Best Emotional games on PC
Games labeled Emotional center on stories, characters, or themes intended to evoke strong feelings. They span adventures, RPGs, action games, platformers, and cooperative games, so their specific mechanics vary widely.
- Character-focused storytelling
- Serious or bittersweet themes
- Varied gameplay styles
Related: Story Rich, Great Soundtrack, Singleplayer, Choices Matter
381 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
Gone Home
First-person story exploration in an empty 1990s family home
77% positive
18K reviews
Outcore: Desktop Adventure
Desktop adventure where a lost girl lives on your computer
97% positive
Free
Wildermyth
Procedural tactical RPG where choices shape generations of heroes
95% positive
18K reviews
Sanfu
2D mystery adventure tracing a strange television broadcast
83% positive
18K reviews
Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin
Turn-based creature-collecting RPG about hatching eggs and raising monsters
83% positive
17K reviews
Life is Strange: True Colors
Choice-driven narrative adventure with supernatural empathy and a small-town mystery
89% positive
17K reviews
Florence
Interactive romance built from everyday moments and simple puzzles
93% positive
16K reviews
Tell Me Why
Choice-driven narrative adventure about twins investigating conflicting childhood memories
82% positive
Free
Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition
Pixel-art JRPG with timed turns and three-player local co-op
88% positive
16K reviews
The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit
Short narrative adventure about a boy's imagined superhero missions
93% positive
Free
Grimm's Hollow
Pixel-art RPG about searching for your brother among ghosts
99% positive
Free
Nobody - The Turnaround
City life sim balancing jobs, health, and relationships
60% positive
14K reviews
BOKURA
Two-player side-scrolling puzzle adventure where each sees a different world
91% positive
13K reviews
DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
Side-scrolling psychological horror adventure about eviction, guilt, and puzzles
93% positive
13K reviews
Impostor Factory
Top-down story adventure with time travel and mansion deaths
96% positive
13K reviews
Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name
Beat 'em up action with gadgets and a former yakuza in hiding
95% positive
13K reviews
Coffee Talk
Dialogue-heavy visual novel about serving drinks and hearing stories
95% positive
13K reviews
KINGDOM HEARTS -HD 1.5+2.5 ReMIX-
Action RPG collection of six stories across Disney worlds
87% positive
13K reviews
Find Love or Die Trying
Dating-show visual novel where staying single means death
97% positive
12K reviews
Life is Strange Remastered
Choice-driven third-person adventure about rewinding time and solving a mystery
92% positive
11K reviews
CLANNAD
Choice-driven school visual novel about friendship, family, and romance
98% positive
11K reviews
A Bird Story
Short, wordless pixel-art adventure about a boy and injured bird
85% positive
11K reviews
Life is Strange: Double Exposure
Choice-driven supernatural mystery spanning two versions of a winter campus
68% positive
11K reviews
No Case Should Remain Unsolved
Text-based detective puzzle about reconstructing a missing girl's case
96% positive
11K reviews