117

Looking for emotional game recommendations (self.games)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by seliaste to c/games@lemmy.world

133 comments fedilink hide all child comments

My favorite games are Omori, Disco Elysium and Outer Wilds. I cried for hours at the end of those games, and I think the common point in them is high-quality emotional writing and stellar OST (music really affect me) and my attachment to the characters.
I also found that my taste in movies was similar (Hana-bi by Takeshi Kitano is my favorite movie)
I've been trying to find something similar, so has anybody any recommendation?
I'd like to add that I basically hated Nier Automata (way too pretentious imo) and Before your Eyes (I wasn't a fan of the game concept, and found the story pretty weak), and really loved the horror aspects of Omori.
I also heard about To the moon, but games talking about disease are hard for me to enjoy

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Since you’re ok with horror, I highly recommend both Detention and Devotion by Red Candle Games. Both of them start out as horror, then gut punch you as you realize what’s going on. Devotion is an amazing example of domestic horror (the horror that can happen inside the home), and Detention is the horror that people do when they don’t realize the consequences of their actions. Devotion has stuck with me, and to this day the last line makes me want to cry.

[-] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Thank you for reminding me of this. I loved Detention, they did a great job of transitioning to an intriguing story once the horror elements got less scary (as they naturally do as you get used to a horror game.)

[-] Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

If you haven’t played Devotion, I really can’t recommend it enough. It’s a completely different style from Detention, but they did that same really good job of transitioning to the story.

[-] seliaste 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Woha never heard of that, I'll look into

Edit: Managed to find detention, it looks very very cool and might exactly fit what I'm looking for, but why is there only the soundtrack for devotion on steam?

[-] Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

You can only get Devotion on Red Candle’s website, thanks to Chinese censorship bullshit. It got pulled off Steam, then when GOG said they would sell it, they freaked out because they were worried about CP2077 sales and claimed “gamers” complaining made them change their mind (but wouldn’t respond to anyone asking for specifics).

[-] seliaste 1 points 8 months ago

Why would it be affected by Chinese censorship? Is it critical of the ccp? Or just because it's a taiwanese game?

[-] Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

There was a random art asset that compared Xi Jinping to Winnie the Pooh that didn’t get taken out in time.

Their partner in China got their business license pulled, and they took the game off Steam when it started getting review bombed. It was a big mess over the stupidest thing.

[-] seliaste 1 points 8 months ago

Damn, that's unfortunate

[-] Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Luckily, they were eventually able to get it up in their own site for sale, but the damage is done. They lost so much in sales and momentum. The game truly is amazing, and this game had just started to really get buzz around it when all this happened. Barely anyone even knows it now, even though it’s one of the best psychological horror and family tragedy games out there.

I look at everything happening with the Silent Hill 2 remake and wish Red Candle hadn’t gotten kneecapped by bullshit so they could be the ones doing it.