For me, in no particular order: Firewatch This War of Mine What Remains of Edith Finch Gone Home Papers Please Doki Doki Literature Club I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Outer Wilds
A random reddit clip introduced me to the game years ago, and my life has never been the same since…
Yes!!! I was hoping someone would have commented this… The sense of just scale and epicness, the loss, and feeling so small. I wanted to keep learning more and more about the story. It doesn’t seem like it’d be fun, reading in a game? No shooting? No killing? But it’s honestly in my top 3 favorite games of all time. Also Last of Us-- strong feeling of loss in a specific scene in that game.
Doki doki was great. I played a lot VNs and this one hits you really hard.
I buyed the Plusversion on Steam again a few years later
Cyberpunk 2077. Talking to Angel/Skye in Automatic Love. I was in an emotional state at the time where that dialog really got me.
Also Jackie’s end. That got me good. Animators really nailed that scene.
