The Best Emotional Games

Update : Deltarune added at rank #1.
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Deltarune (2025)

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Playstation 4 Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Dive into the parallel story to UNDERTALE! Fight or spare your way through action-packed battles as you explore a mysterious world alongside an endearing cast of new and familiar characters. Chapters 1-4 will be available on launch, with more planned as free updates!

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  • rpg
  • bullet-hell
  • emotional
  • soundtrack
  • pixel
  • japanese
  • story
  • music
  • comedy
  • funny
  • episodic
  • fantasy
  • dark
  • 2d
  • jrpg

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Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo (2025)

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Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch j PC Windows

Use your wits, kindness, and maybe a good whack to gather clues, items, and evidence that will help the residents of Limbo move on. Untangling an afterlife is no easy feat, especially when you don’t have feet!


  • 2.5d
  • detective
  • emotional
  • philosophical
  • manipulation
  • colourful
  • time
  • scroller
  • mystery
  • stylized
  • family-friendly
  • cute
  • linear
  • fiction
  • relaxing

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FREERIDE (2025)

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(Nintendo Switch) Mac OS Nintendo Switch PC Windows

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.

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

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Golden Soul (2025)

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j PC Windows Android

Who should rule the human's fate: The human itself or an abstract god?


  • lore
  • emotional
  • bullet-hell
  • drama
  • comedy
  • choices
  • action-adventure
  • family-friendly
  • magic
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • action
  • atmospheric
  • adventure
  • fantasy

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Hollywood Animal (2025)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

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
  • economy
  • emotional
  • building
  • historical
  • strategy
  • pause
  • resource-management
  • real-time
  • multiple-endings
  • atmospheric
  • mature
  • replay-value
  • simulation

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My Wife (2025)

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j ps2 dreamcast PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Meet your new digital companion - an ultra-cute desktop mascot that brings life to your screen! Place her anywhere on your desktop and enjoy immersive interactions and heartwarming moments.

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  • emotional
  • voxel
  • cartoony
  • utilities
  • moddable
  • anime
  • funny
  • tabletop
  • top-down
  • memes
  • character
  • humor
  • cute
  • mystery
  • magic

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Leila (2025)

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Xbox One Playstation 5 j Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows

Enter the world of an everyday woman as you explore her past in this point & click narrative game. Hand-drawn animations bring her memories to life, and thought-provoking puzzles lay bare the reasons behind her choices. Immerse yourself in a story unfolds as you decipher its intricate pieces.


  • hand-drawn
  • point-and-click
  • emotional
  • puzzle
  • story
  • narrative
  • psychological
  • thought-provoking
  • narration
  • atmospheric
  • stylized
  • 2d
  • hidden-object
  • soundtrack
  • drama

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Koira (2025)

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PC Windows Playstation 5 j

Save a puppy and embark on a heartwarming, hand-drawn adventure together. Journey to the heart of an enchanted forest, solving puzzles and avoiding hunters to protect your newfound friend.

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  • story
  • wholesome
  • puzzle
  • adventure
  • cozy
  • dog
  • hand-drawn
  • emotional
  • cute
  • nature
  • relaxing
  • exploration
  • mystery
  • hidden-object
  • narrative

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Menticide (2025)

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Mac OS PC Windows

Menticide is an endless runner where you protect a man running from himself. You draw lines to bounce the man around, block off enemies and cut through obstacles. Through strong symbolism and procedural rhetoric we are using the game as an analogue for mental health. 

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  • abstract
  • emotional
  • tutorial
  • thriller
  • quick-time-event
  • stylized
  • surreal
  • psychological
  • dark
  • top-down
  • pixel
  • atmospheric
  • 2d
  • horror
  • arcade

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The Haunting of Joni Evers (2025)

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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.

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

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