaxing
  • fiction
  • point-and-click
  • cartoony
  • colourful
  • story
  • cute

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Mothered (2021)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch

An immersive first-person horror adventure where you play the role of LIANA - a young girl who arrives home after major surgery and is met with a strange mannequin claiming to be her mother.


  • horror
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • psychedelic
  • emotional
  • immersive
  • psychological
  • surreal
  • point-and-click
  • dark
  • fiction
  • 1980s
  • cyberpunk
  • atmospheric
  • interactive

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