Summary

• Saying goodbye in video games can be just as emotional and powerful as in real life.
• These titles tackle the theme of goodbye with heart, creating profound and heavy experiences.
• Remember, while games can help, seeking professional help is important for dealing with difficult losses.

Just about the hardest thing anybody can ever do is say goodbye. Goodbye to a loved one, goodbye to a pet, goodbye to a town, or even goodbye to a particular building. Let's not kid ourselves here, it's always going to be a profound personal challenge.

The nice thing is that no matter how hard or lonely saying goodbye can feel, we can still have solace in knowing that others, too, have had to say goodbye, and some of them went on to turn those experiences into interactive a🅺rt. These are some of the best titles that tackle this profound and heavy theme.

It's important to keep in mind that video games alone are not a replacement for therapy or counseling. If you're struggling with an especially difficult loss in your life, please remember it's always okay to ask for help with a professional.

8 🐟One Last Game🐓

One Last Game is one of the most deeply frightening experiences we've ever had with a game. Not because of any monster or jumpscare, the game features neither, but simply because of the implications and lingering thoughts the game leaves us with in its incredibly short two-and-a-half-minute runtime.

We don't know who's attacking or why; we don't even really know if it's a war that's to blame or something far more sinister. All we know is that this is the last chance we'll ever have to play a simple game and enjoy each other's company. In the end, One Last Game is a powerful experience about what it feels like to say goodbye to the simple joy of being able to sit down and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:experience a game with a loved one.

7 G🀅oodbye, Volcano High

Say what you will about Goodbye Volcano High's numerous delays and divisive visuals, but never let us catch you saying that the game doesn't have heart. Taking inspiration from the stories of high school seniors who spent their final high school days huddled in fear at a global event that many thought marked 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the end of the world, Goodbye Volcano High is as much about forming powerful relationships as it is about knowing you'll eventually have to let them go.

The game features an incredible soundtrack and a similar atmosphere and vibe to Square Enix's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Life Is Strange, and is full of lovable �ꦑ�characters, tear jerking moments, and, surprisingly enough, some truly phenomenal voice acting.

6 Portal 2

Portal 2 might not be the first game that comes to mind when you think about saying goodbye, but look closely at the design and story of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:this innovative masterpiece and you'll find the bread crumbs were always there, and Valve always intended for Portal 2 to be the end of the story, with constant nods to evacuation, ending operations at Aperture, and leaving things behind.

As sad as it is that we've never received a Portal 3, the tearful goodbyes we share when we leave the lab at the end of Portal 2 are enough to remind us that sometimes goodbye isn't about being sad something's gone, but about how happy we are that we got to spend time with it in the first place.

5 Gone Home

Gone Home explores the melancholy horror of repressed sexual identity, seeing you take on the role of a family member who returns to an empty house, going through scores of memories, photographs, and notes to find out why nobody is around but more specifically, what happened to your character's sister.

The story tackles heavy themes which were especially hard hitting back in 2013,168澳洲幸运5开奖网: but still feel relevant today, and ultimately says that sometimes we need to let someone go so that they can be who they truly are. Despite being marketed as a horror game, Gone Home is ulti💮mately about coming to an understanding of why people sometimes feel li꧒ke they need to leave, and what we can learn from their departure.

4 How To Say Gooꩵdbye

How to Say Goodbye is a beautiful little puzzle game about letting go of the ghosts that haunt us, in this case through some very enticing puzzles and charming visuals. Simple though it may seem, what How To Say Goodbye might not spell out for 🧜you with its narrative, the gameplay will say rather loudly.

By its very nature, How To Say Goodbye asks you to do exactly what the title implies: learn how to say goodbye, and say it. Find a way to get these ghosts out of here forever, and then do it. Unlike some other tear-jerkers out there, How To Say Goodbye isn't as concerned with raw emotion as it is a humble, quiet take on the idea with lovely visuals, so if you'd rather not cry (as much), this is a great fit for you.

3 Firewatch

Saying goodbye to a loved one is never an easy thing to do, and sometimes, it's all we can do to keep going after it happens. With nowhere else to turn as dementia overtakes his wife's memories of him, a sad and broken man takes a job in a forested national park to get away from the pain he feels at being slowly but surely forgotten.

Though Firewatch tends to be remembered for its mystery adventure attributes rather than the tragedy with which it begins, we remember Firewatch because of how well it re-creates the headspace this kind of situation can be the catalyst for and for reminding us that it's okay to take some time away from things to figure out what to do. Ultimately, Firewatch says goodbye in a different but no less impactful way, and we applaud it for that.

2 🐈 To The Moon 🦩

To The Moon is one of the RPG Maker engine's most impressive feats. Playing as a pair of scientists who 𝔉can manipulate memories, you arrive at the estate of an old man on his deathbed and experience his life by jumping from memory to memory, all in an attempt to let him live his dream before he passes away peacefully at the end of a long and fulfilling life.

Though ultimately about saying goodbye, To The Moon celebrates every aspect of life that makes it worth living, at times in ways that will make even the toughest gamer shed a tear. It's romantic, funny, endearing, and sentimental, but that's ultimately what makes it feel so powerful to experience. This is one RPG Maker game you're not soon to forget.

1 🌱 That Dragon, Cancer

Based on the real life experiences o🐼f its developer, That Dragon, Cancer takes the general concept of To The Moon, and injects it with the kind of raw emotion and heart-shattering realism that can only come from living through the unthinkable, and understandably not knowing how to handle that.

This is the story of what it's like to have a child get diagnosed with cancer, and the tolls of every imaginable kind that kind of tragedy takes on you, on your family, and on your outlook on life. Hope after hope is destroyed with crushing oppression, and the message at the heart of it all is that no matter how hard it gets, sometimes all we can do is get back up and keep walking, and that eventually, we can smile again.