Titles that pull on the heartstrings

Last week sawThe Emotional Games Awards 2018take place in Laval, France. It was the second year for the ceremony, which exists to “reward and promote games which bring on the most complex emotions in the players”.

The jury consisted of seven people, taken from various areas of the video game industry, as well as philosophers and neuro-science specialists. It is, admittedly, quite the niche idea for an awards ceremony. I personally think emotion, complex or otherwise, is relative inallforms of video game, regardless of genre. There are games that have made me cry, for example, that I’m pretty sure wouldneverhave ever seen nomination in such a ceremony.

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Still, I do fully support anything video game related getting positive recognition, especially during yet another boring “Games are Evil” zeitgeist. I’ve lived through more of those than I care to remember. So, congratulations to the Emotional Video Game Award Winners 2018, which are as follows:

The ghost at the end of the hallway

Picking up the smiley face post-it off the broken mirror

John and Molly sitting on the park bench

Close up shot of Marissa Marcel starring in Ambrosio

Kukrushka sitting in a meadow

Lightkeeper pointing his firearm overlapped against the lighthouse background

Overseer looking over the balcony in opening cutscene of Funeralopolis

Edited image of Super Imposter looking through window in No I’m not a Human demo cutscene with thin man and FEMA inside the house

Looking at the ghost of Jackie inside the lighthouse