The Best Emotional Games for Xbox One - Page 4

Update : Closer The Distance added at rank #6.
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The Master's Pupil (2023)

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Explore the eye of master artist Claude Monet and experience a unique biographical adventure! Test your skills and perseverance as you overcome the progressive disease that threatened Monet’s eyesight and solve puzzles to help the painter complete some of his greatest masterpieces!Throughout the game, you will encounter and overcome increasing challenges as Monet experiences loss, like the passing of his wife Camille, and struggles with the cataracts that threatened his artistic skill. Consider color, space, and timing as you traverse the world of his eye - as one wrong color combination or move can end your journey.


  • puzzle
  • hand-drawn
  • platform
  • philosophical
  • emotional
  • stylized
  • 2d
  • linear
  • scroller
  • abstract
  • atmospheric
  • colourful
  • physics
  • adventure
  • surreal

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The Signifier (2020)

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PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Mac OS

This story-driven adventure follows a mystery of death and despair from reality into the surreal realms of objective memories and subjective experiences. Search the mind, solve puzzles, and unravel the dark truth in this psychological thriller.


  • surreal
  • psychological
  • investigation
  • emotional
  • multiple-endings
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • tech-noir
  • horror
  • dark
  • first-person
  • walking-simulator
  • choices
  • psychology
  • exploration

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SpiritfarerA (2020)

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Xbox One PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Spiritfarer® is a cozy management game about dying. As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and guide them across mystical seas to finally release them into the afterlife. What will you leave behind?


  • emotional
  • building
  • cooperative
  • hand-drawn
  • fishing
  • management
  • relaxing
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • crafting
  • simulation
  • exploration
  • local
  • cartoony

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The Palace on the Hill (2024)

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Android Xbox One PC Windows Mac OS

A heartfelt story of ambition, struggle, and friendship told from the perspective of a young boy in fictional 90s rural India. Explore ancient palace ruins, set up your garden, cook Indian food, run errands for quirky characters, and learn about your history by making art.


  • life
  • emotional
  • simulation
  • relaxing
  • hand-drawn
  • exploration
  • story
  • management
  • top-down
  • immersive
  • open-world
  • 2.5d
  • farming
  • conversation
  • cooking

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Mothered (2021)

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

An immersive first-person horror adventure where you play the role of LIANA - a young girl who arrives home after major surgery and is met with a strange mannequin claiming to be her mother.


  • horror
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • psychedelic
  • emotional
  • immersive
  • psychological
  • surreal
  • point-and-click
  • dark
  • fiction
  • 1980s
  • cyberpunk
  • atmospheric
  • interactive

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Tell Me Your Story (2024)

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Xbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Uncover Grandma Rose’s extraordinary stories along with Amelia, all hidden in multiple cozy puzzles spread around the world. Dive into globetrotter adventures, discover granny’s treasures, and relax along the way.


  • wholesome
  • dog
  • cozy
  • emotional
  • hand-drawn
  • minimalist
  • logic
  • hidden-object
  • relaxing
  • fiction
  • point-and-click
  • cartoony
  • colourful
  • story
  • cute

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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.


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

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ARIDA: Backland's Awakening (2019)

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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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DREAMERS (2023)

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DREAMERS will lead you on an emotional journey in a story about friendship, exploration, and personal growth. Join the three characters in their adventure through a 3D world with secondary storylines and mini-games, vehicles to upgrade, puzzles to solve, and collaborative split-screen experiences.


  • 3d
  • colourful
  • visual-novel
  • emotional
  • investigation
  • exploration
  • platform
  • action-adventure
  • cartoony
  • naval
  • third-person
  • drama
  • comic
  • adventure
  • atmospheric

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Room of Depression (2023)

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"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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