For me, in no particular order: Firewatch This War of Mine What Remains of Edith Finch Gone Home Papers Please Doki Doki Literature Club I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Cyberpunk 2077. Talking to Angel/Skye in Automatic Love. I was in an emotional state at the time where that dialog really got me.
Also Jackie’s end. That got me good. Animators really nailed that scene.
Doki doki was great. I played a lot VNs and this one hits you really hard.
I buyed the Plusversion on Steam again a few years later
Gone Home is fantastic, and yeah, the ending hits right in the feels.
Outer Wilds
A random reddit clip introduced me to the game years ago, and my life has never been the same since…
Yes!!! I was hoping someone would have commented this… The sense of just scale and epicness, the loss, and feeling so small. I wanted to keep learning more and more about the story. It doesn’t seem like it’d be fun, reading in a game? No shooting? No killing? But it’s honestly in my top 3 favorite games of all time. Also Last of Us-- strong feeling of loss in a specific scene in that game.
Do they have to be healthy emotions? Because the cutscenes in Chained Echoes made me mad with how long they are. The cutscenes caused me to stop playing the game.
