PPG Game Of The Year 2024 - 46 - Hitting In The Feels

I can't claim to be emotionally ready even half the time I sit down for a game like the ones presented here, but every game in this list is liable to leave you a pile of mush with a bin full of tissues by the time you're through.

Minds Beneath Us
Sci-fi Consequence Driven Choices
Gorgeous hand drawn animation leads an emotional cyberpunk dystopia tale filled with conspiracy. Plenty of thought provoking futuristic themes at play here.

Closer The Distance
Story Focused Life Sim
A beautiful, heart wrenching life sim lite with a very human and universal story about dealing with tragedy. Be ready for an emotional heavy hitter here.

Farewell North
You're A Good Boy Aren't You
Play as a border collie on an adventure with your human, restoring colour to the world as you go in a metaphorical journey about dealing with grief.

Selfloss
Slavic Atmospheric Fantasy
An incredible art style blends with a unique lore-rich, whale-worshipping, Slavic-inspired world to create a neat puzzle adventure game.

Just a To the Moon Series Beach Episode
Get Ready To Cry
Freebird Games know their market. Gorgeous pixel art meets a disarming tear-jerking narrative piece ready to leave you an emotional, cathartic wreck.

Spiral
Devastating Cognitive Journey
I think I fear losing my mind more than I fear losing my life. The most cruel fate is to be still on this earth yet forget who your closest loved ones even are.

Neva
Emotional 2D Adventure
Sophomore effort from the creator of Gris, this is sure to tug at the heartstrings of anyone that plays with it's striking visuals and subject matter.

Valley of Shadow
Personal Therapy Journey
A first person puzzle journey "that tells a poignant true story of loss and grief through the discovery of real-life home videos and photographs". Some really creative visuals on show with some ability style mechanics keeping the journey engaging along the way.

And The Best Game To Make You Cry Of 2024 Is…

Until Then
Emotional Narrative Nostalgia
Is to 2024 what A Space For The Unbound was to 2023. Fantastic narrative journey with a schoolbound teenager living with the grounded issues of youth with a magical realist twist. Build relationships with the people in the MCs life, explore heavy themes and experience a world inspired by Phillipine locations and culture. Get emotionally wrecked in a good way with gorgeous pixel work brought to life in some incredible cinematography.