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Recommend me Games about Loss

Cokesouls

Cokesouls

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Please.

There's something happenkng in my life right now which I don't want to talk about. But I have been watching a Silent Hill 2 Stream (from Streamer Threedogg) and now I feel like playing a game with a similar message or theme about loss I suppose.

I would really appreciate some recommendations. I play on PS4 and Switch, but also have a PS2, Gamecube and PSclassic with Bleemsync.
 
xoxoclvbs

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There are great games about loss, and you should follow other commenters' suggestions for them.

But, something about your post makes me want to recommend Celeste, which is not really about loss directly... so include that in the rotation if you haven't already played it.
 
Kurtikeya

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If Found... and Florence, though they're both ultimately more uplifting than Silent Hill 2.

I hope you're okay, OP.
 
King Kingo

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www.syfy.com

5 games that help us deal with losing our loved ones

Losing a loved one is one of the hardest things to go through. After saying goodbye to my grandfather in June, I came to know this well, especially as I wasn't able to give him a proper sendoff in person. I grieved for days, but I was forced to get back into the daily grind as soon as humanly...
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Whatever you're going through, know that you're not alone and that you'll always have a shoulder to cry on.
 

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It's definitely therapeutic to experience that through media, just try not to over do it. I do the same thing, with all sorts of media, here's some examples off the top of my head.

  • Night in the Woods
  • Celeste
  • JJ Macfield
  • LISA the Painful RPG
  • Death Stranding
  • Days Gone
  • Souls games are definitely isolating and kinda masochistic. When I'm alone or have suffered loss, I personally gravitate to games that are lonely (no party)
  • Yakuza 0
  • Mother 3
 
Dolce

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Mother 3 is completely built around loss and change. Your loved ones, the town you live in, and the people you know.
 
Sydle

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Two of my favorites are To the Moon (Switch) and What Remains of Edith Finch.
 
Cosmic Voyager

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Huey said:
I really want to play this but man... having read about it, I just don't think I can. As a dad of a young daughter, I can barely make it through the first few scenes of First Man.
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Yeah I've heard amazing things about the game but I haven't been able to bring myself to play it yet. I'm almost never in the mood to seek out something that will make me even more depressed lol
 
ghostcrew

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I would recommend The Darkness 2 but I don't know as if you can play it on any of those consoles.

It's really good and it destroyed me emotionally which I wasn't expecting at all.
 
demi

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Eternal Sonata's final segment does an infamously sudden sharp turn into dealing with Loss, notably during the credits.

Here's a direct link to them if you want to take a look.

www.youtube.com

Eternal sonata : part 70 : Ending (Full scene)

Walkthrough #3Credits end at 18:12 if you want to skip the credits and go right to the scene.Well this was fun guys from here on i will be continuing on ...
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Also the segments in Lost Odyssey with Lirum are handled wonderfully and dealing with Loss

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Lost Odyssey: Lirum's Miracle

Another favorite scene of mine. This is a quite emotional one and the music is so beautifully haunting as well.Hope you enjoy!English Cast:Kaim Argonar: Keit...
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TeenageFBI

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Cosmic Voyager said:
how am I supposed to mark it without revealing which game title is under there? I'm open to suggestions lol
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This might not be the thread to talk about games like that, where the fact that it has a loss theme is kind of a spoiler in itself.

I've already played that game, and maybe it's old enough that no one will care about the spoiler! Just pointing out that unmarked spoilers are no fun in general.
 
Huey

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What Remains of Edith Finch is a really perfect candidate, as has been stated, OP. It's certainly about death and loss, but it's amazingly done in a way that is uplifting and not depressing. It's just an excellent game all around, high recommend.
 
Thug Larz

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What Remains of Edith Finch or Everyone's Gone to the Rapture. Both excellent games if you don't mind slow-paced, story-driven walking simulator experiences.

Highly recommend both of them, and I played them both on PS4.

Hope everything is ok.
 

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Spiritfarer is a terrific, uplifting and empathetic game about loss

OP, not to shit on other peoples posts, but there's a number of people here who are just posting action games that revel in violence and murder and you might need something now that doesnt plummet your stomach like Silent Hill does.

MindofKB said:
Spiritfarer on Steam is a great game to help you deal with loss.

There's a demo available too if you want to try it out first.
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Quinho

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I would say Final Fantasy Adventure, on Game Boy (or the Adventures of Mana remake on IOS, Sword of mana on GBA or one of the other 1 billion remakes this game has)
You can find it on the collection of mana for the Nintendo Switch.
It is amazing, really, one of my favorites.

Almost all of the games on the Mana series deals with loss in some degree, they are pretty good.
 

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Cosmic Voyager

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TeenageFBI said:
This might not be the thread to talk about games like that, where the fact that it has a loss theme is kind of a spoiler in itself.

I've already played that game, and maybe it's old enough that no one will care about the spoiler! Just pointing out that unmarked spoilers are no fun in general.
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Fair enough!

I put those recommendations there with the OP specifically in mind though, because I assume they won't mind being spoiled that a particular game has loss as a theme if that fulfills the type of game they want to play right now.

I put a general spoiler to prevent other people from just getting casually spoiled as they scroll, but it's on them to click at their own risk! Haha
 
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