Refurbished RefurbisherLooking for games that will make me cry
Chrono Trigger. A timeless game that will make you laugh and cry and experience all that in between. The sequel Chrono Cross is also great but the original is just unrivalled.
Chrono Trigger is my favorite game of all time.
What really dude? I am playing it for the first time ever and I have read it is a masterpiece, but I didn’t know it peaked on emotional stuff as well.
Play it all the way through and you’ll see. It’s part of the reason why it’s so highly regarded.
Make sure you do all the sidequests.
Spiritfarer. I loved it on switch, but it’s also on steam.
“Spiritfarer® is a cozy management game about dying. As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and release them into the afterlife. The Spiritfarer Farewell Edition includes the heartwarming base game and three major content updates.”
Never heard of it. I’ll have to check it out!
I’ll look into it. Thanks!
Spiritfarer is such a gem, one of the spirits you send to the afterlife really broke me. It's also available on Netflix Games so if you have a tablet and a Netflix sub you can try it from there.
It does such a good job of making you get attached to the characters. I cried for more than a couple of them. They don’t all end the same way too, and some are really heartbreaking.
JackbyDevThe light you showed me was more than a beacon. It was a guide. Only I was too blind to see it. My shades were too opaque.
The ending of Transistor made me feel things. There may have been a sob or two.
Such a gem of a game, the music and the art still live with me rent-free. My favorite Supergiant game and that’s saying something.
orcaIt was short and sweet but Planet of Lana got me in the feels a little bit.
Short and sweet sounds like my kind of game :P
You’ll dig this one then. Another one to look at is Somerville.
Red Dead Redemption has an emotional ending.
I heard good things, but open world games intimidate me due to the length.
theodewereyou kinda want to dive into that one yeah, although it is a great "on-rails" experience
It’s long, but in a good way. The content isn’t drawn out and repetitive. You want to play it that long. Mostly mentioning rdr2 here which is much better.
There are a million things that you can do in the game, but you don’t have to do any of them. You can stick to the story if you want. It’s probably still a very long game though, even if you only engage in the story.
… and now I know the only compass that I need …
celesteRakuen was the most recent game I played that did that for me
TIL supershigi makes video games. I’ll defo have to check this one out. Bonus points if she sings in the OST.
To The Moon, was such a good story. The music from that game still floats around my head to this day.
I’ve played a bit of it, but haven’t gotten around to finishing it yet.
jballsIt’s a slow start but then gets to a point where I just HAD to finish it
I can’t recommend this enough. Such a gem of a game.
Slime rancher always makes me cry at the end, but it deffo requires you reading the random notes and emails, and then also giving a shit about characters you never actually interact with. I can’t remember why it’s so emotionally effective, but this is the exact trap that keeps leading me back to replaying it and crying at the end again.
I had no idea Slime Rancher even had a story. I have a friend who used to be damn near addicted to this game.
Xenoblade 3.
The Xeno games always intimidated me just because of how many there are. I hear Xenogears is fantastic as well.
Xenoblade has no relevance to anything that came before it (aside from a small couple of references).
Xenoblade 1 and 2 can be played in any order. They are self contained aside from certain references. 1 is more serious, 2 vastly more light-hearted (for most of it, anyway). 3 takes place countless centuries after the other two and again - contains references to the other two, but nothing you need to know.
Playing in order gives you the “oh shit, it’s that place”, or person or music or whatever experience as you go on, but you would get that just as easily in any order I’d imagine. And the game works great on Yuzu on PC in 4k too.
agentshagsJourney
I need to check out Annapurna games in general, especially since they’re making one of the new Silent Hill games.
Outer Wilds developed by Mobius and published Annapurna.
A game you can ever truly experience once because the “unlocks” and “progression” are about what you learn and know.
Journey made me cry. Journey made my partner rage. It’s all about the RNG. I got the perfect match my first go, they got multiple poor matches in a row.
Shadow of the Colossus. Not only is the game play fantastic, but it is one of the strongest pieces of environmental story telling to ever happen imo. You have to pay attention to get the full story out of it, but is gripping.
Been avoiding this one since I had the game spoiled for me forever ago. I feel like I should also play ICO.
SotC is still worth playing even if spoiled - for me it’s about the overarching feeling through the entire experience that is really special. Very lonely and isolating but beautiful and tragic.
ICO I tried to replay recently but found it too clunky, but that’s probably because I don’t often play retro games so don’t have the feel for them anymore. I did love it when I played it decades ago though.
Also, definitely add The Last Guardian to this list. It’s incredibly unique, and I absolutely loved the aspects of it that frustrate some people - just try to think of it like you’re trying to communicate with an actual animal, not a game.
GargleblasterTelltale Games Walking Dead. Not a game, but a whole series.
subignitionUNDERTALE goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway.
Haven’t played it. Only thing I know about it is that it’s rich with memes.
The most recent one to make me cry was...
"I Was a Teenage Exocolonist"
Braid
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Also reiterating The Walking Dead, but only the first season.
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Also reiterating The Walking Dead, but only the first season.
I bought Brothers forever ago and never actually played it. Had Braid spoiled for me years ago, but I feel like I should still play it.
Tommy_the_GunI was also going to say Brothers. There’s one moment (anyone who has played it probably knows what I’m talking about) that actually gave me a visceral reaction.
I’ve played through this game a few times over the years - twice playing with one of my kids. I’ve always played as the older brother, and every time it chokes me up at the end with the swimming part. My kids never seemed to mind, but it wrecks me.
First season of Walking Dead was really emotional, but I also loved the 2nd season. The scene with Clem and the dog tore me up inside.
They really went out of their way to make a scene designed to hurt :(
hoodatninjaI beat Outer Wilds right after my first kid was born and it absolutely tore me to pieces.
100%. Even in the general ‘middle’, every now and then, a few simple lines of text would just punch me right in the gut
The interloper jfc
Ahhh and the music too
BTW I would mark that as a spoiler, I know I wouldn’t want to know even that there’s something worth mentioning like this there
I mean it’s one of the only places you can land on, it’s in the map immediately
It’s not a spoiler that it exists as a place, >!but it’s a tiny place that most don’t realise hides anything until much later in the game. Reading that it is a place that has stuck with you for an emotional reason, then finding almost nothing on the surface, kinda spoils the discovery of the puzzle itself (getting in).!< It’s not really a spoiler in most games, but realising things like this is really the whole gameplay here
Fair enough. Also spoiler tag didn’t work lol
Oh god haha that’s even worse. It works for me but I just checked a different lemmy app and it doesn’t work there, I guess it’s not implemented everywhere yet. Thanks for the heads up
Outer Wilds is a masterpiece.