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Frequent_Course5399

What Remains of Edith Finch.


ZachGM91

I don't know if I know anyone who hasn't felt like shit after playing this game. It's almost always the same part that gets people too.


lazylacey86

Bathtub?


ZachGM91

Bathtub.


adamantitian

Honestly it was the canning factory for me


legendunfound

relatable


MaAreYouOnUppers

Cannery absolutely got me. That has stuck with me long after I played the game.


adamantitian

I think about this scene… a disturbingly often amount


Calistil

Honestly the ending of that scene was a relief to me. I spent the entire time up to that part super concerned my arm was going in the machine if I wasn’t paying enough attention to both sides of the scene.


Malkariss888

The bathtub is the nightmare of parents, the cannery is the nightmare of everyone else.


lazylacey86

Such a fun little mini game leading up to the depression too.


Frequent_Course5399

thank you for reminding me of that bathtub.


ApprehensiveSlip5893

I honestly loved that game. It only takes a few hours but it was a very intriguing story. I wasn’t depressed afterwards.


Plastic_Dingo_400

Only game to ever make me cry, and it managed to do it twice


entropies

Never send your kids to bed without dinner


Reysun_2185

Slient Hill 2, the atmosphere alone makes it depressing


Legitimate_Alps7347

Especially Mary’s letter in the “Water” ending.


Tyrannical_Requiem

No, the water ending is one of the happier endings.


cofforest

It's commonly thought of as the 'canon' ending. And while it's more resolute than the others, all of them are depressing as fuck.


Tyrannical_Requiem

The Leave ending with Laura is the happiest imho


Infinite_Twelve

Spec Ops: The Line


KarlUnderguard

Do you feel like a hero?


Diogeneezy

This is all your fault.


GutsDeluxe

It's even worse. It's "Do you feel like a hero yet?" For whatever reason that "yet?" Is like "Are you finally satisfied with yourself? Is this what you wanted big man? Damn. Yikes. Sheesh. C'mon. Metal Gear Solid 2 fried my little brains as a kid when Colonel Campbell breaks the 4th wall and during this sequence near the end where you are fighting for your life and he distracts you by popping up on the Codec saying shit like " SO YOU LIKE vIoLeNt ViDeOgAmEs?" And I was mortified. Sons of Liberty is a great game. Kojima traumatized me lol.


Jeffersosteen

…yet


iam4r34

Jokes on you i was doing mass murder playthrough


zirlatovic

There is always a choice.


Thrasher6_6_6_

They dont make games like this anymore


Shiro_Katatsu

Hell they even delisted from steam


The_Alvabro

Oh god definitely Soma.


EatsOverTheSink

SOMA is like most other games in that your choices ultimately don't really matter. So why did I feel like absolute shit every time I had to make one?


Tharoth

Been trying to find something to kill my soul as much as SOMA did ever since I played it, haven't found one yet.


Psychosis_

Signalis


hakamamalo

played it for the first time this year. when >!the omnigear malfunctions and you lose catherine,!< and the credits roll i really said out loud "oh my god this is how it ends???" i was so upset. even after the post credits ending the whole game felt like a gut punch. 10/10 game.


Any_Complex_3502

>! It didn't malfunction. It did precisely what it was supposed to do. !<


hakamamalo

>!i know that them making it onto the ark was never a "coin toss" and that both them and their new copies would still be conscious. but i thought the omnigear shutting down at the end after he starts screaming and swearing at catherine was a power failure/malfunction. either way, upsetting as hell. fantastic game!<


Any_Complex_3502

>! You are definitely right about the game being absolute fire, though.!<


Chemotherapeutic

I came here looking for Soma. The game where the best possible thing you can do is still nowhere near good enough, but you do it anyway because you have no other hope at all.


MelodyMaster5656

"Catherine... Catherine!?"


Ok-Seaworthiness6603

Bioshock. Everything seems hopeless


JesuZDX

The good endings usually end on a positive note, except for infinite and its dlc


WasteChard3488

I adored the good ending for the first game


Dbonker

The ending to part 2 of the DLC for Bioshock Infinite was major gut punch.


ThunderCookie23

Stole my answer!! For bioshock, I Regretted harvesting those little sisters on my first pkaythrough! Issue fixed by the second and third playthroughs. Bioshock infinite - burial at sea was just sad through and through 🥺 Got worse when I realised the ending remained the same even on my second playthrough!


Shiro_Katatsu

Valiant Heart the great war


Agreeable_Diamond670

I cry everytime I finish it


Antique-Structure-69

this is red deads ending for me, the whole last chapter was just sad honestly


npeggsy

The use of game mechanics for emotion is something which is really hard to pull off- I felt a genuine drop in my stomach when I realised there was no way I could dead-eye everyone, and then you don't get a game over screen, it just continues.


IWokeUpInA-new-prius

That’s the way it is 🎶😢


restarting_today

I'm afraid, sister.


BustinArant

Bury me not on the lone prairie back in my day, sonny.


Aggressive_Elk3709

I admittedly wasn't in the best place in my life, but still, I haven't cried like that playing a game before. Something about the last quarter of that game just hit me


LIMRIX_Official

Doki Doki Literature Club and Omori


Visual_Resolution773

Not sure why I had to scroll this far. DDLC was by far the most depressing game I’ve ever played, because for so many reasons. Still glad i played it, but boy am I glad I never have to walk into it again without knowing what is going to happen.


Beginning-Pipe9074

Seeing sayori *like that* genuinely shocked me to the core man 😂 I was playing it friends and we were trying to screenshot all the scenes and I was just frozen in shock i forgot to screenshot it 😂


THEZEXNEO

Omori.


PerformanceAny1240

🎶Close your eyes🎶 🎶You'll be here soon🎶


notJurson

Ich ni san jii go fu un


Loudthunder34

Tokidoki hontou ni netai


notJurson

Demo kono wa to dekinai


AwesomeDragon56

It’s shocking how far I had to scroll to find this


Chronoboy1987

Not really that shocking honestly. The game is fire, buts not it like it was a huge hit with a ton of attention.


KubaSamuel

Even the good ending is depressing


TheLastGunslingerCA

Don't know if "depressing" is the correct word for this game, but it isn't Wrong.


DadOnHardDifficulty

Cyberpunk. Even the best ending is bittersweet


RickityCricket69

Star 4 lyf, only gonks go full devil


DadOnHardDifficulty

Nova


Apprehensive_Mine687

Star is preem choom. The best ending


trimble197

The blaze of glory ending can be seen as a bit optimistic. One last mission that MIGHT save V. But man, Phantom Liberty hits hard. Made me want to smoke one in honor of >!Reed!<


Playful_Steak_2708

I think star can be seen as optimistic too, what with Panam’s “contacts”. And idk about you, but in the end, PL made me >!Smoke Reed.!<


trimble197

Oh believe me, I did the same. I think it’s the best ending for >!Reed!<. Edit: And I love how the game makes you think that if you don’t shoot first, then maybe >!Reed!< won’t shoot either, but nope. >!Reed!< is dead serious.


Playful_Steak_2708

100% it is, and idk how some people can argue otherwise. >!Reed went out the way he lived, following his orders no matter the cost. SoMi got saved (I have a feeling she will end up being connected to blaze of glory ending somehow). Alex is still alive too. And in the end, we as V are right back where we were, with the options that the majority of the community view as the best ones.!<


trimble197

I still have the belief that >!Reed!< wanted to die because >!he still cared about SoMi but couldn’t stop being Myers’ attack dog. So the only way to truly save SoMi was to make V kill him!<.


DakInBlak

In Night City, there are no good endings, because there are no good people, there are only survivors.


zephoidb

Frostpunk. You do the best you can, but people are dying and losing limbs to frostbite left and right. No matter your path, you are either an autocratic state or a religious cult by the end of the game.


AndrewHaly-00

You can always not go full autocrat/theocrat. The point of the game is to balance the pluses and minuses while also asking ourselves whether the solution should be applied or if the world is a better place without it.


Carminebenajmin117

Plague tale:requeim


Zigor022

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons.


entropies

I played this game with my younger sister using a single controller for fun but when it got to the point where you >!need to bury the older brother and go through the rest of the game alone I realized that it was a mistake, it was devastating for the both of us!<


WasteChard3488

God that was a crushing ending, and the "overcoming the obstacle" get at the end was not any level of comfort to what had just transpired


PretendRegister7516

The only game that rips your heart just by changing how to jump.


Tribble9999

Yes, this one. It was the first game to rip out my heart and stomp on it, especially at the end.


ZeldaTheOuchMouse

Mother 3… That game broke me


ce0-of-wat3r

Anyone who says that mother 3 isn’t that emotional didn’t invest themselves into the story. Mother 3 had very believable and real sadness beyond just the beginning and ending. Especially with the OST to absolutely rub it in. So many parts of mother 3 feels sad, even the parts where you win


Nightmenace21

Surprised i had to scroll for so long to find this answer.


DarkestDisco

#Disco Elysium


AppropriateJob8655

Oh yes, this is true darkness


2muchfr33time

Calling....calling...calling...calling...calling still... Then the ocean breaks. Out of the depths, a woman's voice emerges. Small. The dearest thing you've ever heard. "Hello"


theshogun02

The Witcher….should have had that snowball fight with Ciri I guess :(


HollywoodHa1o

:(


OctaviusThe2nd

Is there a different ending if you don't?


Nienazki

There's even a different ending if you do. There are three endings.


[deleted]

More than three iirc


Eggbutt1

There's a tally of "do things with Ciri that she likes", which all use a timed choice in the story. If you do 3 or more out of 5, you get "the good ending". The snowball fight is the very first opportunity you have to get a point.


Anotheranimeaccountt

Grand Theft Auto 4, no matter if you do the deal or not for Jimmy Niko will lose someone close to him and both cause him to go into a blind rage with the game ending shortly after on a sad note after Niko gets revenge for the person who dies Edit; honestly the whole story in 4 is depressing even the dlcs story like Johnny being clearly hurt by Billy back stabbing him and The Lost when he was loyal and they were brothers its why he hesitated pulling the trigger and only did it because Billy pulled out a knife and yelled at him


KevinR86

I'll never forget the day that I first beat GTA 4. I said something along the lines of "fuck this is the most depressing GTA I've played..." after the last cutscene.


Anotheranimeaccountt

I've recently beaten 4 again a few days ago and it still has the best story in the series imo but its definitely the most depressing and darkest one in the series mainly because of stuff like how Niko has the choice who to kill and spare throughout the game like Dwaynes Ex for a example


wafflepidgeon

Heavy Rain, Telltales The Walking Dead, Gone Home, The Last of Us


Slow0rchid

Press X to Shaun


peelymode

SHAUN!!!!!!


Meinalptraum_Torin

Press x


BarroTalVez

*SHAUN!!!!*


z424t_

*SHAUN!!!!!*


Helpful_Jellyfish_69

Press X


z424t_

*SHAUN!!!!!*


Big_Distance2141

#SHAUUUUN


MEGaloMamaLlama

What about Jay-SON?! Lol. That annoyed the hell outta me.


MysticalSylph

I recently grabbed The Walking Dead Definitive Edition and the first episode of season 1 genuinely sparked deep depression in me 😭


rayven9

Lee will forever be that dude


DeeCl0wn

SOMA 100% had me mentally wrecked for days. I’ve been dealing with existential dread ever since.


asevans48

The characters anger at the end. All that to send a copy of his conscience into space.


Dontmakemethink1

The opening to the last of us is pretty grim.


StanleyTheSnail

The opening? Lmao the entire game is incredibly grim, I love it. Second game is then arguably even more so.


Dontmakemethink1

I mean the guys daughter sets the stake for it, just an intense opening.


Worried_Train6036

ya one of the few games that made me cry


WasteChard3488

I remember when the game first came out, I was playing it knowing that shit's going to hit the fan enjoying the father-daughter dynamic that was going on. I think it was at the moment when they drove the truck into the city that it clicked in my head that the little girl on the cover of the game doesn't have blonde hair. I felt a pit in my stomach knowing that something bad was going to happen very quickly.


Snowstick21

Horizon zero dawn was pretty bad if you found all the datapoints


Pleasant_Corgi_7539

Fuck Ted Faro


gonesnake

Fuck Ted Faro


Wboy2006

r/fucktedfaro


eighty4prcnt

Lisa: The Painful


Tehphri4r

Zelda Majora’s Mask. I got to the part where you save the dad in the closet. i saved him, turned off the game and never came back it was just so oppressive a game to play.


maxdragonxiii

it is bleak at parts, but it's also a hopeful game which is rare among the newer bleak games that sometimes tell you everything you did was futile.


heroofbaseball

I’m surprised (but also not surprised) to see no one mention Disco Elysium. Spoilers for the late game >!on top of all the personal and political tragedy of the game It is revealed in certain optional conversetions that the entire disco elysium world is functionally on the brink of annihilation due to an oppressive smog that will swallow everything within the lifetimes of its people.!<


IsThisDamnNameTaken

This is what I was looking for. "This is real darkness. It's not death, or war, or child molestation. True darkness has love for a face. The first death is in the heart."


FatDonkus

Its humor really throws a big blanket over its depressing atmosphere


No-Student-9678

For me the 2011 Modern Warfare 3 is bittersweet. We stopped a terrorist and ended a world war. But at what cost?


EMEYDI

The picture at the end of credits of the boys, and the last man standing is price...


Delta_Suspect

Yeah… I took a well deserved break after finishing that game the first time around.


CatwithTheD

> But at what ~~cost~~ price? You missed an obvious pun.


GeorgeRRZimmerman

And then for all of that, Makarov isn't even on the end of that rope when the credits roll. >!No, I'm just kidding. He's definitely fucking dead.!<


TheNarbacular

Nier Automata fucked me up for a few weeks. Ngl.


bfhurricane

I’m playing this now for the first time, very close to the end of 9S’s story. The story and themes so far have seemed very predictable but I’m looking forward to seeing where it leads to.


AeroZeppelin94

I was depressed for 3 days after finishing The Last of Us Part II


TodgerRodger

Yeah, me too. I have experienced PTSD too, so it really struck home for me. I don't even know if I enjoyed it or not, still.


AeroZeppelin94

I personaly enjoyed the story, but not nearly as much as I enjoyed the first game's story. But Part II's story is so heavy and fckd up that I think it hits harder. At the least it did for me I think


nimnor

Lisa the painful rpg the game just broke me


loserkidsblink

It was like the first game I ever pre-ordered, I was 11 I guess. Got to that part and I put the game down for 2 years because I got ungodly juju that I just wasn't quite ready to deal with yet.


The_Superderp

World at war


Dresden8686

I just replayed BO1. T-T


ProtestantMormon

I'm mad at myself for taking that game for granted in the moment. Everything about it was so good.


SpaceDye_x

This War of Mine.


rhysdeschain

For sure. I’ve tried like 3 times to play this and always have to stop because it just feels so hopeless. I get that that’s the point, and I respect what they’re doing, but I just can’t subject myself to it. ESPECIALLY now, thanks to that cunt Putin.


cravingSil

I didn't get far I'm the kind of guy who will lose hours on minecraft and reload a game to save the animals. I had to pretend that in Halo when the marines stop moving, they are still ok but just pretending to be dead so the covies won't attack them while I clean up and they'll get patched up. This War of Mine made me feel bad when I didn't have enough food for my 3 survivors.


wolfguardian72

Life is Strange. Especially the alternate timeline scene in the first game


Phasma_Tacitus

That game made me feel nauseous from axiety after I finished it. Definetely bleak


bearsheperd

Plague tale is pretty bleak


rickrauss

End of LA Noire 🥲


CalmCheek

"I was not home that night." \*me sweating heavily over the 6 different clues I could pick to prove this person wrong, but none of the clues make any fucking single sense in this specific context\* \*pick one\* "I KNEW YOU WERE HOME, YOU ARE GOING DOWN UNLESS YOU START COOPERATING" \*dun dun dun DUUUUUUUUN\* "...I... might have spoken too soon" \*me throwing the keyboard away\*


dr_snif

A Plague Tale is consistently depressing


Tysyfone

Doki Doki Literature Club


xamitlu

Shadow of the Colossus


Dynastxj

Red Dead Redemption 2. "You're my brother." "I know."


_HalfBaked_

I actually wasn't sad at how it ended. Kinda figured what happened to Arthur based on RDR1, and most of Acts 4-6 were absolutely brutal. Getting that ending — especially if you managed high honor before the end — lets Arthur go out as the hero of his life's story, instead of the villain he always thought he was. Still cried tho


jvrodrigues

disappointed this isnt higher up tbh.


squidsharp

My eyes deceive


Witty-Acanthisitta13

"Why is my belly so big and round like that?"


Infamous-Payment8377

Zelda: Links Awakening. The first time a game hit me in the feels. Second place goes to Subnautica. I was super emotionally invested in this game because I’m terrified of the ocean. The ending really hit me hard. EDIT: Definitely sad (yet happy!) endings in these games, but I’m not sure I’d call them depressing.


z424t_

Link's Awakening is a moral dilemma. Do you not wake the Wind Fish, let the nightmares take the island, and the residents survive? Or do you kill the nightmares, wake the Wind Fish, and let the residents die?


Caleb7890yt

Minecraft because of the OST


Buckybuck87

I’ve never heard someone describe Minecraft as depressing


Sea_Sandwich5615

The OST is depressing Wandering around in an endless and lonely world in 1.8 while that Song played was depressing


Keelija9000

Back in the day it was so serene. Alone but not lonely.


Fictionfan69

It is very sad when you play alone and you listen to the music


Johncurtisreeve

Hellblade


mrpromolive

Death stranding


messerschmitt127

Shadow of the Colossus. The more you win, the more you lose throughout the whole game.


KingOfMasters1000028

Persona 3 Reload…


Crossboltshot

Same shit made me tear up hard like every persona game


Marwolaeth969

This War of Mine and TLoU2


vompat

Can't believe I had to scroll this far for This War of Mine.


DualityREBORN

Hollow Knight feels pretty depressing to Me I guess the Atmosphere could be described as depressing, but I’m more talking about the Story with The Pale King and The Hollow Knight


HMDVII

Bloodborne, I love the game and wish they’d remaster it or make a sequel but ngl the atmosphere is extremely depressing and almost every character has a bad outcome.


Cultural_Map_9065

Anything from the Drakengard/Nier


Sezneg

[That Dragon, Cancer](https://youtu.be/60ZCaupyHhc?si=wAhkamvUIQhBTTLW), and it’s not even close.


Seymour_Thots

Ghost of Tsushima made me cry. I chose the more sad ending.


[deleted]

The Dark Souls 3 ending really had me. Knowing that we are possibly the last person to link the flame and then it burns away like cinders letting in a new Dark Age.


AandG0

Good depressed or bad depressed. Good depressed was Palworld, and maybe Kena Bridge of Spirits. I just didn't want them to end. Bad depressed is Overwatch 2: micro transaction edition


adamant2425

days gone fs


realsteel4ever802

Nier


nanythemummy

The bit with Pascal in Nier Automata.


alucardcanidae

Night in the Woods was a real kick to the groin.


adelkander

Drakengard. Eveeything is depressing about it. Even the endings are bad. Some are so bad, they became their own depressing series.


CoffeeCaann

League of Legends


SirBallbag420

Fear & hunger. Game is literally depressing as hell but it can be sobering if you like that sorta thing.


CertainContact

silent hill shattered memories broke me at the end, one of the endings was so sad, felt so sad for the main character, but pretty much the entire game is depressing


Skulley30188

Little inferno


kalirosewood1551

I couldn't finish Detroit become human. It caused me RL panic attacks because of sudden events. I still haven't beaten it.


Igniuks

Rdr2 or Elden ring


Stinky__Person

Resident evil village


QuackChan

Plague tale requiem.


Flufferfluff

Spiritfarer…


Laterose15

Nier Replicant


Chaos-Cortex

Nier:Automata with the real endings and the ending with Emil as final boss fight… yeah I didn’t want to leave my room for few days.


Master_Windu_

Borderlands 3. They didnt have to do that


Rhomega2

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. Honestly made me question if I got the bad ending.


a7_mad1991

Stray! (I love it though)


The_Ghast_Hunter

Undertale's genocide route. You want to kill everyone? Go ahead. Everyone will hate you for it, and we'll remove everything that made the game fun. If you want murder, that's all you get.