The Best Emotional Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 5

Update : HERDLING added at rank #5.
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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

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Sea of Solitude: The Director's Cut (2021)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Adventure through a beautiful and troubling world where nothing is as it seems, to confront and conquer your fears. Kay knows monsters. Monsters that you know, too. Loneliness, depression, and abandonment take on the form of frightening beasts and fantastical creatures in the award-winning Sea of Solitude, an action/adventure game revisited for the Nintendo Switch, now as The Director’s Cut.

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  • platform
  • emotional
  • narrative
  • dark
  • atmospheric
  • semi-linear
  • walking-simulator
  • uk
  • exploration
  • adventure
  • pulse-pounding
  • heart-pounding
  • 3d
  • character-driven

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Eliza (2019)

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Xbox One Nintendo Switch Mac OS Linux PC Windows

Eliza is a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop it, and the people who use it. Follow Evelyn Ishino-Aubrey as she reconnects with people from her past, gets to know the people of Seattle who use Eliza for counseling, and decides the course of her future.

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  • visual-novel
  • emotional
  • psychological
  • beautiful
  • dystopian
  • atmospheric

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A Dream About Parking Lots (2025)

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

Look for your car in a series of mazes and parking lots while you talk to your therapist about feeling lost. An interactive short story about trying to make sense out of the unreal. Based on real dreams!


  • philosophical
  • walking-simulator
  • experimental
  • short
  • emotional
  • exploration
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • interactive
  • linear
  • fiction

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IRIS (2024)

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Xbox Series X/s Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Playstation 3 Xbox 360 gamecube xbox PC Windows ps2

IRIS is a psychological horror game with PS2-era graphics. Players navigate a young woman's dream world, confronting symbolic monsters representing her past traumas like poverty, bulimia, bullying, and loneliness. It emphasizes the pursuit of happiness amidst life's struggles.


  • horror
  • psychological
  • psychedelic
  • thriller
  • emotional
  • linear
  • anime
  • 1990s
  • 3d
  • colourful
  • cartoony
  • retro
  • atmospheric
  • nostalgia
  • immersive

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ARIDA: Backland's Awakening (2019)

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Nintendo Switch j Xbox Series X PC Windows Android IOS iPhone Xbox One

ARIDA: Backland's Awakening. A story of survival and adventure in the brazilian backlands. Face the drought to explore the more arid regions, gather resources and discover clues about the fate of the young Cícera.


  • historical
  • crafting
  • collectathon
  • survival
  • emotional
  • nature
  • family-friendly
  • short
  • cartoony
  • linear
  • stylized
  • inventory
  • adventure
  • third-person
  • 3d

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The Outbound Ghost (2022)

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Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 PC Windows

The Outbound Ghost is an adventure RPG about helping ghosts ascend to the afterlife. Battle the past using figments of your personality. Craft badges to earn abilities. Explore a town of troubled spooks and discover life can be tough, even when you're dead.


  • wholesome
  • rpg
  • turn-based
  • party
  • emotional
  • multiple-endings
  • supernatural
  • choices
  • crafting
  • stylized
  • exploration
  • mystery
  • story
  • action-adventure
  • combat

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Room of Depression (2023)

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Mac OS Android Xbox One Nintendo Switch PC Windows

"Same encounter, different world." Moon is a young woman who lives an ordinary city life as an office worker. However, because she suffers from depression, she reacts and deals with things in a way that is very different from regular city folk.


  • emotional
  • drama
  • fiction
  • life
  • education
  • interactive
  • story
  • visual-novel
  • atmospheric
  • casual
  • cute
  • romance
  • cartoony
  • adventure

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Rebel Transmute (2024)

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Battle your way through a living planet in Rebel Transmute, a sprawling 2D action-exploration epic! Embody Moon Mikono as you explore, reprogram your abilities, duel twisted sci-fi experiments, rebel against colonizers, and search for your long lost mother.


  • metroidvania
  • souls
  • scroller
  • emotional
  • 2d
  • sci-fi
  • platform
  • space
  • pixel
  • exploration
  • atmospheric
  • retro
  • action-adventure
  • story
  • adventure

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NOAH (2023)

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Nintendo Switch vita ps1 portable Playstation 3 Xbox 360 PC Windows

You love animals and additionally have a messiah complex? Noah is a game for you! Single-handedly build an Ark, gather all the wildlife and protect it from the wicked! Thanks to a coop mode of up to 4 players you can save the world together! Remember to hurry or this will be your last deadline.


  • post-apocalyptic
  • surreal
  • emotional
  • top-down
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • drama
  • visual-novel
  • 2d
  • story
  • simulation
  • pixel
  • psychedelic
  • psychological
  • mystery

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