Which game left you emotionally devastated? 🎮
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Have you ever played a game that had you feeling all sorts of emotions, from sadness to anger to guilt? 🤔 For me, it has to be Last of Us 2 – it hit me like a ton of bricks. I’ve never been so affected by a game that it made me physically ill as the climax approached. The game’s themes of revenge and the destructive cycle it creates really hit home.
Which game broke you emotionally, and why? Share your thoughts and experiences below! Let’s talk about the games that really stay with us long after we’ve put down our controllers. 🎮💔
**Your turn to share:**
– Which game left you feeling devastated?
– What specifically about the game affected you emotionally?
– How did you cope with the emotional impact of the game?
The Bioshock series did a pretty fantastic job especially in the third and final been making me feel feelings
SOMA. Every single, damn choice was just the worst.
The Witcher 3. There are multiple endings, and I got the bad ending.
losing cortana was the end of halo for me 🍑🎮💔
Gears of War 2 – Finding Maria.
What remains of Edith Finch hits hard, the bathtub and the fish factory scenes. Outer Wilds ending is beautiful as well. I know it’s a meme, but I always need to take a minute after killing the Ender Dragon in Minecraft as well.
Ffx. I feel like I’ve been chasing that feeling with the story for a long time now. Only thing that’s come close was cyberpunk but that might’ve been because I played it a little high lol
Spec Ops: The Line. I heard it’s not available anymore? Or something’s up with it now? Grab it if you can. Avoid ALL SPOILERS if you can. I’m sure plenty of outlets talked about this game, but i don’t know how many actually respect spoilers….
It’s a fairly okay 3rd person shooter, but the story and how it affected me personally was… Ugh… It really hits you hard a couple of time… There was one point where I was following the games suggestion without much thought, only to realize the extent of my actions and feeling absolutely awful about it… So much so, I reset to try and see if that was a choice, or a requirement. Instead of going back and fixing my mistakes, I ended up just loading into the autosave at the beginning of the cutscene and had to relive the horror of what i had done all over again.
Most recently, Outer Wilds.
probably The Cat Lady. I spent most of my life battling depression and suicidal thoughts so games with these themes always get to me
NieR: Automata. Specifically the ending credits. It broke me into tears
Still FF7.
Life is Strange.
Played at release, so Episodes came out weeks apart, and the game was occupying my mind in between. The timing of when this was in my life made me relate really strongly to Chloe, and the game is essentially a character study of her. Saved the bay, and I was a snotty, sobbing mess through that last song, just straight fucked me up. It’s my favorite game of all time.
I’m still convinced there HAS to be a way to save Mordin and cure the genophage.
*To The Moon* effected me emotionally more than any piece of media ever has.
Palom and Porum in FFIV. I think I was like 8 when I played through that with my brother. Fuckin destroyed me that there was nothing you could do, but it literally changed my understanding of storytelling
To the moon hit me hard. So did the walking dead season 1 from telltale.
Both Plague Tale games, but ESPECIALLY 2. Everything from the main menu to the ending haunts me, incredible game
Nier Automata and Persona 3 (even the remake got me into tears all over again all these years later).
Ffxiv. Thr latest expansion made me a blubbering mess on numerous occasions.
To The Moon
Impressive how much a 3 hour RPG Maker game can get ya
The ending of Yakuza 6
Legit needed like a week to emotionally recover
Runescape. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could have been anything but a bum (with 99s) but I am.
That game man, looking back on all the water hours, nights I didn’t go out, thing I didn’t apply for because I had the grind. It makes me sad.
The one with Solomon Reed and Songbird
RDR2 made me reconsider my views on law, order, & freedom. I can honestly say that I’m the aftermath of my first playthrough (and successive playthroughs) I’ve been less interested in following the rules, at least when they’re arbitrary or plainly made to perpetuate an unfair system.
But it was also, to the point of the question, emotionally devastating. I came to genuinely care for Arthur and the rest of the gang and seeing what happened to them over the course of the game the first time was… hard.
The ending of Firewatch messed me up, the lack of closure was devastatingly real 😢
Cyberpunk.
The ending credits, that song, the video calls. It all just made me depressed.
Walking dead season 1. My wife was pregnant with our first child while we played so the idea of fatherhood was already weighing on me and that gsme took me on a journey.
The Last of Us (Part I, whatever) changed me on a molecular level; I was not the same person exiting that game as I was entering.
I wish I had a game like God of War: Ragnarok when I was a kid. As hard hitting and emotionally devastating as it can be, I also wish I had a character like Kratos tell his son that it was okay to be true to your feelings and let your heart guide you.
Also, I didn’t even play Spec Ops: The Line, I just watched a commentary-less playthrough on YouTube and I still felt physically sick to my stomach.
Conversely, I don’t know if I would call it devastation, but Journey elated my heart in ways no other game ever has before.
Recently persona 3 Reload had me crying at the end. Such a great game, glad I was able to play it.
Ignoring all of the “Choices Matter” games that *always* get to me (Life is Strange series, Telltale games), I think the most recent one that destroyed me was Death Stranding. I took it really, really slowly, going and maxing out every person on my way to the end, so I got more emotionally invested than I normally do with open(ish) world games and the last few chapters shattered my heart.
Rdr 2, couldn’t pick up any game for 2 weeks after that sunset scene. ( u know what im talking about”
In 2014 I was living with my girlfriend’s family, who had a son with muscular dystrophy. They had converted their garage into an at-home medical facility. Around the time I was living with them, he died. He was 31, a year younger than me, and yet several years older than what the doctors had predicted would be his life span.
The next year I played Life Is Strange. That scene in the second episode destroyed me, I had to just sit in silence for several minutes after the ending. You can tell the creators had lived that reality because the way they had converted their garage was spot-on and very realistic.
Shadow of the Colossus, twice.
Spiritfarer, if it were my wife answering. She was bawling on the couch for a solid 20 minutes at the end.
Life is strange
Xenoblade Chronicles 3. The scene at the end of Chapter 5 and beginning of chapter 6. Those whole scenes were just packed with so much raw emotion and sorrow I cried. Like legit ugly cried playing a game :/
Mass Effect 2 Moradin’s death. You can keep him alive but he is a shell of what he was.
Valiant Hearts: The Great War
That final sequence where Emile is walked to his execution while the voiceover reads the letter. He died thinking Karl had died.
“Your loving papa, always” was absolutely devastating to hear.
Ghost of Tsushima and Undertale.
Disco Elysium.
“Protocol 3, protect the pilot.”
I still think about it sometimes. This hit me the hardest although there’s sadder games.
Detroit: Become Human.
In my first play through, I achieved literally the most devastating endings for all 3 storylines. It couldn’t have gone worse even if I planned it.
Great game, but damn.
Reading all these comments has made me realize it’s been a *very* long time since a game has touched me emotionally, either because I’ve been spoiled (I’m never up to date on recent stuff) or because I figured out what was going to happen already. And that makes me sad.
Hellblade; Senua’s Sacrifice. It is absolutely beautiful and devastating. Masterclass writing.
This one particular moment in Ghost of Tsushima completely broke me but I’m marking it as spoiler here.
>!So the game tells you to pick a horse and a name at the beginning and tells you that you have to choose carefully because your horse will br with you throughout the whole adventure and you won’t be able to change it, but it was A FUCKING LIE and the horse gets killed halfway through the game and I swear to god, I’ve cried my heart out so much that my head and my eyes hurt and I had to stop playing for the day. !<
FF7 Crisis Core was the first piece of media where I saw the main character die at the end. Zack will always be cooler than Cloud to me.
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