The Best Emotional Games for PC Windows - Page 5

Update : HERDLING added at rank #3.
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Mr. Saitou (2023)

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Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows

A short game about an average white-collar worker who struggles to find meaning in a life full of constant overtime and isolation. After an accident lands him in the hospital, Mr. Saitou is spirited away to a strange fantasy world where an unexpected friend takes him on a life-changing adventure.

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  • japanese
  • emotional
  • rpg
  • jrpg
  • story
  • family-friendly
  • pixel
  • anime
  • walking-simulator
  • fantasy
  • cute
  • adventure
  • owl
  • funny
  • point-and-click

42

A Space for the Unbound - Prologue (2020)

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Mac OS PC Windows

Prologue chapter of A Space For The Unbound, an upcoming slice-of-life adventure game with beautiful pixelart set in the late 90s rural Indonesia that tells a story about overcoming anxiety, depression, and the relationship between a boy and a girl with supernatural powers


  • 1990s
  • foreign
  • emotional
  • philosophical
  • supernatural
  • pixel
  • walking-simulator
  • surreal
  • relaxing
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • action-adventure
  • 2d
  • point-and-click
  • anime

43

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

44

Freud's Bones - The Game (2022)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Freud's Bones is an adventure that wants to pay homage to the birth of psychoanalysis and its founder Sigmund Freud. Dig deep into Freud's bones to solve the mystery behind disturbing Egyptian artifacts, philosophical puzzles, and perverse sexual disorders in this unprecedented indie adventure game.

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  • emotional
  • dynamic
  • noir
  • point-and-click
  • 2.5d
  • choices
  • philosophical
  • multiple-endings
  • detective
  • fiction
  • investigation
  • narration
  • interactive
  • psychological
  • drama

45

Bai Qu: Hundreds of Melodies (2021)

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Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

While visiting his sick father, college student Wei Qiuwu accidentally encountered a girl playing a concertina. Until one day someone unveils to Wei Qiuwu the cruel truth hidden under a fairy-tale cover Features * A storyline of 8 to 12 hours, * Multiple routes and endings. * An extraordinary story, themed with love and caring in an ordinary slice of daily life.

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  • 2.5d
  • philosophical
  • choices
  • emotional
  • multiple-endings
  • romance
  • visual-novel
  • beautiful
  • realistic
  • modern
  • anime
  • colourful
  • cute
  • story
  • atmospheric

46

The Director's Disorder: Pilot Episode (2023)

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90
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PC Windows

The Director, a psycho killer, has chosen you to play the main character in his next film. Will you play your part and survive the night or will you be his latest victim?

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  • dark
  • dog
  • horror
  • emotional
  • thriller
  • humor
  • walking-simulator
  • multiple-endings
  • psychological
  • drama
  • historical
  • crime
  • alternate
  • hidden-object
  • atmospheric

47

De-Exit: Eternal Matters (2023)

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

Discover the secrets of the broken and mysterious Plane of Memory. Explore a wonderful voxel world with an intense cinematic approach. Dive into this profound experience, meet the Plane's inhabitants, and save the day.


  • voxel
  • cinematic
  • emotional
  • stealth
  • linear
  • narration
  • minimalist
  • family-friendly
  • action-adventure
  • atmospheric
  • 3d
  • platform
  • relaxing
  • exploration
  • story

48

Blind - The Unseen Truth (2022)

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

「Sometimes what the eye can't tell, the heart can.」 《Blind》 is a light fantasy game for girls set in a modern city. After a childhood accident that left me with a strange face blindness, I was introduced to a profession called "watchman" and since then, the world has taken on a whole new dimension.

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  • psychological
  • dating-sim
  • emotional
  • word
  • visual-novel
  • multiple-endings
  • horror
  • anime
  • romance
  • drama
  • full-length
  • text
  • detective
  • narration
  • 2d

49

Sumatra: Fate of Yandi (2019)

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

Lost and alone after a terrible landslide, Yandi must find his way home in this old-school point and click adventure set deep in the Sumatran jungle! Will he make it out alive?

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  • investigation
  • point-and-click
  • emotional
  • thriller
  • nature
  • drama
  • psychological
  • story
  • old-school
  • pixel
  • mystery
  • 2d
  • exploration
  • atmospheric
  • puzzle

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TREE (2018)

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PC Windows

TREE tells a story of a relationship between a boy and his tree. What starts off as a simple connection, over time it grows into something deeper.


  • emotional
  • short
  • mmo
  • multiplayer

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