The Best Emotional Games - Page 4

Update : Koira added at rank #32.
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Closer The Distance (2024)

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Closer the Distance is a slice-of-life sim that tells a deeply emotional story about the connections between family and friends in the face of tragedy. Unearth long kept secrets, repair strained relationships, and help your loved ones move on.

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  • narrative
  • life
  • simulation
  • emotional
  • story
  • point-and-click
  • drama
  • choices
  • philosophical
  • isometric
  • emotionally-driven
  • slice-of-life
  • stylized
  • narration
  • casual

32

Koira (2025)

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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

33

Shape (2023)

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A minimalist style but inside a complex-minded With connecting word mechanism, you can make a rule for your rooms and solve the problem. Solve the puzzle and go to the door to the next room. explore new mechanism


  • atmospheric
  • platform
  • minimalist
  • surreal
  • exploration
  • psychological
  • narration
  • philosophical
  • walking-simulator
  • 2d
  • psychedelic
  • text
  • first-person
  • puzzle
  • emotional

34

Boxville (2022)

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Boxville is an adventure puzzle game about speechless cans living in the city of boxes and drawing doodles on cardboards to tell the stories. Made in Ukraine.


  • logic
  • emotional
  • point-and-click
  • hand-drawn
  • investigation
  • family-friendly
  • puzzle
  • relaxing
  • cartoony
  • experiences
  • colourful
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • adventure
  • story

35

Django (2021)

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PC Windows Game Boy Advanced (GBA)

Django, a brave doberman left behind in the woods, will he find his way back to his family? Through the dangerous and breathtaking path of forest, you will play as django and explore the nature woods of Kodaikanal with dangerous and interesting wild animals on the way and uncovers the story behind.

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  • action-adventure
  • exploration
  • emotional
  • third-person
  • relaxing
  • family-friendly
  • story
  • nature
  • stealth
  • colourful
  • drama
  • strategy
  • faith

36

Dragon Island (2023)

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Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

Henry Heimlich, a shark dragon lifesaver suddenly received a ticket to Dragon Island, the famous resort. Follow Henry to the island, and create some unique memory on the long shore with 6 other dragons!


  • lgbtq
  • comedy
  • dragon
  • word
  • fiction
  • emotional
  • rpg
  • visual-novel
  • drama
  • interactive
  • anime
  • narration
  • dark
  • multiple-endings
  • 2d

37

The Red Lantern (2020)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

The Red Lantern is a narrative, dog sledding game about survival. You play as the Musher who, along with her team of 5 sled dogs, must find her way home. Care for your dogs, discover their stories, and learn how to navigate the unknowns of the Alaskan wilderness and prepare for your new life.


  • dog
  • choices
  • snow
  • rogue-like
  • emotional
  • hunting
  • fiction
  • survival
  • resource-management
  • relaxing
  • adventure
  • interactive
  • exploration
  • survival-rogue-like
  • colourful

38

Gibbon: Beyond the Trees (2022)

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Gibbon: Beyond the Trees is a hand-drawn adventure following a lost gibbon as they embark on a dangerous journey into unknown lands. Master the gibbon’s art of brachiation (swinging from branch to branch) at high speed, building momentum, pulling off spectacular somersaults. Race to freedom in liberation mode, or play through an hour-long narrative that captures the real struggle of living creatures.

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  • nature
  • emotional
  • hand-drawn
  • platform
  • 2d
  • family-friendly
  • story
  • narration
  • colourful
  • atmospheric
  • action-adventure
  • relaxing
  • exploration
  • cute
  • procedural

39

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

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Hindsight (2022)

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What if the physical objects of everyday life, the possessions we hold close, were actual windows to the past? Peer into distant memories and unseen futures in Hindsight.


  • narrative
  • narration
  • cinematic
  • emotional
  • exploration
  • point-and-click
  • story
  • hidden-object
  • interactive
  • drama
  • stylized
  • fiction
  • puzzle
  • relaxing
  • colourful

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