The Last Of Us Part 1. I was a teenager when that game first released, and like all teenagers with their weird obsessions, this game was mine. Was absolutely enamored with the characters and story.
Seconded. Played this the first time when my 9 year old daughter was less than a year old. On that same note BioShock Infinite, which I was also playing around the same time, tugs on the old father/daughter heartstrings as well.
I was a parent of 2 young kids when it was released. That game me cry real tears and it hurt. The TV show has done a great job of translating the game to screen, I'd recommend watching after you've played the game
it is a truly wonderful game. it's a little slow as it's kinda a detective game with wonderful world building multiple paths to everywhere. best sounds.
If I remember correctly the first season is free too. But the story is quite good so it's hard to not get sucked into it and end up buying the whole thing anyway.
The ending had me sobbing. The second game made me cry too. Ori does such a good job at >!making you feel compassion for the antagonists. Even after running for my life and fighting them through each game, watching Kuro and Shriek die broke me.!<
I'm not a crier when it comes to media. This game shattered me. The mechanic of keeping my eyes open, forced me to engage deeply with the game.
My wife "Are you sobbing?" The answer was yes. It's a short experience which you can play on almost anything including mobile.
I highly recommend this for you. It's one of the most unique games I've ever played.
The real painful part is there are scenes you want to stay in longer, but you can't stop yourself from blinking when you're crying. Poetry in motion right there.
Most definitely The Last of Us Part 2 (but you need to play Part 1 first). Part 2 is the most emotionally compromising and devastating video game I’ve ever played
A game has never made me cry but Undertale has gotten closer than any other. It has made me get a bit misty eyed even if it's never made me all out weep.
The Beginner’s Guide
May not be exactly what you’re looking for, but it will make you cry. A very short but super unique experience that’s gonna stay with you for a while after
Disco Elysium has some tear jerking moments and its overall sentimentality. “ This is real darkness. It's not death, or war, or child molestation. Real darkness has love for a face. The first death is in the heart”
The Persona series, particularly 3, 4, and 5.
The games revolve around living out a normal life and building social links with people, some through shared interests, others through mutual support, or helping to overcome trauma. These social links grant special perks and abilities, and increase the power of your persona's that you capture, and use to overcome various dungeons found in the supernatural part of each game, persona's can be fused to create new ones with extra strength granted based on specific social links.
You'll tackle issues such as loss, suicide, cult involvement, parental problems, social anxiety and isolation, and much more. You really build up a rapport with your party and social links that really makes you feel for them and their situations.
Good suggestion! I didn't cry either, but there were a few points where I just felt this overwhelming feeling of "I wish so much that I could change this for you" for certain characters.
The Telltale Walking Dead series.
I also get invested into the characters and because I’m making the decisions for them I feel more responsible for the outcomes I caused. The finale of the series put me into an absolute whirlwind of emotions.
Someone may have already suggested this, but "Spiritfarer" had me putting down my controller and taking a minute to just stare at the scenery and cry. I don't cry too easily with games, but...oof, one of the characters hit close to home and it got me good. I tried to delay hitting the next plot point of the game since I knew the sad thing was coming once I did that, but eventually you have to do it. It hurt though. Man.
I also had to leave the room once when my sister was playing the sci-fi cat game "Stray" because I was crying too much and she laughingly told me to leave until she finished that area.
"SOMA" made me cry, too. You wouldn't think it makes you sad, but yikes I was so sad at the end. The other two I suggested are like wholesome-type of sad (maybe melancholic would be a good word?), but SOMA is more just sad, sad. But still one of my favorite games for the story.
Oh and "Shadow of the Colossus"! I was not expecting it to gut punch me, but OH BOY did it gut punch me.
"Little Misfortune", "Fran Bow", and "Sally Face" are all pretty sad and heavily invest in the characters. I felt the most sad in Little Misfortune, though.
Little Misfortune really lives up to her name. Throughout the entire game, too. Hard not to feel badly for her. But the way she brushes most bad things off and then makes a sassy remark makes her very loveable. Short and sweet game.
Brothers: a tale of two sons.
I didn't just cry, I weep now when I think about it. It's a short game but absolutely worth playing. You should not look up anything before you go in.
Laika: Aged Through Blood is the most impactful narrative I've ever experienced. It goes to some very very dark places, but if you're ok with that, I highly recommend it.
Drakengard runs on this
The side series NieR is the more hopeful and happy one, and people get emotionally wrecked by those games too.
Drakengard 3 in particular is the most emotional piece of media I’ve ever experienced.
Everything from falling out of my chair laughter to soul crushing hands in the air despair to anger too hot for the pits of hell to compare.
The hardest I cried at a game was A plague Tale requiem.
Granted you have to play the first game (Plague Tale: innocence) to understand what's going on in the sequel.
Final Fantasy 14. I know it's an MMO, but hear me out.
The main story plays like a visual novel with 3D graphics, and it carries you level-wise to the content (dungeons, boss fights, etc) as part of that journey. It starts slow in the base game (A Realm Reborn / ARR), but builds to impeccable levels of story telling. The crescendo in Endwalker is a huge payoff, and well worth the time spent enjoying the dialogue and cutscenes leading up to it.
Honestly, I used to think I hated MMOs. I tried so many, and none of them stuck. I have a problem, too, with finishing single player RPGs. I just never get to the end before losing interest.
14 was like the perfect storm for me. All the social elements of an MMO, but the story of a single player RPG. Having friends to watch your journey is even better. I've cried dozens of times in my playthrough, and dozens more watching streamers play through it as well. Can't recommend the game enough.
Edit: The free trial covers the base game and the first two expansions btw. No level restrictions. There are people with thousands of hours in the game without ever having paid a dollar. It's that good lol.
Dota 2, you wont literally cry but to your enemy and most of the time to your teammates, you are crying.
Infact, you are just a worm to the game until you reach 100hours of play time.
Gone Home: You just arrived home from college to an empty house. You are trying to figure out where everyone is and what you missed while away. You do this by exploring the house, looking through old notes and paperwork, plus context clues. You can also listen to your sister's mix tapes.
It's JUST come out in the last week but "Until Then".
It's very text heavy, I'd say more like interactive fiction. But aesthetically it's beautiful in my opinion, and I think that helped me get so attached to the characters so quickly. A lot of heart-sinking moments that ended (at least in my run!) with the ultimate gut punch.
If you got invested in Celeste I’d check out Ikenfell. Similar art style and the story was very good and had me tearing up near the end. It also has some great music.
Yttd/Your turn to die, a free game on vgperson, the game is a visual novel that's smiliar to danganronpa, where you and other people are forced to be a kind of killing game. The game has amazing characters and story which was only made by 1 person!
Kentucky Route Zero. more of a visual novel but has a really deep story and characters. Great music too.
as others have mentioned, Firewatch and What Remains of Edith Finch are both games with a really compelling story that you can beat in one night.
Last Day of June: Carl and June, a couple who suffers a tragedy when a car accident kills June and leaves Carl in a wheelchair. One day, Carl touches one of June's paintings of people who had been present on the day of the accident and discovers that he can revisit their memories
Ok here's an out there suggestion: the original Final Fantasy VII. Amazing story with some really emotional scenes. At least play it to the end of the first disc 😭
If you're into that kind of game, try Until Then. It's a new release available on Steam and PS Store. On Steam it's currently 10% off.
I'm not someone who gets emotional over a video game easily, but I cried my eyes out.
Please note: The game continues after they show the credits. What comes then is probably either gonna fuck your mind or make you cry even harder.
Edit: If you're into LiS, you're gonna love this game.
What remains of Edith Finch, it’s much more of a short story than the suggestions you have given. But if it’s for crying you’re looking for, that is definitely a go-to. Without spoilers, it’s about a girl (Edith) telling you her family’s (and childhood house’s) history.
Edit: grammar
Mass Effect 3, though you kind of need to play the first 2 games to have enough emotional investment in the characters to get the full effect. Both the Tuchanka and Rannoch arcs are total tear jerkers.
RiME
Islets
AER: Memories of Old
Hollow Knight (maybe, kind of abstract)
Dandara: Trials of Fear (also maybe)
Suikoden II (PSX)
Chrono Trigger (SNES/PSX/PC, maybe)
Recently played the first two and really enjoyed them. RiME does have some optimization issues that cause frame drops in some levels (or it happened on my end at least), but very much worth playing despite that.
I actually had to stop playing AER because it got under my skin lol.
Islets is a bit short, but not too short. Happy and vibrant for the most part. Left me feeling warm and fuzzy, but also sort of teary eyed.
Suikoden II is the one game that actually made me cry many, many years ago.
Check out [Bear's Restaurant ](https://youtu.be/yyy1CBAkeN4?si=JL3K5EhnSkP3gCh5).
Fairly short game: 2 or 3 hours.
The main premise is that you work with a bear at a restaurant in "purgatory" to serve people their last meal before they move on. You go into each person's past and learn of their favorite meal as well as the circumstances surrounding their death.
Definitely a lot of BIG emotions here, so tread carefully.
Batman Arkham games
BioShock's ending and some other scenes
Broforce if you decide to play solo
Doom 2016 on the highest difficulty
Dying Light
If you don't know exactly what you are doing, then modding The Elder Scrolls games can
make you cry a lot.
Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor/War
Noita
Ori and The Blind Forest/Will of the Wisps
Some of the Souls games, maybe? (Dark Souls 1-3, Elden Ring, Bloodborne...)
The Witcher games have some heart-shattering moments.
Valheim during your first playthrough, especially on swamps.
I’m not a very emotional person. The only game that has ever made me cry was This war of mine.
The part where the father desperately tries to keep his child alive. That thing was a piece of art.
Rime
Just play rime
I still cry just thinking about that fucking game.
I’m still mad at my ex for picking a game at random and it being that fucking game.
Persona 3 Reload is perfect. At certain point in the game I cried like a bitch
Keep in mind that I knew about this scene even before playing the game, and I mentally prepared myself for it the entire time I played it (60 hours)
Star Citizen. You will cry because of bugs and the frustration. People will gank you and ships will explode in midair. Everything takes an hour to start and it will get destroyed in minutes and you repeat that preparing phase.
To the Moon.
Finding paradise (sequel)
Imposter Factory (3rd installment)
I cried like a baby
Just hearing the music puts tears in my eyes to this day. Same with rakuen.
+1
The Last Of Us Part 1. I was a teenager when that game first released, and like all teenagers with their weird obsessions, this game was mine. Was absolutely enamored with the characters and story.
This was my first thought. Talk about an impactful game, jeez
Confirmed. Bawled. More than once.
Right it was like playing one of the best books you ever read.
Wait until you're a parent and play this game. Absolutely gutting for me when I revisited it after having daughters.
Seconded. Played this the first time when my 9 year old daughter was less than a year old. On that same note BioShock Infinite, which I was also playing around the same time, tugs on the old father/daughter heartstrings as well.
Both of them - multiple gut wrenching stories within each game
This is it.
I was a parent of 2 young kids when it was released. That game me cry real tears and it hurt. The TV show has done a great job of translating the game to screen, I'd recommend watching after you've played the game
Disco Elysium
I would often go there To the tiny church there The smallest church in Saint-Saëns Though it once was larger
This game is on my wishlist; is this poem really in it? It's so curiously lovely.
Yes, it's a song in the game. You should play it (and get the Final Cut edition)! There's so much wonderful, clever writing all throughout the game.
The writing in that game is beyond any other.
Currently on sale on Steam for like $4.
[удалено]
it is a truly wonderful game. it's a little slow as it's kinda a detective game with wonderful world building multiple paths to everywhere. best sounds.
TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD -- FOR NEW PEOPLE IT IS TOO LATE FOR US WREAK HAVOC ON THE MIDDLE CLASS
Hope in Work and Joy in Leisure
No other game has captured melancholy quite like it. It’s so tragic, yet so beautiful. A story about broken people finding ways to fix themselves.
Spiritfarer
Yup, every ever door visit
100% agreed. This game is lovely
Tell tale walking dead season 1.
Surprised I had to scroll far for this. Is this game just too old now or something?
Played the enhanced version recently and it still hit like a truck :(
If I remember correctly the first season is free too. But the story is quite good so it's hard to not get sucked into it and end up buying the whole thing anyway.
This was the only time I teared up from a game
I’m still not over this
I came looking for this. This is the one for me.
Playing this game once you have kids hits different too.
Not just season 1, Clementine's entire story which ends the entire game is fucking fantastic and heart wrenching to the extreme.
What Remains of Edith Finch
Was looking for this one in the list. I am not the emotional type at all, but this one got me by surprise.
Perfect suggestion! I still think about a certain character that felt a little too close to myself, and the whole game hits deep.
Ori and the blind forest
The ending had me sobbing. The second game made me cry too. Ori does such a good job at >!making you feel compassion for the antagonists. Even after running for my life and fighting them through each game, watching Kuro and Shriek die broke me.!<
Detroit become human
Nier automata. Trust me.
Cyberpunk 2077 hurts your heart way more than you expect it to
Done, I'll play this next
For max emotional damage watch Edgerunners too
Freebird games trilogy (to the moon, finding paradise, impostor factory) Spiritfarer A Space for the Unbound
heavy rain
Press X to JAAAAaason!
Before Your Eyes You control the game with your eye movements. It'll take you about 2 hours. You will weep.
I literally searched for this, OP if you are seeing this It is extremely hard to make me cry but this did som..
I literally searched for this, OP if you are seeing this It is extremely hard to make me cry but this did som..
I'm not a crier when it comes to media. This game shattered me. The mechanic of keeping my eyes open, forced me to engage deeply with the game. My wife "Are you sobbing?" The answer was yes. It's a short experience which you can play on almost anything including mobile. I highly recommend this for you. It's one of the most unique games I've ever played.
The real painful part is there are scenes you want to stay in longer, but you can't stop yourself from blinking when you're crying. Poetry in motion right there.
Most definitely The Last of Us Part 2 (but you need to play Part 1 first). Part 2 is the most emotionally compromising and devastating video game I’ve ever played
Shocked this isn't higher. Part 2 broke me in so many ways
Yup, this 1000%.
Part two is still devastating for me to think about.
Valiant hearts
Such an emotional ending. Glad to see it suggested.
Final Fantasy X
To Zanarkand still gives me goosebumps.
Undertale
A game has never made me cry but Undertale has gotten closer than any other. It has made me get a bit misty eyed even if it's never made me all out weep.
That Dragon, Cancer
The Beginner’s Guide May not be exactly what you’re looking for, but it will make you cry. A very short but super unique experience that’s gonna stay with you for a while after
Disco Elysium has some tear jerking moments and its overall sentimentality. “ This is real darkness. It's not death, or war, or child molestation. Real darkness has love for a face. The first death is in the heart”
A Plague Tale Innocence then A Plague Tale Requiem
Lisa will haunt you for days after you finished it.
For those who want to try it, TW: CSA
Immediately: Firewatch. You literally described it. And there’s a thriller/mystery element to it with beautiful setting.
Oooh this game had caught my eye so many times, how is it?
Agree - if I had to recommend one game to someone who didn't play games, this would be it.
Mass Effect Legendary Edition
"I am the very model of a scientist salarian..."
spiritfarer
The Persona series, particularly 3, 4, and 5. The games revolve around living out a normal life and building social links with people, some through shared interests, others through mutual support, or helping to overcome trauma. These social links grant special perks and abilities, and increase the power of your persona's that you capture, and use to overcome various dungeons found in the supernatural part of each game, persona's can be fused to create new ones with extra strength granted based on specific social links. You'll tackle issues such as loss, suicide, cult involvement, parental problems, social anxiety and isolation, and much more. You really build up a rapport with your party and social links that really makes you feel for them and their situations.
road 96 tell me why (its free in june) detroit become human beyond two souls
Outer Wilds. Didn’t make me cry, but some others did
Yeah I didn't cry but definitely felt strong emotions
Good suggestion! I didn't cry either, but there were a few points where I just felt this overwhelming feeling of "I wish so much that I could change this for you" for certain characters.
persona 3 reload
League of legends
Tried and tested. Especially if you play on singapore server
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Elden Ring made me cry many times
13 Sentinels Aegis Rim Final Fantasy 9
The Telltale Walking Dead series. I also get invested into the characters and because I’m making the decisions for them I feel more responsible for the outcomes I caused. The finale of the series put me into an absolute whirlwind of emotions.
Someone may have already suggested this, but "Spiritfarer" had me putting down my controller and taking a minute to just stare at the scenery and cry. I don't cry too easily with games, but...oof, one of the characters hit close to home and it got me good. I tried to delay hitting the next plot point of the game since I knew the sad thing was coming once I did that, but eventually you have to do it. It hurt though. Man. I also had to leave the room once when my sister was playing the sci-fi cat game "Stray" because I was crying too much and she laughingly told me to leave until she finished that area. "SOMA" made me cry, too. You wouldn't think it makes you sad, but yikes I was so sad at the end. The other two I suggested are like wholesome-type of sad (maybe melancholic would be a good word?), but SOMA is more just sad, sad. But still one of my favorite games for the story. Oh and "Shadow of the Colossus"! I was not expecting it to gut punch me, but OH BOY did it gut punch me. "Little Misfortune", "Fran Bow", and "Sally Face" are all pretty sad and heavily invest in the characters. I felt the most sad in Little Misfortune, though.
Little Misfortune really lives up to her name. Throughout the entire game, too. Hard not to feel badly for her. But the way she brushes most bad things off and then makes a sassy remark makes her very loveable. Short and sweet game.
Brothers: a tale of two sons. I didn't just cry, I weep now when I think about it. It's a short game but absolutely worth playing. You should not look up anything before you go in.
spiritfarer Fantastic game and genuinely heart wrenching.
Donate your life savings to Star Citizen.
Underrated post..
Omori
Laika: Aged Through Blood is the most impactful narrative I've ever experienced. It goes to some very very dark places, but if you're ok with that, I highly recommend it.
Drakengard runs on this The side series NieR is the more hopeful and happy one, and people get emotionally wrecked by those games too. Drakengard 3 in particular is the most emotional piece of media I’ve ever experienced. Everything from falling out of my chair laughter to soul crushing hands in the air despair to anger too hot for the pits of hell to compare.
mafia definitive edition
I’ve been meaning to play this game but not sure if you really meant this
Silent hill 2. It gave me a lump in my throat. Solid game.
Elona + 2.23 Idk why but exploring the map and it’s music makes me emotional
Stray, Valiant Hearts, Silent Hill, Before Your Eyes, To The Moon, That Dragon Cancer, Undertale, Lost In Vivo
The original E.T game
All those cartridges 😪
The hardest I cried at a game was A plague Tale requiem. Granted you have to play the first game (Plague Tale: innocence) to understand what's going on in the sequel.
***LOOK NO FURTHER THAN ORI*** and I guess any RTS game in my exp
Death Stranding
If you liked *Celeste* I think you'd also like *Ori and the Blind Forest*
Journey on the PlayStation
The Forgotten City
NieR Replicant, NieR Automata, Life is Strange.
Transistor, never forgot how that game made me feel. It's been years since I played but the story stuck with me.
Honestly any Nier game, Nier Automata has the best gameplay for starters. If you invest yourself in the story, you will cry.
Nier Automata. The themes are *chefs kiss*
Final Fantasy 14. I know it's an MMO, but hear me out. The main story plays like a visual novel with 3D graphics, and it carries you level-wise to the content (dungeons, boss fights, etc) as part of that journey. It starts slow in the base game (A Realm Reborn / ARR), but builds to impeccable levels of story telling. The crescendo in Endwalker is a huge payoff, and well worth the time spent enjoying the dialogue and cutscenes leading up to it. Honestly, I used to think I hated MMOs. I tried so many, and none of them stuck. I have a problem, too, with finishing single player RPGs. I just never get to the end before losing interest. 14 was like the perfect storm for me. All the social elements of an MMO, but the story of a single player RPG. Having friends to watch your journey is even better. I've cried dozens of times in my playthrough, and dozens more watching streamers play through it as well. Can't recommend the game enough. Edit: The free trial covers the base game and the first two expansions btw. No level restrictions. There are people with thousands of hours in the game without ever having paid a dollar. It's that good lol.
"If there is one thing we resent you for, it was that we could not be there to mourn her with you."
Every fucking time, even just watching someone else's playthrough, that cutscene makes me tear up.
Ff x for ending
Another vote for The Last of Us 1 and 2, multiple times. What a story (and gameplay is super fun)
Utawarerumono 2 and 3, project moon games( lobotomy corps, library of ruina, limbus company)
Portal 1 and 2
Dota 2, you wont literally cry but to your enemy and most of the time to your teammates, you are crying. Infact, you are just a worm to the game until you reach 100hours of play time.
The end of Jedi: Survivor hit me really hard.
King's Quest (2015)
Clannad Finding paradise Deemo
Mw2
I was a teenage exocolonist
Gone Home: You just arrived home from college to an empty house. You are trying to figure out where everyone is and what you missed while away. You do this by exploring the house, looking through old notes and paperwork, plus context clues. You can also listen to your sister's mix tapes.
Yakuza 0, Fire Emblem Three Houses (Blue Lions Route)
I just finished Persona 3 Portable (the female route). I think this is what you’re looking for, if you don’t mind older graphics.
To add something more niche, the VR Game **Lone Echo**
Citizen Sleeper.
It's JUST come out in the last week but "Until Then". It's very text heavy, I'd say more like interactive fiction. But aesthetically it's beautiful in my opinion, and I think that helped me get so attached to the characters so quickly. A lot of heart-sinking moments that ended (at least in my run!) with the ultimate gut punch.
If you got invested in Celeste I’d check out Ikenfell. Similar art style and the story was very good and had me tearing up near the end. It also has some great music.
Until Then.
Baldur’s Gate 3 has made me cry like 5 times
Some of the Witcher 3 quests may
Florence It’s a 30-min mobile game / interactive story about a girl’s relationship. Beautiful, emotional, sweet.
Yttd/Your turn to die, a free game on vgperson, the game is a visual novel that's smiliar to danganronpa, where you and other people are forced to be a kind of killing game. The game has amazing characters and story which was only made by 1 person!
Kentucky Route Zero. more of a visual novel but has a really deep story and characters. Great music too. as others have mentioned, Firewatch and What Remains of Edith Finch are both games with a really compelling story that you can beat in one night.
Rain world, and not because of its story...
To the Moon. Maybe Outer Wilds, but it's more of a happy crying?
I bawled my eyes out at the end of Outer Wilds. Part happy cry, part sad cry, part in-awe-of-its-beauty cry.
This War of Mine
Before your eyes. It's a short but emotional game. It's about a boy and his journey to the afterlife.
Unravel. So beautiful you will cry.
Final fantasy seven crisis core hit me square in the feels. I'm not a very emotional guy, but I teared up pretty good.
Heavy Rain
Final fantasy X
Last Day of June: Carl and June, a couple who suffers a tragedy when a car accident kills June and leaves Carl in a wheelchair. One day, Carl touches one of June's paintings of people who had been present on the day of the accident and discovers that he can revisit their memories
Silent Hill 2.
Mass Effect Trilogy
Ok here's an out there suggestion: the original Final Fantasy VII. Amazing story with some really emotional scenes. At least play it to the end of the first disc 😭
Same games for me! Mmhh… I can add Death stranding (this was the best for me) silent hill 2, Metal gear solid 1-2
If you're into that kind of game, try Until Then. It's a new release available on Steam and PS Store. On Steam it's currently 10% off. I'm not someone who gets emotional over a video game easily, but I cried my eyes out. Please note: The game continues after they show the credits. What comes then is probably either gonna fuck your mind or make you cry even harder. Edit: If you're into LiS, you're gonna love this game.
Spelunky 2
Spelunky 2
Touching grass the game will do that to you easy
Anthem
It will not make you 'cry', but titanfall 2 could be a good option (story mode)
Disco Elysium
Try Firewatch, it’s not for everyone but has a great plot and story
Ark pvp.
Titanfall 2 story
What remains of Edith Finch, it’s much more of a short story than the suggestions you have given. But if it’s for crying you’re looking for, that is definitely a go-to. Without spoilers, it’s about a girl (Edith) telling you her family’s (and childhood house’s) history. Edit: grammar
Spiderman and Miles Morales both got me. Guardians of the Galaxy came close.
Mass Effect 3, though you kind of need to play the first 2 games to have enough emotional investment in the characters to get the full effect. Both the Tuchanka and Rannoch arcs are total tear jerkers.
Ghost of tsushima made me weep dude towards the end the last part I was literally in tears as I was playing it.
If you like JRPGs then Suikoden I and II are contenders I think.
Why isn't Katawa Shoujo #1 on this comment thread?
undertale
Banishers Ghost of New Eden
RiME Islets AER: Memories of Old Hollow Knight (maybe, kind of abstract) Dandara: Trials of Fear (also maybe) Suikoden II (PSX) Chrono Trigger (SNES/PSX/PC, maybe) Recently played the first two and really enjoyed them. RiME does have some optimization issues that cause frame drops in some levels (or it happened on my end at least), but very much worth playing despite that. I actually had to stop playing AER because it got under my skin lol. Islets is a bit short, but not too short. Happy and vibrant for the most part. Left me feeling warm and fuzzy, but also sort of teary eyed. Suikoden II is the one game that actually made me cry many, many years ago.
Bioshock 2 … and save all if the Little Sisters
Check out [Bear's Restaurant ](https://youtu.be/yyy1CBAkeN4?si=JL3K5EhnSkP3gCh5). Fairly short game: 2 or 3 hours. The main premise is that you work with a bear at a restaurant in "purgatory" to serve people their last meal before they move on. You go into each person's past and learn of their favorite meal as well as the circumstances surrounding their death. Definitely a lot of BIG emotions here, so tread carefully.
The longing but you have to wait or skip ahead and watch like I did :)
Ori and the Blind Forest made me bawl my eyes out while also being a genuinely underrated gem of a game
Batman Arkham games BioShock's ending and some other scenes Broforce if you decide to play solo Doom 2016 on the highest difficulty Dying Light If you don't know exactly what you are doing, then modding The Elder Scrolls games can make you cry a lot. Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor/War Noita Ori and The Blind Forest/Will of the Wisps Some of the Souls games, maybe? (Dark Souls 1-3, Elden Ring, Bloodborne...) The Witcher games have some heart-shattering moments. Valheim during your first playthrough, especially on swamps.
Undertale
Everyone’s giving you some big multi hour games, but if you want some real heavy hitter you can try What Remains of Edith Finch
I’m not a very emotional person. The only game that has ever made me cry was This war of mine. The part where the father desperately tries to keep his child alive. That thing was a piece of art.
Getting over it.
Alpha Protocol. The game engine is worse than an early PS2 game. Terrible gameplay. Could easily make you cry.
Rime Just play rime I still cry just thinking about that fucking game. I’m still mad at my ex for picking a game at random and it being that fucking game.
Elden ring
Persona 3 Reload is perfect. At certain point in the game I cried like a bitch Keep in mind that I knew about this scene even before playing the game, and I mentally prepared myself for it the entire time I played it (60 hours)
Not sure which one it was but that Gears of War scene killed me...
Assassin Creed Valhalla had some moments that mad me cry and rage in anger. Highly recommend
Disco Elysium
Star Citizen. You will cry because of bugs and the frustration. People will gank you and ships will explode in midair. Everything takes an hour to start and it will get destroyed in minutes and you repeat that preparing phase.
Stray had me crying a few times. 🐱
game that will make you cry League of legends
The last of us 1 and 2
Metal gear solid 3 and 4, but you gotta play 1 and 2 to get the good payoff
When my horse died, I stopped playing Ghost of Tsushima and never got back to it.