What game made you cry or affect you emotionally when you played it?

[Ferdinand]

There are certain games that have the ability to evoke that deep part of us when we play them. What is that game that can make you shed tears when you play them?

I cried the last time that I played Metro based on how the game ended. Is there any game that can bring out that emotions in you?

 

[Tyler]

God of War 2018. The ending got me. Between morning class and work this week so gaming time is limited but that one lingers. Didn't see it coming and that's rare.

 

[Ferdinand]

God of War 2018. The ending got me. Between morning class and work this week so gaming time is limited but that one lingers. Didn't see it coming and that's rare.

That game has been reported by many as containing that ending part that could make a lot of people feel quite emotional.

 

[Lukas]

A colonist I had been running for forty in-game years died during a raid in RimWorld. It is a game about procedurally generated people but the attachment builds without you noticing. I sat there for a moment before I could continue. Caught me completely off guard.

 

[Ryan]

That RimWorld thing Lukas mentioned is exactly how that game gets you. You know it's just a procedural system, you know it doesn't mean anything, and then someone who's been in your colony for two years dies on a raid and you just sit there for a second. For me it was Witcher 3 -- certain ending paths caught me completely off guard. Didn't expect that from a game I'd gone in thinking was mostly about combat.

 

[Oliver]

Planescape: Torment, which is probably an obvious answer for anyone who has played it. There is a moment in the late game where the weight of what the Nameless One has done to the people around him becomes unavoidable -- not through a cutscene but through accumulated context. I sat with it for a while. Not many games manage that without reaching for it.

 

[Corey]

Subnautica got me in a way I didn't see coming. That point where the music drops out and you realise how far down you've gone. Not sad exactly, just this weight to it. Damo said he felt the same and he never admits that kind of thing, so I knew it had actually hit.

 

[Tyler]

Corey's Subnautica point is real. That game hits different because nothing is attacking you for most of it, it's just the isolation. God of War 2018 got me too but someone already said that. Up at 4 for the warehouse so keeping this short.