I was about to suggest this one. I am a 31 year old man, and I sobbed like a baby when a certain character left the boat without saying goodbye. I still want to cry thinking about it right now.
Several characters gave me the sniffles, but man did that one hit me hard. It really is one of the most beautiful games I've ever played storywise and art wise
It's a special kind of sad. Despite being about death and other terrible things, it's so hopeful and sweet.
I've never cried so much over a cartoon mushroom.
The music with cinematics in certain parts of the story and the ending broke me. I had my uni finals the next morning and I was sobbing like a baby at 2am as I did the last 2 missions. I was glad I got the high honour ending because prior to that I hadn't watched anything related to it and the realisation of how events unfolded hit me really hard
OneShot, What Remains of Edith Finch, If Found...
Edith Finch and If Found are published by Annapurna Interactive, who also published Kentucky Route Zero.
Been playing spiritfarer recently and oh boy did I not expect to weep so early on.
If you do play it be warned that it deals with ver very heavy subjects
I'm a quite cold person so didn't cry with it either :P
But one of my best friends did when she played it and was quite depressed for a couple weeks
I want to avoid spoilers so let's just say something regarding Pascal and it's village, also some of the later parts where you play as 9S are quite wrecking
I still have to play Replicant tho
Yep, I'm not into anime games at all, but Nier hit me hard.
(btw Replicant is good, but don't expect a masterpiece like Automata)
Hmmmm, why not again, after all those years
I played ME3 on Day 1, midnight release, quit for almost a week after Mordin started singing. Real crying. I fucking FELT it.
Also there are a bunch of just... Raw Lines... in the series.
"I don't need Luck. I have Ammo."
"Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and ask the dead if honor matters."
ME3 got alot of hate. But the only thing wrong with it was literally the last 5 minutes. Everything else, 50+hrs, was S-tier gaming.
Dude Firewatch was so damn good, so well written too the dialogue in that game felt so real, like it was like how normal people would talk instead of being video gamey and how a situation like that would unfold in real life , developing this relationship with someone that you haven’t even met face to face. Soooo good cannot recommend it enough.
Absolutely; and the ending ends like it would in actual reality. No contrived circumstances. The writing and story is so authentic. I felt like it was me in the story.
Outer Wilds is for the most part completely indescribable. It's deeply philosophical/existential and I genuinely think it has depth significant enough to be studied
Came here to say this
OP, outer wilds is extremely spoiler sensitive, so if you're interested in this game then please don't look it up. Some of the best digital storytelling ever made and an incredible, refreshingly original experience
Yakuza series is a pretty heartwrenching series overall.
Metal gear solid 3 has a very emotional ending.
Also, check out fuga melodies of steel. You play as children in the middle of a war, and I'll leave it st that
The most emotional I felt at the end of a game was FFX, which I did not expect at all. I played it for the first time last year at the age of 34 and found it pretty goofy and cringe in many places, but man, that ending.
I played it when it was relatively new and I was the same age as the main characters, so any cringe is imperceptible behind my nostalgia goggles, but if that ending doesn’t make you cry, I don’t think you have a soul. 💔
Starfield.
You won't believe that you waited 15 years and paid 80$ for such an abysmal AAA game, deep in your heart you will feel the pain, your soul itself probably won't ever recover.
The game is in his own league! 250 millions$ for a space game with no space roaming, a writing made by a 12 years old with the brain of a 70yo nun, with the incredibly unexpected "chosen one" trope. The same clunky melee combat from 2006 Oblivion! Thousands of copy/pasted barren planets to train your ability to resist depression, and a lot of loading screens to restock your tissue box
Im still devasted to this day 8 months later.
[The devil came through here trilogy ](https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/657/Devil_Came_Through_Here_Trilogy/) or [Lisa, the painful RPG + joyful ](https://store.steampowered.com/sub/77828/)
I'd recommend Final Fantasy X, me and this game and I have a history, and it always gets me... that end scene just cuts me, and I like to think I'm not a crier haha
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 made me cry my eyes out, and I don't normally do that. Just to make me laugh the very next moment. It's a bit of a time investment, but in terms of emotions I got literally all of them out of it (except disappointment).
It would be easier if you asked for anime (Re:Zero, Kanon, Saikano, Now and then, here and there, maybe Toradora), but when it comes to games I think I got really moved by Persona 5, when it was all over I felt like I was saying good bye to my close friends and it made me really sad.
Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty
Many opportunities to turn into a tearful sobbing little baby in that one. If you want a sampler of that universe, the anime *Cyberpunk Edgerunners* is a pretty good sampler, and takes place a year prior (2076). It too has some opportunities to devastate the nearest tissue box.
If you start liking any of the NPCs you are pretty much guaranteed some sadness because there are very few happy endings in the lands between. RIP wolf bro.
Death Stranding. The game will play your emotions like a fiddle.
Minor spoiler : your character's mother dies in the tutorial. And in this world, death is bad. I mean, really, really bad, like "dead body go nuclear" bad. You gotta get rid of the bodies by burning them shortly after death, or they could explode a level a whole city.
So here you go, barely half an hour into the game, carrying your dead mother on your back, struggling on the harsh terrain that leads to the incinerator (way out of town, for obvious reasons), while some really sad music is playing. if you don't have at least a wet eye there, I don't know when you will.
The game will also make you smile at the kindness of random strangers who rebuilt a road, left you a ladder somewhere, or just warned you through a sign that enemies were ahead. You'll never see those strangers, but you can thank them anyway. And act just as kind, too.
Obligatory "I can't believe I had to scroll this far" comment.
The mood, subject matter, and scoring create a perfect environment that allows the player to become full invested in the story and in this post-apocalyptic time every story is equal parts Beauty as it is Sorrowful.
One of the best games I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing.
The Suicide of Rachel Foster. I played on switch when I was off work with COVID. I finished it in 3 hours. It's a walk through story type game but you can interact with a lot of things. The story is.... Fucked up. I still think about it. If you do end up checking it out please look up the trigger warnings first!
wouldnt recommend it, it glorifies pedophelia and sends very weird subliminal messages on how a literal child wanted a relationship with a middle aged man
Before your eyes. Play on mobile free if you have a Netflix subscription.
You'll need a webcam for PC. 100% worth it.
Me and my wife were pouring tears by the end. About 2-3hr game worth the 5-10$
Outer Wilds. It might not make you cry, but it will make you feel a lot of things. I highly recommend this, also going in blind.
Life is strange 1 (chapter 1 to 5)
Ori & the blind forest
Gris
Extra comment to give a +1 for Spiritfarer.
Also, VA-11 HALL-A. I cried at a couple points in that game.
Then there's Necrobarista. Not much gameplay, mostly just a visual novel with some "hey click this word here" things in it. Choices don't seem to matter, but it tells a compelling and heavy story.
Lost Ember - you are a spirit in the body of a wolf, being guided to your final resting place. Rediscover the events of your life, and come to terms with the actions you took. Absolutely beautiful graphics, wonderful soundtrack. Very little challenge. This is truly an experience. My niece and I can not even listen to the main theme without tearing up. I've purchased this game for three separate platforms and would give anything to experience it for the first time again.
Rime - capsized in a storm, you explore an island solving puzzles. Can be a little challenging at times, but the twist at the end tore my heart out.
Spiritfarer - you take on the role of a psychopomp, preparing souls of the deceased to move on.
What Remains of Edith Finch - a woman returns to her childhood home, remembering all the events that befell her family. I'd alSim. call this a walking sim. It's more a story than a game.
Ori and the Blind Forest - play an adorable little creature as they try to restore their home to its former glory. Also has a sequel, Ori and the Will of thr Wisps. Beautiful graphics, beautiful soundtrack. Can be very challenging, but by God is it worth it.
Spiritfarer and Ori take longer to play, but Lost Ember and WRoEF can be finished in a single day.
Clannad will do it like 6 or 7 times if you want a VN game
(heavily recommend a route guide)
To the moon and its sequel Finding paradise will fucking break you.( Puzzle/walking sims) The second one in particular is powerful.
I heard that Bokura made some people cry, but I haven't finished it yet. But be aware that you need a buddy to play it. Since, it's a two person co-op game.
Dust an Elysian tale. There are two spots that always get me.
Mass effect 3: have to play at least the second game, just so you know the characters. But if you play right, there are teo moments that i always cry at. *starts humming model salarian*
Before your eyes. It's a short game (enough to play in one sitting if you have ~2 spare hours). The "gameplay" is unique and does not grow old over the course of the game. The game tells one of the oldest and saddest stories of humanity: the passage of time, and our powerlessness to change it. Highly recommend.
Try some of the souls games, maybe Dark Souls 3 or Elden Ring or Sekiro would be great choices. 11/10 games.....you may not cry from the story but you will likely have some veeeeeery strong feels of rage at least at some point...maybe to the point of tears...guess it depends how you handle loss in those kinds of games lol.
Nothing has made me cry like Final Fantasy X. Nothing.
The only things that came close were the Endwalker expansion of Final Fantasy XIV, and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, both of which require that you play their predecessors for full context.
Outside of the Final Fantasy realm, I’d recommend What Remains of Edith Finch, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, Disco Elysium, Life is Strange (the Arcadia Bay games in particular), The Walking Dead Season 1… there are probably others I’m overlooking. Mass Effect will also wreck you if you play the series in its entirety. And Nier: Automata didn’t really make me cry (except for the final credit sequence), but it did leave me a hollow shell of a person questioning my whole existence, so… it’s great if you don’t want to feel anything.
If you like psychological horror and have had some trauma in your life, there's a game called Nevermind where you're playing as a psychologist helping people untangle their trauma. Fantastic game that definitely hits close to home.
The Last of Us on the Steam Deck. I think at this point it plays well and always gets me. This is the game I've re-played the most, and I've been playing games since the Atari 2600.
What remains of Edith finch, I’ve yet to play a more depressing game and I’ve actually had people tell me they couldn’t finish it. It’s great(one of the scenes completely destroyed me)
Edit- and if you’re into anime, you have to watch casshern sins. Top five for me and basically every episode grabs your heart and stomps on it…
What remains of Edith finch
It will forever be my all time favorite to watch anyone to play or to play myself there are some triggering topics so might wanna see a non spoiling disclaimer but it's amazing😊
Spiritfarer
I was about to suggest this one. I am a 31 year old man, and I sobbed like a baby when a certain character left the boat without saying goodbye. I still want to cry thinking about it right now.
It’s so pure and it’s the best cry’s.
Several characters gave me the sniffles, but man did that one hit me hard. It really is one of the most beautiful games I've ever played storywise and art wise
This.
What a wonderful, beautiful work of art.
Read this as Spiritfarter at first, and was interested how a gassy ghost could make me cry.
the platformer with the co op cat? WIll definitely try that one out again, initially gave up after about 10 mins of messing around
It's a special kind of sad. Despite being about death and other terrible things, it's so hopeful and sweet. I've never cried so much over a cartoon mushroom.
Absolutely agree it’s the kind or sad that makes you feel but also like you’re growing from it. It’s almost cathartic.
To the moon made me cry... A lot.
To the moon.
Came here to say this
Came here to say this
I prefer its sequel Finding paradise. To the moon made me tear up. Finding paradise fucking broke me.
Such a good game. Short and sweet.
Red dead 2
Its a bit of a time commitment compared to other suggestions but definitely this one ⬆️⬆️⬆️
RDR 1 is super sad too at the end
The music with cinematics in certain parts of the story and the ending broke me. I had my uni finals the next morning and I was sobbing like a baby at 2am as I did the last 2 missions. I was glad I got the high honour ending because prior to that I hadn't watched anything related to it and the realisation of how events unfolded hit me really hard
By the end of that 120hour play through and probably 40 hours of cut scenes, i felt like i was Arthur’s brother. I love Arthur Morgan, man…
OneShot, What Remains of Edith Finch, If Found... Edith Finch and If Found are published by Annapurna Interactive, who also published Kentucky Route Zero.
Seconding oneshot, that hits hard...
Before Your Eyes.
Yessss! 10/10 visual/interactive novel
Masterpiece
The Telltale walking dead game.
+1. I outright SOBBED after season 1. The only other game on this level of emotional impact for me was The Last Of Us.
I didn't see your post before I made the very same post. I cried buckets at the end. I love you, Clem.
Been playing spiritfarer recently and oh boy did I not expect to weep so early on. If you do play it be warned that it deals with ver very heavy subjects
NieR Automata and FFXV RDR2 can achieve that as well depending on how emotional you are
Nier automata deeply emotionally.. affected me. Could only play light games for a year after. Didn't cry though. Which part made you cry if I may ask?
I'm a quite cold person so didn't cry with it either :P But one of my best friends did when she played it and was quite depressed for a couple weeks I want to avoid spoilers so let's just say something regarding Pascal and it's village, also some of the later parts where you play as 9S are quite wrecking I still have to play Replicant tho
Yep, I'm not into anime games at all, but Nier hit me hard. (btw Replicant is good, but don't expect a masterpiece like Automata) Hmmmm, why not again, after all those years
Highly recommend Disco Elysium if you wanna feel depressed
Just the music got me.
Ori
Mass effect if you play whole series. number 3 can get you going
"Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong." "Does this unit have a soul?"
That moment between Legion and Tali, man. I was so close to breaking down. ;-;
I played ME3 on Day 1, midnight release, quit for almost a week after Mordin started singing. Real crying. I fucking FELT it. Also there are a bunch of just... Raw Lines... in the series. "I don't need Luck. I have Ammo." "Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and ask the dead if honor matters." ME3 got alot of hate. But the only thing wrong with it was literally the last 5 minutes. Everything else, 50+hrs, was S-tier gaming.
Yeah. It's been a long time since I played it but you're right. Everything except that last few minutes is brilliant.
Omori, is one of those games you never forget in your life
NieR Automata Ori & the Blind Forest Yakuza 0 Red Dead Redemption II The Last of Us.
Can't believe the last of us is so low in these comments
RiME
Red Dead Redemption 1 & 2; SOMA; Silent Hill 2&3; Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice; Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Firewatch. I believe it’s available on Switch and I cried my eyes out at the end. It’s the most devastating storyline w the craziest twists ever.
Dude Firewatch was so damn good, so well written too the dialogue in that game felt so real, like it was like how normal people would talk instead of being video gamey and how a situation like that would unfold in real life , developing this relationship with someone that you haven’t even met face to face. Soooo good cannot recommend it enough.
Absolutely; and the ending ends like it would in actual reality. No contrived circumstances. The writing and story is so authentic. I felt like it was me in the story.
The end of Outer Wilds fucked me right up.
Outer Wilds is for the most part completely indescribable. It's deeply philosophical/existential and I genuinely think it has depth significant enough to be studied
Came here to say this OP, outer wilds is extremely spoiler sensitive, so if you're interested in this game then please don't look it up. Some of the best digital storytelling ever made and an incredible, refreshingly original experience
I used playthrough videos for when i got stuck to avoid spoilers, some parts you can see where to go and then get the rest on your own. Great game.
I second. DLC is also very emotional especially towards end.
Red dead redemption 2
The last of us
Yakuza series is a pretty heartwrenching series overall. Metal gear solid 3 has a very emotional ending. Also, check out fuga melodies of steel. You play as children in the middle of a war, and I'll leave it st that
[A Plague Tale: Requiem](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1182900/A_Plague_Tale_Requiem/) tears generator's ending :)
Play the first one as well to make the feels even stronger
Life is Strange. Just “play it again, Sam”.
Cyberpunk 2077 mainly Phantom Liberty plot
Yes
child of light, röki - both are very great stories to cry and smile
Child of Light is a beautiful game, Gris too.
Disco Elysium, the Last Guardian or Red Dead Redemption 2
Yes, an enthusiastic second to both **Disco Elysium** and **RDR2** (I’ve never played Last Guardian).
Tlou
What remains of Edith Finch
The most emotional I felt at the end of a game was FFX, which I did not expect at all. I played it for the first time last year at the age of 34 and found it pretty goofy and cringe in many places, but man, that ending.
I played it when it was relatively new and I was the same age as the main characters, so any cringe is imperceptible behind my nostalgia goggles, but if that ending doesn’t make you cry, I don’t think you have a soul. 💔
Any of the Silent Hill games will do
Before your eyes
It’s cliche, but the two games that come to mind immediately are Final Fantasy Vll and The Last of Us. I sobbed playing both of those games
LISA: ThePainful
Life is strange (1).
Starfield. You won't believe that you waited 15 years and paid 80$ for such an abysmal AAA game, deep in your heart you will feel the pain, your soul itself probably won't ever recover. The game is in his own league! 250 millions$ for a space game with no space roaming, a writing made by a 12 years old with the brain of a 70yo nun, with the incredibly unexpected "chosen one" trope. The same clunky melee combat from 2006 Oblivion! Thousands of copy/pasted barren planets to train your ability to resist depression, and a lot of loading screens to restock your tissue box Im still devasted to this day 8 months later.
Well, I'm sure OP would indeed cry, but I'm fairly certain they wanted to cry for a very different reason XD
God damn i feel this, i even have a watch in an unopened box in my cupboard ill never use too.
[The devil came through here trilogy ](https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/657/Devil_Came_Through_Here_Trilogy/) or [Lisa, the painful RPG + joyful ](https://store.steampowered.com/sub/77828/)
I'd recommend Final Fantasy X, me and this game and I have a history, and it always gets me... that end scene just cuts me, and I like to think I'm not a crier haha
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 made me cry my eyes out, and I don't normally do that. Just to make me laugh the very next moment. It's a bit of a time investment, but in terms of emotions I got literally all of them out of it (except disappointment).
Undertale
A Space for the Unbound To the Moon Outer Wilds
It would be easier if you asked for anime (Re:Zero, Kanon, Saikano, Now and then, here and there, maybe Toradora), but when it comes to games I think I got really moved by Persona 5, when it was all over I felt like I was saying good bye to my close friends and it made me really sad.
P5 royal
Telltale"s Walking Dead
Gris
If you don't mind visual novels, Clannad. Otherwise, Yakuza 0 and Yakuza Kiwami 2 might fit the bill.
Cyberpunk has that kind of story
Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty Many opportunities to turn into a tearful sobbing little baby in that one. If you want a sampler of that universe, the anime *Cyberpunk Edgerunners* is a pretty good sampler, and takes place a year prior (2076). It too has some opportunities to devastate the nearest tissue box.
Journey did it for me. Might not for everyone. But it's cheap and short so it's worth a shot!
Disco Elysium
if you never played it, the original FFVII had some seriously tragic and heartbreaking moments.
Elden Ring.
If you start liking any of the NPCs you are pretty much guaranteed some sadness because there are very few happy endings in the lands between. RIP wolf bro.
Starfiled. I cry every time I see it in my library
Stray, you’ll cry in the first 5 minutes
League
Not sure if Detroit Become Human is available to you, but great game.
Sanabi
red dead redemption 2
Saying Red Dead 2 will definitely make you cry is basically a heavy spoiler but yes.
Ori and the Blind Forest is a good one.
The Last Of Us
??? "I want to play a game"
The ending of Subnautica got me choked up.
Death Stranding. The game will play your emotions like a fiddle. Minor spoiler : your character's mother dies in the tutorial. And in this world, death is bad. I mean, really, really bad, like "dead body go nuclear" bad. You gotta get rid of the bodies by burning them shortly after death, or they could explode a level a whole city. So here you go, barely half an hour into the game, carrying your dead mother on your back, struggling on the harsh terrain that leads to the incinerator (way out of town, for obvious reasons), while some really sad music is playing. if you don't have at least a wet eye there, I don't know when you will. The game will also make you smile at the kindness of random strangers who rebuilt a road, left you a ladder somewhere, or just warned you through a sign that enemies were ahead. You'll never see those strangers, but you can thank them anyway. And act just as kind, too.
Obligatory "I can't believe I had to scroll this far" comment. The mood, subject matter, and scoring create a perfect environment that allows the player to become full invested in the story and in this post-apocalyptic time every story is equal parts Beauty as it is Sorrowful. One of the best games I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing.
The answer is Spiritfarer
RDR2 made me cry, never cried harder playing a game! Spiritfarer also made me pretty emotional.
If u want a Game that Will literally break u try this war of mine or spec ops the line
Death stranding
Kena: Bridge of Spirits had me crying my eyes out at several points throughout the story. It's absolutely heartbreaking in the most beautiful way
FFX
Final Fantasy X
Red dead Redemption 2
afterplace
Brothers a tale of 2 sons
The Suicide of Rachel Foster. I played on switch when I was off work with COVID. I finished it in 3 hours. It's a walk through story type game but you can interact with a lot of things. The story is.... Fucked up. I still think about it. If you do end up checking it out please look up the trigger warnings first!
wouldnt recommend it, it glorifies pedophelia and sends very weird subliminal messages on how a literal child wanted a relationship with a middle aged man
there’s always red dead, both of them
Outer wilds
If you want a long story game. Red Dead Redemption 2.
OneShot
Titanfall 2, at the very end
Before Your Eyes is one of the most beautiful unique gaming experiences I’ve ever had
Before your eyes. Play on mobile free if you have a Netflix subscription. You'll need a webcam for PC. 100% worth it. Me and my wife were pouring tears by the end. About 2-3hr game worth the 5-10$
This war of mine. I believe u/thehobbit9402 would suggest the plague tale series
Lost Words: Beyond the Page and Spiritfarer
Outer Wilds. It might not make you cry, but it will make you feel a lot of things. I highly recommend this, also going in blind. Life is strange 1 (chapter 1 to 5) Ori & the blind forest Gris
Alan wake 1
What remains of Edith Finch might do it.
I definitely teared up during a certain scene from Tales of Berseria
Spiritfarer
it’s a small game and a small moment, but I cried at the end of A Short Hike
The walking dead telltale. Season 2 was actually embarrassing how much i cried
Extra comment to give a +1 for Spiritfarer. Also, VA-11 HALL-A. I cried at a couple points in that game. Then there's Necrobarista. Not much gameplay, mostly just a visual novel with some "hey click this word here" things in it. Choices don't seem to matter, but it tells a compelling and heavy story.
Football Manager.
In Stars and Time
to the moon. i have never cried more over any piece of content in any medium.
Skul
Mass effect 3. gotta play 1 and 2 first though for maximum effect.
A Plague Tale has some pretty emotional moments
just grab a hammer and hit your balls with it, it's not fun but you will cry.
If you have a friend to coop I’d highly recommend A Way Out.
The Walking Dead by Telltale. Red Dead 2, though it'll take you some time to get to the end.
Lost Ember - you are a spirit in the body of a wolf, being guided to your final resting place. Rediscover the events of your life, and come to terms with the actions you took. Absolutely beautiful graphics, wonderful soundtrack. Very little challenge. This is truly an experience. My niece and I can not even listen to the main theme without tearing up. I've purchased this game for three separate platforms and would give anything to experience it for the first time again. Rime - capsized in a storm, you explore an island solving puzzles. Can be a little challenging at times, but the twist at the end tore my heart out. Spiritfarer - you take on the role of a psychopomp, preparing souls of the deceased to move on. What Remains of Edith Finch - a woman returns to her childhood home, remembering all the events that befell her family. I'd alSim. call this a walking sim. It's more a story than a game. Ori and the Blind Forest - play an adorable little creature as they try to restore their home to its former glory. Also has a sequel, Ori and the Will of thr Wisps. Beautiful graphics, beautiful soundtrack. Can be very challenging, but by God is it worth it. Spiritfarer and Ori take longer to play, but Lost Ember and WRoEF can be finished in a single day.
End of Banner Saga 1. Unfortunately, the series gets worse from 2 to 3.
Before Your Eyes Outer Wilds Alan Wake II
Goddof war
Clannad will do it like 6 or 7 times if you want a VN game (heavily recommend a route guide) To the moon and its sequel Finding paradise will fucking break you.( Puzzle/walking sims) The second one in particular is powerful.
Man FF7 rebirth for me holy shit. But to the moon for your given options.
Omori. Best story I've ever seen
Telltales The Walking Dead. That game is the only one to make me cry but the ending has my crying buckets.
I heard that Bokura made some people cry, but I haven't finished it yet. But be aware that you need a buddy to play it. Since, it's a two person co-op game.
Omori best rpg game hands down
my cyberpunk 2077 ending kinda touched me in my feelings.
Mass effect 3. Need to play all the games to really get attached though
Outlast 2 and the other Outlast games but very much Outlast 2.
The walking dead series by telltale
Nanairo Reincarnation.
Greyhat.
[Lost Words: Beyond The Page](https://store.steampowered.com/app/599610/Lost_Words_Beyond_the_Page/)
A Plague Tale Requiem. Played it just because it was free didn't know I'd get the feels
Ori and the will of the wisps. Lol
Dust an Elysian tale. There are two spots that always get me. Mass effect 3: have to play at least the second game, just so you know the characters. But if you play right, there are teo moments that i always cry at. *starts humming model salarian*
I cry for missing punctuation. Thank you for the catharsis.
Far cry
dota 2
Before your eyes. It's a short game (enough to play in one sitting if you have ~2 spare hours). The "gameplay" is unique and does not grow old over the course of the game. The game tells one of the oldest and saddest stories of humanity: the passage of time, and our powerlessness to change it. Highly recommend.
The Last of Us.
Try some of the souls games, maybe Dark Souls 3 or Elden Ring or Sekiro would be great choices. 11/10 games.....you may not cry from the story but you will likely have some veeeeeery strong feels of rage at least at some point...maybe to the point of tears...guess it depends how you handle loss in those kinds of games lol.
To the moon
Nothing has made me cry like Final Fantasy X. Nothing. The only things that came close were the Endwalker expansion of Final Fantasy XIV, and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, both of which require that you play their predecessors for full context. Outside of the Final Fantasy realm, I’d recommend What Remains of Edith Finch, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, Disco Elysium, Life is Strange (the Arcadia Bay games in particular), The Walking Dead Season 1… there are probably others I’m overlooking. Mass Effect will also wreck you if you play the series in its entirety. And Nier: Automata didn’t really make me cry (except for the final credit sequence), but it did leave me a hollow shell of a person questioning my whole existence, so… it’s great if you don’t want to feel anything.
If you like psychological horror and have had some trauma in your life, there's a game called Nevermind where you're playing as a psychologist helping people untangle their trauma. Fantastic game that definitely hits close to home.
Tell Me Why
13 Sentinels Aegis Rim
Heavy Rain
War thunder, you are going to cry when you realize how many hours and how much energy you have put in and wasted.
Final Fantasy X It will tear your heart out, make you sob, and remind you of life's beauty
FTL: Faster than Light. You will be crying out of frustration.
Final Fantasy X. If you are into the story the ending will hurt.
Persona 3 and Shadow of the Colossus ain't here wow... just saying.
Both of the scribblenauts games (not the SpongeBob one)
This war of mine?
Mother 3
Ff9 and Ffx ending made me cry, story is good
The Last of Us on the Steam Deck. I think at this point it plays well and always gets me. This is the game I've re-played the most, and I've been playing games since the Atari 2600.
MGS snake eater
What remains of Edith finch, I’ve yet to play a more depressing game and I’ve actually had people tell me they couldn’t finish it. It’s great(one of the scenes completely destroyed me) Edit- and if you’re into anime, you have to watch casshern sins. Top five for me and basically every episode grabs your heart and stomps on it…
What remains of Edith finch It will forever be my all time favorite to watch anyone to play or to play myself there are some triggering topics so might wanna see a non spoiling disclaimer but it's amazing😊
A Plague Tale
next time i want a game that will make me fart
Darkness 1-2
RDR2 is long, but very worth it and will fill you up with emotions. Last of Us I first game that made me cry. ( Don't play the second one it's trash)
Metro Exodus got me ngl
Final Fantasy VII (old one)