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.
Neva
2D action platformer about a woman and her growing wolf companion
94% positive
11K reviews
Your Mother
Desktop companion with custom mother characters and online friend visits
92% positive
11K reviews
Planet of Lana
2D puzzle platformer with a companion on a threatened planet
93% positive
11K reviews
Seen
Dark puzzle platformer about a child trying to escape
91% positive
9,980 reviews
Aliya: Timelink
Text-based sci-fi visual novel with timed messages and multiple endings
98% positive
9,671 reviews
OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition
Visual novel-style space adventure following starsongs to ancient asteroid temples
96% positive
9,476 reviews
Amnesia: Rebirth
First-person horror adventure retracing a missing journey through Algeria
77% positive
9,346 reviews
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Third-person action RPG about spirit hunters making moral choices
84% positive
9,290 reviews
Knowledge, or know Lady
First-person live-action dating sim with branching romances at a women's university
95% positive
8,981 reviews
Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to)
Casual letter-writing game about anonymous support and collecting stickers
98% positive
8,976 reviews
In Stars And Time
Party-based time-loop RPG about escaping two endlessly repeating days
97% positive
8,911 reviews
Monument Valley
Perspective puzzle game about guiding a princess through shifting monuments
98% positive
8,876 reviews
Terra Nil
Isometric strategy puzzle about restoring wastelands, then removing your machines
87% positive
8,777 reviews
FINAL FANTASY
Remastered 2D JRPG with turn-based battles and class-based parties
95% positive
8,753 reviews
WITCH ON THE HOLY NIGHT
Linear fantasy visual novel about three lives entwined by magic
98% positive
8,625 reviews
Bramble: The Mountain King
Third-person Nordic folklore adventure to rescue your sister from a troll
95% positive
7,906 reviews
Horizon Zero Dawn™ Remastered
Third-person open-world RPG about hunting machines with bow and spear
85% positive
7,870 reviews
A Space for the Unbound
Pixel-art adventure exploring minds amid supernatural events in 1990s Indonesia
97% positive
7,863 reviews
INMOST
Dark pixel-art puzzle platformer connecting three characters' stories
91% positive
7,370 reviews
Blacksad: Under the Skin
Noir detective adventure about a missing boxer and consequential choices
83% positive
6,979 reviews
Café Stella and the Reaper's Butterflies
Romance visual novel mixing café life with supernatural mystery
98% positive
6,949 reviews
Five Hearts Under One Roof
First-person live-action dating sim with branching boarding house romances
91% positive
6,938 reviews
Emily is Away <3
Choice-driven visual novel about teenage relationships on a 2008 social network
91% positive
6,803 reviews
Call of the Sea
First-person puzzle adventure tracing a missing expedition across a tropical island
88% positive
6,415 reviews