The Best Emotional Games

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

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PC Windows j Playstation 5

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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Your Android (2025)

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PC Windows

Your life is changed forever when a mysterious package arrives at your front door. Go on many different outings with your new android companion as you both form unforgettable memories in this beautiful visual novel.

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  • emotional
  • romance
  • anime
  • visual-novel
  • story
  • cute
  • casual
  • colourful

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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

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Pine: A Story Of Loss (2024)

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Nintendo Switch IOS iPhone Mac OS PC Windows

Alone in the forest glade he shared with his wife, a woodworker struggles to accept her passing. Help him hold on to cherished memories of their life together as he struggles to care for himself and his now empty home. Pine is a single-serving game focused on telling a beautiful, emotional tale.


  • hand-drawn
  • emotional
  • short
  • story
  • interactive
  • romance
  • fiction
  • point-and-click
  • visual-novel
  • linear
  • cartoony
  • single-serving
  • ecology
  • stylized
  • programming

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Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island (2024)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch

You’re shipwrecked on a lost mythical island. As backpacker Alex, you must befriend the forgotten gods of Greek mythology and restore their memories. Explore the dynamic island and its story sandbox to build new friendships, solve the mystery and save the gods.


  • mythology
  • emotional
  • wholesome
  • mystery
  • cozy
  • exploration
  • 3d
  • puzzle
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • adventure
  • relationship-building
  • controller-support
  • sandbox
  • collectathon

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Shui's Odyssey (2024)

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PC Windows

This is a puzzle game that combines text and images. Players use visual illusions to piece together fragments of memories from Alzheimer's patients, in order to reconstruct the truth of the story and witness the passage of time for three generations.

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  • hand-drawn
  • emotional
  • word
  • life
  • drama
  • fiction
  • clicker
  • comic
  • point-and-click
  • atmospheric
  • interactive
  • 1980s
  • book
  • 1990s
  • cartoony

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PrisonSoul: Reunion (2024)

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PC Windows

An ancient castle with human-making technology.A human, a dummy...Unrelated brothers, imprisoned by time in a castle...When you unlock the secrets of time, can you escape from your predicament?

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  • lovecraftian
  • emotional
  • gothic
  • visual-novel
  • clicker
  • drama
  • experimental
  • hidden-object
  • hand-drawn
  • stylized
  • point-and-click
  • atmospheric
  • story
  • mystery
  • puzzle

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Last Time I Saw You (2024)

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First loves. Family issues. Yokai. 'Last Time I Saw You' is a coming-of-age adventure set in 1980s Japan. Explore a haunted forest hiding a terrible secret, and interact with a vast cast of friendly and deceitful characters in this beautifully hand-drawn story with some light action elements.

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  • hand-drawn
  • emotional
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
  • narrative
  • romance
  • conversation
  • anime
  • exploration
  • stylized
  • story
  • linear
  • supernatural
  • atmospheric
  • mystery

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