I just skimmed through the list of games I have played and I'm not sure if any of these are what you are looking for because I don't think any of them are sad throughout the entire game or left me with an overall sad feeling about the game, but they all have some kind of sad parts. The games are listed in order of how much I enjoyed them.
The Cat Lady
Last Day of June
Tell Me Why
Lorelai (good song in the 2nd trailer on Steam)
Finding Paradise
Doki Doki Literature Club!
Dropsy
Detention
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Higurashi when they cry - there's a horror, but crying can be too
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Some really good recommendations in this thread. I'll try to add some.
Gone Home
Ame no Marginal -Rain Marginal-
Seven Days
Katawa Shoujo is not on Steam but it is free to download on their website.
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Sad visual novel, and you don't mind dark themes, death, violence and sexual content? I have an almost perfect candidate for you:
Kara no Shoujo
Just one big problem with the game - it's really hard to reach most endings without guide.
Also you may be interested it this ones, if you want more sadness and darkness:
Subarashiki Hibi Furenzoku Sonzai
Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi.
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Huh, why? For me it was absolutely masterpiece. Miyuki best girl, you know ^^
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Song of Saya https://store.steampowered.com/app/702050/The_Song_of_Saya/ It's beautiful and sad
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Life Is Strange (the first game) and Life is Strange: True Colors...
Those are THE MOST SAD AND HEARTBREAKING games you will ever find T_T
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Really? No one?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150690/OMORI/
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Takes notes of games mentioned here so I can avoid the heck out of them.
Those are precisely the kinds of stories I hate. <.<
So... I guess I'll un-recommend the games which I disliked based on just the fact that they made me absolutely miserable:
Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
Doki Doki Literature Club! (In case you've never heard of the game before- yes, really.)
Hollow Knight
I guess I'd also give (dis)honourable mentions to Reflection of Mine and Forgotton Anne although they didn't quite manage to radiate the same levels of suicidal depression like the above three...
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Hollow Knight isn't sad? It has a dark atmosphere but it isn't melancholic in any way but if you're talking about the story, I have absolutely no idea.
Even though, still a great game if you're into difficult stuff.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/559210/Rakuen/ Rakuen might be the saddest game I've ever played. 100% recommend it.
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FAR: Lone Sails - the son buried his father, takes a mailbox and goes on a trip on an all-terrain vehicle (created by his father), visiting the grave of his father's friend along the way... the whole journey takes place against the background of deserted ruins of civilization.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/609320/FAR_Lone_Sails/
LIMBO - the main character's sister died due to an accident, a little boy could not cope with stress and committed suicide... the whole game we wander through hell in search of our sister.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/48000/LIMBO/
Lifeless Planet - The USSR colonized a distant planet, but inhumane experiments led to the death of all settlers. Years later, we fly to the planet as an American astronaut and find out what happened? The game in its own way retells the plot of "Aelita"(1923 the year of writing), a fantastic novel by Alexei Nikolaevich Tolstoy about how Earthlings colonized Mars
https://store.steampowered.com/app/261530/Lifeless_Planet_Premier_Edition/
- in 2020, giveaway in the EGS store
https://store.epicgames.com/ru/p/lifeless-planet-premier-edition
Dust: An Elysian Tail - the story of the return from the dead.(with a sad ending)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/236090/Dust_An_Elysian_Tail/
Silent Hill 2 - there are several sad stories intertwined in the game...
the main character's beloved wife died...
we will meet an unhappy overweight person who has been bullied for a very long time...
A 19-year-old girl, who was raped by her brother and father since childhood, at one point she could not stand it and killed both with a knife.The whole game she will be looking for her missing mom...
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Ah, that game... In case if someone doesn't know, it was initially free, but if you paid about $5 (or something like that), you could finish the game dying. And that somehow made sense. Tale of Tales specialized on really awesome art projects, and of course they went bankrupt after finally releasing their first actual game (Sunset). They were way too intelligent for the mainstream audience.
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Only SeaBed made me cry but there are the most recent "sad" games I've played that come to mind.
SeaBed - is a 20+ hour yuri KN; two childhood friends become lovers and open a design studio, but Takako is discovered to have developmental amnesia, and one day, mysteriously vanishes. Not a horror.
OPUS: The Day We Found Earth - Play as small robot Emeth, left alone in space to fulfill a century-old promise by finding Earth in order to save Mankind.
Fallstreak: Requiem for my Homeland - A gruesome sci-fi fantasy KN that takes 1+ hours to complete. Warnings for: Death, violence, war atrocities, blood and gore.
The Stillness of the Wind - A quiet game of life and loss.
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A lot of great ones have already been mentioned. To avoid redundancy, however, I'm just going to throw this tear jerker up here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1449690/The_Walking_Dead_The_Telltale_Definitive_Series/
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One of the best examples of both a sad game and a visual novel, the first season is still one of my favorite games I've ever played!
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/426690/Narcissu_10th_Anniversary_Anthology_Project/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/348950/Ame_no_Marginal_Rain_Marginal/
Both are really sad VN's. I've played them both and I can't reccomend them enough.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/420530/OneShot/
It's a RPG maker game. The story is also really moving.
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+1 for OneShot, I was hoping to see it on here. It does a good job of attaching you to the characters and their short but touching stories.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1230140/ATRI_My_Dear_Moments/
I don't have it on steam though
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Bird Alone is only android and ios I believe, but it had me crying for days with snot and all. It was originally marketed as being good for mental health lol, but spoiler (that should’ve been stated upfront imo) it involves your pet bird slowly dying. It was so sad, I had to stop the game and watch it in reverse on YouTube instead so that the bird was aging backwards. Until the end, the bird is your best friend, and you make music, poetry, and art together!
As for a visual novel, Scar of the Doll is quite sad, although probably not a tearjerker for most. It’s a mystery about a woman’s missing sister with more going on than it initially appears.
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looking for rec's for sad games and visual novels - they can be all ages or 18+ and can include the themes such as death, illness, sexual assault, violence, etc....
just post what you think are good games for a good cry
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