Best Emotional Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated emotional games.

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Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky DX "The promise is entrusted to two alchemists..." The "Dusk" series, a trilogy of RPG titles from Gust's popular Atelier series, tells the story of a world on the verge ruin, told from the perspective of its unique characters.

Price -46% 21.95€
Rating 8.3
Release 14 Jan 2020
Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk DX "The promise begins." The "Dusk" series, a trilogy of RPG titles from Gust's popular Atelier series, tells the story of a world on the verge ruin, told from the perspective of its unique characters. The 1st title in the series "Atelier Ayesha" is now available as a deluxe version.

Price -46% 21.95€
Rating 8.6
Release 14 Jan 2020
Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek follows the tragic story of the Neighbor’s family in this dramatic prequel to Hello Neighbor. Experience playing a game of hide-and-seek with your brother as you both deal with the loss of a family member.

Price -97% 1.14€
Rating 8.0
Release 10 Dec 2019
LOST EMBER Explore the remains of a fallen world from fascinating perspectives! Slip into the role of different animals to uncover the fate of an ancient world. Dive into deep waters, fly at lofty heights, dig underground as a mole or even climb steep cliffs with a mountain goat, there are lots of ways of getting around.

Price -69% 9.32€
Rating 8.5
Release 22 Nov 2019
Still There Every day is the same on the faraway Bento space-lighthouse - until a mysterious radio message breaks through. Evade the past, welcome oblivion, make the perfect Italian coffee. Still There is a psychological adventure game about grief, technical puzzles, wacky AIs and dark humour. How far is far enough?

Price -98% 0.41€
Rating 8.2
Release 20 Nov 2019
Grimm's Hollow A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.6
Release 30 Oct 2019
Neo Cab A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.

Price -98% 0.32€
Rating 7.8
Release 03 Oct 2019
Jenny LeClue - Detectivu JENNY LECLUE is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet, mysteries and puzzles to solve across a vibrant, atmospheric world.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.3
Release 19 Sep 2019
Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to) A game about writing nice letters to real people. Write and receive encouraging letters in a cozy room. Trade stickers and listen to chill music. We're all in this together. Sometimes all you need are a few kind words.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 12 Sep 2019
ARIDA: Backland's Awakening ARIDA: Backland's Awakening. A story of survival and adventure in the brazilian backlands. Face the drought to explore the more arid regions, gather resources and discover clues about the fate of the young Cícera.

Price -83% 0.59€
Rating 8.2
Release 15 Aug 2019
Eliza Eliza is a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop it, and the people who use it. Follow Evelyn Ishino-Aubrey as she reconnects with people from her past, gets to know the people of Seattle who use Eliza for counseling, and decides the course of her future.

Price -98% 0.42€
Rating 8.6
Release 12 Aug 2019
Monsters of Little Haven At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 09 Jul 2019
FOCUS on YOU The love at first sight, came like a sunny summer day. Meet YUA and make your own sparkling moments.

Price 33.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 05 Jul 2019
Seen A lonely kid desperately tries to escape his dark world.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 8.9
Release 20 Jun 2019
Sanator: Scarlet Scarf Scarlet Scarf is a visual novel inspired by the legend of Plague Maiden. Dive into the dark mysteries of a dying city with the fate of Sanator Richard Murdock in your hands. Perhaps it's not too late to stop the on-going calamity...

Price -67% 2.78€
Rating 8.4
Release 06 Jun 2019
Answer Knot A short narrative and exploration game about Zach, June, and a strange phenomenon. You're Zach and, stuck in your home, you will do everything to keep hearing June's voice messages. What is happening out there?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 31 May 2019
FREEDIVER: Triton Down Plunge into VR on a capsizing research ship, the Triton, where survival means outmaneuvering the water's lethal surge. Freedive through a sinking ship, overcome underwater chaos, and unlock your path to the surface, all while protecting your most precious resource: the breath in your lungs.

Price -50% 3.69€
Rating 7.8
Release 30 May 2019
missed messages. ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.4
Release 30 May 2019
Draugen Draugen is a single-player, first-person Fjord Noir mystery set in 1920s Norway. Explore a forgotten coastal village in your search for your missing sister, accompanied by your independent and enigmatic young ward. Norwegian Game of the Year 2019.

Price -53% 9.48€
Rating 7.2
Release 29 May 2019
Atelier Lulua ~The Scion of Arland~ The long awaited 4th installment of the popular "Arland" series that had begun with the "Atelier Rorona"! In this new story, players will revisit the nostalgic world of Arland and embark on exciting journey of alchemy together with Rorona's daughter, Lulua.

Price 59.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 20 May 2019
A Plague Tale: Innocence Follow the grim tale of young Amicia and her little brother Hugo, in a heartrending journey through the darkest hours of history.

Price -84% 6.42€
Rating 9.2
Release 14 May 2019
HOME HOME is a feel-good walking simulator experience in which you create your own poem and music. Embark on a poetic and musical heartwarming journey about what home means to you.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 11 May 2019
Never Again Never Again - Horror/first-person Quest. The main essence of the game is research locations and puzzles, plunging in the dramatic story of a little girl suffering from asthma.

Price 13.79€
Rating 7.7
Release 09 May 2019
Tales of the Neon Sea Welcome to a world of intrigue and suspicion. Where humans and robots contend with escalating tensions and mutual distrust. And where gangster felines scheme their way to the top of the food chain. Welcome to the Tales of the Neon Sea!

Price -96% 0.82€
Rating 8.4
Release 29 Apr 2019
Newfound Courage You're a young man named Alex who arrives in the cliffside town of Silverpine. Explore the town's many mysteries and meet its colourful townsfolk, while you grow closer to a kind-hearted local named Jake. Can the two of you save the town from the impending doom brewing inside the mysterious Vault?

Price -72% 2.49€
Rating 8.7
Release 22 Mar 2019
TOKYO CHRONOS TOKYO CHRONOS is the VR game that has multiple-choice decision points as well as more than one ending. The game takes place in Shibuya, Tokyo, which has only eight people, including you, the protagonist, Kyosuke Sakurai. Why are they there?

Price 28.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 19 Mar 2019
When the Darkness comes When the Darkness comes is a walking simulator whose glitchy and dark tale tries to illustrate the hardships of depression and anxiety through a variety of imaginary digital landscapes.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 01 Mar 2019
最后的47小时 - The Last 47 Hours "Let's break up in 47 hours!" The girl who has been in love with me for six years and  will become my sweet bride next month, now declares. Are we really going to say goodbye after forty-seven hours?

Price 1.59€
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Feb 2019
Flower Experience award-winning Flower, now available on PC. Flower lets you take control of the wind as you explore and navigate beautiful, lush environments.

Price -80% 1.29€
Rating 7.8
Release 14 Feb 2019
The Stillness of the Wind A quiet game of life and loss. One by one, everyone left the village for the city. Everyone, except Talma. Approaching her final years, she maintains a simple way of life tending to her homestead, surviving, subsisting, whilst increasingly disturbing letters arrive from her family in the city.

Price -96% 0.61€
Rating 7.2
Release 07 Feb 2019
CHAOS;CHILD From the creators of the critically acclaimed STEINS;GATE comes a sensational new visual novel: CHAOS;CHILD. Set in Shibuya in 2015, a group of high school students who survived an earthquake six years ago find themselves at the center of a new series of bizarre murders in the city.

Price 20.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 22 Jan 2019
She and the Light Bearer She and the Light Bearer is a point and click adventure game, a poem, a fairy tale. Take a journey inside a vibrantly colored forest, meet silly creatures, listen to serene folk music, and discover somber secrets.

Price -86% 1.40€
Rating 7.9
Release 17 Jan 2019
Zeliria Sanctuary Sense of reality has not yet returned after a teleportation experiment. Purple hamsters, girls with tails, medieval knights - a fantastic world of an alien planet, where you will lead special forces soldier Maxx.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.2
Release 06 Jan 2019
Shan Gui II: Sweet Osmanthus II Autumn goes by, girls are still waiting till osmanthus blooming.

Price 5.19€
Rating 8.8
Release 15 Dec 2018
Atelier Totori ~The Adventurer of Arland~ DX The second release in the Arland series. In a search for her missing mother, Totori tours the world of Arland as an adventurer accompanied by her friends. Use Synthesis, Explore, and Battle to fulfil requests, raise her rank as an adventurer and venture into brand new lands.

Price -55% 18.29€
Rating 7.5
Release 03 Dec 2018
Atelier Rorona ~The Alchemist of Arland~ DX First release in the Arland series. The main character Rorona must save her Atelier from being closed by the Kingdom. Using Synthesis, Exploration, and Battle, gain recognition for the Atelier and save it from being closed.

Price -8% 36.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 03 Dec 2018

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