The Best Emotional Games

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

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j Xbox Series X/s PC Windows Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch

Guide a herd of mysterious creatures on a stirring and beautiful journey into the mountains… and beyond.

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  • emotional
  • cinematic
  • atmospheric
  • nature
  • stylized
  • hand-drawn
  • story
  • walking-simulator
  • third-person
  • relaxing
  • post-apocalyptic
  • linear
  • exploration
  • action-adventure
  • minute-to-minute

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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
  • japanese
  • emotional
  • soundtrack
  • pixel
  • story
  • comedy
  • music
  • funny
  • episodic
  • jrpg
  • dark
  • 2d
  • fantasy

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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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Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery! (2025)

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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.

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

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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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Traveler's Refrain (2025)

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PC Windows

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.

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

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My Wife (2025)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

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
  • funny
  • tabletop
  • anime
  • memes
  • top-down
  • character
  • humor
  • cute
  • mystery
  • magic

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

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Leila (2025)

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

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.


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

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