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List depressing video games here
Can you guys tell me any games that are horribly depressing? It shouldn't be like The Cat Lady style. 2D or 3D, or whatever gameplay it doesn't matter. Whether it romanticize or glorify suicide, pain, suffering or the like, it doesn't even matter. I'm into such things and don't worry I'm still alive despite the struggle in life.

I haven't played many depressing video games sadly but here are a few that makes me so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ legit depressed:


Thank you! I will edit the list if I you want to contribute. :steamhappy:
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cojimar71 Nov 15, 2016 @ 5:30pm 
Two games that come to mind are The Last Of Us and This War Of Mine. Both have concepts that are pretty heavy and kept me emotionally involved.
bliss Nov 15, 2016 @ 5:44pm 
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Metro 2033
Max Payne
The Beginner's Guide
The Walking Dead (Telltale)
A New Beginning
LIMBO
Gemini Rue
Emily is Away
Dear Esther
BioShock
Bastion
To The Moon
Kentucky Route Zero
STASIS
Downfall
Fallout
Spec Ops: The Line
Stigma Nov 16, 2016 @ 4:48am 
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill Shattered memories
Serene Nov 19, 2016 @ 11:04pm 
Downfall
Kathy Rain
The Beginner's Guide
Three Fourths Home
Rusty Lake Hotel
Silence of the Sleep
The Grandfather
Inside
Dear Esther
Gone Home
Life is Strange
The Novelist
Actual Sunlight
The Path
That Dragon Cancer
Thomas Was Alone
Last edited by Serene; Nov 20, 2016 @ 2:21am
wcc Nov 30, 2016 @ 11:30am 
Here some games not mentioned before, with some kind of a ranking:

Lisa (seriously, give it a try ... it starts weird and ends up just crushing)
Primordia (gloomy till the end, endings range from depressing to just not really hopeful)
The Fall (gloomy, sad ending)
Transistor (gloomy, sad ending)
In Between (annoying puzzles, depressing ending)
Bioshock 2 with neutral ending and Bioshock 3

With some downsides, but still depressing endings:
Oknytt
Chains of Satinav I and II
Last edited by wcc; Nov 30, 2016 @ 11:36am
What_the_Duck Dec 1, 2016 @ 2:28pm 
The Cat Lady, Claire, Dead Space (1), Downfall, L.A. Noire, Layers of Fear, Masochisia (haven't finished it yet, but it looks pretty depressing, This War of Mine, Tormentum - Dark Sorrow, The Town of Light, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, The Walking Dead by Telltale (especially Season 1), Year Walk, Max Payne, Silent Hill 2, Sanitarium, One Chance (a free game), Brothers: a Tale of Two Sons, Spec Ops: the Line, Planescape: Torment (and one of the best RPGs of all time), Bioshock Infinite, GTA IV (yeah, the story is really sad), Pathologic, Cry of Fear, Half-Life 2 is somewhat depressing, too. That's all I could remember. Sorry for my English, not my native language.
Freikorptrasher Jan 21, 2017 @ 5:13am 
Spec Ops The Line
The war of mine.
To the Moon
Bioshock 3
Terranigma
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Transistor
Danganronpa? Despairrrr

Playing Fran Bow soon
Last edited by Freikorptrasher; Jan 21, 2017 @ 5:14am
ManueLink64 Jan 22, 2017 @ 11:08pm 
- Heavy RAIN (PS3/PS4...i cried a few times, i feel really attached to the protagonist [Ethan Mars] )
- Rain (ps3/psn game, a gem)
Last edited by ManueLink64; Jan 22, 2017 @ 11:08pm
ColeTrain1034 Jan 27, 2017 @ 12:56pm 
Detention
shrimp Feb 26, 2017 @ 8:21pm 
-Fran Bow
-The Dream Machine
-Papers, Please; this game is more humorous than anything but in the end it hits you hard and makes you think quite alot.
-This War Of Mine
-Emily Is Away
-The Static Speaks My Name; very short but its one of a kind in... its own way.
-A Normal Lost Phone

:squirtooh:
? Mar 8, 2017 @ 5:45am 
- Alice madness returns
- Cry of fear
Lisa The Painful RPG is a definite must.
bunny May 7, 2017 @ 10:07pm 
  • Syberia (melancholy)
  • Claire
  • Home is where one starts (melancholy)
  • The Guilt and the shadow
  • The Last Door 1, 2
  • Distraint
  • Red Haze
  • The Longest Journey & TLJ: Dreamfall (melancholy)
  • Silent Hill 2, 3
  • Fingerbones (free)
  • Alice: Madness Returns
  • Mad Father (dark)
  • The Static Speaks My Name (free)
Last edited by bunny; May 7, 2017 @ 10:09pm
filledelaterre May 23, 2017 @ 11:36am 
angels of death
Minniewhop May 27, 2017 @ 1:23am 
I need to add a visual novel: Asphyxia
Deals with a teen with deep depression, plus the artwork is amazing!
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