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Looking for emotional game recommendations (self.games)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by seliaste to c/games@lemmy.world

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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

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[-] Dremor@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

My recommendation would be RiME and Spiritfarer, both managed to make me cry.
Spiritfarer talk quite a bit about death, sometime through diseases (cancer, demencia, etc.), but in a different way than To The Moon, and you may find it ok.
RiME topic is a bit different, but cannot be spoiled unless you want to diminish the impact. In my case I went blind and damn it hit me like a truck 😅.
On the stellar OST side you could try Gris. Pretty emotional too, but in a way more abstract way than the first two.
On the topic of war and its horrors you got Torn Away, as well as This War Of Mine, both very emotional journey.

[-] seliaste 5 points 9 months ago

Spiritfarer has been on my backlog for a while, I might actually try it someday

[-] Dremor@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I'll also add Celeste to the list, amazing OST, lovable characters, but damn, it is hard ! But that's because I play it at the default settings, you can change them all, even getting immortal if you just want to enjoy the story itself.