Video Games that tore your heart?

[Peisinoe]

Otome Game

Dandelion Wishes Brought to you.

It's korean and wow it's like inception and a korean drama had a baby.

It's awesome and it will make you cry so hard that you'll want your mama

 

[Slayer_Buffy]

Link's Awakening, Odin Sphere, Rule of Rose, and Fragile Dreams.

 

[Beary]

Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy

Spoiler: SPOILER

THE PULLED THE FREAKING 'and she was a robot the entire time' THING
AFAJSKSN

 

[Nuclear Bingo]

Narcissu (if it counts as game) and Tales of Vesperia

 

[ThePayne22]

Ending #4 of Hatoful Boyfriend. That game is NOT what I expected it to be...

 

[Jawile]

The first time I beat Pokemon Mystery Dungeon I cried

 

[NSFW]

The Last Of Us and one of TWD telltale seasons is all i remember honestly

 

[SolarInferno]

To the Moon has to be the most tear-jerking game I've ever played. Other people told me that it was quite a moving game, but I didn't think anything of it. I followed through pretty much the guy's entire life, won't spoil it for anyone that might play it in the future, but yeah, it is quite moving seeing each detail, and moving around in a world frozen in time.

 

[Aradai]

please add every single season of telltale's the walking dead to my list ty

 

[emre3]

The Last of Us, TWD season 1 and Xenoblade Chronicles.

The feels man, the feels...

 

[Misuzurin]

Kingdom Hearts 2. Those Axel feels...

Mass effect 3 when Thane dies. Such a short scene but wow I wasn't even in a relationship with him in ME2 but that was sad. Interestingly enough one of the few scenes in the whole trilogy that impacted me so much. Garrus ftw btw.

Ace Attorney 3 final case. Oh Godot you are too awesome and pitiable at the same time.

Virtue's last reward, Luna ending. That has to be one of the best timelines in the game.

Those are the whole moments I can remember that made me really cry, almost bawl.

I have all the Layton games but have only beaten curious village, I should try to get through them sometime.

 

[Cazqui]

The last of us.

 

[Nanobyte]

Every time there's a crying baby in anything I get sad ;_;
WHY DO BABIES MAKE ME SAD

 

[Zane]

Tales of the Abyss, Tales of Symphonia, Super Paper Mario (shut up), PMD: Explorers of Darkness. It's been too long since I played Blue Rescue Team to remember if the end was as sad to me as Explorers of Darkness. :v

 

[Dustmop]

Spec Ops: The Line. No seriously, I walked into this knowing it was all about the horrors of war and watching Walker fall apart from PTSD. I have PTSD; part of me was skeptical that they could do a decent job showing someone going through it, but all the while I still thought I knew what I was getting myself into.
But nothing could have prepared me for the white phosphorous scene halfway through. That was ****ing horrible. :c The ending was pretty awful, too, if you did the bad thing in the epilogue.. omg. :c

A Bird Story. From the same creator of To The Moon? Well alright, might be a little sad but TTM never really "got" to me. And I don't even like birds. I can handle this.
Needless to say, it hit a lot closer to home than I expected. I just kept internally comparing his bird to my cat, Dustmop. I found this injured animal and nursed it back to health. And the ending? No Dusty, no. ;-;

Oknytt. I got this little gem of a point-and-click adventure game in a bundle at some point. It's such a beautiful story, about this seemingly insignificant creature who goes on to lead a seemingly insignificant adventure one night. The creature you play as is adorable. It looks like a cross between ALF and a black hedgehog, lol.
The entire story is so well-done, so many of the other curious little creatures you meet are adorable.. but the ending. Came completely out of the blue. Why did he just sit there? No little ALF-hedgehog, move. Hide in a cave. Do something. Why did you let that happen. ;-;
Well, I guess the narrator at the beginning kind of hints at it... it was rather symbolic, looking back. BUT IT WAS STILL SAD.
I highly recommend this sweet little gem if you're even mildly interested in P&C adventure games.

 

[RayOfHope]

Shadow of the Colossus. That game is specially designed to rip a hole in your chest and leave you bleeding for days. It feels more like art than a game, honestly.

 

[mariop476]

Mother 3, Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, and... a whole lot more. I'm a baby. Those two struck the most resonant chord with me, though.

 

[Baumren]

The first one that comes to mind is Pokemon Mystery Dungeon 2 (time/darkness/sky). Ooooh boy all the real tears I shed for that game :,(
Then there was also T.W.E.W.Y., and the Ace Attorney series in general. Including that amazing crossover with Professor Layton (Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright).


...and those are just the ones who have actually technically made me physically cry. Many others have touched my heart and stirred up my feels, too many too list here...

 

[spCrossing]

Majora's Mask also ripped my heart to shreds at points in the game.

 

[Zulehan]

Spec Ops: The Line. No seriously, I walked into this knowing it was all about the horrors of war and watching Walker fall apart from PTSD. I have PTSD; part of me was skeptical that they could do a decent job showing someone going through it, but all the while I still thought I knew what I was getting myself into.
But nothing could have prepared me for the white phosphorous scene halfway through. That was ****ing horrible. :c The ending was pretty awful, too, if you did the bad thing in the epilogue.. omg. :c

So glad you brought this one up and shared your perspective. I have that game on my shelf. Although I do not know the life of a soldier, I imagine it is rare to find a game that treats it as anything more than sheer entertainment. This game was indeed disconcerting. Relatedly, I have not played many games that do a good job presenting a psychological antagonist.