Hidden Emotional Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated emotional games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Emotional games on Steam.

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Indecision. A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.

Price -85% 0.46€
Rating 8.0
Release 08 Feb 2018
Six Days of Snow In a small inn located in the snowy Japanese mountains, an unlikely relationship blossoms between a once-popular poet and the daughter of the inn's proprietress.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 29 Dec 2017
Rumu Rumu is an intimate, narrative-driven adventure that follows the path into sentience of a robot vacuum cleaner.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.5
Release 12 Dec 2017
Little Busters! English Edition Capturing the hearts of countless fans since 2007, Little Busters! is an emotional visual novel from Key, the minds behind Angel Beats! and CLANNAD. This special English release supports touch controls and dynamic switching between English and Japanese text, and is in HD for the first time on PC.

Price 31.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 01 Nov 2017
Attentat 1942 Attentat 1942 is a historically-accurate adventure about World War 2. Face moral dilemmas and existential struggles as you uncover the troubled past of your family.

Price -6% 8.53€
Rating 8.6
Release 31 Oct 2017
Nights of Azure 2: Bride of the New Moon A Tale of Three Beautiful Maidens Drawn to Each Other. When three friends, deceived and separated by the tricks of darkness, find each other again, their bond shall become the light that will clear away the shadows and guide them towards the truth...

Price -29% 43.08€
Rating 7.1
Release 24 Oct 2017
Blackberry Honey A lesbian love story set in Victorian England, featuring maids, music, and finding love in unexpected places.

Price 12.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 24 Oct 2017
Engare Engare is a game about motion and geometry. Part puzzle game, part drawing tool, Engare is all about your geometric imagination. It’s a meditation on the dynamics of simple machines and the beauty buried deep within repeating motion.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.8
Release 23 Oct 2017
Bai Qu: Hundreds of Melodies A melody of life and death surrounding a sickly girl and her friends.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.9
Release 27 Jul 2017
Lydia Award winning emotional visual novel about a little girl in a world of adults. How can you find a monster you can’t see?

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 02 Jun 2017
Mass Exodus Redux Whether you’re playing the seeker (VR) or rogue android (PC), Mass Exodus is a tense and absorbing local multiplayer game. With 4 extensive maps each with unique kill methods and some creative power-ups, you need to try outsmart your friends anyway you can. Oculus Touch and HTC Vive compatible.

Price 6.89€
Rating 6.9
Release 04 May 2017
Don't Disturb Single-player puzzle adventure with a beautiful, distinctive art style and a genuinely emotional story. As a lonely dog wandering the afterlife searching for his dead master, 'Don't Disturb' explores traditional Asian views on death and the underworld.

Price -91% 0.37€
Rating 7.9
Release 01 Sep 2016
Winter Novel Snow, dullness, depression. Constant dissatisfaction with work and superiors and feeling like there is no escape. Is this what life will always be? Perhaps… but I can always hope for change to be just around the corner!…

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 10 Aug 2016
A Little Lily Princess Newly arrived at a boarding school in Victorian England, Sara Crewe uses her love of books and storytelling to build new relationships. But what happens to a fairy-tale princess when she loses everything?

Price -95% 0.78€
Rating 8.6
Release 19 May 2016
Paws - A Shelter 2 Game Traverse a vast world as a young lynx cub. Paws – A Shelter 2 Game is a standalone, single player, adventure game with loss and friendship as its central themes. Venture out in the world and make your way home.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.6
Release 24 Mar 2016
Narcissu 10th Anniversary Anthology Project "Life is like a waiting room, except people don't leave in the order they enter." Narcissu is a thought provoking visual novel series about terminal illness, living, dying, and the relationship between those leaving and those left behind. There are no miracles, no heroes, no villains in this story.

Price -74% 0.80€
Rating 9.1
Release 27 Jan 2016
Sepia Tears A visual novel about a memory that a boy named Mark tries very hard to forget, and a girl named Myra who unearths it.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 08 Jan 2016
The Sad Story of Emmeline Burns A short lesbian / yuri visual novel set in England. Our heroine, Toma Andrews, meets a ghost girl wearing an old-fashioned nightgown in a graveyard who calls herself Emmeline. Just who is she, and how did she die?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 05 Jan 2016
Ninja Pizza Girl Ninja Pizza Girl is a serious game about bullying, emotional resilience – and pizza delivering ninjas! It’s a fast, flow-based game about Gemma, a sixteen-year-old girl trying to keep her dreams alive in face of the most merciless enemies known to any teenage girl – other teenagers.

Price -89% 0.78€
Rating 7.5
Release 30 Sep 2015
In Between In Between is set inside the mind of a man hit by a cruel twist of fate. Together you are on a journey through the protagonist's head, a world that doesn’t obey the laws of physics.

Price 11.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 21 Aug 2015
Ame no Marginal -Rain Marginal- The latest visual novel by Tomo Kataoka, the author of Narcissu 1st & 2nd, has arrived! An empty world with endless rain and only one person. Here there is no hunger, sickness or even death. Just what story does this world's one occupant have?

Price -49% 6.65€
Rating 8.1
Release 07 Jul 2015
Disney G-Force G-Force draws you into the adventures of an elite team of trained guinea pigs on a mission to thwart a sinister plot to destroy the world. Take control of both G-Force commander Darwin and his sidekick, Mooch, as they apply their talents to defeat an evil army of altered household appliances.

Price -31% 13.59€
Rating 8.9
Release 06 Oct 2014
Silence of the Sleep You play as a man called Jacob Reeves. A man who has lost his reason to live. He throws himself into a blackness to end his misery, but instead of it being the end he wakes up without a memory of his life before.

Price -95% 0.28€
Rating 7.1
Release 01 Oct 2014
Oknytt Oknytt is an old school point-and-click adventure game where the player takes the role of a small, seemingly insignificant creature, leading it through a dark world filled with beings and areas inspired by Swedish folklore, in search of a place to belong.

Price -86% 0.70€
Rating 8.5
Release 04 Apr 2014