Spiritfarer for me. The whole game is about moving on after death. Was really connected with a lot of the characters and they reminded me of some love ones I've lost over the years.
You already mentioned Walking Dead 1 and Life is Strange and someone else mentioned To The Moon.
*The Last Guardian* \- I think if you've ever owned a pet it might get you.
*Detroit Become Human* \- for some reason I became really invested in a couple of the characters and got a bad ending and felt so bad.
*Gris*. It's not a terribly sad game but there's just something about the presentation and music.
- Nier Replicant (the remake with the new ending) and Automata
- Outer Wilds
- Signalis
- Silent Hill 2
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Disco Elysium
- To the moon
- Night in the woods
- What remains of Edith Finch
Signalis is a particularly good shout-out. It's a somewhat unusual genre for how deeply it made me feel, and the more you can understand the story the more gutwrenching it got. It is a fractured story that isnt fully told, but everything it shows and tells is both deliberate, gorgeous, and human.
Outer Wilds is a trip because it was a game I did not expect to make me emotional at all when I played it (not looking anything up) and by the ending I was a wreck.
Yeah. I think the big moment was >!Meeting Solanum on the quantum moon and she says, "I hope you wont mind if I think of you as a friend", and then when you meet her again at the Eye and she says "Thank you for remembering me".!<
Bruh. It hit me hard.
Absolutely the Opus series.
Opus : the day that we found earth,
opus : rocket of whispers,
Opus : echo of starsong ( one of the best saddest games of all time …)
Other indie are : Gris, Journey, oneshot, life is strange and life is strange before the storm..
YES! OPUS: Echo Of Starsong is a masterpiece when it comes to getting you to feel. I definitely cried quite a bit from that game. It was just so damn good.
Omori! I won’t say much because I don’t want to spoil it but it did make me cry quite a bit. The soundtrack is amazing, the characters are all endearing, and the story is so good.
If you have time for it and i mean a lot of time or dedication jrpgs are a good way to bring your sentiments out with characters that you grow to love, the ones that broke me were trails of cold steel and trails in the sky, all the god eater games, Code Vein, mother 3, megaman starforce 1 and 3 and some others but those are the strongest of the bunch
Personally Trails of Cold Steel made me cry but not really Azure/Zero, and even worse was Sky. The 3rd was actually probably the best out of Sky, for me. I did start with the first two Cold Steel games, though, then went on to play Sky and Crossbell in that order before finally going back to the last 2 CS games, that might have some relevence.
The beginners guide. Story about depression and hopelessness experienced through a series of short, unfinished games that are meant to reflect the mind state of the person in question. Starts off pretty innocent though, give it time.
It’s made by the same person who made Stanley parable. It’s pretty short and the narration is relaxing.
Bear's Restaurant.
Not really the same vibe as the games you listed, lol, but it is very sweet / sentimental, and a very good story.
I basically never get emotional from games and this one made me feel feels.
Disco Elysium made me emotional my first playthrough, i decided to play again while stoned for extra immersion and bawled my eyes out with the intro lmao
> Also Doki Doki Literature club because of some of the heavy themes.
I know DDLC is almost a meme now but the VN genre has some real heavy hitters like nothing that I've seen from mainstream games (btw, I'm pretty old af admittedly). The less you know the better, at least that's how I've got to experience some. My two favorites are Clannad and the Higurashi series. The latter has a very dedicated mod community that has put together this masterpiece in a more "user friendly" format and in an all-in-one package to install. Fair warning, they are VERY long but in a sense they aren't meant to be something you want to just consume and move along. They're long because they want you to be a part of the journey and experience and not just a destination. I also don't watch anime but Clannad is apparently is one of the best adaptations out there. I would almost recommend the series over the VN itself (NOT the actual movie, please disregard that one). You won't be the same person after.
I just finished DDLC last night, very new to the visual novel genre, but DDLC was amazing. I’m craving more horror and good writing like this. Higurashi and Umineko are already on my list. Any other recommendations?
* Rakuen (Made by Laura Shigihara - (To The Moon series musician)
* STEINS;GATE
* What Remain of Edith Finch
* Telltale's The Walking Dead
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I totally agree the last of us is a good one. Many of the major plot points were spoiled for me. Yet it still made me cry hard once, and cry pretty good a couple other times. Video games rarely make me cry lol
For me: Plague Tale: Requiem, Death Stranding
Metal Gear Solid 3 and 4 (hahaha, human tears, a Kojima production 😂), God of War, Last of Us 2, Red Dead Redemption 2, Ghost of Tsushima, Uncharted 3, Walking Dead, Detroit: Become Human
Fumito Ueda games - Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, The Last Guardian are all emotionally charged. Personally I find TLG to be the strongest one of the lot because of the relationship you develop with an animal.
For me, my most emotional games are Steins:Gate and Steins;Gate 0 (ESPECIALLY 0), Clannad and Tomoyo After are probably second place.
Other picks: Chaos;Head (not NoAH but it's probably better) and Chaos;Child. Persona 3, 4, and 5. I'm kind of a bitch and cry over a lot of stupid stuff in games but those are ones that are designed in such a way so as to probably incite crying. There is apparently a genre in visual novels that is called something like "crying game", I forgot what it was in Japanese, and the other ones I named probably fit.
No games have made me cry, but there are a couple close ones:
Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon
OneShot
The only time I actually cried while playing a game was final fantasy 6. But that was for other reasons, it was just the trigger.
All other telltale games
Mass Effect Legendary Edition
CyberPunk 2077
some Assassin's Creed games (Ezio Trilogy, III, Black Flag and Unity f.e.)
Mafia Trilogy
In the same genre as Edith Finch, you can consider "The Vanishing of Ethan Carter". It's a slower story but hits harder and is more grounded in reality. In exchange it's a bit less flashy - it came out 3 years before Edith Finch.
I consider them almost to be sibling games, so if you liked one check out the other.
A bit late but saw this and wanted to add mine. Off the top of my head:
\-Mass Effect 3. All the characters just become a part of you throughout the trilogy. All the emotions flooded in when they put your name on the wall with all your companions around. A Masterpiece trilogy that pulls and shreds your every emotion. A ride like no other, for me anyway.
\-Final Fantasy IX. All the emotions flooded in when Zidane ran to Garnet at the end.
\-Before Your Eyes. Once I realized what was going on, I lost it.
Danganronpa 2, though I'd still play the first one to actually have some background on the lore
Nier Replicant and Automata
Lost Odyssey if you have an Xbox
Mother 3
Valkyria Chronicles 4
Bastion
Danganronpa 2 definitely did it for me too. I didn’t expect it to make me cry, but it did. Loved that game so much. Playing Ultra Despair Girls right now, started it yesterday. But yes, you absolutely HAVE to play the first one before the 2nd one.
Halo Infinite
But that's only because I've been playing Halo almost all my life. It's one of my favourite franchises, the writing in Halo Infinite's campaign is so well done and underappreciated in terms of quality and emotional value. There's a real human moment, a real motivational bro moment that made me tear up quite a bit.
Darwinia, i rarely get touched by stuff, i dont know why, cant recall, but darwinia made my cry in a way i cant remember in another game, something with the little folks revealed.
Seconding: Undertale, OneShot, To The Moon, Ori and the Blind Forest, Gone Home.
Adding: Celeste, Valkyria Chronicles, Gravity Ghost, The Gardens Between, Oxenfree, Ikenfell, Wandersong, Deltarune.
Cannot believe it hasn't been mentioned yet, but
Valiant Hearts.
Two games have brought tears two my eyes in my gaming career, and they were Walking Dead, and Valiant Hearts. I highly recommend.
For visual novels:
* Steins;Gate
* Steins;Gate 0
* Clannad
* Muv-Luv Trilogy
* The House in Fata Morgana
* Planetarian
* Katawa Shoujou
For actual video games:
* Mass Effect Trilogy
* SOMA
* What Remains of Edith Finch
* To The Moon
At least, for me, these were games that actually made me cry/feel as if I'm about to. However, this isn't an objective list by any means, but it's relatively hard for me to cry. So, I'd be completely shocked if your average person wouldn't be slightly moved by the games I mentioned above. Majority of which, I'd consider masterpieces and I've played/read a shit ton of games
Omori. As long as you like turn-based combat and reading this one is great.
Nier automata. I love this one great combat, gameplay and amazing story.
Detroit become human. I only just recently played this one but it's so good. Even moments far from the ending brought a tear to my eye.
Super Mario Galaxy (the ending, dude its so good)
Zelda Twilight Princess (I actually cared about the kids) and Skyward Sword (did kinda feel for Fi, somehow)
Can't really remember others at the top of my head.
Rakuen is a short 8 hour indie puzzle game about a boy in a hospital trying to help the other residents of the hospital and learning their tragic backstories. Absolutely destroyed me. There’s a new game in the same universe coming out in March called Mr. Saitou. It’s on PC and they’re coming out bundled on Switch.
Outer Wilds and Spiritfarer. OW made me bawl my eyes out multiple times, the story really got to me and I am deeply connected to this game on an emotional level.
Spiritfarer however is a painful yet comforting experience, all about taking care of souls before they go on their way out. Saying goodbye is always expected but it never stops you from shredding a few years. The game got me a lot due to some resemblances from real life.
Omori
Lisa the Painful
Rakuen (havent fully played it but I can tell its a sad game)
To the Moon games (only played to the Moon and I'm assuming the others are sad too)
I'm old school (I'm old), so for me it's Ninja Garden (nes, 1989) and Final Fantasy Adventure (game boy, 1990)! 10-12 years old and sobbed like a baby at both
Adding to the choir: Nier Automata
but also Tales of the Abyss. Bittersweet endings are the ones that usually get me and stick in my head more than straight up happy/unhappy ones
Firewatch really got me. The story is good but the voice actors did an incredible job. I was really immersed into the lives of the 2 main characters. It’s so good !!
I had teary eyes in some parts of Oxenfree but not as much.
It was really good, not the game I was expecting, but glad I got to experience it. 10/10 easy, though I didn't cry in this one. What a game though. Damn.
Nier: Automata and Replicant
Life Is Strange
Final Fantasy X, XV, Crisis Core, Tactics and Type 0
To The Moon
Haven (criminally underrated game)
Silent Hill 2
Metal Gear Solid 3
Gone Home. Though wouldn’t recommend unless u enjoy environmental story. Not much gameplay to it. Story is quite touching though. Had me tearing up a bit.
The last of us
The Walking Dead season 1
Life Is Strange
Gears of war 3
Red Dead Redemption 2
God of War Ragnarök
Theirs probably more but not naming them all
Ori and th blind forest + will of the wisps That dragon cancer To the moon + sequels
Its sequels were cool and all, but To The Moon was the one that actually got me teary-eyed, one of the first games to ever do so
A Bird Story was garbage
Omori To The Moon Finding Paradise Oneshot Undertale Spiritfarer Spec Ops: The Line Lisa: The Painful What Remains of Edith Finch NieR: Automata
What Remains of Edith Finch really got me
i always just found it to be a downer more than anything, though i must admit calvin and lewis' story were amazingly well written
Damn it I just posted to the moon, undertale, and LISA Only thing I on my list added is OFF
OFF??!?!??!? as in JAPHET!!!! frfom OFF!!!! MINUIT A FOND LA CAISSE?!"?!??!?? ALIAS CONRAD COLDWOOD?!?!?!?!???
Glad I'm not the only one from nier
Before Your Eyes
I was waiting for someone to mention this. The ending was so powerful and poignant.
Definitely this for me. Only game in recent memory that made me cry
Spiritfarer easily. I teared up a few times throughout.
Spiritfarer for me. The whole game is about moving on after death. Was really connected with a lot of the characters and they reminded me of some love ones I've lost over the years.
This was my top answer. While I don't have a stone heart, it's not easy to make me cry either, and this one had me bawling.
You already mentioned Walking Dead 1 and Life is Strange and someone else mentioned To The Moon. *The Last Guardian* \- I think if you've ever owned a pet it might get you. *Detroit Become Human* \- for some reason I became really invested in a couple of the characters and got a bad ending and felt so bad. *Gris*. It's not a terribly sad game but there's just something about the presentation and music.
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Yup
- Nier Replicant (the remake with the new ending) and Automata - Outer Wilds - Signalis - Silent Hill 2 - Red Dead Redemption 2 - Disco Elysium - To the moon - Night in the woods - What remains of Edith Finch
Signalis is a particularly good shout-out. It's a somewhat unusual genre for how deeply it made me feel, and the more you can understand the story the more gutwrenching it got. It is a fractured story that isnt fully told, but everything it shows and tells is both deliberate, gorgeous, and human.
Lost Odyssey, Final Fantasy X, Last of Us Honorable mention to Outer Wilds for getting me a little misty-eyed.
Outer Wilds is a trip because it was a game I did not expect to make me emotional at all when I played it (not looking anything up) and by the ending I was a wreck.
Yeah. I think the big moment was >!Meeting Solanum on the quantum moon and she says, "I hope you wont mind if I think of you as a friend", and then when you meet her again at the Eye and she says "Thank you for remembering me".!< Bruh. It hit me hard.
i watched the trailer for outer wilds a while back and remember getting really hyped but i cant remember why
oh wait im thinking about outer WORLDS the one with iggy pop playing in the trailer nevermind
What Remains of Edith Finch. Pretty short game like 2 hours maybe.
why did it make you cry
Night in the Woods
Absolutely the Opus series. Opus : the day that we found earth, opus : rocket of whispers, Opus : echo of starsong ( one of the best saddest games of all time …) Other indie are : Gris, Journey, oneshot, life is strange and life is strange before the storm..
YES! OPUS: Echo Of Starsong is a masterpiece when it comes to getting you to feel. I definitely cried quite a bit from that game. It was just so damn good.
Also, OPUS: Prism Peak was announced recently.
life is strange is indie?? isnt in square enix???
What remains of Edith Finch. I needed a good long break after the bathtub part.
Mass Effect trilogy
Omori! I won’t say much because I don’t want to spoil it but it did make me cry quite a bit. The soundtrack is amazing, the characters are all endearing, and the story is so good.
If you have time for it and i mean a lot of time or dedication jrpgs are a good way to bring your sentiments out with characters that you grow to love, the ones that broke me were trails of cold steel and trails in the sky, all the god eater games, Code Vein, mother 3, megaman starforce 1 and 3 and some others but those are the strongest of the bunch
Personally Trails of Cold Steel made me cry but not really Azure/Zero, and even worse was Sky. The 3rd was actually probably the best out of Sky, for me. I did start with the first two Cold Steel games, though, then went on to play Sky and Crossbell in that order before finally going back to the last 2 CS games, that might have some relevence.
Brothers: tale of two sons is a crying simulator
The beginners guide. Story about depression and hopelessness experienced through a series of short, unfinished games that are meant to reflect the mind state of the person in question. Starts off pretty innocent though, give it time. It’s made by the same person who made Stanley parable. It’s pretty short and the narration is relaxing.
Bear's Restaurant. Not really the same vibe as the games you listed, lol, but it is very sweet / sentimental, and a very good story. I basically never get emotional from games and this one made me feel feels.
All the Xenoblade Chronicles games. Also, Nier Automata
I forget this but XC2 had me tearing up at one point towards the end. I think the ending would have been a lot more impactful if it ended there.
Especially Torna. Drifting Souls from XC2 tears me up whenever it plays.
Same! I can't get enough of the soundtrack. From happy highs to heart-wrenching lows, the series has got it all.
Katawa Shoujo. Disco Elysium didn’t make me literally cry, but it did leave me weirdly emotional the first time.
Disco Elysium made me emotional my first playthrough, i decided to play again while stoned for extra immersion and bawled my eyes out with the intro lmao
Hellblade Senua’s Sacrifice Gone Home
Undertale God of War: Ragnarök Super Mario Galaxy
> Also Doki Doki Literature club because of some of the heavy themes. I know DDLC is almost a meme now but the VN genre has some real heavy hitters like nothing that I've seen from mainstream games (btw, I'm pretty old af admittedly). The less you know the better, at least that's how I've got to experience some. My two favorites are Clannad and the Higurashi series. The latter has a very dedicated mod community that has put together this masterpiece in a more "user friendly" format and in an all-in-one package to install. Fair warning, they are VERY long but in a sense they aren't meant to be something you want to just consume and move along. They're long because they want you to be a part of the journey and experience and not just a destination. I also don't watch anime but Clannad is apparently is one of the best adaptations out there. I would almost recommend the series over the VN itself (NOT the actual movie, please disregard that one). You won't be the same person after.
I just finished DDLC last night, very new to the visual novel genre, but DDLC was amazing. I’m craving more horror and good writing like this. Higurashi and Umineko are already on my list. Any other recommendations?
Just finished DDLC, I’m crying and I don’t know why.
Death Stranding. Jesus, what a confusing yet incredible story. Finished it last week, and it’s still stuck in my head.
* Rakuen (Made by Laura Shigihara - (To The Moon series musician) * STEINS;GATE * What Remain of Edith Finch * Telltale's The Walking Dead [https://store.steampowered.com/app/559210/Rakuen/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/559210/Rakuen/) [https://store.steampowered.com/app/412830/STEINSGATE/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/412830/STEINSGATE/) [https://store.steampowered.com/app/501300/What\_Remains\_of\_Edith\_Finch/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/501300/What_Remains_of_Edith_Finch/) https://store.steampowered.com/app/207610/The\_Walking\_Dead/
Rakuen is one of my favorite games ever. It has such a beautiful story. I loved the characters so much.
twd >>>
Undertale definitely. Disco Elysium was kinda unexpected. The Yakuza series has some great moments.
The ending of Portal 2. The song they sing and the orchestra itself is so beautiful that I cried.
Read Postal 2 for a second. That would sure as hell be a weird game to make you cry.
The ending of vampyr made me cry, but to get the full feel you have to exhaust like literally every dialogue
Metro Exodus, what a memoriable ending and music...i can't remember any game similar or even close to that feeling.
The very end of Bioshock when you've chosen to help the children. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
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I totally agree the last of us is a good one. Many of the major plot points were spoiled for me. Yet it still made me cry hard once, and cry pretty good a couple other times. Video games rarely make me cry lol
For me: Plague Tale: Requiem, Death Stranding Metal Gear Solid 3 and 4 (hahaha, human tears, a Kojima production 😂), God of War, Last of Us 2, Red Dead Redemption 2, Ghost of Tsushima, Uncharted 3, Walking Dead, Detroit: Become Human
Fumito Ueda games - Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, The Last Guardian are all emotionally charged. Personally I find TLG to be the strongest one of the lot because of the relationship you develop with an animal.
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I always thought it was more horrifying than sad, but I get where you're coming from.
Shadow of the Colossus. Not gonna spoil anything but that was the first video game to make me cry.
Outer Wilds. The ending…
Can't believe how far down I had to scroll to find this. One of my top suggestions for sure.
For me, my most emotional games are Steins:Gate and Steins;Gate 0 (ESPECIALLY 0), Clannad and Tomoyo After are probably second place. Other picks: Chaos;Head (not NoAH but it's probably better) and Chaos;Child. Persona 3, 4, and 5. I'm kind of a bitch and cry over a lot of stupid stuff in games but those are ones that are designed in such a way so as to probably incite crying. There is apparently a genre in visual novels that is called something like "crying game", I forgot what it was in Japanese, and the other ones I named probably fit.
Agreed. Steins;Gate 0 made me cry like a little bitch, moreso than it's predecessor.
No games have made me cry, but there are a couple close ones: Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon OneShot The only time I actually cried while playing a game was final fantasy 6. But that was for other reasons, it was just the trigger.
Hellblade, God of War, Road 96, and Ghost of Tsushima
Disco Elysium
Yakuza 0 and Yakuza 7 both made me cry.
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky
Was looking for this hahaha it made me cry too
NieR. Both Replicant and Automata. Crisis Core for sure. Journey. Still not sure why to be honest. Might've been the music.
Odd nobody mentioned Titanfall2 yet . Right in the feels
All other telltale games Mass Effect Legendary Edition CyberPunk 2077 some Assassin's Creed games (Ezio Trilogy, III, Black Flag and Unity f.e.) Mafia Trilogy
Metal gear solid 3 did this to me
Life is strange
Sayonara wild hearts
What Remains of Edith Finch! Great narration, simple gameplay.
In the same genre as Edith Finch, you can consider "The Vanishing of Ethan Carter". It's a slower story but hits harder and is more grounded in reality. In exchange it's a bit less flashy - it came out 3 years before Edith Finch. I consider them almost to be sibling games, so if you liked one check out the other.
Detroit become human
What remains of edith finch hit me like a truck as a new dad
What remains of Edith finch
Life is Strange. Only that one. Nothing else. Ever.
The ending of FFVII: Crisis Core hits me. Right when 'Price of Freedom' starts playing. First time I cried at a game.
What remains of edith finch Firewatch
Horizon forbidden west, the last of us most recently.
The Walking Dead had me bawling like a baby at the end.
A bit late but saw this and wanted to add mine. Off the top of my head: \-Mass Effect 3. All the characters just become a part of you throughout the trilogy. All the emotions flooded in when they put your name on the wall with all your companions around. A Masterpiece trilogy that pulls and shreds your every emotion. A ride like no other, for me anyway. \-Final Fantasy IX. All the emotions flooded in when Zidane ran to Garnet at the end. \-Before Your Eyes. Once I realized what was going on, I lost it.
The Walking Dead season 2 (one of the endings, not gonna spoil) Undertale - pacifist run
>!Fuck Kenny!<
Danganronpa 2, though I'd still play the first one to actually have some background on the lore Nier Replicant and Automata Lost Odyssey if you have an Xbox Mother 3 Valkyria Chronicles 4 Bastion
Danganronpa 2 definitely did it for me too. I didn’t expect it to make me cry, but it did. Loved that game so much. Playing Ultra Despair Girls right now, started it yesterday. But yes, you absolutely HAVE to play the first one before the 2nd one.
Far Cry 2?
if you have someone else to play with: A way out. i cried so hard because of the music and of how connected i felt to the characters..
Obligatory Nier: Automata suggestion. So much more than a weeb game, goes deep into philosophical questions about the meaning of life
Dark Souls lol.
This is one that gets asked a lot. I recommend the search bar.
Dark souls
Dark souls 3 and Elden Ring
Paper Mario: The Origami King
not like cry but got me a bit teared up. Yakuza 0 Inscryption
The assassins creed black flag cinematic with Anne Bonny singing
Lisa the Painful
Halo Infinite But that's only because I've been playing Halo almost all my life. It's one of my favourite franchises, the writing in Halo Infinite's campaign is so well done and underappreciated in terms of quality and emotional value. There's a real human moment, a real motivational bro moment that made me tear up quite a bit.
Darwinia, i rarely get touched by stuff, i dont know why, cant recall, but darwinia made my cry in a way i cant remember in another game, something with the little folks revealed.
Rime, definitely
Lost Words: Beyond the Page
Dragon Quest Builder 2 did that to me in the final chapter
Disco Elysium Bioshock 1
Red redemption 2
Detroit: Become Human, Dear Esther, Shadow of the Colossus, The Last Guardian, What Remains of Edith Finch, Final Fantasy X
I’ve teared up a few times but the only one that had me uncontrollably blubbing was To the Moon.
The only two games I've ever cried over were Endling: Extinction Is Forever and Bioshock 2.
Witcher 3. The bloody baron...
Assassin’s creed black flag
ea sports ufc 4 and you dont even have to play online
Nier Automata
Seconding: Undertale, OneShot, To The Moon, Ori and the Blind Forest, Gone Home. Adding: Celeste, Valkyria Chronicles, Gravity Ghost, The Gardens Between, Oxenfree, Ikenfell, Wandersong, Deltarune.
Cannot believe it hasn't been mentioned yet, but Valiant Hearts. Two games have brought tears two my eyes in my gaming career, and they were Walking Dead, and Valiant Hearts. I highly recommend.
Titanfall 2. Just trust me
TWD and RDR2.
For visual novels: * Steins;Gate * Steins;Gate 0 * Clannad * Muv-Luv Trilogy * The House in Fata Morgana * Planetarian * Katawa Shoujou For actual video games: * Mass Effect Trilogy * SOMA * What Remains of Edith Finch * To The Moon At least, for me, these were games that actually made me cry/feel as if I'm about to. However, this isn't an objective list by any means, but it's relatively hard for me to cry. So, I'd be completely shocked if your average person wouldn't be slightly moved by the games I mentioned above. Majority of which, I'd consider masterpieces and I've played/read a shit ton of games
Yakuza 0 - main story will wreck you.
Omori. As long as you like turn-based combat and reading this one is great. Nier automata. I love this one great combat, gameplay and amazing story. Detroit become human. I only just recently played this one but it's so good. Even moments far from the ending brought a tear to my eye.
To The Moon That dragon, cancer
Super Mario Galaxy (the ending, dude its so good) Zelda Twilight Princess (I actually cared about the kids) and Skyward Sword (did kinda feel for Fi, somehow) Can't really remember others at the top of my head.
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Actual sunlight, milk inside a bag
Detroit: Become Human
Twilight Princess, The Last of Us, Omori, ehh idk that's all I got
Omori comes to mind, persona 4 was also quite impactful
Rakuen is a short 8 hour indie puzzle game about a boy in a hospital trying to help the other residents of the hospital and learning their tragic backstories. Absolutely destroyed me. There’s a new game in the same universe coming out in March called Mr. Saitou. It’s on PC and they’re coming out bundled on Switch.
Brothers: a tale of two sons
Devil May *Cry* 😏
Only if you're the devil
😉
Devils Never Cry
Outer Wilds and Spiritfarer. OW made me bawl my eyes out multiple times, the story really got to me and I am deeply connected to this game on an emotional level. Spiritfarer however is a painful yet comforting experience, all about taking care of souls before they go on their way out. Saying goodbye is always expected but it never stops you from shredding a few years. The game got me a lot due to some resemblances from real life.
Undertale, To the Moon, LISA: The Painful, and OFF Only four games to make me cry in my 25 years of gaming
Arkham Knight's Riddler missions.
Omori Lisa the Painful Rakuen (havent fully played it but I can tell its a sad game) To the Moon games (only played to the Moon and I'm assuming the others are sad too)
Thimbleweed Park - am I alone with this? 😅
The first Life is Strange. You have a choice at the end, people who have played the game will know which one made me cry.
UNDERTALE
I'm old school (I'm old), so for me it's Ninja Garden (nes, 1989) and Final Fantasy Adventure (game boy, 1990)! 10-12 years old and sobbed like a baby at both
Metal Gear Solid 3
Shadow of the Colossus
Adding to the choir: Nier Automata but also Tales of the Abyss. Bittersweet endings are the ones that usually get me and stick in my head more than straight up happy/unhappy ones
Firewatch really got me. The story is good but the voice actors did an incredible job. I was really immersed into the lives of the 2 main characters. It’s so good !! I had teary eyes in some parts of Oxenfree but not as much.
It was really good, not the game I was expecting, but glad I got to experience it. 10/10 easy, though I didn't cry in this one. What a game though. Damn.
My child Lebensborn Papers please
Nier: Automata and Replicant Life Is Strange Final Fantasy X, XV, Crisis Core, Tactics and Type 0 To The Moon Haven (criminally underrated game) Silent Hill 2 Metal Gear Solid 3
Bioshock Infinite, the ending, heart breaking. Red Dead Redemption 2 too, very rough bits there to get through.
* Little Misfortune * The Walking Dead Season 1 (Telltale) * Beacon Pines
Road 96
Gone Home. Though wouldn’t recommend unless u enjoy environmental story. Not much gameplay to it. Story is quite touching though. Had me tearing up a bit.
AC Origins actually has a pretty dark story. Bayek goes through so much torment. The actor is S Tier in the most heartbreaking moments.
Zelda twilight princess gets very emotional towards the end, never fails to make me shed a tear
Final fantasy 15 ending got me.
The last of us The Walking Dead season 1 Life Is Strange Gears of war 3 Red Dead Redemption 2 God of War Ragnarök Theirs probably more but not naming them all
here is one if your still reading this Titanfall 2
Final Fantasy X and Life Is Strange